Fast Food Workers And Customers' Wildest Drive-Thru Memories

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Mar 5, 2021 9:00 AM EST

The drive-thru's an absolute magnet for strange happenings. If you've ever muddled through the nitty gritty existence that can be working a customer service job you're probably well acquainted with seeing human beings make complete entitled, irrational, and outright silly fools of themselves. This collection of ridiculous memories from fast food workers and regulars alike is full of gems. 

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    Rectangle - KatieCatTheGod · 2d One time about halfway through an order everyone in the car started to scream, turns out a bee flew into the car G Reply 64 3 ...
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    Font - insertcaffeine · 2d Customer here. There was a period when my son was 3-4 years old when I couldn't do drive thru. He'd roll down the window and talk over me (order for himself without clearing it with me, tell the order taker what music we're listening to, introduce himself, etc.) Side note for drive thru workers: If a three-year-old orders a frappuccino at the drive thru, confirm with the driver before making the thing. G Reply 1 14 3 ...
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    Font - Sylch · 2d Had someone ask for the Travis Scott Burrito at Taco Bell G Reply ...
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    Font - mecarysa • 2d On the roof of the closest KFC were about a dozen or so pigeons. Just sitting and watching G Reply ...
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    Font - SoapySapling • 1d A few of my favorites: Coworker: Apple slices or extra fries Customer: Yes
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    Font - Then Customer: Can I have the nuggets Me: The spicy nuggets or the regular? Customer: Yes Then after some back and forth, during which I determined he wanted the regular, I ask him how many he wanted
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    Font - Customer: How many can I get? Me: We have the 4, 6, 10, 20, and 40 count nuggets. Customer: I'lI have five. I swear I pulled up to pay we joked about it cause he was genuinely confused but man that gave me whiplash. short circuited for a moment. When he Another time a dude asked for a 15 count and got mad when I informed him that we don't have a 15 count nugget
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    Font - The fryer, which was right next to drive thru, caught on fire because no one was cleaning it correctly. While the fryer was on fire, one of my coworkers tried two different (red) fire extinguishers but neither was functional. Customers were standing there filming this on their phones. Then my manager, who was in charge of all of us, picked up a bucket of water and prepared to throw it on the grease fire. I snatched the silver grease fire extinguisher off the wall and put the fire out befo
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    Font - laenooneal · 3y One time a dude in a chicken suit popped out of a car trunk, walked up to the window and paid, got his food and drink, then hopped back into the trunk and the car drove off. I worked at chick fil a and it was the "dress like a cow" day where you get a free sandwich if you dress like a cow, so l'd been seeing people in costume all day and was really desensitized to it plus it was super busy and I was several hours into overtime and I was just exhausted. The people in that c
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    Rectangle - eldri7ch · 3y Had a rich guy come through and order one of everything on the menu, tip an employee 100 dollars, then had us come out and throw it all in the dumpster and give the 100 back. 133 ...
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    Rectangle - Zkyo • 3y We've had deer come up to the drive-thru window late at night a few times. The last time it happened, i gave one half of a bun. :) 128 ...
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    Rectangle - [deleted] • 3y Well, once a lady put her dentures in our tip jar. We also have this middle aged Russian dude that has given us: A bag of plums, a lightbulb, a sapling, a mango, Monopoly money (as a bonus, he didn't try to pay with it), and a single chestnut.
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