So Fast, So Furious, So Filipinos

Here are some '07 fastfood bloopers and see how Pinoys have emerged from being overly demanding to being PG (patay-gutom).

EXHIBIT 1:

A lady customer (LC) walks into the Fastfood chain, went straight to the counter and demanded that her change was Php500.00 short. The Manager (M) and the Cashier (C) immediately counted the money in the drawer THRICE and everything balanced out with the receipts.  The Manager explained this to the lady customer but insists on her case and threw tantrums like a 5-yr old.

LC: I dont care how you come up with my 500. Deduct it from her salary (pointing to the cashier) or whatever!!!!!

***In the end, the manager didn't give in to the kid- err I mean - customer. (500 din yun noh)

EXHIBIT 2:

LC: (Orders a chicken rice value meal) Can I get fries instead of rice? (Coño accent)
C:  Maam, there's a huge price difference between the two so we can't afford to switch them.
LC: What?! I request it all the time when I was in the U.S. and they allow me.

Again the Cashier denies the request and the customer threw tantrums all over the place too. The manager had to calm her down and asked her to go home because she's drawing too much attention already. To this the lady shouted back:  DAMOT!

Needless to say, he sent her home without the first fries.

*** If I were the manager, I would have given her Php30.00 and gave her the damn fried potatoes. You can't tell me you've gone to the U.S. and not have spare money for the fries that you want! And darnit I don't think they serve "value meals" in the U.S. and have steamed rice too!

EXHIBIT 3:

We Pinoys love smorgasbord.

Gravy not excluded. We put GRAVY all over our rice, our burger, our chicken - heck we can order 10 cups of rice and consume it without viand. Just plain 'ol fastfood gravy. So when fastfood chains started offerring refillable gravy and/or soda (yes, until your ears bleed), we Pinoys got creative.

There was this morning that a crew member of a certain fastfood chain in Glorietta, learned that the gravy pot was missing. The managers and the crew turned the store upside down but it was nowhere to be found.

The mall guards were notified and guess where they found the gravy pot –  on a table in the middle of the mall food court, where it is being devoured by 6 or 7 yuppies. YUPPIES!!! I'm telling you. Cheapyuppies.

EXHIBIT 4:

Still on overflowing fastfood goodies. This one on refillable soda.

There was this guy who ordered and paid for a regular burger and a coke. He's okay to get a soda refill but, when he went to the soda station, he was seen hiding a 1.5L Coleman water jug in his pits (duh!). And yep - you guessed it! He almost emptied the soda machine!

Whattajerk.

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Customer service bloopers never fail to churn my insides as they are very natural and unexpected. May it be the customer or the fastfood crew, as long as it involves Pinoys, I can't help but laugh my ass off and/or shake my head in disbelief.

Thanks to JL for these true incidents.
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"I don't like to eat snails. I prefer fast food."  - Roger von Oech