Clean up after you, you inconsiderate pig (Fast food restaurants rant)

Muahahaha wrote: »

Fast food managers deliberately under staff their restaurants to get customers to do the clean up shocker.

You direct your ire at the customers for not wanting to do the bosses work for him. Instead you should direct it at the boss who deliberately under staffs the restaurant.

Weatherspoons here and in the UK operate a food business where the prices of their daily specials are on a par with a buying a large Big Mac meal. The staff in Weatherspoons take your food to your table and then clear the plates afterwards. Last time I checked Weatherspoons was listed on the stock exchange and is a very profitable company whilst still operating on tight margins. If they can provide enough staff to keep their tables clean then so can McDonalds. There really is no excuse for it and really the only reason fast food restaurants do it is to increase profitability. By putting "Thank You" on their bins they think they are shaming customers into doing their work for them. More fool the people that do I say, if no one did it they would simply have to employ more staff. Not much wrong with that that I can see.

Muahahaha wrote: »

Thats rubbish and you know it. Plenty of businesses put a "Thank you for your custom" sign on the door on the way out. Thats the place for it for a Thank You sign, not the fcuking bin in an obvious attempt to coerce customers into doing their work for them. This is the same American culture that has inflitrated Ireland to the point now that taxi drivers scowl because they think they deserve a tip for doing their job of driving you down the road. Which is ironic as tipping is mandatory in American food establishments but guess what, it is not mandatory in McDonalds. Ask yourself why that is, it is because McDonalds structured it that way so their staff are not tipped in the US. Thus giving them an extra advantage over conventional restaurants as it is known you dont have to tip in McDonalds. Suits the corporate guys at the top down to the ground but its pretty sh1t for the staff who do the same food service work but dont get a cent in tips.

And this argument isnt anything to do with good manners, or lazyness or anything of the other things bandied about here. If the staff dont want to clear tables then it is them who are lazy and they should find themselves a different job if it really bothers them that much. They are clearly not suited to working in a fast food restaurant and rather than moaning about it they should find a different line of employment that they will enjoy.

If customers clear their tray away there isnt a snowballs chance in hell that the table is getting wiped down. Ketchup, salt, split Coke or even babies puke might be on that table yet you already admitted in your previous post that even if staff do clear the tables they still might not bother their hole in wiping the table clean. Which sounds like lazy staff to me yet it is turned around to call the customers lazy when it is their very money that goes towards paying the wages. Also staff not cleaning tables is in direct contravention of the HACCP rules that all food handlers sign up to. Those hygiene rules are there for good reason, to prevent people in restaurants getting sick.

Anyway I couldnt care less. I will continue on leaving my tray and staff will continue on clearing it up as per their job description that they signed up to when they applied. If clearing a few tables is such an onerous task I really pity them when they finish college and get out into the real world.