"Fast food workers, what is your 'Sir, this is a Wendy's' moment?"
Always Look For The Golden Arches
"This is really weird that this became a meme, because I swear this is true."
"In about 95 I was driving from New England to Florida for a college spring break trip."
"Somewhere in South Carolina we stopped at a Wendy's."
"Near the hallway to the bathrooms they had a big map of South Carolina and I said to a person 'can you tell me where we are?'"
" I was pretty clearly indicating the map."
"The lady said, 'Honey, you in the Wendy's!'"
"I was like.... thanks ok."
"So no big Macs."- Wobblebut
Sorry, We Don't Accept That Here...
"One time this older dude rushes up to order and slams a coupon on the counter saying 'I want this!'"
"I pick it up It has menu items for KFC."
"I ask him 'What exactly would you like to order?'"
"He instantly gets disgruntled with me for not reading his G*d damn mind and shakes his finger at the coupon and said 'Well Whatever is on the coupon, obviously!?' in a condescending tone."
"I just look at him for a minute and say word for word 'Sir, this is McDonald’s'."
"I don’t know what you want me to do with this KFC coupon."
”He looks at me dumbfounded."
"Then looks behind me at the menu and around the store, yells 'Awh, Sh*t', like this isn’t his first time walking into the wrong establishment, grabs the coupon and storms off."- BALD-HEADED_HOE
pizza hut GIF by FunimationGiphySeriously, Is It That Hard To Read the Menu?
'"You don't have tables?'"
"Nope."
"'I'll just have the general chicken'"
"'This is a Pizza Hut'."
"'Fine, just a few egg rolls'."
"'How about a pizza?'"
"'Why would I order pizza at a Chinese restaurant?'"
"'You're right, that would be stupid'."- mochablendedfun
People Still Use Checks?
"Dude came to drive thru."
"I open the window, 'sir, how can I help you'."
"'I'm outa checks', "he replies calmly."
"'Not sure I follow you', I say."
"'I'm outa checks', he says again more impatiently."
"'Right, I heard you but I don't know what you want me to do about it'."
"You can pay with cash or card too'."
"Dude gives me a weird look then says, 'Oh this ain't the bank'."
"And peels out away from the window."
"I'm a pharmacist."- avatarlevel
lisa simpson check GIFGiphyMake The Most Of It...
"I used to work at Target and they hired a new girl, who had previously worked at Walmart, to work the fitting rooms, and by default the intercom system."
"A few days after she started she was about to make an announcement over the intercom and I guess habit took over because she started the announcement with 'Attention Walmart shoppers'."
" She realized her mistake and made a good recovery with 'you are in the wrong store'."- Yodajrp
"Another One Bites The Dust..."
"I was working at Braum's and this guy went on a whole rant about how Queen and all the bands from the 70's-80's are working with government to erase memories."
"All because he heard a lyric wrong."- InfiniousBeatz·
Level Your Expectations
"Y’all wouldn’t believe the amount of disappointed rich people who come to Panda Express and find out we aren’t serving authentic Chinese food."
"Once a well traveled rich woman came into Panda Express and stood at the buffet line for about ten minutes, critiquing our 'mistakes' and explaining how Chinese cuisine doesn’t actually have fried wontons with cream cheese filling."
"Ma’am, we just fry what came in the bag from a warehouse in California."- Upstairs_Cow
GiphyWorking in the service industry can be extremely stressful and tiring.
But when you get to share stories like these, it almost makes it all worth it.
Who wouldn't want to see just one humiliated reaction after someone ordering a 10pc McNuggets at a Popeye's is corrected?
Redditor rcinvestments was eager to hear which fast food chains people wish would go out of business, and thus no longer be found in rest stops and airport food courts, leading them to ask:
"What fast food chain should go out of business?"
