Your strangest or most amusing experience in a fast food establishment?
 

Once at drive thru at a Taco Bell, the vehicle in front of me was a large moving truck. There was a large awning above the drive thru window, and the height of the truck exceeded it by about 2 feet. I sighed with impatience, knowing that it was going to be a clusterfuck once the truck got up there and realized it would have to back out, etc etc However, the driver didn't realize it, and tore the awning completely off the building, taking a large chunk of the roof with it. It wouldn't have been quite so funny, really, were it not for the fact that I was ordering my food simulataniously and got to hear everyone inside scream through the intercom. "Its a earthquake, is a earthquake!"

What's your strangest or most amusing experience in a fast food establishment?

I so can't come anywhere near topping that story!:eek:

ha! that made me laugh out loud.

My most amusing story isn't nearly as good.

One time I was at Prince George's Plaza (now known as The Mall at Prince George's) and a fight broke out in the food court. It wouldn't have been so bad.... but the girls then thought it was a good idea to use the trays as weapons. :o

Well, I am sure I cannot top the first story but here is my story:

At 15 I got my first job at Burger King (I needed to buy tickets to the Janet Jackson concert;)) and I was working the drive thru one evening when a lady comes through the line. She decides to order a Big Buford and I kindly tell her that we do not serve Big Buford hamburgers, we sell Whoppers, at this point she decides she can't hear me and drives to the window and asks what I said again. I tell her that we don't serve Big Buford hamburgers and she says, "Oh, yes that is Rally's" and she begins to laugh--very hard--so much so that her breast, which are rather large starts to blow the horn on her car!!:eek::eek::D I was biting my lip so hard not to laugh at that lady but I will tell you, that was my fondest memory at Burger King!:D

everytime i went to taco bell with my sisters, it was always a production, so i can't pick a specific time... i just remember on 4-20 and i just haddddd to have taco bell and the drive thru line was so long and once you entered it- you couldn't get back out again... it was tortureeeeeee lol but then i got my burrito and was happy :D

Back in the day, my friend's boyfriend worked the drive-thru window at Burger King. We would just drive up to the speaker and when he asked to take our order, we'd say "It's Diana and Lizz" and he'd tell us to drive on up. He knew what we always wanted and we got it free!

i have had numerous times when i scraped change from under my floor mat, drove to any random restaurant with a 99cent menu, got a hamburger and a cup of water...we've all had those "poor" times right? well for some reason half of these times, ive gotten the wrong order, usually some deluxe chicken combo with a super big coke. i usually dont notice until im halfway around the building, and by then i know if i take it back its going in the trash, sooo...god must really know when im hungry lmao! the same thing happens at larger restaurants too, ive gotten steak by accident, drinks, desserts....nobody ever takes it back and they dont charge it to my bill, so im like, what the hell? that has got to be the strangest luck...

Waffle house, about 3 in the morning near campus after a party. The cook and the server were having an argument (lovers quarrel?) and it got DIRTY. The server would be all the way on the other side of the restaurant and the cook would call her a name, she would yell something rude back, they threatened each other (i will take this knife and shove it up your ___) all while customers were in there! My group made it through about half of our meal before the cook & server actually got to fighting! I still don't know how they got to the point where they laid hands on each other because this particular waffle house ALWAYS had a police officer on the premises (i guess to prevent dine & dash).

normally, this would dissuade me from patronizing a restaurant, but i still go there sometimes. LOL.

Ordered 55 #1s from Whataburger around 3:00 in the morning for a bunch of people.........by myself. Needless to say they were pissed, but then I tipped the entire kitchen about 20$ a piece so that made it just fine.

Hahaha you are such a hero! If you'd done that when I was working at KFC I seriously would have kissed you.
Out of curiosity, what is a #1 at Whataburger? They're not in New England.

My mother drank a large soda from a certain FF place, and noticed something rattling around when she finished...it was a soda fountain paddle! :eek:

Oh! Oh! Now I remember - I DO have a story!
I was going on a date to The Alley theatre in Houston. My date was a poor starving college student, so we decided to just grab a burger before the show. This was in the 80s when downtown was DEAD. We drove - and drove - and the neighborhood got scary looking - but we found a brick burger place. You placed your order, then sat down and waited for them to call your number. We were one of two groups in the place. Suddenly, the doors flew open, and two guys in leather jackets (looked like extras from West Side Story!) burst in, and began rolling around on the floor trying to stab each other with knives.
The other group continued to eat.
Suddenly, we hear our number called. Unfazed by the fighting, the cook continues to call our number until Ken gets up, jumps over the thrashing guys, and gets our food. I can take about 2 bites before I say "This is crazy. We have to get out of here." So we grab our food, and run to the door, jumping over the still-tangled fighters.
And then to top it off, poor Ken got a speeding ticket going to the theatre. I wonder why he never called me again. . . .

