There's a period in any 24 restaurant where there needs to be a reboot of the system.
Daily sheets examined, and cash counted, etc. This is known as cash only. During cash only, every must be done by hand, calculated state tax down to the penny, and everything must be precise.
Due to my overwhelming OCD with perfection, and numbers, im the perfect candidate to calculate all of these manual orders. Normally, we don't have any. We do it in the early morning, so we have the fewest chance of seeing customers. Well. Today. I had to total up over 150 dollars. By fucking hand, talk about a major in the ass. Took so long, gotta stay over a few hours just to get the rest of my shit done. Yeehaw!
The best part is, when I entered the orders back into the system after the restart, I wasn't a single fucking penny off.
Small victory to most, but to me, its as crowning of an achievement as I get at mcdonalds.
Just goes to show you how sad this place really is.
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that is one helluva an achievement.
ReplyDeletei once worked a sunday night, as the manager, with 2 employees on (in a college town), and there was no class the next day, for some holiday.
normally on nights like this we would have 4 employees on, but the scheduling manager obviously didn't realize monday was a holiday. we had a line to the road from 1-4, including the ENTIRE time i did system. FUCKING RIDICULOUS.
the fact that i didn't close the store down completely was a helluva'n achievement, there were drunks waiting over 20 minutes for mcdonalds.
Somehow Taco Bell gets around this stupid shortcoming of McDonald's. Yes, they still have to reboot their systems, but they've thought of something apparently McDonald's hasn't: a backup credit card terminal to process the orders during cash-hour.
ReplyDeleteDrives me freaking nuts when I'm craving some McDonald's at 3am (right after I get off work) and can't order because it's cash-only. Fortunately, I rarely crave McDonald's...
At leaset your McDonalds reset is 3am.. My towns mcd's reset at 9:30pm.. Immean whatna stupid fecking time that is..
DeleteSome reboot systems, some are just scamming, some are doing both things; ask your self if the employee, manager or perhaps the owner is the one scamming, so you will know who number to call to pursue your case. Don't always believe if they tell you "the system is rebooting" "I'm the manager" "etc", true is that scamming sometimes happens, is up to your brain to find out how to catch them out or decide they are just being honest.
ReplyDeletethe store in my town is cash only @12am, 2am, 3am, or anytime it is really busy. between 12am and 7am you have to be really lucky to use a credit card
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