We had a perfect case for replacing people with machines today at McDonalds.  They have a bacon clubhouse sandwich that comes as a burger or with grilled or crispy chicken.  It has some sort of sauce on it based on the picture so we asked the cashier what came on it. They looked confused for a second and then answered, “Bacon”.

I had to compose myself and ask more specifically about the sauce on it. Both of the cashiers did some really complicated series of calculations and button pressing on their registers before finally saying it was “Big Mac Sauce”. Okay… but wait there’s more.

I said we’d like one of the Bacon clubhouse burgers, just the sandwich, with no sauce. He said okay and proceeded to ask me the following question, “Grilled or Crispy?” I stared blankly and just said, “the burger version”, to which he replied in an affirmative and asked again, “yeah, okay; grilled or crispy.”  I repeated it again and he looked like he got it and we proceeded and I asked if he got it right and he said yes. 

When I checked the reciept, it was not right and I had to flag a manager to get it fixed before it came out. I didn’t even bother to get the twenty cents difference back.  We need to replace these people with machines and let them figure out something better to do for a living.  Or maybe I should have just asked for a crispy burger.