Drive thru - the good, bad and ugly

[HULK_I6T]

Drive thru service from the various fast food chains is certainly a good idea, but some do it good, bad and some are ugly. Post up your experiences and ratings

McDonalds: Have you noticed that almost Everytime you use their drive thru, they send you off into their waiting bay? Leave you chugging away wasting your petrol. They used to have 3 windows, order, pay, collect.. Now its one person talking your order, then you drive round and have to listen to them taking the persons order behind you, whilst they are taking your payment. Then straight to collect. But when your at the collect window they give you half your order and say wait in the waiting bay? Count the times they send you to the waiting bay, almost 100%. I queried them a few times as there was no car behind me? The maccas employes at the window said I would destroy their stats if I wait there instead of the waiting bay? But no one is behind me I protested!! They are just chaotic and look like they don't know what they are doing, with people whacking into each other and buzzers and beeps going off everywhere, asking who's order is who's etc..

Maccas Rating: Terrible, just terrible.

KFC: They serve the person in front of them which is better than maccas, but they will always forget the cutlery/napkins.. Always check your order at KFC.

KFC Rating: good but just tell them to put napkins in the bag as they didn't the first time

Hungry jacks: a bit of a wait but they seem to deliver. No issues, they serve the person in front of them and if anything overstock the bag with napkins etc

Hungry jack rating: great

Red rooster: A bit slow throught the drive through but again they serve the person in front of them, most important, deliver up what they need to do and your on your way.

Red rooster rating: great

Oporto: Similar to hungry jack and red rooster, good service by attending to the person in front of them.

Oporto rating: great.

[Geez Louise]

And the purpose of this thread is what? Fast food restuarant rating service?

[HULK_I6T]

Originally Posted by Geez Louise

And the purpose of this thread is what? Fast food restuarant rating service?

Well its non automotive chat? Is this the right place to post?

Just raise awareness of the drop in service levels or in some cases increase in customer satisfaction. Nothing to do with the food served up, its the drive thru service/process!!

[Danny]

I haven't had Maccas in at least 3 years, HJ's in even longer. As far as I know, their burgers are cooked to order so they are fresh. Isn't that a good enough reason for waiting? If you don't like it, turn the car off or walk inside and order at the counter. No one forces you to use a drive thru.

Failing that, make a sandwich or get some fresh stuff from the supermarket, your body will thank you. Trust me

[Pub247]

**** me hulk you've hit a new low with this one


BTW hungry jacks worse drive through evers don't where you live but they never ever no matter which store i go to give me napkins and they always forget **** in your order.

[HULK_I6T]

Originally Posted by Danny

As far as I know, their burgers are cooked to order so they are fresh. Isn't that a good enough reason for waiting? If you don't like it, turn the car off or walk inside and order at the counter. No one forces you to use a drive thru.

im not opposed to waiting, but its a bit of courtesy to serve the person that is in line first, then worry about the customer behind. Then if its a drive through then why not serve the person at the window instead of making everyone park in the carpark, then send some young 15 year old with a bag of food out in the carpark with no idea whos food it is, asking every second car if they ordered a big mac meal with a sprite for the drink? They even send you to the waiting bay when noone is behind you??? Just chaos in that joint.

if they just serve the person at the window completely they wouldnt have to run around like chickens with their heads cut off. Its also a OH&S issue sending those kids out in the carpark with hot food and approaching strangers cars.

if people wanted to park they would park and walk in. Whats the point of using the drive thru?

[Grippy]

Stop eating junk food Hulk.

[XRGhia]

what drugs are you on? I want some of whatever your on.

and yes sometimes they send you to wait because what ever you ordered has something freshly cooked in it, but isn't ready straight away when your at the window so get you to park.

[HULK_I6T]

Originally Posted by XRGhia

what drugs are you on? I want some of whatever your on.

and yes sometimes they send you to wait because what ever you ordered has something freshly cooked in it, but isn't ready straight away when your at the window so get you to park.

