Fast food places: Do you tidy up afterwards

Isnt that what the Polish/Chinese are paid for?

I worked in a Subway and from the mess some people made, I really became conscious of how rude it is not to take the ten seconds it requires to put your rubbish in the bin. I always clean up after myself now. Well, I always did really but I'm more conscious of it now. But I don't really look down on those who don't. If my friends are with me and they leave their rubbish I'll go and do it for them rather than leave it, its just a habit for me. If a worker in the place was a total dick, and I knew they'd be the one responsible for cleaning up, can't rule out the possibility I'd be a mean person and leave my rubbish for them as revenge!!

"When a waterford person, Ian, leaves his tray on the table, its a sign that he's enjoyed his food"

Always. I have worked service industry type jobs before so I have some
idea how they feel if a slob leaves their crap behind.

bitemybanger wrote: »

Guys, if you went to a restraunt, would you offer to clean the table after you? Didnt think so.
sometimes i do clean up after myself in McDs or Buggerking, sometimes i dont.

When you're in a restaurant, do you "sometimes clean up after yourself and sometimes not"? Of course not. They are different kinds of place.

Clean up after yourself in a fast food joint is the equivalent of leaving a tip in a restaurant. It's about the only available way to thank the staff for not being horrible. If they are horrible, leave your tray on the table. and they might eventually get the message that being decent lessens the work-load.

Ruu wrote: »

Friend of mine does that every weekend when he gets drunk, collects up glasses in the bar and when they have had enough then he goes off the chipper and puts empty boxes and so on in the bin to clean up.

Presumably he is single?

caoibhin wrote: »

Presumably he is single?

I think so but I thought that cleaning up stuff turned on women, what a catch. Porn for girls (sfw).

I always clean tidy up afterwards too but I don't get annoyed when other people don't do it. Although I was once in a McDonalds in Paris and every single person in the place cleaned up afterwards, it was the cleanest McDonalds I was ever in.

You're all wrong.
Having worked in one of the big fast food places as a teenager, I used to hate it when people would try to empty their own trays, because they'd invariably make a complete balls of it and just make more work for me.
There's a stack of trays ontop of the bin... these are supposed to be stacked as clean trays... so when you fail to wipe the salt off the tray, or don't think to throw out the ketchup-sodden paper place-mat (do people actually think these get re-used?!), then someone has to backtrack through all these trays and wipe them properly... and wipe the bottoms of the trays that were sitting ontop of the disgusting ones.
Someone who's clearing tables all day long has built up some great muscle-memory... it takes no time at all to clear a plastic tray off a table and wipe everything down properly.

Random members of the public thinking they're qualified to clear their own table fúcking disgusts me.
You didn't go through that intensive day of training, nor did you watch the orientation videos.
You think you're being polite, but it's an insult to the people who do it professionally.
Do you attepmt to sterilize your dentists equipment when he's finished too, you condescending pricks?
The people who don't try to clear their own trays are doing it right, so stfu.

And by leaving your tray there, we could also spot tables that needed to be wiped and/or swept under... rather than wonder where you were sitting, and leaving the bits of half-chewed burger on the seat for the next person.
The best thing you can do to be polite is just make sure everything is stacked back on the tray and left on your table... pick up any fries you dropped on the ground and don't leave bits of wet toilet paper all over the toilet sink.

IMO anyway.