^^^lmao! that is like something out of a movie!

Well, this isn't fast food, but an experience from when I was working in a restaurant one summer when I was 17.

I was a hostess, but on one day the restaurant was really busy and short handed with wait staff. One of the waitors asked me to help him by taking a table's food out to them, which I was happy to do. Well, the table was full of businessmen (in their 30s I'd say) out to lunch, and when I asked them if I could get them anything else, one of them says to me, "How 'bout a hot tub and a rub down?" I was totally speechless and embarrassed...and you could see that his coworkers were :eek: that he had just said that to a teenage waitress at their business lunch!

Cheeseburger, fries, and a drink.

Whataburger . . .always makes me think of my grandparents in Tyler. That was our special treat when we visited them in the 70's. Nothing much in Tyler then - but boy howdy has it grown.

Back in the college days, the White Castle near campus was open all night and was THE place to go after fraternity parties. The homeless people also hung out there all night. It was just insane in there every weekend night. The thought of White Castle now makes me nauseous...

Speaking of White Castle: my parents were in a small town where that was THE only fast food restaurant, and were choking down a burger when they overheard the waitress yell over the phone, "Where's my lunch shift help? You don't think I'm going to eat here, do you?!" They left.

My friend's psycho ex-husband broke his leg trying to kick her dog when she was leaving him, ending up in a cast almost to his groin. Her brother was there, and the ex told everyone that her brother broke his leg (wuss!). The ex was at Wendy's when her brother came in, and her brother decided to be a man and say something like, "We both know I didn't break your leg, but I am sorry that you're laid up like that." The psycho ex started screaming, "He broke my leg! He broke my leg!" until another customer said, "Shut up or I'll break your other one!"

It became one of my favorite "divorce wars stories"!

Actually it's a Whataburger, Fries and a drink. Cheese costs extra.

Don't you friggin' love Karma? :p

Someone asked me to order something that didn't exist on the menu and I believed him, and ended up looking like an idiot while he was laughing. :rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IrU...related&search=


Odd but funny.

Absolutely!

BTW, for anyone who knows anything about indoor soccer, compare the Whataburger logo to the old Wichita Wings logo.

I worked at Chick-fil-a for two years, so I have so many stories to tell. Let's see...an old man was trying to cough up both of his lungs in the drive-thru (sounded disgusting on the speaker in the kitchen); an old lady (who was way too feeble to be driving) rear-ended this guy at the window, who was trying his hardest not to jump out of his car and attack her; and a lady came in and screamed at us because we only gave her one (HUGE) packet of salad dressing.

Oh, and the best of all. This lady (who had to weigh about 600 pounds, and her four kids looked just as heavy as she did), almost cussed me out in the drive-thru because I could not put whipped cream on her ice cream. I had two managers tell her that the whipped cream was only for the milkshakes, and that just made her even more angry. She eventually called the owner and yelled at him about it, and he thought she was just as crazy. :rolleyes: People are stupid sometimes...

Hmm...nothing too interesting....I guess I could say it was the day before my friends and I were splitting up to leave for college. We wanted to have one last go before completely saying goodbye to childhood, so we all piled into 3 cars, drove to a McDonald's with a HUGE playplace and no height limit and just went at it. Soon, we were going so wild that these little kids ran over and challenged us to a game of tag. Man, we chased each other like squirrels on crack. We had all these parents looking at us, wondering who were these grown-looking people playing with their kids! But the crowd kept cheering us on and we played for like an hour before we all just collapsed from laughing so hard. It was quite possibly the most fun a group of near 18-year-olds ever had. :o :D

Don't close your eyes
 

I had been sick with a horrible stomach virus and just started to move around the house when my dughter and her friend begged me to take them to McDonalds. I tried to say no, but they had been ignored all day and I felt guilty. I loaded them up in my volvo station wagon and went to McDonalds. After placing the orders in the drive through, I thought I would just close my eyes for a second and rest my head on the back of the seat. The next thing I remember was a gentle tap...I opened my eyes and realized had rolled forward and tapped the car in front of me. A wild eyed, tank topped, spandexed, crazy, demented woman got out and started screaming that she was going to rip my hair out and *%#@ smear me all over the parking lot. "Don't you know this is a @#$#$% rental car??" I was a little confused about all of this and instead of simply locking my door, I opened my car door and stood up with no energy for any expression; just concerned about who would call 911 and clean up my body parts. The only words I could get out in her string of obscenities was "Lady, I'm sorry. I didn't do it on purpose." The little girls in the back were having a great time watching all of this. A man got out of her passenger seat to calm her down, and explained that there was no scratch or anything. To this day when someone mentions the drive through at McDonalds, eyeballs roll at my house.

