Self service “Restaurants”

Ted_YNWA · 05-01-2020 09:42PM

Super-Rush wrote: »

That is a carvery you fcuking idiot.

Reuben Tasteless Sunburn wrote: »

No it isn’t you wet brain. A carvery is where they served freshly cooked meat that they cut in front of you or carve in front of you. These places I’m talking about refer to themselves as “Restaurants” as described in the title you knucklehead.

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Whatever style of restaurant you are in, it is common decency not to throw insults around.

Cut it out.

Miss Elizabeth · 05-01-2020 09:44PM

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Never use it, i just go to till as normal.

Yes so did I but they still give you a ticket. You stand and wait at a counter that's facing the kitchen and there's o only two tills, usually only one person serving. The kitchen is tiny and there's about 20 employees tripping over one another trying to get the orders.

Also in the one near me they redesigned the whole place and now there's less seats in it and they added some stupid computer touch screens that take up space and i suppose are suppose to give an internet cafe feel to the place.

PonchoMcHoncho · 05-01-2020 09:56PM

Miss Elizabeth wrote: »

The new Mc Donald's order system is a joke. It takes longer and you end up standing around with a ticket like a ****ing eejit. Its not any faster!!! Its just less personal but not in a good way.

Its Mc Donald's, you don't expect much but I don't like it and I've been twice since the one near me changed. The first time they forgot to give me a hamburger. The second time they gave me extra chips. I said nothing about it the second time.

I love it Bang out the order on the machine, pick table service and go sit down. Or stand and wait for your order the same as you always would. Do what you always did or do it better. There's no downside.

Miss Elizabeth · 05-01-2020 10:02PM

PonchoMcHoncho wrote: »

I love it Bang out the order on the machine, pick table service and go sit down. Or stand and wait for your order the same as you always would. Do what you always did or do it better. There's no downside.

It takes longer and you end up having to make small talk with the other waiting people.

05-01-2020 10:02PM

Last 3 orders I got off those McDonalds machines didn’t print the receipt. I still got the food because they never asked me to prove the order was mine but if scobes cotton on to it then they’re going to have a mess.

Miss Elizabeth · 05-01-2020 10:03PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Last 3 orders I got off those McDonalds machines didn’t print the receipt. I still got the food because they never asked me to prove the order was mine but if scobes cotton on to it then they’re going to have a mess.

Oh yea. Never thought of doing that. Perhaps this Mc Donald's thing will work out after all

PonchoMcHoncho · 05-01-2020 11:01PM

Miss Elizabeth wrote: »

It takes longer and you end up having to make small talk with the other waiting people.

I haven't noticed it takes longer as soon as you place the order it's sent to the kitchen.

You also know where to wait and when to go collect too instead of the old method of giving your order and standing awkwardly to one side in front of the till and people having to ask if you've been served or if you're waiting. So it lessens people interaction!

Potential-Monke · 07-01-2020 06:50AM

There was a chinese in Limerick not too long ago, down by the old savoy area. Can't remember the name, but it was bloody brilliant. You go in, pay your €15 or whatever it was, and take whatever you want, as much as you want. All laid out lovely, all the different dishes, some 'dry' chicken if you didn't want it covered in sauce, different types of freshly cooked rice, noodles, etc. I loved it, and I think more places need to have this as an option imo. It's like chinese tapas!

I'd love to go into a 'normal' restaurant and be able to get a little bit of everything, variety is the spice of life!

JohnCleary · 07-01-2020 06:55AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

There was a chinese in Limerick not too long ago, down by the old savoy area. Can't remember the name, but it was bloody brilliant. You go in, pay your €15 or whatever it was, and take whatever you want, as much as you want. All laid out lovely, all the different dishes, some 'dry' chicken if you didn't want it covered in sauce, different types of freshly cooked rice, noodles, etc. I loved it, and I think more places need to have this as an option imo. It's like chinese tapas!

I'd love to go into a 'normal' restaurant and be able to get a little bit of everything, variety is the spice of life!

You mean a buffet?

Smart Bug · 07-01-2020 06:56AM

barneygumble99 wrote: »

Not quite a restaurant but I’d never eat bread or baking from any supermarket unless I see it being put out by a worker and I get it straight away. The amount of ******s, sorry, parents that allow their children to molest the loose food on display in supermarkets is criminal.

Remember goin into a shop with my friend & his dog when we were young. Fresh bread stacked on those wire shelves from the floor up. Dog cocked his leg & drizzled on a loaf of bread. We said nuttin.

Potential-Monke · 07-01-2020 07:05AM

JohnCleary wrote: »

You mean a buffet?

Not really. In my experience, a buffet is still one dish per course, ie: beef or chicken with spuds/veg/whatever. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you could get a quarter portion of chicken, quarter portion of curry, etc at a buffet.

Or I'm just making up a word I can't think of to describe what I want, rather than using the probably correct term of buffet. I dunno. It's quite early...

Edit: I do now remember it was called an 'all you can eat buffet'... Still, I consider a buffet like above. I consider that chinese a chinese tapas restaurant!

JohnCleary · 07-01-2020 07:41AM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Not really. In my experience, a buffet is still one dish per course, ie: beef or chicken with spuds/veg/whatever. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think you could get a quarter portion of chicken, quarter portion of curry, etc at a buffet.

Or I'm just making up a word I can't think of to describe what I want, rather than using the probably correct term of buffet. I dunno. It's quite early...

Edit: I do now remember it was called an 'all you can eat buffet'... Still, I consider a buffet like above. I consider that chinese a chinese tapas restaurant!

Hate to p1ss on your cornflakes, but you were in a buffet, hence the name

I can't do buffets. Not that I'm a snob and "wouldn't be seen in one", but I just don't have the appetite. I feel left out

(And yes, you often get people saying the above... read it often here on boards.... Go figure)

Patrick2010 · 07-01-2020 10:55AM

Miss Elizabeth wrote: »

Yes so did I but they still give you a ticket. You stand and wait at a counter that's facing the kitchen and there's o only two tills, usually only one person serving. The kitchen is tiny and there's about 20 employees tripping over one another trying to get the orders.

Also in the one near me they redesigned the whole place and now there's less seats in it and they added some stupid computer touch screens that take up space and i suppose are suppose to give an internet cafe feel to the place.

Yeah, went to the one in the ILAC centre at Christmas and ordered 2 coffees at the till. Used to get them in a few minutes, timed it at 17 minutes just for 2 coffees. Saw 2 people looking for refunds because their food was taking too long and some returning food as it was cold.

v638sg7k1a92bx · 07-01-2020 11:47AM

Smart Bug wrote: »

Remember goin into a shop with my friend & his dog when we were young. Fresh bread stacked on those wire shelves from the floor up. Dog cocked his leg & drizzled on a loaf of bread. We said nuttin.

Me, my friend and his dog...

Markcheese · 07-01-2020 11:59AM

barneygumble99 wrote: »

Not quite a restaurant but I’d never eat bread or baking from any supermarket unless I see it being put out by a worker and I get it straight away. The amount of ******s, sorry, parents that allow their children to molest the loose food on display in supermarkets is criminal.

Top shelf .
. The chocolate croissants are on the top shelf ,far from small hands .. now it's just the grubby adult hands to worry about ...oh well

Self service “Restaurants”

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