LOL some funny stories you got there people.
As for me, yeah I write everything down in advance and then pull up to the window and show them the paper, after I told them that I'm deaf. They would adjust to me being deaf by taking the order on paper and punch it in the computer. I would be told to pull into the parking lot as they will cook my food then bring it out to me when its ready. So far no problems except for one story below and the occassional order screw ups.
My roommate and I were in Rochester, NY and it was after dark. All of the restaurants has closed their dining areas and the drive thru is the only thing that's open for another hour so we decided to go to Burger King to get some food. We don't want to mix up our money because we were tight at that time so we wanted to give the teller separate orders. It was like 15 mins till closing or so and the teller took one of our orders, punched it in and told me the amount. I handed her the money and she gave me my change back and proceeds to walk away. I honked the horn and she came back. I tried to tell her, "We are not done" and gave her my roommate's order. She got furious and wrote on paper, "The next time you come here, PLEASE give your orders all together on ONE paper!" and closed the window, punched the order, took his money and gave change back and walked away in a frustrated state. We looked at each other and laughed because that woman need to understand patience and sorry if we had to do this method, it's how we want it and the teller has to know this; the customer is always right. NEVER fight back or do things hastily, just do everything with patience.
A little off the point here, but does your order ever get screwed up? My fiancee and I would get our orders screwed up, i.e., we don't want ketchup and tomatoes on our hamburgers and when we get them, we would find either tomatoes, ketchup or both on our hamburgers and we would go back to the drive-thru or walk into the dining room and object about our food. It's so frustrating because when hired, the fast food restaurant assume you have all of the skills they want, including READING... Like reading the order on the small computer up above... If they took our order and screw it up, then why the fck are they working at McDonalds for? Go back to school and take some reading classes and when you have passed it with high marks, come back and work for McDonalds...
I have tried to develop a certain format that's easy for the cashier to understand. It would be something like this:
2 Dbl (Double) Cheeseburgers
- (minus sign) No ketchup
- No Tomatoes
+ (add sign) Add Mayo
+ Add Bacon
2 Diet Cokes
2 Lg Fries
Something like that and it would work most of the time. What fails me to understand them is how hard is it to read something like that? They've managed to screw it up somehow and it would sometimes be the cashier's fault or the line cook's, who's preparing our food, fault.
