Surely the one queue system is fairer though? You're there in order of arrival time and you get the next available slot. I get properly mardy if I end up picking a slow queue. I think it was Bill Bryson who highlighted the genius of the British habit of forming a single queue for several check outs. He was right.
While I agree with Lee in principle, the problem is that there's no cordons or barriers to facilitate the queue. So you just end up with a huge gathering of people. You need winding queues like Alton Towers.
Except you don't, because when the queue shrinks, the whole thing thins out to each till anyway. And the lottery (like penalties it's not, there's a skill to it) of which one you pick is a glorious thing.Originally Posted by Lee
Or people just queuing at each till. They manage this perfectly fine in supermarkets.
Dunno. It's not always possible to identify the complete spastic who doesn't have a clue what they're doing when they encounter an actual person at the end. The fucking anger I feel when some old twat starts counting out the coppers.
Don't worry, more and more are putting in self-serve kiosks. You'll never feel more like a don than when you're using one of them.
I'd rather queue for self service rather than go to an empty till manned by a person.
I prefer a person. Unless the person is the far-too-cheerful woman at Morrisons. I can't be doing with that. I'm in a supermarket, life at this moment is shit. Fuck off.
What sort of McDonald's do you have over there that they're remotely comparable to a supermarket? Any I seen were a single counter with some tills on it.
Its rude not to steal an extra packet of football stickers when you use those.
I'm a twit
They've instituted the self-serve stuff here but it's stuck in some absolute bobbins half way house. You go over to the screen and tap out what you want and then you get in a queue and give the bloke a ticket with a number on, at which point he tells you 'That'll be ludicrous price because Switzerland has the most expensive McDonalds in the world please'
It's madness.
When I went to 'Five Guys' last year there were some truly harrowing scenes concerning the method of ordering, queuing for and collecting your burger, chips and drink. It's best not to go back over them in detail for psychological reasons, but it was a like a shoe shop, motorway service station cafe, and row of vending machines all rolled into one.
I thought Five Guys was shit anyway, but I did go there with a horrible hangover. Worth a reappraisal, till confusion aside?
France is literally a 20 minute bus away and I could get a 40% discount
I read yesterday that McDonalds employees in Denmark get $20 an hour.
Isn't an onion in Denmark around $5 though?I read yesterday that McDonalds employees in Denmark get $20 an hour.
Absolute wank for the price you pay.
Byron is a new shit burger place that's out now. Expensive shit.
Byron's been around for ages.
GBK is still the best one.
Five Guys isn't much better than a Big Tasty from McDonald's but at three times the price.
There's been petitions to get them to open here and people lost their shit when a pop up appeared one day. But that's just the sort of wankery associated with Dublin these days.
Not in Scotland.
Fuck off with the five guys hate.
The problem with the McDonald's tills is that the people on them are constantly buzzing into the back to get orders, which makes people think that the tills aren't manned. If they set up a system where people were on the tills constantly, and the other gimps passed them things, it would facilitate several queues.
Burger King >>>>>>>> McDonald's.
Massively so for the simple fact they have a burger on the menu without slop, so you won't have to park in the silly box while they figure out how to make it differently.
Burger King is too expensive but the chips are too good to turn down.
I value the fact their burgers are actually decent, as opposed to the vacuum-packed shite from McDonalds.
They're a row of tills with people manning them, it's the same thing.
As for Five Guys, I loved it when I went, but I was a) wasted and b) absolutely staggered by the prices charged.
Indeed. Last time I was at McDs it was like someone had pulverised a still birth and stuck it on a previously frozen microwaved smartprice attempt at a burger bun.
So your supermarkets are different then?
Any supermarket I was ever in had completely separate tills where you put your stuff on a separate belt for that till, so no wonder they have separate queues.
Burger King is toss. Their burgers and roll combo comes off far too dry.
McDonald's is great (for what it is) and anyone who says otherwise is a dickhead.
In that setup, what is there that stops everyone queuing down aisle 3, before funneling to the next available till?
They're separate. All the tills aren't on one single counter.
Lewis nailed the problem here.
What difference does that make. Are they not separate tills because they're bolted to the same bit of wood?
If you think they're the same then we're talking about different things.
McDonalds:
Supermarket:
That's a fucking huge McDonalds.
We're talking about the same thing, what I'm trying to get at is why you think they're different enough that everyone queues down the centre in McDonalds, but not everyone queues down aisle 8 before diverting to a till at Tesco?
In both cases, it's a line of tills.
What's the issue anyway? If you're in often enough to be bothered I'd say you've got a much bigger issue than the fucking tills and queuing.
Once again, have a look at the thread title.
FACT. They feed the entire universe, and their burgers are a quid. What do you want?
Yes I'm giving a few on here a reality check.
I do like a double cheeseburger when I'm pissed, and the breakfast is great the one time a year or so when i'm both really hungover and awake before 10am. Never really like getting a 'proper' meal from there though cus you can spend a similar amount and get something like a gourmet burger from spoons or something.
Brits spending two pages debating 'queuing'
Since we moved here and the 'little' part was removed from the title, this argument does not hold anymore.
Balls to that.Brits spending two pages debating 'queuing'
It does hold, as this thread is clearly a continuation of the thread I started - some fucking moron just bored the title or completely misunderstood the point of the last one.
Do not speak ill of the dead.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote