Does it take you longer to...

[Killawat]

Whats it take you guys longer to do, order your food, or get it?

For me its ordering it, i have a b!tchin good time looking at and analyzing each sandwitch at McDonalds and organizing them by weight :D, an added perk is pissing every1 behind me off and getting kicked out! (jk)

[bullsonparade]

getting it, because it always feel like im their for 2 hours before i get my food

[Malicious Intent]

I hate you Killawat lol.
I used to order the BigMac meal, but they have just released a Big Tasty. It really is big and really is tasty. Unlike the Big Mac, which isn't big. I tried it as a mac, but wasn't comfortable and definately doesn't keep the rain out.
I always drive through. Therefore waiting takes longer, else I find the transit van behind pushing me through.

[isus]

i hate the really stupid people who decide it's a good idea to use the drive-through to buy 400 pounds of food.

[Malicious Intent]

"400 pounds of food" less than that and I'm not filled lol
Seriously I know what you mean.

[Omyn]

400 thats it?

By todays regular american computer geek standards, you are probably at least 200 pounds and spend your days in the computer chair.

Most of these computer geeks can very easily consume 3 times their own body weight in cheeseburgers and microwavable pizza bagels.

[Malicious Intent]

Only scored 10% on the geek test and I'm not American.
I also oven cook my pizza.
j/k

[hawkburn]

Lets not comment on anyones weight.... anyway I'm 165, but im only 16 :D, i used to be 233 last year, until I dieted.

Edit: Just a little fact, In the Year 2000, America spent 110 Billion with a B on fast food.

[cpugeniusmv]

whenever i go out somewhere once, it takes a while...

but if i ever go there again...i get the same thing.

mcdonalds: #3 without cheese
arby's: giant roastbeef, onion pedals

etc.

[hawkburn]

whenever i go out somewhere once, it takes a while...

but if i ever go there again...i get the same thing.

mcdonalds: #3 without cheese
arby's: giant roastbeef, onion pedals

etc.

Speaking of ordering meal #'s... wouldnt it be hilarious if someone ordered in binary numbers, I dont know binary code, but like if you went to McD's and said can I have a 10110 hold the cheese?

Now wouldnt that be geekish

[shawners]

"400 pounds of food" less than that and I'm not filled lol
Seriously I know what you mean.

How could you ever possibly know what he means, we dont use the METRIC system :P~

[cpugeniusmv]

Speaking of ordering meal #'s... wouldnt it be hilarious if someone ordered in binary numbers, I dont know binary code, but like if you went to McD's and said can I have a 10110 hold the cheese?

Now wouldnt that be geekish
in binary it would be...

i'll have a #00000011 without cheese

or just #11 without cheese

[Killawat]

Binary XD ::throws up::

[matrix2003]

it takes much longer to get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crackerjacker]

hmm ordering it up maybe. but getting it takes time to. but i dont really order food no more. hmm I am not about to get sick eatting food from the outside so I prepare my own food. *cough i know where my hands have been and I wash them thoroughly*.

only great place i would go to is my local wendys, and mind you there clean and i have not gotten sick from them.

the best is bake potato *cough* potato hello btw.
and i love wendys chilli, which i can have on occassion as well as the hamburgers. thats a great filler to combine different stuff.

nice salad, a bake potato and of course one of the decent hamburgers they make, no quarter pounder though just the regular size one.

i do not call them murder burgers btw, as i would mickey dees or burger king.

anyway i said to much but thats how i do it now.
rather to eat fresh and what not. of course i would trust the local italian restaurant and decent food outlets.
peace

[WE_DELIVER]

Chipotle is the place for me.....mmmmmm tasty.
I have to order food because I work downtown. Even though I usually pack my lunch to try to avoid paying 12 bucks, sometimes there just is very little time to do it.

[crackerjacker]

Chipotle is the place for me.....mmmmmm tasty.
I have to order food because I work downtown. Even though I usually pack my lunch to try to avoid paying 12 bucks, sometimes there just is very little time to do it.


hmm you should try to make some time. lol
I am serious you should get up an extra 45 minutes earlier and prepare you lunch for a day or two. It wont kill you, eatting food in some fastfood restaurants will kill you or make you real sick.

Look at the case where that guy just died because he caught hepatitis A in Pennsylvania. Right now he died of liver failure, and they did give him a transplant. But whats worse is that 133 other people got sick as well and caught this disease as well.

Mind you, getting up a little extra in the morning to make your lunch is better then getting sick and besides you can save some money in the process. And then you can use that money to buy computer parts dvds and other stuff.

well good luck, eatting out in decent restaurants is good, but in nyc some restaurants are just to filthy. And thats about it peace dude or dudette.

[meyou123]

Now I Am Hungry!! Lets Eat!

[crackerjacker]

Now I Am Hungry!! Lets Eat!

sure I am going to eat some lunch.
a tuna fish sandwich. woohoo :)

[Potato]

Chipotle? 12 bucks? What do you get?! I spend no more than 6 there... steak burrito baby.

It really depends on the place and the time of day. Most places I might go to, I already know what I want.