Oportos cook to order but give you the courtesy of serving you at the window.

Starbucks have drive thru, they make your coffee as your at the window not send 100% of their customers out in the carpark

If they can't deliver on a proper drive thru service don't offer it.

Dominos pizza do not do drive thru because their product (cooked to order) cannot be made in a reasonable time frame for a drive through.

[deesun]

[DoreSlamR]

What is Oporto?

[Pepscobra]

Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

What is Oporto?

It's a new chain of grilled chicken places, like Nandos.
They've recently opened one on Canning Hwy where the Maccas used to be in South Perth.

[DoreSlamR]

Oh cool.

I like Nandos, I use their marinade on my steaks sometimes.

[supershifty]

If I have nothing constructive to add to a thread, I usually click and move on.

I've changed my mind on this occasion and looked into the depth and meaning of the subject and the value of it's debate.

To quote Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Predator - "We hit nothing"

ffs - Kill this thread.

Cheers!

[cs123]

Did you know that at this point in the thread your browser has had to render 175065 bytes of data that it has downloaded from the AFF server, including cache.

Seems kind of like a waste of good data doesn't it.

[Pepscobra]

I avoid drive-thrus full stop.
No way am I risking scratching my rims on those stupidly tight bends and high curbs.
I did go thru one on my push-bike once.

[Mechan1k]

The driver's regulator is busted in the Territory ... I can't use drive thru ... that's a good thing now ... might leave it that way.

[xxx000]

F6 Benito you seem to want to know peoples opinion about almost anything.

You've got multiple threads/going at the moment asking opinions: highest kms, fastfood, 162000 kms too much?

Not too sure why though

[Road Games]

Awww everyone stop picking on Joe...

He is generating thought provoking internet responses and therefore increasing internet traffic towards this site..

Try Googling which is the worst drive thru and see if you get re-directed to here will ya .. somebody ?

well done Joe

[xxx000]

Just read the orig post in this thread
Geez he eats some fast food.
No wonder he's mentioning the gym in several of his threads

[CoupeKing]

Meanwhile in Ukraine.

It can depend on what you order. Do you customise your orders at all?

And dont forget that Macca`s probably have more customers in the Drive-thru than all the others combined, and them some.

[CoupeKing]

LOL, and what about this bloke. He would have gone through 10 sets of break pads in the Drive-thru alone.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske

[Dash_XR]

Civil war or slow fast food.. Think ill take the latter.

[MrEL]

The next thread will be "Best supplier of Magic Mushrooms"
Tripper.

[Bossxr8]

Another quality Hulk thread.

Do you seriously have no life Hulk, other than thinking up more stupid thread topics day after day. I agree, total waste of bandwidth.

Where's the LOCK.

[GasoLane]

Seeing as all the above are franchises and will therefore differ in quality of service depending on the owner it's really not a valid question unless aimed at a particular outlet.

Oh and 'Fast Food' and 'Restaurant' is somewhat of an Oxymoron.
Along the lines of 'Humble American' and 'Military Intelligence'

[Franco Cozzo]

I've only used a drive through twice, one time a mate was driving and we went through for dinner at Maccas at the new Keilor/Tullamarine one (which service was real quick, no wait and the food seemed freshly cooked).

The other time was Maccas in Sunbury, its 24 hours but they don't open the inside of the store after 12AM I think so I had to go through the driveway, was 1AM in the morning with another mate.

I hate using the drive through, would rather just stop, go in side, order, eat and muck around on my phone for a bit rather than try eat/drive at the same time.

[my_gxl]

And I was thinking this would be bottle shop related. Very disappointed now.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by MrEL

The next thread will be "Best supplier of Magic Mushrooms"
Tripper.

Mt Macedon and surrounds, they grow naturally up there

[FPV GTHO]

I think Maccas drive through is probably still the best. They prepare the food quicker than most others and I can't seperate the food aspect from the service. Red Rooster is the worst around here, followed by Hungry Jacks.

Normally I just order in though. Can't stand talking to someone without a face there