Another one that can SUCK it.....

Useless tip of the day -- if they don't repeat the order back to you as you gave it to them, don't leave the menu board till they do. You'd think all these places could up their game on the drive-thru since their dining rooms are closed, but nope, just as crappy service as usual. o_O
 
Useless tip of the day -- if they don't repeat the order back to you as you gave it to them, don't leave the menu board till they do. You'd think all these places could up their game on the drive-thru since their dining rooms are closed, but nope, just as crappy service as usual. o_O

Even after repeating it the odds of getting it right are slim. :rolleyes: It's the same people working there when the dining rooms were open with the same crappy attitudes. And the biggest joke is they want to get paid $15.00 an hour.
 
Sooo, which mexican joint is this? Seeing as we live somewhat near each other
2 actually. Monterey at Park Rd and Hwy 51 and Miguel's at Little Rock Rd and I85. I have only been to Miguel's for lunch. I have a customer near there and we go for lunch quite often. You can get out for $5 with the lunch special. You turn by the Shomars and it's up beside the old motel facing the interstate.
 
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Monterey at Park Rd and Hwy 51
This one has been on my rotation for years. The quality has been a bit spotty lately though with the new restaurant paradigm.

I also like El Valle in Matthews - they've never disappointed me .
 
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Were there other diners?
I mean, why were you really upset? You wanted to dine in and they offered you a table, what issue was there?
 
Sooo, which mexican joint is this? Seeing as we live somewhat near each other
If you make it to the North side of town, we enjoy Que Onda still. I do think there are a couple around town, but I’ve never been to any of the others...just the Highland Creek location. Matter of fact, I think one is in Matthews.
 
Restaurants are changing right now. I'm in the industry and see it all over the place in all different concepts and types of establishments. There's a lot going on that the whole covid mess has accelerated timelines on adopting or brought to a head early.
1) Chain fast food and minimum wage increases, chains are looking to run as lean as possible to keep staffing costs down, shutting down dine in has been in the works since the whole push for higher minimum wages. Owner/Operators tried telling everyone at the beginning of it all, I can't pay 50 people $15 an hour to sell $2 hamburgers. Franchisees are all on board cause hey, I can open up 5 locations if they only cost 500,000 for a drive up/takeout config, or I can open 1 2.5 million dine in location.. which would you do?

2) High turnover, no one wants to work at McDonalds for 10 years, they're lucky to get 10 weeks out of an employee. So, things have to be as simple as possible for them, so everyone is cutting menus, everone, fast food, fast casual, family dining, everyone just look at any non mom and pop place and compare their menu to last years. Supply chain issues just have given them the excuse they needed, you can look for it, if you're in a chain place and there is a single use item let's say grilled trout filet and it's not used anywhere else in other dishes, bet on it, trout fillet will be getting dropped soon.

3) Millennials bah, I know they get blamed for everything but in this case it's true, they're the demographic everyone is trying to capture and the image of 2 of them sitting on a couch not talking to one another and ordering delivery rather than going out to eat is dead on accurate. Yum (Pizza Hut) has specifically been telling existing and new franchisees not to open a sit down restaurant and do delivery/takeout only like Papa Johns, Little Ceasers, Dominos, etc and that's happening with major players in every segment you can name that isn't high end dining. It's to the point that places you wouldn't expect are looking at operating out of shared ghost kitchens with NO way to get food from them except to order online and take delivery.

And as far as bad service right now, you have the perfect storm of 90+% of all the pre covid staff for places got let go, went on unemployment and made more on that then they did working, so when the restaurant opened back up they didn't go back, the ones they did hire are all not trained worth a crap, the training managers who could help are spread thin and can't travel except locally by car and they've got lines rapped around the building most all day because so many other places are still closed so they don't care if they mess up. What are you gonna do, get back in line and wait another 30 minutes to get an order corrected? Oh, you're mad now and just want a refund.. did you happen to notice the no refunds and due to covid restrictions we cannot exchange food sign?

Your best bets for better food than out of a bag are mom and pop places, and they're being raped by all this, even in the little small town I live in there are maybe 15 small mom and pop places, I think 3 are open for dine in, 2 more are carry out only because they're so small they would only be able to set 2-3 tables with the distance restrictions right now and the rest have been closed since the shutdown order. Sadly I think most of those that are still closed won't ever open back up at this point which is a shame because a couple of them have been open and ran by the families since the 50s and 60s and the rest someone poured their life savings and hard work into.
 
