Don't forget to ask for ketchup and utensiles

[The motor guy]

Oh I forgot about napkins too. I'd 8 times out of 10 I eat my fries with no ketchup and 50 percent of the time I have no plastic ware when I go to a fast food place. This isn't really pinpointed to any business in general, but just from what I noticed. I remember back when I didn't ask for ketchup and they would give me a handful of ketchup packets in my bag. Now you ask for it and they give you like two packets.

 

[exranger06]

Blame the cheapskates who would grab them by the handful and use them with their home-cooked food. It was costing the businesses big bucks, so now they keep it behind the counter and only give them to people who need it for the food they bought there.

 

[AirgunSavant]

Same here. I don't like wasting anything.
I don't ask for Ketchup and I get 8 of them.
But ask for something and I never get it like napkins.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Then there's the douchebags that try to charge you $1 for one extra tiny thimble sized container of sauce or gravy.

 

[AirgunSavant]

Burger King allows you one packet of some sauces and I think the others are 50 cents extra.


Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Then there's the douchebags that try to charge you $1 for one extra tiny thimble sized container of sauce or gravy.

 

[Mr Nice]

I was at a Walmart with a McDonalds inside and a woman was acting suspicious. I noticed she took a big handful of napkins, 3 inches in depth.

She tossed them in her bag and took them for home use.

 

[Delta]

Originally Posted By: exranger06
Blame the cheapskates who would grab them by the handful and use them with their home-cooked food. It was costing the businesses big bucks, so now they keep it behind the counter and only give them to people who need it for the food they bought there.


I know the Pilot Travel Center off of Exit 10 on I-78 has to hide their plastic forks. Went in there for some cinnamon buns and there was no forks around. Turns out the truckers were taking them by the handful.

Luckily the Burger King's aren't stingy with their sauces. I love me some onion ring sauce on my burger.

 

[3800Series]

Originally Posted By: exranger06
Blame the cheapskates who would grab them by the handful and use them with their home-cooked food. It was costing the businesses big bucks, so now they keep it behind the counter and only give them to people who need it for the food they bought there.


It does come down to cost some times. However it's not a lot. I went to high school with a kid who played on our Baseball team. He owns 2 franchise Mc Donalds and I've seen people ask for a box of the ketchup packets before while he was in the store and he would give them it free of charge.

It think it just comes down to the person. $4 worth of ketchup for the possibility of a life time customer doesnt seem like much risk to me.

 

[Lolvoguy]

Originally Posted By: Mr Nice
I was at a Walmart with a McDonalds inside and a woman was acting suspicious. I noticed she took a big handful of napkins, 3 inches in depth.

She tossed them in her bag and took them for home use.


funny you should mention this/ I use various napkins from different fast food places to check my engine and atf fluids.
I started keeping them in my glove box since my GF loves making a mess on everything when she eats, so this is a way of cleaning up for free.

I dont' steal huge wads of them, but use them for later use.

 

[simple_gifts]

Subway seems to be the source of endless napkin production.

I eat there maybe 4 times/month when @ work, and I still find 15 napkins on my desk.

 

[The motor guy]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Subway seems to be the source of endless napkin production.

I eat there maybe 4 times/month when @ work, and I still find 15 napkins on my desk.


Subway it the worst. They give out 2 of their tiny napkins where I'm at.

 

[GiveMeAVowel]

I'm not a big fan of fast food, but I do eat there from time to time. While the places shouldn't allow folks to grab much more than they can use for their purchase at the time, the down right stingy policy of a packet or two of condiments and a couple of napkins is a good way to have a customer never return to your establishment. I call it the Patel syndrome.

 

[dishdude]

 

[Andrew1972]

Reality is cuts down significantly on waste. Just ask, check and drive on. Don't tell me how fast food has done hill, it has not, you simply have grown up but still cling onto this terrible but convenient eating habit.