When you order coffee, especially when you know what you want in it, stop standing there waiting for me to beat it out of you. Its alot easier and faster for both of u to just say “large double double” than to have me have to ask what size, what do you want in it, blah blah blah…I know it doesnt sound like a big deal but when you have to go through this song and dance several times every day it gets old. Thanks.
—Bobby Zombie
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2009.
Some people must think you’re a mind reader!
Sorry ‘Bobby Zombie’, I have to admit that I do this at “a popular Canadian coffee and donut franchise named after a somewhat popular Canadian hockey player from the 1940s to the 1970s who died in a tragic car crash in 1974” all the time. It’s usually because, well, I just forget to be honest, and we do expect staff at these places to be mind-readers. Don’t think you’re getting that $8.60 an hour for nothing.
The Bakin’ Donuts guy played hockey?
Didn’t you know that all coffee and donut shops in Canada were founded by former NHL hockey players?
It’s just not at coffee shops. How many times do you get in line and some twit, goes how much is that or does this come with that or whatever. Figure out what you want before you get in line and stop wasting people’s time.
Tough shit it’s your job. Do it.
I pretty much agree with this. It’s taking up the time of the people in line behind them. People do this in myriad unnecessary ways.
I like the regulars who order the same thing every day and still ask, “How much does this cost?”
Or when they ask how much it costs and the price is directly in front of them or behind them. (Goes back to Clerks)
Sometimes when I go to starbucks and I’m getting a different drink than my regular I stumble over mah words 🙁 Often they’ll have to ask what size I want 🙁
Ditto, PK. Unless I’ve already rehearsed it a thousand times in my head, chances are you might have to ask me a follow up question. I have speech troubles, so you might have to bear with me ever so slightly.
if this is what you have to complain about, you aren’t doing too bad.
you aren’t even complaining you have to work at said unmentioned coffee shop, just that people can be idiots sometimes.