I dare say any of the major fast food chains are seeing profits they never dreamed of a few months back. What’s there for them to care about at present, I say nothing.
 
Sat in line 30+ minutes last night for Bohonglays...only to have them short me my pimento cheese on my filet biscuit AND no fries!!! Couldn't tell as it was a family dinner order and grew impatient in the drive through, so I didn't want to check the bag.
Bojangles is the one that frustrates me the most. We stopped on the way out of Normally Myrtle Bike Week in May and ate inside one off 501. NC stores still aren’t open. Does the Covid stop at the state line?? And don’t get me started on the drink refill stations. Ya want me to stand in line again for some more diet soda? I traveled through Maryland in May, and even in their mask covered liberalism you could use the soda fountain all ya wanted at the I95 quick stops. There’s no consistency in any of these policies and that’s the most frustrating part!
 
Bojangles is the one that frustrates me the most. We stopped on the way out of Normally Myrtle Bike Week in May and ate inside one off 501. NC stores still aren’t open. Does the Covid stop at the state line?? And don’t get me started on the drink refill stations. Ya want me to stand in line again for some more diet soda? I traveled through Maryland in May, and even in their mask covered liberalism you could use the soda fountain all ya wanted at the I95 quick stops. There’s no consistency in any of these policies and that’s the most frustrating part!
Isn’t it funny how you can go to a drink station dispenser with your cup you had your mouth all over but sitting next to someone is nuts.
 
Im still curious why he was upset. He wanted to dine in and the young lady showed him an available table.
 
i heard steak & shake isn't even a company anymore
One near where I live could close and I would not shed a tear.

I refused to use the drive-thru before the Chinese virus because Steak 'n Shake has always had about the worst/slowest service of any chain. But that's okay because multiple signs on walls, windows and doors at the restaurant say:

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The signs on the doors also say "Come in and order Take-Out at the Counter" so I parked and went to the door ... which was locked. I saw an employee inside and pointed to the sign, but he shook his head "no" and mimicked driving. I threw up my hands in disgust and went back to my car.

As I reached my car, I heard "Sir, sir" and turned to find the employee was standing outside by the front door. He started some trash-talk about only being an employee and not making the rules and I needed to use the drive-thru. I suppose I frightened him when I started back toward the front door, telling him it would be more productive to take his only-an-employee carcass inside and try to help with the abominable drive-thru service than to leave the building to insult a customer. At any rate, he got in the building darned quick.
 
Restaurants are changing right now. I'm in the industry and see it all over the place in all different concepts and types of establishments. There's a lot going on that the whole covid mess has accelerated timelines on adopting or brought to a head early.
1) Chain fast food and minimum wage increases, chains are looking to run as lean as possible to keep staffing costs down, shutting down dine in has been in the works since the whole push for higher minimum wages. Owner/Operators tried telling everyone at the beginning of it all, I can't pay 50 people $15 an hour to sell $2 hamburgers. Franchisees are all on board cause hey, I can open up 5 locations if they only cost 500,000 for a drive up/takeout config, or I can open 1 2.5 million dine in location.. which would you do?

2) High turnover, no one wants to work at McDonalds for 10 years, they're lucky to get 10 weeks out of an employee. So, things have to be as simple as possible for them, so everyone is cutting menus, everone, fast food, fast casual, family dining, everyone just look at any non mom and pop place and compare their menu to last years. Supply chain issues just have given them the excuse they needed, you can look for it, if you're in a chain place and there is a single use item let's say grilled trout filet and it's not used anywhere else in other dishes, bet on it, trout fillet will be getting dropped soon.

3) Millennials bah, I know they get blamed for everything but in this case it's true, they're the demographic everyone is trying to capture and the image of 2 of them sitting on a couch not talking to one another and ordering delivery rather than going out to eat is dead on accurate. Yum (Pizza Hut) has specifically been telling existing and new franchisees not to open a sit down restaurant and do delivery/takeout only like Papa Johns, Little Ceasers, Dominos, etc and that's happening with major players in every segment you can name that isn't high end dining. It's to the point that places you wouldn't expect are looking at operating out of shared ghost kitchens with NO way to get food from them except to order online and take delivery.

