Just Wanted to Eat, Not Learn Your Way of Life-

Went to a burger joint the other day, called "Five Guys Burgers". It was ok, that's all I can give them. What was funny though, was that the second I walked in, the "fourth" guy behind the counter asked me if I had ever been in there. I said no, reluctantly, because I knew where it was going. This was one of these joints where, the first few times you come in they have to train you on how to get the food out of them. They cant just stand there, and let you place a simple order. They have to have a busy-ass way of doing everything. I thought about all the other places I had ever been that were like that.

I was in a Popeye's Chicken (I know) at the airport in Atlanta, that made you take your receipt to a different area in the restaurant to "pick up" your drink. If you lost your receipt while shuffling all your luggage and the solid portions of your lunch over there, you were shit out of luck on the drink. I still don't understand what that was all about. Atlanta. Now that I think about it, Atlanta has the Varsity restaurant, where the whole "Have your order in your head, and your money in your hand" may have started. Because if you don't, or you stutter at the point of sale, they will just go on to the next person.

A bunch of these new burrito bar type places are like that. They start yelling at you the moment you walk in, and want you to have the menu and production process memorized before you actually get hungry and head over there to eat. I find it stressful. I seem to remember a place like that, that I use to eat in. I ate there for about eight weeks, and I'm sure I don't want to eat there again. Slow down snapper head, I will order when I'm ready.