Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Trackdaybob]

1 hour ago, pozbaird said:

These touch-screen ordering point terminals. For fcuk sake.

Get the app. Even I have the app. 

[Robin.Hood]

Going to see comedian Jon Richardson. Meant to be rescheduled for this year. Nope now rescheduled for 2023. Bylin 

[pozbaird]

18 minutes ago, Trackdaybob said:

Get the app. Even I have the app. 

I could do that, I could have an app for everything. Personally, for something as simple as the odd casual visit to a McDonalds which I maybe do three or four times a year, I think it worked far better (for us, the customer) the way it used to. IE, join the queue, give your order to a human being, get your order, eat your order.

Just me. Probably not, I imagine the modern fast-food experience hacks off more people than me. I’m no technophobe dinosaur either. Honest. For something like a cup of coffee and a McMuffin, I just don’t want the whole ‘app’ or ‘screen prod’ thing. Some things actually were better in the old days.

[hk blues]

1 minute ago, pozbaird said:

I could do that, I could have an app for everything. Personally, for something as simple as the odd casual visit to a McDonalds which I maybe do three or four times a year, I think it worked far better (for us, the customer) the way it used to. IE, join the queue, give your order to a human being, get your order, eat your order.

Just me. Probably not, I imagine the modern fast-food experience hacks off more people than me. I’m no technophobe dinosaur either. Honest. For something like a cup of coffee and a McMuffin, I just don’t want the whole ‘app’ or ‘screen prod’ thing. Some things actually were better in the old days.

We have had them in our place for a couple of years - at first they had staff assisting customers use them.  When the staff stopped assisting them, it all went to f**k for some reason and they went back to the old way.  Nice shiny screens sitting there unused.  They didn't roll the system out to other branches in our city surprisingly.

[Todd_is_God]

11 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

I could do that, I could have an app for everything. Personally, for something as simple as the odd casual visit to a McDonalds which I maybe do three or four times a year, I think it worked far better (for us, the customer) the way it used to. IE, join the queue, give your order to a human being, get your order, eat your order.

Just me. Probably not, I imagine the modern fast-food experience hacks off more people than me. I’m no technophobe dinosaur either. Honest. For something like a cup of coffee and a McMuffin, I just don’t want the whole ‘app’ or ‘screen prod’ thing. Some things actually were better in the old days.

Using the app, though, you can place your order before going there (which pings it through as soon as you arrive) and, particularly if you like to customise your order, you're not reliant on said human being keying it in right.

I do have a similar gripe, though. Was out for dinner last night in one of those Hungry Horse places. They too have an app, but it was empty so just ordered food and drink at the bar. When finished, the waitress comes over and asks if we'd like anything else. "Just a pint, please" returned "You need to order drinks on the app or at the bar."

If you are going to offer table service, whats the point in only offering food? Most people will wash their food down with something meaning you've saved them no trouble at all.

Edited November 4, 2021 by Todd_is_God

[Trackdaybob]

2 hours ago, pozbaird said:

I think it worked far better (for us, the customer) the way it used to. IE, join the queue, give your order to a human being, get your order, eat your order.

Just me. Probably not, I imagine the modern fast-food experience hacks off more people than me.

I agree with you there. Unfortunately, automation means less staff to pay hence the staff left are forever running about the place with their arses on fire. 

As seems usual, we take a system that works well, then f**k with it to save money ending up with something that doesn't work quite as well. That said, the brainwashed 'app' drones who don't know any better, lap it up as it means even less involvement with our humans. And they like that. 

[Jacksgranda]

3 hours ago, pozbaird said:

I could do that, I could have an app for everything. Personally, for something as simple as the odd casual visit to a McDonalds which I maybe do three or four times a year, I think it worked far better (for us, the customer) the way it used to. IE, join the queue, give your order to a human being, get your order, eat your order.

Just me. Probably not, I imagine the modern fast-food experience hacks off more people than me. I’m no technophobe dinosaur either. Honest. For something like a cup of coffee and a McMuffin, I just don’t want the whole ‘app’ or ‘screen prod’ thing. Some things actually were better in the old days.

Sometimes the queue could be a bit long, but that worked fine for me, too.

Once I got the hang of the ordering screens I actually preferred them, although I've seen me reverting to the talk to a human option if there were queues at the touch screens.

It's been that long since I've been in a McDonalds it's probably all changed again.

[pozbaird]

1 hour ago, Trackdaybob said:

I agree with you there. Unfortunately, automation means less staff to pay hence the staff left are forever running about the place with their arses on fire. 

