A&W Lingo

[llama64]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

It's people like you that make working in fast food a nightmare!!! There's always someone ragging on some poor kid making 8 bucks an hour, putting up with so much crap from people.

I worked at a McDonalds once. Best story I had was some knumbskull trying to get me to replace her Crispy Chicken with some grilled thing that wasn't on the menu. She couldn't get it through her head that McD's didn't have a "grilled chicken" and that all the chicken items were deep fried. She kept pointing at the menu and shouting...

2 Managers later she finally stormed out shouting something about treated poorly. People treat fast food employees like dirt. But it's good for the the employee as it teaches how NOT to act in public.

The time when Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart threw a hissy fit infront of his girl friend at 7:20am because I couldn't break a $100 American bill (at the old .65 exchange rate) ranks up there as well.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

There are no double big macs on the menu in Calgary? That is a standard combo here in Ontario. I think #4.

I think you can still get it. Honestly, I prefer the single big mac, I find it to be the perfect medley of heart stopping grease to special sauce and dry lettuce.

[BlackEleven]

Sizes are supposed to be small, medium, large (and maybe extra-large). I forget where I was, but there sizes were medium, large and extra large. I usually always order medium, but this time I wanted a small and they said they didn't have small. So I said give me the smallest one.

Then after I wondered if all this time I was ordering a medium I was actually getting a small....

[Bobblehead]

The only fast food place I have ever snapped at the staff was an A&W.

[GreenHardHat]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I guarantee that you got a few 'missing ingredients' in your burger. A good rule of thumb is not to mess with people that prepare your food out of your plain sight. Even the Subway and Mr. Sub workers have me worried as it wouldn't be too hard for them to replace one of those squeeze bottles of sauce with some sauce of their own.

Fast food roolz!!

Shenanigans...

[Got Miikka?]

When I was 6 years old I thought the Teen Burger was called a Team Burger.

For me, the thing with A&W is that their whole "nostalgic feel-good" approach makes me feel like an old man whenever I choose to eat there, with all the old photos from 1952 and the ridiculous cold-war era, Rocky and Bullwinkle-esque animations on their wrappers (for the record I was born several decades after the 1950s). And seriously, the idea of equating a hamburger with grandpa just doesn't do it for me.

On top of which that tubby basterd they have in their commercials really aggravates me, I just want to bitchslap him in his quadruple chin. No one should love hamburgers that much.

[Boblobla]

A&W is my favorite fast food restaurant to steal stuff from though.

What were they thinking giving me a nice glass mug?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Rhettzky

I guarantee that you got a few 'missing ingredients' in your burger. A good rule of thumb is not to mess with people that prepare your food out of your plain sight. Even the Subway and Mr. Sub workers have me worried as it wouldn't be too hard for them to replace one of those squeeze bottles of sauce with some sauce of their own.

Fast food roolz!!

In my few years that i worked for Rotten Ronnies a few things happened when a customer pissed off a staff member.

Burger meat was either dropped on the floor or dipped in the grease vat before it was placed on the bun and served to customer.

Exrta extra mac sauce was put on the burger so it would fall apart on customers lap when they tried to pick it up and eat it.

On staff member actually spit on the burger meat before it was placed in the bun and served to customer.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Dion

In my few years that i worked for Rotten Ronnies a few things happened when a customer pissed off a staff member.

Burger meat was either dropped on the floor or dipped in the grease vat before it was placed on the bun and served to customer.

Exrta extra mac sauce was put on the burger so it would fall apart on customers lap when they tried to pick it up and eat it.

On staff member actually spit on the burger meat before it was placed in the bun and served to customer.

Was there ever any 'special' special sauce?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

Was there ever any 'special' special sauce?

Haha not that i remember.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Sizes are supposed to be small, medium, large (and maybe extra-large). I forget where I was, but there sizes were medium, large and extra large. I usually always order medium, but this time I wanted a small and they said they didn't have small. So I said give me the smallest one.

Then after I wondered if all this time I was ordering a medium I was actually getting a small....

It was probably the movie theatre. They seem to do that a lot.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Sizes are supposed to be small, medium, large (and maybe extra-large). I forget where I was, but there sizes were medium, large and extra large. I usually always order medium, but this time I wanted a small and they said they didn't have small. So I said give me the smallest one.

Then after I wondered if all this time I was ordering a medium I was actually getting a small....

Probably didn't want to sell a "small" for 3.50 or some other lame price for a drink.

Speaking of which... if you go to DQ and want a Blizzard that is actually a decent size, order a "kids". It's usually not on the menu but it's the only one that I can finish without feeling like garbage after.

[J pold]

But without the stupid lingo they couldn’t make those lame ass commercials!

“What’s this a Grandpa Burger?”

[MaDMaN_26]

I actually like BK more than the rest, but I have to point out the Whopper and Jr. Whopper are just as stupid if not more so than mama and pappa names for burgers... what the heck is a whopper...

[GreenHardHat]

Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26

I actually like BK more than the rest, but I have to point out the Whopper and Jr. Whopper are just as stupid if not more so than mama and pappa names for burgers... what the heck is a whopper...

The first thing that comes to mind involves images that are not safe for work.

[FlamesAddiction]

I always wonder why Mozza Burgers don't have a cute family member name like the rest? Is it a basterd or something?

[ken0042]

^^ Didn't the "Burger Family" just come back like 8 or 10 years ago after being gone for about 10 years?

I think the Mozza Burger came out when the burger family was on strike (or whatever), so it was named more for what kind of burger it was.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by J pold

But without the stupid lingo they couldn’t make those lame ass commercials!

“What’s this a Grandpa Burger?”

I want to punch that old loser every time I see that commercial.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Got Miikka?

For me, the thing with A&W is that their whole "nostalgic feel-good" approach makes me feel like an old man whenever I choose to eat there, with all the old photos from 1952 and the ridiculous cold-war era, Rocky and Bullwinkle-esque animations on their wrappers (for the record I was born several decades after the 1950s). And seriously, the idea of equating a hamburger with grandpa just doesn't do it for me.

Too bad they still don't have the old-style drive-ins where you sat on your lardy butt in your parked car, the girl came up to your window and took your order, then brought it back to you when it was ready. It was the ultimate in greasy convenience, and you'd get the frosty glass mug too! *Then* they could justify the old-timey feel to the place, but now that it's the same dreary drive-thru as everyone else, they might as well replace Grampa with some hip-hop star and Mama with some sexy anorexic to keep up with the times.

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by getbak

If you're too embarrassed to order a Mama Burger, just order a #2.

Originally Posted by 4X4

Tell ya what, hon... Just drop a deuce in the bag and feed me.

That made me laugh pretty good, that's exactly what I thought of when I read getbak's comment.