Long John Silver's
"i swear Long John Silvers is just a money laundering front."- FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF1234
Seafood Hushpuppies GIF by Long John Silver'sGiphy"How is there still any Long John Silvers? "
"Pretty confident it's there for money laundering."- ChucksNorris243
Subway
"I’m starting to question getting subway multiple times a month."- Moose_dude16439
"Subway."
"They brand as fresh and healthy but are neither."
"The food is awful."- Emergency_Sundae6842
"I’d be down to get rid of subways but only if all locations were replaced with better sub/deli sandwich shops."
"Cause that’s about the one thing Subway has on anyone else, proximity."
"I do love the cookies too."- Forsuremaybe_
"Subway."
"You can’t get a footlong for less than $10 now and it’s not even a good sandwich compared to just about anywhere else."
"Firehouse and Jersey Mike’s are better, but nothing great, don’t @ me. Go local on this one fools."- AllGarbage
Sub GIF by Subway SverigeGiphyKFC
"KFCs quality has DROPPED in the last 10 years."
"It’s not the same delicious, well cooked chicken I remember."- Graceland1979
"KFC."
"You can get better chicken almost anywhere these days, and they don't stuff up your order."- Chance_Ad1260
Burger King
"Is Burger King even trying anymore? "
"When I was a kid I remember them being a legit competitor to McDonalds and Wendy's was barely an afterthought."
"Now its McDonald's vs. Wendy's for me."
"McDonald's vs. Burger King for me now feels like WalMart vs. K-Mart and then Wendy's is Target."- basedlandchad20
"Going to a Burger King is like playing Russian Roulette but with food poisoning."
"The quality of the locations varies so much it's crazy."- SquilliamFancySon95
"Burger King."
"Everytime I eat there my stomach protests it and I feel HORRID for the rest of the day."
"I have gastro problems, but other fast food places give me like 1/4 of the reaction."- connectedstones
"As sad as it makes me, Burger King."
"At least in the part of the US I live in."
"It’s been years since I was satisfied by the taste, thanks to undercooked Pattie’s, cold hard buns, stale fries, employees that seem like they’d rather not be there, drive through as that smell like rotted soft drinks, and overall the locations are looking run down."
"Even their advertising has been sloppy and sometimes outright inappropriate."- RustliefLameMane
Scared The Shining GIFGiphyGolden Corral
"Golden Corral needs to go."
"People touching food, coughing and sneezing by the food, kids grabbing plates and then putting back."
"Food is absolutely bland."
"The best tasting food there is the iceberg lettuce if that's any indication how bad the food is."- kimsuh
All Of Them... Well, Almost All Of Them...
"All of them."
"Well many not Wendy’s."- Digi_CrrowFly
"They all suck now. "
"They're like corporate color vampires."
"I want play grounds."- OnyxOwl222
Shut It Down 30 Rock GIFWendy's
"Wendys."
"My family and I have gotten food poisoning anytime we’ve eaten there."
"Only fully stopped once my brother had to be hospitalized."- Inner-Revolution3892
Taco Bell
"Taco bell."
"The food is not authentic and its like eating potato chips for main meal."- PsychologicalGold557
Chipotle
"Chipotle."
"Just based on all their incidents in the past few years I just can’t trust their food anymore."- MaddenRob
life lol GIF by Chipotle Mexican GrillGiphyChick-Fil-A
"Shocked to not see Chick-fil-A and their hate-chicken on this."
"Yes that's an amazing chicken sandwich, but I hate to see my money go to support religious extremists who donate so much money to anti-LGBTQ causes."- Mizzou-Rum-Ham
McDonalds... Unless They Save A Menu
"McDonald’s should get rid of their ice cream and McFlurry offerings if they’re never going to 'work'.”- amandatrot
Of course, the quality of the food might not alway be the reason people wish some places would go out of business.
Sometimes, the food might simply be so good that you find yourself unable to resist your temptations.
Ask anyone with an office in close proximity to a Shake Shack.
