Saturday, November 21, 2009

Not your average Burger and Fries!

It was just an average Saturday when I decided to head into an unsuspecting McDonalds. As I was waiting in line for the two people ahead of me, I quickly went over what I was going to say to the cashier when my turn comes. I first analyzed the cashiers behind the registers, even though I don't typically judge people by appearances, I wanted to check/know if the cashiers are going to give me a hassle or spit in my food or just anything of that nature. I believe that they will in fact give me a hassle but, 'oh wells' I really need this extra credit! I also checked my surrounding to see if there were a lot of people, because I don't really want to cause a scene or hold up the line. By looking around I realize that there aren't too many people in this McDonalds, either way I was determine to get this unique order no matter what. Although the incentive is the extra credit, I am also very curious to see what might transpire. Soon enough, I'm in front of the cashier and here's what happened:

McDonalds employee: "Hi, can I take your order?".

Me: "Yes, can I get a regular hamburger, with 4 pickles and fries with no salt, to stay".

McDonalds employee: "Okay" (input some data, and then goes to do my order)

I was quite surprise that this played out so perfectly. I thought that the employee would've had to call the manager and do some special management process to fulfill this special order. What simply happened was that the employee walked to the deep fryer and lift the fries out of the fryer and basically got the fries out from there (usually they would put the fries out on the platter and sprinkle salt on it). And after that, they gave me a burger with a receipt attached to it that said, "extra pickles". Finally, I asked for my receipt but it did not have 'no salt' next to the fries order. I asked that I wanted the receipt to say 'no salt', the employee looked at me weird for a while and said, "hold on". I wasn't expecting anything special to happen because the order played out so perfectly. So to my expectation, she simply went to the back of the McDonalds to get a pen (taking about 10 seconds) and wrote, "no salt" on the receipt. I took my order and sat down for a quick bite, and to examine if everything is correct. Lifted the top bun off the hamburger and there was four pickles. Tried the fries and it tasted plain, perfect.
The burger tasted exactly like how a McDonalds hamburger should taste even with the two extra pickles. I personally like salt on my fries, but I'm willing to take one for my grade. I was surprise that no one looked at me funny, from the employees to the other customers next to me. I was expecting to hold up the line and cause a big commotion, well that turn out to be a big failure. I will definitely try to do this in a few more McDonalds to see if the outcome will be different, of course not to set my expectations to high because I was really anxious to see what might've happen with today's order.

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