McRib is returning!

[Kurosaki]

Waiting in a long line for In n Out = acceptable

Waiting in a long line for McD = Crazy person

 

[Kornholio]

Literally everything has long lines right now. It's less a factor of the quality of the food and more a factor of the lack of options at this time. Especially when you just want to pick something up relatively quickly. Also, a visually long line at a fast food restaurant's drive through doesn't mean that it's going to be a long wait. Those lines generally move rather quickly.

Furthermore, In N' Out isn't worth waiting a long time for either. :laughing

 

[Kurosaki]

Literally everything has long lines right now. It's less a factor of the quality of the food and more a factor of the lack of options at this time. Especially when you just want to pick something up relatively quickly. Also, a visually long line at a fast food restaurant's drive through doesn't mean that it's going to be a long wait. Those lines generally move rather quickly.

Furthermore, In N' Out isn't worth waiting a long time for either. :laughing

Doordash life. I wouldn't know in current times what the lines are like. :laughing

To be fair, I don't sit in line at In n Out. I just go in. It's faster. But can't do that right now.

 

[Kornholio]

Yeah you can. I know for a fact that the stores in Fremont and Union City allow you to go inside to order and then take it to go. Can't imagine they're the only ones.

 

[TylerW]

Well, I hit up Micky D in Oakland, we only have TWO outlets left, for crissake, and the city is huge in footprint.

The driveup line was mid block and I did not have enough good memory of a McRib to wait that long.

The drive through line at every McD's in this backwater town is generally 8-10 cars deep, at just about any time of the day. But if you just walk in you can walk back out with your food in about 5 minutes.

Heck even here, you can order through the app and they'll bring you your order while you wait in the car in a designated parking spot. Not sure if that bumps you ahead of the drive-in queue.

 

[SVJ]

Had one today for the first time since like 1992...
It will likely be another 20+ years before I try again. The onion was about the only thing on it that was tasty.

 

[afm199]

The drive through line at every McD's in this backwater town is generally 8-10 cars deep, at just about any time of the day. But if you just walk in you can walk back out with your food in about 5 minutes.

Heck even here, you can order through the app and they'll bring you your order while you wait in the car in a designated parking spot. Not sure if that bumps you ahead of the drive-in queue.

Wait a minute. Rochester is a city!:laughing

 

[KooLaid]

I'm pissed. New years eve I was starved so I rolled up late for a McRib fix, actually ordered two of them again and what do they serve me? McRib with pieces of lettuce, no onion, no pickle. Jerks. Ruined them, both of them!

 

[Eldritch]

Literally everything has long lines right now. It's less a factor of the quality of the food and more a factor of the lack of options at this time. Especially when you just want to pick something up relatively quickly. Also, a visually long line at a fast food restaurant's drive through doesn't mean that it's going to be a long wait. Those lines generally move rather quickly.

Furthermore, In N' Out isn't worth waiting a long time for either. :laughing

When I got the McRibs, I did a drive through and there was 1 or 2 cars in front of me.

I usually skip In n Out. Usually have it every couple of years, because I don't wait in lines. If there is a line 6 people deep, I just walk right back out.

 

[berth]

I usually skip In n Out. Usually have it every couple of years, because I don't wait in lines. If there is a line 6 people deep, I just walk right back out.

I don't know of a time in recent memory that you were able to use the speaker in the drive through to make in order at any of In-N-Out's I frequent. The lines are long enough that they have 1 or 2 dedicated external order takers.

 

[Eldritch]

I don't know of a time in recent memory that you were able to use the speaker in the drive through to make in order at any of In-N-Out's I frequent. The lines are long enough that they have 1 or 2 dedicated external order takers.

I have never tried the drive through. It is always way deep. Even if I could order quickly, I would have to wait in the car line with a bunch of people. I don't do that.

If I go to the Grocery store and the check out line is 4 deep, I go shop more until the line has gone down.

 

[Kornholio]

I have never tried the drive through. It is always way deep. Even if I could order quickly, I would have to wait in the car line with a bunch of people. I don't do that.

If I go to the Grocery store and the check out line is 4 deep, I go shop more until the line has gone down.

How in the fuck did you ever survive The Land? :dunno :laughing

 

[augustiron]

Lol @ eldirty.

On one of my first dates with my now wife of 11 years, she took me to a nice restaurant walking distance from her house in Noe Valley.

We arrived and there were more than a few people milling outside. I had to tell her right there and then that I don't queue for food.

It flustered her, and I was flustered at the idea of waiting for food at some hyped up place when there were a dozen other places to dine within spitting distance. Also, Noe gave me the creeps as I was a Mission dweller.

We got past it, I have always been 100% open and honest with her about my quirks so she can make her own informed decision about whether to stay with me or not. So far so good.

We often get a good laugh when she retells that story, and describes her internal dialogue in evaluating me as a potential suitor with my rigid hangups and rules around food. (Pizza purity, etc)

 

[bikewanker]

Not doing drive throughs is about as green as I get. I went inside a Popeyes in Reno and no walk-in service, no chicken sandwich for me. A McDonald’s in Fairfield was drive through only and I succumbed to get my senior coffee and ice cream cone for my cheepuccino. I’m encouraged that some of y’all share my aversion to waiting. I will accept a line if it means avoiding a kiosk or self checkout in the hope it will provide someone job security.

