Sunday, March 4, 2007

Fine!! Have it Your Way!!



Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce. Special orders don't upset us. All we ask is that you let us have your way. That's right. If you hold the pickles or the lettuce they wont get upset, and they just might get it right on a good day. Anything beyond that is too much for this burger establishment's hive mind to comprehend. I say hive mind because any Burger King you go to will do the same thing. Hold the pickles. Great. Add more mayonnaise. Done. They can remove and add components of the burger all day long. But what I asked them to do, I dare not ask again, because it nearly burst the very small hive mind that they all share. I love meat and I love cheese. For that reason I am a frequent at the local Burger King. They have the choice of a single, double, and a triple cheeseburger. They have the double, triple, and even the quad BK Stackers. The have the single, double, and triple whopper with cheese. There is no doubt that Burger King loves their meat and cheese almost as much as I do. If you get a single, double or triple cheeseburger or a double, triple, or quad BK Stacker they seem to have it figured out. They build all those burgers in the correct order. That order being one layer of cheese for every layer of meat. Meat cheese meat cheese meat cheese. There is only one problem. If you order a whopper they get it all wrong. There must be some sort or brain damage in the part or the hive mind that is in charge of making whoppers. When they make a single whopper they start with meat, then cheese, then all the vegetables. So far so good. But as soon as you order a double or a triple whopper the "meat cheese " logic goes out the window. Double whopper. How do they start? Meat Meat Cheese Cheese. Triple Whopper. Meat Meat Meat Cheese Cheese Cheese. Why? Why is it different only for these burgers? I don't like it that way. I have asked many times for them to make it "my way" but they never get it right. I have shown up to burger king with friends and we all order. I ask them to make it how I would like it. We all get our food. What do you know? Mine wasn't made correctly. Everyone else starts eating while I take mine back and ask them to make it my way. I wait. I finally get my burger. I go sit down and open up my burger. Again it is made incorrectly. But by this time my friends are nearly done with their meal. So, frustrated, I just accept the bum burger and eat my meal so we can leave. This has happened more than once. By ordering I gave them one chance for them to let me "Have it my way." When I took it back that was their second chance. How many chances do I need to give them. 3? 4? Have it your way? Don't they really mean have it your way as long as it is limited to the adding or withholding of certain items on your burger? Or is it Have it your way if you get the cheeseburger or the stacker? The only way the "Have it your way" slogan would apply to me is if I were speaking to them. "That's right Burger King, I will Have it YOUR way."

1 comment:

gaiasky said...

I laughed so hard you put me right into a coughing fit. Who wants all their meat on the bottom and all their cheese on the top? 'nuff said. Anyone in their right mind would want it evened out.