Fast food worker gets yelled at by customers for suggesting they want a hamburger.
Customizing your order at a fast food restaurant is pretty common. No sauce, extra jalapenos, add bacon are all order requests that people have heard before. However, ladies and gentlemen, if you ordered a hamburger with cheese, you could've just ordered a cheeseburger.
On a popular Reddit thread in the Malicious Compliance Subreddit, one fast-food worker tries to help out silly customers save money, but the customers are not happy with that.
They write:
Working at a fastfood restarurant and people would order a cheeseburger with no cheese. That's a hamburger. But try telling that to every single Mrs. After Church Karen a hundred times and let me know how much you want to press the point. A cheeseburger was 25 cents more than a hamburger at the restaurant, where I worked back in the day.
Eventually, I got tired of being yelled at for correcting/explaining that what people really wanted was a hamburger. This happened multiple times a month, mind you. I wasn't getting paid enough to stupid-proof hangry people's fast food orders. So I started ringing them up exactly the way they ordered.
At first, I'd ring them up for a hamburger because I knew that's what they meant. But I got chewed out by someone who read their receipt, so no more going out of my way to save people from their self-inflicted Stupid Tax.
The first time I rang up 'cheeseburger, no cheese,' the cook told me I rang it up wrong. I just said, 'That's how she ordered.' My dead-on-the-inside tone said everything I could not express in mere words, and the kitchen employees immediately caught on. They never questioned the orders rung up that way again.
It was a win-win, I didn't have to get yelled at for trying to save people money, and the restaurant made an extra buck fifty every month from customers ordering cheeseburgers with no cheese. I don't mean to brag, but sometimes, the restaurant makes a whole extra two dollars a month, thanks to me. It was a bit petty but made my retail-weary heart a little glad.
The internet is not surprised.
Laser716 says:
Some people don't know that a cheeseburger is just a hamburger with cheese on it. I'm ready for the asteroid to hit.
Crafty-catmum says:
Once, many, many years ago, my family had gone to a fast food restaurant (one that now specializes in flame grilling). It was a regular thing for my mum, sisters, and me. My dad didn’t usually go with us, but for whatever reason, he did this time. It was in the early days of this franchise being in my hometown. My dad decided that he wanted to have bacon on his burger, but he didn’t want cheese.
We didn’t know that asking for additional items on a burger was a possibility then, but we thought removing them would be ok. So we ordered him the double bacon cheeseburger… without the cheese. The cashier didn’t seem to have any issues with it (we did ask them if it would be ok).
This was when they got an order and called it back to the chefs. So the call goes out from the cashier 'Bacon double cheese, no cheese.' And all we could hear was the response from one of the chefs echoing back to the front of the store, 'What?!'
But they made the burger as requested. My dad enjoyed it. And we have another funny story to remember him with. And we like to think we didn’t annoy the servers or chefs too much. If they’d told us to order a hamburger with added bacon and it would be ok, we would have.
ExcellentTone says:
I used to go to a fast food restaurant and order a double hamburger, they would go 'a what? We don't have that.' If I ordered a double cheeseburger with no cheese, no problems. Until this one girl who, when I ordered a double cheeseburger with no cheese, rolled her eyes and went 'You mean a double hamburger?'
I couldn't even get mad, as I too have worked in 'the hole' at a fast food restaurant and after a while, it does start to feel like customers are ordering wrong just to piss you off. But damn, I can't win as a cheese-hater.
Pro-tip: if you don't want cheese on your Dunkin Donut sandwich, it's cheaper to order it as bread with sausage or bacon than the sandwich.