 

[Pushrod]

Not doing drive throughs is about as green as I get. I went inside a Popeyes in Reno and no walk-in service, no chicken sandwich for me. A McDonald’s in Fairfield was drive through only and I succumbed to get my senior coffee and ice cream cone for my cheepuccino. I’m encouraged that some of y’all share my aversion to waiting. I will accept a line if it means avoiding a kiosk or self checkout in the hope it will provide someone job security.

Might be an age thing.

The thought of waiting in a line for longer than it takes to eat the order puts me off. Then there is the aspect of sitting on a hard plastic chair bolted to the floor, at a formica table that perhaps hasn't been bussed because 'polite' customers clear their own waste, to eat from a plastic tray food wrapped in paper. . . . .

I like to think that, at almost seventy, I have more dignity than that.

 

[Kornholio]

I will accept a line if it means avoiding a kiosk or self checkout in the hope it will provide someone job security.

I've never understood that logic. There's no such thing as robots that fix/service the machinery that supports the self-checkout lanes. Humans are still necessary to fill that role and hence the net loss in terms of job security is zero. Also, a store employee or two are still required to supervise their use.
Also, the vast majority of the time, those lanes are added to existing infrastructure, not replacing it. Furthermore, when is the last time you've seen every single checkout lane at any store, grocery or otherwise, manned for an entire shift? Hell, how about all lanes at any point on any day? It just doesn't happen so who exactly is "losing their job" with self-checkout lanes anyway? I'll use them whenever I can to avoid the slow-moving employees that either want to spend more time talking to you than ringing up your items or they have no concept of moving with a sense of purpose. Either way, I have no use for them. And yes, I spent a few years working at Vons as a young man so I've been on that side of it, too.

But I digress...

 

[Eldritch]

How in the fuck did you ever survive The Land? :dunno :laughing

:laughing

#1 - I am not inflexible. I make special exceptions to be more tolerant of it while there. I prepare for it as part of the park experience and do not regard the general population inside the park in the same way.

#2 Whatever the busiest shit in the park is, we don't do. Now that Avenger's Campus is opening, it will be nice that I will be able to go see Galaxy's Edge. Similar to me not really seeing much of Carsland the first couple of years it was around. Part of the fun is using expert knowledge of the park rides and paths in the park to negotiate quickly, more easily traveled paths than most people are experiencing. Joy is also had in using a keen eye and fast pass strategy to execute a smooth low wait ride experience. This needs to be also seasoned with a strong knowledge of paths related to where to get booze. You also never, ever, ever, go on a Saturday or Holiday weekend.

I've never understood that logic. There's no such thing as robots that fix/service the machinery that supports the self-checkout lanes. Humans are still necessary to fill that role and hence the net loss in terms of job security is zero. Also, a store employee or two are still required to supervise their use.
Also, the vast majority of the time, those lanes are added to existing infrastructure, not replacing it. Furthermore, when is the last time you've seen every single checkout lane at any store, grocery or otherwise, manned for an entire shift? Hell, how about all lanes at any point on any day? It just doesn't happen so who exactly is "losing their job" with self-checkout lanes anyway? I'll use them whenever I can to avoid the slow-moving employees that either want to spend more time talking to you than ringing up your items or they have no concept of moving with a sense of purpose. Either way, I have no use for them. And yes, I spent a few years working at Vons as a young man so I've been on that side of it, too.

But I digress...

In my experience it is not the Checkers that slow these lines down, but malfunctioning customers.

 

[Kornholio]

:laughing

#1 - I am not inflexible. I make special exceptions to be more tolerant of it while there. I prepare for it as part of the park experience and do not regard the general population inside the park in the same way.

#2 Whatever the busiest shit in the park is, we don't do. Now that Avenger's Campus is opening, it will be nice that I will be able to go see Galaxy's Edge. Similar to me not really seeing much of Carsland the first couple of years it was around. Part of the fun is using expert knowledge of the park rides and paths in the park to negotiate quickly, more easily traveled paths than most people are experiencing. Joy is also had in using a keen eye and fast pass strategy to execute a smooth low wait ride experience. This needs to be also seasoned with a strong knowledge of paths related to where to get booze. You also never, ever, ever, go on a Saturday or Holiday weekend.

I COMPLETELY understand #2. Kelly used to get so frustrated with me when I first started taking her there regularly back when we first got our passes. She never understood why I hustled her around the park quickly and avoided many parts of the park and specific rides during specific times of the day and even parts of the year. I always explained that I have almost 40 years of experience with The Land and know exactly where to be at what times and what's worth waiting for and what isn't. Especially when you only live a couple hours away or even in the Bay Area. That shit will still be there in January and February when fucking NO ONE is there because it's "too cold". :laughing

 

[Eldritch]

I COMPLETELY understand #2. Kelly used to get so frustrated with me when I first started taking her there regularly back when we first got our passes. She never understood why I hustled her around the park quickly and avoided many parts of the park and specific rides during specific times of the day and even parts of the year. I always explained that I have almost 40 years of experience with The Land and know exactly where to be at what times and what's worth waiting for and what isn't. Especially when you only live a couple hours away or even in the Bay Area. That shit will still be there in January and February when fucking NO ONE is there because it's "too cold". :laughing

This is why I HATE the Fastpass over phone app. It robs the experts of a lot of their edge. I can remember one time on the way between parks to get drinks, we had 3 fastpass tickets in our pockets between the 2 parks, I was so bloody pleased.

 

[bikewanker]

:laughing
In my experience it is not the Checkers that slow these lines down, but malfunctioning customers.

That was you behind me while I attempted to claim 0 bags? :rolleyes