Haha, I am from Tyler. Grandparents moved there in the early 70's when grandad founded the Neurosurgery Institute at ETMC.

Shoot me a PM, wouldn't surprise me if they knew each other or something.

Back when I was about 10 years old, I had an embarassment at the Jack-in-a-Box burger place by my house. My grandparents had been visiting us one afternoon and my whole family had gone out together to enjoy the afternoon. Afterwards, my parents headed home while my sister and I rode with our grandparents. Since we were a little hungry, we stopped at JitB to pick up some burgers for everyone.

When we got there, we found out that they were having a 25 cent hamburger promotion. My grandparents got excited and decided to order 24 hamburgers, four for each of us. My sister and I thought that seemed like too many; but grandma assured us that we could freeze any leftover burgers. I don't know...I guess that's a depression era mentality for ya.

Of course, seeing there were only four of us standing there, the guy behind the counter gave us a funny look. What really embarassed me was hearing the cook in the back counting, "2....4....6....8...10...12....12! <sigh> We need 12 more!!" :o

We ended up carrying out some five bags of hamburgers.


.....Kelly :)

One of my best friends from high school had worked at McDonalds for a time. One evening when we were both up to no good as usual, he persuaded one of his former co-workers in the drive-thru to give him a headset. Then we sat in the parking lot and told people trying to order that we were out of hamburger meat or if they ordered two number threes we would say "why don't you just get one number six" and stuff like that. When we went inside he gave the headset back to one of the workers and the manager came up there yelling at him to get out and that if he ever came back he was trespassing and blah blah blah. Of course, he's the sort of guy that you can't tell anything so he started yelling back at her. Good times.

When I worked at KFC/Taco Bell there were like 3 other high schoolers who worked with me, 3 other guys. My coworker Shawn started around the same time I did and became a whiz on drive-thru.

On their days off, my two other high school coworkers decided to come through the drive-thru and harass Shawn. As soon as I heard their voices through the speakers, I knew it was them but Shawn didn't.
They asked if Taco Bell made Choco-tacos. I started giggling furiously while Shawn asked our manager if we did choco-tacos. I completely burst out laughing at that point and was bent over double at the front register.

LOL, I was about to ask if she was talking about you!!!! :D


I remember another one. My mom and I were at Burger King and the drive-thru speaker dude asked to take our order. My mom starts to order breakfast and he interrupts her and says "Hold on." After about a minute, he walks outside, still wearing the headset. He turns the giant menu around to show the lunch menu, yells "No more breakfast!!" at our car, and goes back inside. Me and Mommy CG just stare at each other until his voice comes back on and says "Okay, my I take your order now?"


We just continued to stare at each other, then drove away without saying anything. :rolleyes:

I went to Carls Jr (Hardee's on the East Coast) a couple of months ago their new boneless buffalo wings. The line to the drive through was WAY too long, so I decided to dine in. While waiting in line the guy in front of me had a seizure and fell right into me! I semi-caught him and laid him on the ground. Luckily his brother was there with him to handle the situation because I really had no idea what to do. I waited with them for the paramedics to arrive and by the time everything was sorted, I had to head back to work so I missed the entire meal!

My teenage son just got a job working at one.......amusing yet frightening!

One Mouse of a tale.....
 

In the "A" level of the basement in Mercy Hospital in Des Moines, there is located a McDonalds.

One day when one of our children was having a major procedure done (I think it was son #2..major bladder surgery..so this was November 1998) Mr Sageofages and I went down to get a meal while the surgery was happening. (It was to take about 2 hours).

We were standing IN THE BASEMENT LEVEL OF A MAJOR DES MOINES HOSPITAL IN A MCDONALDS restaurant (remember) trying to decide what to order looking up at the menu board. When a small light gray (but not white) mouse crawled along the top of the menu board. We saw it, along with about 6 other people, just crawl along as non-plused as can be. We mentioned it to the staff and they didn't even seem to care.

Needless to say...we didn't eat there and haven't since. We did send a letter to the hospital administration.

EEKKK....