Reasons why fine dining > McDonald's

[Furball]

Veggies can eat fish (well I can- and so does my mate and so does all the veggies I know ) just to clarify stuff.

You're not a veggie then.

 

[Edged&Taken]

You're not a veggie then.

he is a Pesco-Vegetarian


Types of Vegetarians

Vegetarians avoid all meat and fish products.

Vegans eat fruit, grains, nuts, legumes and vegetables but avoid all food that comes from animals including meat, eggs, and dairy foods (such as milk and cheese).

A lacto-vegetarian eats fruit, vegetables, etc and dairy foods.

An ovo-vegetarian eats eggs as well as fruit, vegetables, legumes etc.

A lacto-ovo-vegetarian eats dairy foods, eggs and fruit, vegetables legumes etc.

Pesco-vegetarians eat fish, dairy foods, eggs and fruit, vegetables, legumes etc.

Semi-vegetarians eat dairy foods, eggs, fish and chicken, fruit, vegetables, etc but no red meat.

 

[G.I.Joe]

The last two items there are such a load of bollocks.

 

[slowfinger]

No, they can't.

Well I eat fish and im veggie, vegans and etc only eat veggies.

 

[Furball]

Well I eat fish and im veggie, vegans and etc only eat veggies.

You're not a vegetarian if you eat fish.

 

[slowfinger]

he is a Pesco-Vegetarian


Types of Vegetarians

Vegetarians avoid all meat and fish products.

Vegans eat fruit, grains, nuts, legumes and vegetables but avoid all food that comes from animals including meat, eggs, and dairy foods (such as milk and cheese).

A lacto-vegetarian eats fruit, vegetables, etc and dairy foods.

An ovo-vegetarian eats eggs as well as fruit, vegetables, legumes etc.

A lacto-ovo-vegetarian eats dairy foods, eggs and fruit, vegetables legumes etc.

Pesco-vegetarians eat fish, dairy foods, eggs and fruit, vegetables, legumes etc.

Semi-vegetarians eat dairy foods, eggs, fish and chicken, fruit, vegetables, etc but no red meat.

There, you see.

 

[Uppercut]

But I leave the cute-looking animals alone!

 

[Smudge]

I haven't been to a McDonald's in NZ in more than a year, after I never got a reply to a complaint letter i wrote to our local store manager.

 

[GIMH]

Did you write about that in a thread here? Rings a bell

 

[Smudge]

Yeah, probably. Here's the letter:

I write to you as a customer left extremely disappointed by a visit to your Petone store on November 18. Having spent much of my life in Dunedin, I recognise your name from my visits – both drunk and sober! – to the Dunedin stores and know through mutual friends that you run a pretty tight ship and will take this feedback as a chance for positive action.

On the night in question, I stopped in at the store about 6.15pm to grab a quick meal before heading to a quiz night. I noticed lines that were four-to-five people deep, but as I was visiting during dinner time, I have no issue with that whatsoever.

However, as I waited, I watched as your front counter staff – both of whom appeared to be new to the job - got order after order wrong, having to give previous customers corrected meals while serving the next bunch and I thought - with my remarkably simple order of a Deli Choice Chicken Caesar Roll Large Combo - that things would go relatively smoothly.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. I couldn't hear him particularly well, but I would put that down to nerves on his part due to being new in the job. But as he attempted to key in my order, he:

a) couldn't find the Chicken Caesar Roll on the keypad
b) didn't know how to make it a combo
c) proceeded to go through a process not dissimilar to the below, after locating the Chicken Caesar Roll key:

- Large chips
- Void
-Large drink
- Void
Large Chips
- Void
- Void
- Chicken Caesar Roll
- Large Chips
- Large drink



After two minutes or so, the young staff member presented me with the chips and the drink and told me he'd bring the roll out. Again, I have no issues with this as I appreciate the freshness of the Deli Choice rolls and have no qualms waiting for them.

So I sit and munch away at the chips. After 6-7 minutes, I get a sinking feeling in my stomach as I realise he's made a complete meal (excuse the pun) of this too. I hear one of the supervisors ask her staff who is waiting on the Chicken Caesar roll, but it appears your staff member had forgotten about me.

Eventually after 10 minutes, I give up the wait and stand by the counter brooding - the duty manager notices and asks if he can help.

"I'm still waiting on my Chicken Caesar Roll," I mutter. Noticing my frustration, he sorts it for me and hands it to me. All the while, I still saw customers returning to the counter to correct their orders.

Just to clarify, I have no problem with people learning their job, but in a situation where two relative novices are manning the front counter, could there at least be some form of supervision from duty managers? I know McDonald's franchise tend to adopt the "sink or swim" approach to training up young staff, but when it's to the detriment of the customers, perhaps this should be reviewed.

I must add that on my three or four visits to your drive-through, I've encountered no such problems, but after the visit to your front counter, I find it difficult to see how I could justify returning to your store to spend money.

Again, I add that I have respect for your own personal efforts, working your way up from your Dunedin days to owning several stores in Wellington, but in these times of increasing competition for the fast food dollar, each company needs to be right on their game and you will hopefully take this feedback on board.

Mixture of asskissing and gentle chiding.

 

[GIMH]

I like that letter

Are you boycotting all McDonalds now?

 

[Smudge]

Pretty much. Went to one in Aussie in July, but that was out of sheer laziness, and I tried to justify it to myself that I was in a different country...

 

[Sanz]

and where do you take her when on a date ???

Mama's House.

 

[slowfinger]

I love home-cooked food, never goes wrong and you always feel satisfied. If only you could bring your house on your travels...

 

[zaremba]

Love that letter, Voltman. Pure class.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Well I eat fish and im veggie, vegans and etc only eat veggies.

No, you aren't.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

OK then, I'm a vegetarian as well. Instead of just limiting myself to fish I also eat pork, lamb, chicken, and beef.

 

[nightprowler10]

Not eating meat and being a vegetarian are two different things.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

I'm fruitarian!

So yes, those carrots have been murdered.

 

[roseboy64]

No McDonald's here. Closed down.