As seems usual, we take a system that works well, then f**k with it to save money ending up with something that doesn't work quite as well. That said, the brainwashed 'app' drones who don't know any better, lap it up as it means even less involvement with our humans. And they like that. 

I was in a Tim Hortons recently and their two touch-screen ordering screens were broken. They’d stuck a note on them saying ‘order at the till’. The problem being of course, they didn’t have (unlike the old days) the amount of staff needed to deal with taking orders face-to-face, and taking your payment. The staff they did have were running about mental trying to do five things at once. 
 

Some automation I reckon is brilliant though. Pay-at-the-pump for petrol. Feckin’ brilliant. You don’t need to lock the car, walk to the kiosk, join a queue that cannot fit into the small kiosk area, and wait ten minutes while some kunt buys four Mars Bars, a packet of Woodbine, puts the lottery on, and wants a receipt because it’s a company fuel card.

 

Swings and roundabouts.

Edited November 4, 2021 by pozbaird

[The Naitch]

Going to see comedian Jon Richardson. Meant to be rescheduled for this year. Nope now rescheduled for 2023. Bylin 

I bought tickets in 2019 for Elton John’s farewell tour. It’s been rescheduled twice and is now in 2023. Raging.

He’ll be saying his own farewell at this rate before the tour even comes round.

[flyingscot]

I actually prefer the machines at McDonalds etc. The order is at least what I ask for and I always hated the multiple queues. Whatever one you got into would aye have someone ordering for half the population and the woman on the till would be away getting ice creams or drinks for hours.

The new system is pretty good but when it goes wrong like most things....

[Melanius Mullarkey]

If course the problem with the touch screens in these places is that they’re literally coated in peoples pish, shit and bogies.

[Bert Raccoon]

3 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

If course the problem with the touch screens in these places is that they’re literally coated in peoples pish, shit and bogies.

Stop licking them then 

[RiffRaff]

I went to the cinema for the first time in ages to see the new James Bond film.

The amount of folk that scrunched sweet wrappers and generally couldn't sit at peace for a couple of hours was staggering.

The wifey behind me had to explain the plot, it's James Bond FFS, to her terminally thick husband.

As for the film, 7/10.

 

[Honest_Man#1]

On 03/11/2021 at 15:13, 19QOS19 said:

This. It's tasty enough but it's no longer in the "cheap and cheerful" category.

 

On 03/11/2021 at 14:18, Patrick Bateman said:

Must admit I don't mind a McDonald's on a rare occasion but 'value for money'?

Not a fucking chance.
 

You can get a small burger for 99p, or a bigger burger with fries and a drink for little more than a shop lunch meal deal. People can argue about the quality all day long, but it’s not an expensive meal. Out of all the burger chains it’s the cheapest by a fair margin.

[Michael W]

5 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

 

You can get a small burger for 99p, or a bigger burger with fries and a drink for little more than a shop lunch meal deal. People can argue about the quality all day long, but it’s not an expensive meal. Out of all the burger chains it’s the cheapest by a fair margin.

It also appears almost immune from inflation. I'm not exactly a frequent customer, but the only discernable price rise I can note in the last 5 years is the 14p sugar tax on my Coke. 

Edited November 4, 2021 by Michael W

[coprolite]

Tim Horton sounds like he would be a smug p***k with a tucked in cardigan and a really clean car. Not going to that guy's shop. 

[pozbaird]

3 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Tim Horton sounds like he would be a smug p***k with a tucked in cardigan and a really clean car. Not going to that guy's shop. 

Couldn’t be further from the truth. He was actually a Canadian Ice Hockey player who looked like he was hard as nails, and his nose had been broken about ten times.

[101]

8 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Tim Horton sounds like he would be a smug p***k with a tucked in cardigan and a really clean car. Not going to that guy's shop. 

Seemed like a decent sort until he killed himself by driving whilst full of vodka and a cocktail of drugs. Gbnf x

Edited November 4, 2021 by 101

[tamthebam]

16 minutes ago, Michael W said:

It also appears almost immune from inflation. I'm not exactly a frequent customer, but the only discernable price rise I can note in the last 5 years is the 14p sugar tax on my Coke. 

Sugar tax on your Coke? Is your dealer cutting it with Tate & Lyle? 

[coprolite]

10 minutes ago, pozbaird said:

Couldn’t be further from the truth. He was actually a Canadian Ice Hockey player who looked like he was hard as nails, and his nose had been broken about ten times.

 

7 minutes ago, 101 said:

Seemed like a decent sort until he killed himself by driving whilst full of vodka and a cocktail of drugs. Gbnf x

I refuse to let facts interfere with my reality.