Olive Garden: Three Meat Ravioli.
Ciattis: The neat thing I can't think of right now.
Old Chicago: Whatever it is they call their lasagna.
Quizno's (man I love Quiznos): Classic Italian w/o all the onions and tomatoes and olives.

I'm hungry now.

I heard Applebee's has a 10 minute rule they don't advertise, but it's in their policy. Meal in 10 minutes or it's free. That means I shoulda gotten a few free meals.

[WE_DELIVER]

no...my chipotle usually ends up costing me around 8 to 9.... I usually get a chicken(I used to like steak) burrito with guacamole(1.25 extra) and extra chicken(1.25 extra...LOL) and a large drink.

I did however pay 12 bucks when I went to someplace I havent been before. I got a slice of pizza, soup, and an iced tea, and almost had a heart attack(could be the burritos) when they told me 12. Downtown Chicago is a ripoff place to eat.

Quizno's is awesome....my favorites, Roast Beef and Cheddar, and the PhillyCheezeSteakSadwich thingie that must be the most lethal thing a human could eat.

[cjules13]

I dunno what store in Chicago they sent you too... Chicago is the king of the $3.50 burrito + drink places. There's so many cheap mexican eats around here it ridiculous. I could eat for months and not go to the same place twice.

Chipotle is good, agreed, but I'd like an authentic illegal alien to make my burrito like he does back home, instead of the corporate pimply Schaumburg teen slingin' Chipotle... lol

[cjules13]

Perhaps a narrower audience will enjoy this, but somebody mentioned the binary ordering at McDonalds... Here's something I had that pretty similar....



Lunch, the HP Way

by Stephen Harrison and Noel Magee

This is the story of a different kind. No melting CPU's, no screaming disc drives, just the kind of psychological torture that scars a man for life.

I had a 9:00 meeting with my sales rep. I needed to buy an entire new series 70, the works. He said it'd take about an hour. Three hours later, we'd barely got the datacomm hardware down on paper, so he invited me downstairs for lunch.

This was my first experience in an HP cafeteria. Above the service counter was a menu which began...



MMU's (Main Menu Units)

0001A Burger. Includes sesame-seed bun.
Must order comdiments 00110A separately

001 Deletes seeds.
002 Expands burger to two patties.

00020A Double cheeseburger, preconfigured. Includes cheese,
bun and condiments.

001 Add-on bacon.
002 Delete second patty.
003 Replaces second patty with extra cheese.

00021A Burger Upgrade to Double Cheeseburger

001 From Single Burger.
002 From Double Burger.
003 Return credit for bun.

00220A Burger Bundle. Includes 00010A, 00210A and 00310A

001 Substitute root beer 00311A for cola 00310A.

My eyes glazed over. I asked for a burger and a root beer. The waitress looked at me like I was an alien.

"How would you like to order that, sir?"

"Quickly, if possible. Can't I just order a sandwich and a drink?"

"No sir. All our service is menu driven. Now what would you like?"

I scanned the menu. "How big is the 00010 burger?"

"The patty is rated at eight bites."

"Well, how about the rest of it?"

"I don't have the specs on that, sir, but I think it's a bit more."

"Eight bites is too small. Give me the Double Burger Upgrade."

My sales rep interrupted. "No, you want the Single Burger option 002 'expands burger to two patties'. The double burger upgrade would give you two burgers.

"But you could get return credit on the extra bun," the waitress chimed in, trying to be helpful, "although it isn't documented."

I looked around to see if anybody was staring at me. There was a couple in line behind us. I recognized one of them, a guy who merely mowed me down in the parking lot with his cherry-red '62 Vette. He was talking to some woman who was waving her arms around and looking very excited.

"What if... we marketed the bacon cheeseburger with the vegetable option and without the burger and cheese? It'd be a BLT!"

The woman charged off in the direction of the telephone, running steeplechases over tables and chairs. My waitress tried to get my attention again. "Have you decided, sir?"

"Yeah, give me the double burger- excuse me, I mean the 00020A with the option 001. I want everything on it." She put me down for the Condiment Expansion Kit, which included mayonnaise, mustard and pickles with a option to substitute relish.

"Ketchup." I hated to ask. "I want ketchup on that, too."

"That's not a condiment, sir, it's a Tomato Product." My sales rep butted in again. "That's not a supported configuration."

"What now?" I kept my voice steady.

"Too juicy. The bun can't handle it."

"Look. Forget the ketchup, just put some lettuce and tomatoes on it."

The waitress backed away from the counter. "I'm sorry, sir, but that's not supported either, the bun can take it but the burger won't fit in the box. The sales rep defended himself. "Just not at first release." "It is being beta-tested, sir."

I checked the overhead screen. Fries, number 000210A, option 110. French followed by option 120, English. "What the hell are English Fries?" I turned to the sales rep. "Chips they call them. We sell a lot of them."

I gave up. "OK, OK just give me a plain vanilla Burger Bundle." The confused the waitress profoundly. "Sir, Vanilla as an option is configured only for series 00450 Milkshakes." My sales rep chuckles. "No ma'am, he just wants a standard 00220A off the shelf. I wondered how long it had been on the shelf. I didn't ask.