And as far as bad service right now, you have the perfect storm of 90+% of all the pre covid staff for places got let go, went on unemployment and made more on that then they did working, so when the restaurant opened back up they didn't go back, the ones they did hire are all not trained worth a crap, the training managers who could help are spread thin and can't travel except locally by car and they've got lines rapped around the building most all day because so many other places are still closed so they don't care if they mess up. What are you gonna do, get back in line and wait another 30 minutes to get an order corrected? Oh, you're mad now and just want a refund.. did you happen to notice the no refunds and due to covid restrictions we cannot exchange food sign?

Your best bets for better food than out of a bag are mom and pop places, and they're being raped by all this, even in the little small town I live in there are maybe 15 small mom and pop places, I think 3 are open for dine in, 2 more are carry out only because they're so small they would only be able to set 2-3 tables with the distance restrictions right now and the rest have been closed since the shutdown order. Sadly I think most of those that are still closed won't ever open back up at this point which is a shame because a couple of them have been open and ran by the families since the 50s and 60s and the rest someone poured their life savings and hard work into.

Alexa, please read this giant as comment to me.

Alexa: "I'm sorry, I'm not reading that giant ass comment either, would you like to play a game?"
 
But you were a lone diner, correct? I asked you that early on, but never got an answer. One of you, one seat....
Oh, dont be so DENSE, cant you READ that HE asked for A (one) (1) table and was offered A (one) (1) table. And in their compliance with his wishes he had to exit restaurant (Chipotle) while seeing the girl (female) with her mouth open...while he was walking away/back turned.

He also skipped if there were other diners. But, WE are the IDIOTS for asking such DENSE questions.
 
Everyone needs to step back and settle down.

But are there any seats for us patrons to settle down in?

Confession time: I've never been in a Moe's, Chipotle, Qdoba, Salsaritas, or any of the other gut bomb rice and bean stuffed burrito places. Am I missing something amazing?
 
Nothing better than authentic Mexican food. This made up crap they serve at the bigger chains is garbage.

That being said, I hate going out to eat, my wife's cooking is country at it's finest.

BUT ... Tacos and Tortas literally can not be beat.
 
At one point in my life, I was dating a Mexican girl that loved to cook while staying with my mother that cooks amazing country home food. Good times, until I cheated on the Mexican girl with an Italian girl that could cook too, but I wasn't smart enough to pull off the charade and ended up moving in with a friend and spent my nights eating Ramen tacos and overripe bananas dipped in expired peanut butter.
 
All chain eating establishments are crap. None prepare the food in house. All comes from local commisary kitchens. There are no chefs, just line cooks who can read cooking/reheating times and temps then look at the pretty pictures for plating.

Walk down the frozen foods aisle in your local market and take home/heat and eat. It is practically the same thing.
 
At one point in my life, I was dating a Mexican girl that loved to cook while staying with my mother that cooks amazing country home food. Good times, until I cheated on the Mexican girl with an Italian girl that could cook too, but I wasn't smart enough to pull off the charade and ended up moving in with a friend and spent my nights eating Ramen tacos and overripe bananas dipped in expired peanut butter.
Was mama the one that ratted you out? Excellent way to empty the nest!
 
At one point in my life, I was dating a Mexican girl that loved to cook while staying with my mother that cooks amazing country home food. Good times, until I cheated on the Mexican girl with an Italian girl that could cook too, but I wasn't smart enough to pull off the charade and ended up moving in with a friend and spent my nights eating Ramen tacos and overripe bananas dipped in expired peanut butter.
Men! :rolleyes:
 
Nothing better than authentic Mexican food. This made up crap they serve at the bigger chains is garbage.

That being said, I hate going out to eat, my wife's cooking is country at it's finest.

BUT ... Tacos and Tortas literally can not be beat.
Have you tried sopes? (or is it sopas?)
When the dough is fresh out of the fryer...WOW
 
At one point in my life, I was dating a Mexican girl that loved to cook while staying with my mother that cooks amazing country home food. Good times, until I cheated on the Mexican girl with an Italian girl that could cook too, but I wasn't smart enough to pull off the charade and ended up moving in with a friend and spent my nights eating Ramen tacos and overripe bananas dipped in expired peanut butter.
Not really seeing the negatives there.

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