Don't give McDonalds your business. Even if you just want a burger, there are many better places that can get you a burger just as fast. Some of those other places will actually feed you food, too! McDonalds no longer serves food.
I usually know better than to eat at McDonalds or similar places, but sometimes I just want something quick and can't be bothered to make it myself. So I stop in an order a plain cheeseburger, a small fry, and a small coke.
It should be easy, right? Well, every time I make the mistake of going to McDonalds and ordering a plain cheeseburger, that's not what I get. Instead. I get one of the burgers they have sitting under a heat lamp—lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions, and all.
Every time this happens, I go in and show the person behind the counter my receipt, show them what I got, and ask them if this looks like a plain cheesburger to them.
They usually get it right the second time.
This time they fucked it up twice. I ended up talking to the manager, and had to tell her, "No, I don't want a refund. I want what I ordered and paid for."
I know people working in fast food don't get paid enough to give a shit, but why take it out on the customers? All I wanted on my way home from visiting my father in the hospital was a plain fuckin' cheeseburger: bun, meat, cheese. It's not that hard.
Really, I wish people working at McDonalds would grow a spine and stage more wildcat strikes instead of retaliating against their bosses by fucking up reasonable orders..
Don't give McDonalds your business. Even if you just want a burger, there are many better places that can get you a burger just as fast. Some of those other places will actually feed you food, too! McDonalds no longer serves food.
What I really wanted was some chicken from Popeye's, but the queue for the drive-thru extends out into the damn road and creates a traffic hazard.
Besides, Wendy's, Burger King, and even Five Guys aren't that great. I'd have been better off going to the supermarket, getting a pound of ground chuck and making my own damn burger—but that wasn't what I wanted.
You live somewhere where those are the only burger options? At least Five Guys serves food but yeah not that great.
The local places that aren't part of chains are no better. The problem is that nobody working at any of these places gets paid enough to give a damn, so they don't. The quality of the food they offer suffers as a result. I'm better off just doing my own cooking, but that day I just didn't have the spoons.
I just wanted a taste of my childhood. I don't think that was so much to ask.