And these days, who's office ISN'T in close proximity to a Shake Shack...
Redditor Dangerous_Language26 asked:
"What is the worst fast food chain?"
Everyone Out Pizzas The Hut
"The sad, sad decline of Pizza Hut."
"Back in the 80's and early 90's it used be the place where you had pizza parties."
"You read your books to get a free personal pan pizza."
"Then they started to cut corners."
"The tomato sauce tasted different, the crust was hard."
"It was greasy and it just drove people away."
"Compared that to Dominoes which was literally the lowest tier of pizza and Pizza Hut dominated them for years."
"Then Dominoes hired Patrick Doyle as their CEO in 2010."
"They ran all those ads on focus groups and how they were going to improve their customer service and change their recipe."
"It all worked and using tracking technology and GPS Dominoes went from the bottom of the barrel to the king of the hill.""
"Now Pizza Hut is at the bottom."- dresn231
GiphyTim Would Be Appalled
"Tim Horton's - at least in the US."
"Their food is universally gross and overpriced."
"Their donuts are gas station quality at best."
"And the biggest most unforgivable sin is that for a chain that prides itself on coffee, they serve it in an atom-thin, hand-scalding cup through a drive-through window so, unless you have carpenter's callouses on your hand, you are assured to get first-degree burns."
"They use those cheap 1975 era coffee lids that you have to manually peel back, ensuring further skin damage as a splash of coffee will inevitably come out."
"Then finally you lift it to your lips, but with no other pinhole to regulate flow a geyser of 400-degree lava vaporizes the skin on your lips."
"You try to stuff your mouth with what you know is going to be an average-at-best donut just to have something to soak it up but that donut was cooked in a Cleveland warehouse that shares space with a Spirit of Halloween three days ago so it's just stale and bad and you can't decide if you want the burning coffee or the gross donut out of your mouth more."
"I've never felt like an entire chain hated its customers more than the masochists that visit Tim Horton's."- caffeinex2
Giphy"Tim Hortons gradually turned into complete sh*t after they were bought out."
"It's not even a Canadian company anymore."
"Their donuts have been garbage since they stopped baking them in store and their coffee isn't even good."
"Like you said all their food is gross."
"As a Canadian I've been boycotting them for quite some time. It's a shame because they used to be very good."-divine__love
Not Even Cheap Any More
"Gonna give a curveball answer: Subway"
"Since they dropped the $5 footlong model, they are are just overpriced and underwhelming subs."
"Go to Jersey Mikes, Firehouse, (good God come here, best subs for a chain IMO), Ike’s Love and Sandwiches (if one is near you?), or some really good mom and pop deli shops."
"There nothing redeeming about their subs"- Flaux454
Not Finger Lickin' Good
"KFC. Used to be my absolute favourite but when they changed the chips it started going downhill."
"Now they're just super slow at getting the food out, even when it's not that busy (at least all the ones where I live are)."- OrangesandLemons98
GiphyArby's Of The Past
"I was going to say Arby’s, because about twenty years ago an Arby’s franchise had all the charm of a crack house, but it feels like they’ve come around lately."
"Maybe new ownership, I don’t know."- Playful-Opportunity5
GiphyNot The Queen Of Dairy
"My husband is a health inspector and he will without a doubt tell you it's Dairy Queen."- cassiecas88
Ice Cream Animation GIF by JakeGiphyKing Of Burgers?
"I'm not sure about worst, but I don't understand how Burger King is still around."
"They just opened a new one about 2 miles from where I live."
"It's across the street from McDonald's and near a Subway."
"I never see anyone there.'
"Their dining room never seems to be open, there are never any cars in the parking lot."
"You drive by, and there will be 12 cars in the McDonald's parking lot and 5-6 cars in the drive through, and the BK is a ghost town."
"And many of them around here are like that."
"Nearest I can figure, they're all drug fronts."- pm1966
"Burger King."
