Sonic...

[ShortnSweet]

It's everywhere. I bought $70 something worth of stuff at Target. Gave the "not a teenager" cashier a fifty, a twenty and a ten. She couldn't figure out how much I gave her to enter into the register.

 

[GWguy]

Tell ya what, tho. Next time, if there is one, I get a small instead of a medium. My ears are buzzing. My blood sugar must be over 1000 right now.

 

[Monello]

It's everywhere. I bought $70 something worth of stuff at Target. Gave the "not a teenager" cashier a fifty, a twenty and a ten. She couldn't figure out how much I gave her to enter into the register.

Why give $ 80 instead of the $70 it cost?

 

[vraiblonde]

Seems to be a common thing...so many chain restaurants and franchises that I routinely encounter as well-run and predictable-quality operations everywhere else I travel throughout the country are often - more often than not - very poorly run right here in SOMD. Weird. One or two I wouldn't call a trend...but hell, it's MOST of them. SOMD is the only place I ever saw a totally screwed up Cracker Barrel open, example.

I have observed the exact same thing. Is there something in the water there?

 

[vraiblonde]

Why give $ 80 instead of the $70 it cost?

Says the man who hands over $7.08 for a $6.83 purchase.

 

[ShortnSweet]

It was $70 something, like $75.83. She couldn't count the money. Guess people don't use cash anymore.

 

[Monello]

Says the man who hands over $7.08 for a $6.83 purchase.

I need the quarters for the laundry.

 

[3CATSAILOR]

Is out of ketchup. Are you ####ing kidding me?

Are they out of burgers too?

 

[Kinnakeet]

We all know it is Bamas and the dem's fault as they are trying to destroy this country 1 thing at a time just didnt think it would start with ketchup...smh

 

[awpitt]

Seems to be a common thing...so many chain restaurants and franchises that I routinely encounter as well-run and predictable-quality operations everywhere else I travel throughout the country are often - more often than not - very poorly run right here in SOMD. Weird. One or two I wouldn't call a trend...but hell, it's MOST of them. SOMD is the only place I ever saw a totally screwed up Cracker Barrel open, example.

I've noticed these problems all over in my travels, not just SoMD. You shouldn't let your bias against SoMD taint your observations. Having said that, I go to Sonic regularly and have not experienced the problems that have been described here. Maybe they like me.

 

[Gilligan]

I've noticed these problems all over in my travels, not just SoMD. You shouldn't let your bias against SoMD taint your observations. Having said that, I go to Sonic regularly and have not experienced the problems that have been described here. Maybe they like me.

I travel nonstop for a living. My comments were based on nothing but direct observation. No more..no less. If anything, I'd be more likely to try and excuse local businesses....and even have on occasion. I'm biased in favor of local businesses ....you failed presumption aside.

 

[awpitt]

I travel nonstop for a living. My comments were based on nothing but direct observation. No more..no less. If anything, I'd be more likely to try and excuse local businesses....and even have on occasion. I'm biased in favor of local businesses ....you failed presumption aside.

Nope.

I travel as well and I can say that the "making change" issue exists all over. Same with the customer service level. The cash registers do all the thinking so the employee doesn't. The only retailers who can count change are pizza delivery people and that's because they don't have the luxury of having a cash register to do it for them.

 

[Gilligan]

Nope.

I travel as well and I can say that the "making change" issue exists all over. Same with the customer service level. The cash registers do all the thinking so the employee doesn't. The only retailers who can count change are pizza delivery people and that's because they don't have the luxury of having a cash register to do it for them.

LMAO..OK..I was actually talking about the food quality, not making change. The former is why we go to any particular place....or don't; the latter just a sorry debacle everywhere regardless.

 

[awpitt]

LMAO..OK..I was actually talking about the food quality, not making change. The former is why we go to any particular place....or don't; the latter just a sorry debacle everywhere regardless.

Food quality issues aren't limited to SoMD either.

 

[GWguy]

All I wanted was some ice cream.....

 

[Gilligan]

Food quality issues aren't limited to SoMD either.

*sigh*

You win..sheer obtuseness has a quality all it's own. Enables you to be a)100% right all the time and b) completely miss points..often. Like this time.

 

[RoseRed]

All I wanted was some ice cream.....

Should have went to Bruster's.

 

[SamSpade]

Should have went to Bruster's.

I don't see the attraction for that place, except that in this area, it's one of a kind - the only place to go to a walk up or drive through for ice cream, made on the premises.

Beyond that, the ice cream is way too sweet, and horrendously overpriced. I can buy about the most expensive ice cream from a store and STILL beat what they charge.

 

[Gilligan]

I don't see the attraction for that place, except that in this area, it's one of a kind - the only place to go to a walk up or drive through for ice cream, made on the premises.

Beyond that, the ice cream is way too sweet, and horrendously overpriced. I can buy about the most expensive ice cream from a store and STILL beat what they charge.

*bummer*....I've yet to stop by there but always mean to someday. LOL..now you've gone and ruined it for me. ;-p

 

[stgislander]

It's not just Sonic. To this day if my wife and I are heading out of the county on Rt5, we bypass McDonald's in Leonardtown and stop at the one in Charlotte Hall because the service has been traditionally bad in Leonardtown. They may have great service now, but old habits are hard to break.