"Very good, sir." The waitress breathed a sigh off relief. "Your meal is now on order. Now how would you like it supported?"

"Support?" She directed me to the green shaded area at the bottom of the menu, and I began a litany with my Sales Rep that I'll never forget.

"Implementation assistance?"

"You get a waiter."

"Implementation analysis?"

You tell him how hungry you are and he tells you what to eat."

"Response Center Support?"

"He brings it to your table."

"Extended materials?"

"You get refills."

I stuffed some money at the waitress and told her to take it. She gave me my check on three sheets of green-bar paper. I studied it on my way to the table, and decided it'd pass as an emergency napkin.

Table? My Sales Rep had been bright enough to order us a table. He hadn't been bright enough to check on a delivery date. The table waiter slouching in his corner surveyed the crowded room, looked at me and said, "Two weeks. But I can get you a standalone chair by the window right away."

I handed him the tray. A woman rushed up to me with two small cups of chili and sauerkraut for the hot dog somebody else had ordered. The room began to grom dim, my eyesight faded...

I woke up clutching the water-glass at my bedside table. It was five AM, four hours till my meeting with HP. I had had a vision, I did what it told me to do. I dialed my office, and I called in sick.

[CTC Command]

When I used to smoke, a great way to get the food to come faster was to light up a cigarette. Food always comes right after you light up. Of course, I am not suggesting that anyone start smoking to take advantage of this corollary of Murphy's Law. And now that smoking is banned nearly everywhere, it's probably moot now anyway. Nevermind...

[Psilaxs]

I hate you Killawat lol.
I used to order the BigMac meal, but they have just released a Big Tasty. It really is big and really is tasty. Unlike the Big Mac, which isn't big. I tried it as a mac, but wasn't comfortable and definately doesn't keep the rain out.
I always drive through. Therefore waiting takes longer, else I find the transit van behind pushing me through.

If you witnessed the puddle of grease that envelopes the grill from just one 4oz Big and Tasty patty you wouldn't think it is so "tasty"

Having actually worked there I can give a first hand account at just how shit the meat quality is. A Big and Tasty patty during cooking shrinks down to about one half of its original precooked size.

[origin]

I go get it, patience is on a limited supply in my brain so by doing that it treats it well :blah
l8

[crackerjacker]

another dog list
http://www.dogomania.com/names/origin/USA.shtml

but if i had to name a puppy i would name her princess.

[WE_DELIVER]

cjules13:

there are not that many cheap mexican places in the chicago loop, but other than that, youre right...
...There used to be a place I used to go to all the time in Lincoln Park that would cost me just 5 every time and get me chips, salsa, a drink, and a burrito that must have weighed close to 2 pounds...good stuff.

[Digital Bliss]

Quote:by todays regular american computer geek standards, you are probably at least 200 pounds and spend your days in the computer chair.

I disagree with that statement when I'm on the computer I actually eat less.

[MikeHunt]

What really kills me when ordering 'fastfood' ...is waiting in a long line behind a couple of jackholes(Killowatt...LOL)... that wait until they get to the counter... Then once it's their turn they suddenly have an argument about who is going to buy..." No Jack it's my treat"..."No, Fred your money is no good here"...etc.
5 minutes later when that's finally decided.. they now decide to look up at the menu to try and figure out what they want..quizzing the order taker in detail ...even though there are only 6 choices...about obscure stuff that dosn't mean sh!t to a tree...
No matter that they were standing in line for several minutes prior and could have decided what they wanted BEFORE they approached the counter... damn that pisses me off. :devil2

[MikeHunt]

btw...out here in Cali ...they have had 'Big&Nastys' for a couple of years..,stay away from 'em.
Psilaxs(above) is right.

[crackerjacker]

What really kills me when ordering 'fastfood' ...is waiting in a long line behind a couple of jackholes(Killowatt...LOL)... that wait until they get to the counter... Then once it's their turn they suddenly have an argument about who is going to buy..." No Jack it's my treat"..."No, Fred your money is no good here"...etc.
5 minutes later when that's finally decided.. they now decide to look up at the menu to try and figure out what they want..quizzing the order taker in detail ...even though there are only 6 choices...about obscure stuff that dosn't mean sh!t to a tree...
No matter that they were standing in line for several minutes prior and could have decided what they wanted BEFORE they approached the counter... damn that pisses me off. :devil2

haha but what is worse then that is them basterds decide to order something separate and then instead want to order a combination from the fastfood menu.

i am like wtf?
fukin lamers :)

[crackerjacker]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm i am hungry

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

It takes me longer to get it.

Just like my women.

[FrozenShadow23]

I don't eat fast food anymore, makes me sick. It's not an ethical decision, but one dictated by my lack of desire for throwing up.

And as for geeks eating lots, that's BS. I'm a geek, and I weight about 125, I'm 5'10 and 20 years old. I usually am too busy to eat actually. Most geeks I see are skinny. Now SUV drivers on the other hand...