"Do not need to explain."- True0Tech
"Burger King."
"Hands down."
"I've never once had a good experience at one, to include the taste of the food."
"Like you know its bad when even McDonalds is better."- Chris-P-Taco
GiphyNo Time For Taco Time
"Taco Time."
"Not to be confused with Taco Time Northwest (which is a f**king delight ::chef’s kiss::)."
" Regular Taco Time makes Taco Bell seem like fine dining and tastes like Satan’s butthole."- reruning
Don't Stop For Their Wings
"Wingstop."
"My source, you ask?"
"I work there lmao."
"Chicken is sh*t quality and super small not to mention how awful all the stuff in the sauces are."
"Everybody is obsessed with the ranch despite it literally just being mayo/buttermilk/hidden valley ranch packets."
"AND the new sandwiches we just started are nasty and come out raw despite cooking them exactly how corporate told us."
"Not to mention everything is just stupid expensive."
"$1.69 for a tiny side of ranch at my store."- smallemochick
GiphyChipotle Sucks Now I Guess
"I gotta say Chipotle."
"Hear me out."
"When they first started showing up they were really good."
"Cilantro lime rice. Tasty barbacoa." Decent hot sauce."
"It was treat going there."
"It wasn't too expensive and enough food that you'd always be stuffed full after eating."
"What else could you want?"
"Qdoba showed up."
"It sucked."
"It was terrible compared to Chipotle."
"Not even competition."
"Then Qdoba got good."
"Chipotle panicked and decided the solution was to increase their prices, shrink the menu options, and change their recipes."
"Suddenly the rice was bland."
"The barbacoa was dry and tasteless."
"They added that terrible cheese sauce that is truly inedible."
"I mean parmesan? Really? "
"Not a lime in the store. Just dreadful. "
"Their speed of service became embarrassingly slow."
"I don't think I've been there since that Godawful cheese sauce."
"I want 2008 Chipotle back."
"I think that was peak Chipotle. I'd get lunch there by myself and stare bleakly out the window at the parking lot; thinking about hating my job and enjoying my food."- mostlygray
GiphyMaybe Their Name Wasn't Meant To Be A Compliment?
"Whataburger."
"More like whatadisappointment."- DieselSwapEverything·
Wb Reaction GIF by WhataburgerGiphyThey Don't Deserve To Ring That Bell!
"I'm from South Africa."
"I visited the USA in January 2020, right before the pandemic started."
"I had always wanted to try Taco Bell after always hearing about it on TV and movies."
"So I found one in San Francisco, tried that taco that come with cheese in the middle of the soft taco shell, and I was incredibly disappointed."
"It just didn't taste very good, very greasy.:
"The other food I had there was okay, but Taco Bell was a major let down."- Cezkarma
taco bell tacos GIF by Justin GammonGiphyAre Any Of Them Good?
"All of em."- bl4ckpetunia
D For Disgusting?
"How has no one said Captain D's."- scorpio-mofo
More Like Pizza "No-WAY!"
"I'm not sure if anyone has heard about this place called 'Pizza Nova', but my god do they suck."
"Also there's this very unheard of chain called 'Fast Eddie's'."
"Sh*t is vomit inducing."- abstractdarkk
Rainbow Pizza GIFGiphyNo One's "Lovin' It" Any More...
"McDonalds is the worst thing from America."- DickInYourMouth69
"McDonald's."
"Food has gotten very expensive and is usually stale and unfilling."- Mysterydumper
ronald mcdonald wink GIFGiphyDefinitely Won't Come To Papa!
"Papa John's."
"The only pizza I have ever had that I threw out after one bite."
"Dominos is like homemade from Italy compared to that crap."- Ok-Asparagus-3296
Hungry Food GIF by Papa John’sGiphyNot all chains live up to their advertising, but quality can sometimes really depend on each individual location.
So go ahead and try that new place out, just don't be surprised if it kinda sucks.