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Jim, it's nothing to do with being an old tough guy. All this app crap, cell phones, internet didn't exist when I was growing up and we all did just fine, maybe we need going back to that way of life and slow down some, wouldn't hurt my feeling.

Just like hitting 1 for English.

Ya fuqk the kiosk while we’re at it 😃👍

I like multiples of #25 myself fit better in basement larder.

NOOOOO!

Thats how I make sure my order is right lol

Adapt. It’s the world we live in. If you don’t adapt, you navigate at your own peril. I travel a lot for a living and the more I can use apps and talk to no one, the more seamless my adventure is. A good example is hotels, I book and pay through an app, I talk to no one, I check in with the app, I pay with the app, I pick my room with the app, I Bluetooth my room, key with the app, I walk into the hotel and don’t even talk to the front desk.

Absolutely agree.

Haven't been in one , or Jacks, BK, etc in years.

Is there an option on there for "fries, extra crispy, no salt"?

Power wuz out this am hadn’t seen the mrs in a 2 days had to catch up on luvin😍we go to Hardee’s for coughee and a biscuit and they fucd that up 2x

Hi everyone,

I recently dined at the cheapest place I could possibly find, a place that competes exclusively on cheapness, and I have to say that their customer service did not suitably cater to me. My culinary expectations were certainly not met and I found their employees to lack the level of enthusiasm and respect that befits a man of my station.

In the future I will seek my $6 dinners elsewhere.

Not sure on extra crispy, I do know you can get them without salt. I order without salt so they make em fresh, then cover them in salt.

I will admit to being old, but I can close the door and write enough code to make those machines or your computer work. It's just that one can't anticipate every potential interacting issue or capture every possible error. Even NASA has crashed a few space vehicles.

We're often encouraged to use the grocery self-checkout. Seems weights, measures, or counts always throw them a curve, however, and a manager has to come out and rectify the problem. No time savings there. They are fine for a few prepackaged bar-coded items, but I typically decline with the comment that "it just always seems to piss me off."

As to dealing with people, some of them are damned cute. I even pause and interact with our local gas station attendants. We actually know each other names, I don't press 1 for English, and they will wash the windshield and check the oil.

With all of this automation, how difficult is it now to interact with a person when something goes to sh-t? One finds themselves in an endless do-loop cycle monitoring instructions for the 1 - 9 keys none of which are specific to your question.

World's falling apart and the best you got is to bitch about technology you don't even use?

Just read an article last night, sushi place over on the coast, 3 stores, going to an 18% "equity fee" on every check instead of tips.

Long story short, the back of the house workers, chefs and sushi rollers, made more money during the Corona lockdowns when the place went to takeout only, any tips were split between them. Started allowing dine in and the servers came back and started getting tips and having to share them with the back of the house employees, who ended up with less than they were making. Owner says hard to keep employees they've trained for years when the servers are making more money. Customers complained on social media and such that they were losing their control over who gets tipped for good service and who doesn't, said why not just raise wages for the cooks and others in the back? Owner's reply that would mean he'd have to charge more and he'd lose business competing with the other sushi place in town. Guess he didn't figure that adding an 18% equity fee amounted to exactly the same as adding 18% to the price on the menu???

I like most of our places here. Just regular restaurants. Was impressed when my wife and I went to the local lodge/motel restaurant last week. Our server, nice young lady with lip and nose rings, looked familiar. Seated us, took our order, told us to go get salad, came back with our food. I asked " did I see you working at the other restaurant in town?" Yep she says, keeping busy. Told my wife it was nice seeing a young person doing what they needed to make money. (for all you old fogies, note the lip and nose ring part and working 2 jobs )

By the way , I don't order with my phone, I keep as few apps as necessary on there and wish I could do away with some already.

Yeah, I can add my own salt, they have little packets.

Do you ever get them already salted because they didn't read the "app" order correctly?

"Let them eat cake." (Yes, I know.)

Are you old enough to enjoy the senior, early bird menu at the restaurants?

You might look into it, substantial discount over the regular menus.

Usually done with dinner in time to watch old Columbo reruns too.

I'm right with ya....
Agreed..


I walk right past that pos 'kiosk' and go right to the counter and order there... I prefer to deal with a HUMAN instead of some damned machine...

And I sure as hell don't need to have a 50# sack of rice on hand... Geez - what are you who do? Chinese??

The less I need some phone, the better I'll be.. YMMV.

Thet donr sound like no Hardees I knowed back in 19 and 79.

the werld has shoor chandge a mite

I hate phones of all kinds.

I love the looks I get when somebody says, "We'll text you" and I tell them I don't use a cell phone. It riles me when I try to do something online and the ONLY way I can log in is via some code that they want to text to me. How do they assume that every person in this country has a cell phone and uses it for everything?