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Adiabatic: What have you assholes done now?

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# ? Apr 19, 2016 06:13

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 20:30

DeepQantas: Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

"Bok. Bok. Bok. Bok."
- Leonard Nimoy, Civilization 4

# ? Apr 19, 2016 06:27

Business Gorillas

hello everyone i would also like to propose a "nugget fan art"
i tried to make this fan art a little pg-13 so feel free to escort any children out of the room before you look at it:

thanks for reading

# ? Apr 19, 2016 07:18

Noctiluca: sparkle sparkle

the artistic license being used with my bok is wild

bitch rear end Popcorn hasn't laid another egg yet. I gave her grapes and everything. Unbelievable.

# ? Apr 19, 2016 07:22

breakfast dorito: doritos form part of a healthy breakfast (in theory) and should not be used as a primary source of nutrition (you don't tell me how to live)

woah there nelly she's still new at this give her time

# ? Apr 19, 2016 07:56

Urodov

Breakfast Dorito posted:

byob: bring your own bok

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# ? Apr 19, 2016 08:20

joke_explainer

I was googling to see what a thousand dollar egg was, and this rear end in a top hat came up:

http://theduncangroup.com/blog/the-six-thousand-dollar-egg

Some weird supposedly rich guy on the internet posted:

This past Saturday, my wife and I headed out like we do most weekends and that is to one of many of our favorite Orange County bars and restaurants. We chose R&D Kitchen in Fashion Island Mall. We love R&D; their food and their ambience are spectacularly perfect and for over two years, and one hundred visits, the experience has always been exceptional�.until this one.

They have an incredible cheeseburger. One of the best we have ever had. The bartender listed the daily specials, which included a waffle with a fried-egg on top. We contemplated our choices, ordered a drink and settled if for the afternoon watching college basketball on the bar TV. A competing local hangout, we recalled, allowed you to have a fried egg on your burger so we thought we�d try it here.

We were there for about thirty minutes and I asked the bartender to place an order for a burger and asked how much more an egg would be for on top of the burger. She said, �Two bucks, but I�m not sure the kitchen can do it.� Now I�m not a high-maintenance customer, but I�m thinking really, a fried egg? How difficult could that be? She went and checked and said, �The kitchen can�t add the egg. They are too busy.� I found this interesting as it takes about 2 minutes to fry an egg, and honestly, the restaurant was half-empty, it was still only around 11:45 in the morning. Strike 1!

I decided to get another drink, wait a few minutes and order the same thing with another bartender whom I knew better and thought we�d get some pull. He said, �Let me see if the kitchen could do it.� Same answer, �They are too busy and aren�t prepared to do anything that isn�t on the menu.� Strike 2!

I then asked the second bartender if I could speak to the manager. Her name is Natalie. The minute she arrived at the bar you could tell she was ready for a battle. No smile. No positive gestures. Just a simple, �How can I help you?�

I explained my situation very clearly to her that I simply wanted a side-order egg to put on top of my burger. She said, �We can�t do that.� And I asked, �Why?� Her response was, �We only order a certain number of eggs per day and we have to save them for our special waffle. If we don�t have the egg we can�t sell one of our most popular dishes.� So I said, �So you can�t do it?� �Nope� she said. It was time to test this restaurant and their culture around customer service. Off I went�

�So let me make sure we are tracking here. I spend at least $6,000 a year at your restaurant and I have one simple request for two-dollar egg for my burger and you are telling me you can�t make that happen because you only order enough eggs for your waffle dish?� She said, �Yes�. I pressed on, �So a one time visitor who orders a waffle for 15-dollars is more important to you than a $6,000 customer who comes in at least 4-6 times a month for whom you can�t figure out how to get him his egg?� Her response was, �We have to be able to serve the dishes we advertise, and the special ones we usually run out of. If we run out of eggs, we can�t serve the waffle.� Same question. My thought was wouldn�t you rather be one egg short and throw a waffle away versus holding to your stupid policy and �throwing a loyal customer� away?

It was very clear to me at this point that this manager, and perhaps this whole restaurant, and maybe even their parent company, Hillstone Restaurant Group, have no clue of the value of a customer and what they should empower their employees to do in a simple situation like this. But wait, it gets even better.

I say to the manager, �You know what I would do if I were you? I�d send a bus boy 200 feet to Whole Foods to buy a half a dozen eggs. That might cost you a couple of bucks. He could be there and back in less than five minutes and for a minimal cost to R&D, you�d have my egg and I�d be a happy customer.� �In the time we�ve spent arguing about the egg, they could have been there and back.�

She said, �I can�t do that.� Strike 3 � Game Over-I thought. You are not going to believe what happens next.

She said, �I�m happy to take care of your bill for your inconvenience.� I said with everything that I could muster, �That�s stupid.� She looked at me dazed and confused. I said, �You would rather spend your companies money and pay for my $75.00 tab for food and drinks than figure out how to get me a two-dollar egg?�

I looked her squarely in the eyes and said, �this egg just cost you and R&D $6,000. I�m never coming back.�

By the way, we left immediately and went next door to Whole Foods, a gourmet grocery store. Our motive was to check on the price of their eggs. We found them for as little as thirty-three cents a piece.

I am glad he eventually let his wife eat breakfast after what reads like 40 minutes of yelling about an egg.

# ? Apr 19, 2016 11:14

breakfast dorito: doritos form part of a healthy breakfast (in theory) and should not be used as a primary source of nutrition (you don't tell me how to live)

hark, let cry the boks of war

# ? Apr 19, 2016 11:54

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

joke_explainer posted:

I was googling to see what a thousand dollar egg was, and this rear end in a top hat came up:

http://theduncangroup.com/blog/the-six-thousand-dollar-egg

I am glad he eventually let his wife eat breakfast after what reads like 40 minutes of yelling about an egg.

for eons now chickens have been tearing us apart...

# ? Apr 19, 2016 12:09

alnilam

joke_explainer posted:

I was googling to see what a thousand dollar egg was, and this rear end in a top hat came up:

http://theduncangroup.com/blog/the-six-thousand-dollar-egg

I am glad he eventually let his wife eat breakfast after what reads like 40 minutes of yelling about an egg.

lol what even the gently caress

# ? Apr 19, 2016 12:13

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

*crying and wiping the snot from my upper lip while slamming my fist on the bar repeatedly* "i want my $2 egg!... i'm such a good customer Natalie! why are you doing this to meeeeeee!??!? Goddamn you Hillstone Restaurant Group goddamn you all to hell!"

*restaurant erupts into applause when i finally leave*

# ? Apr 19, 2016 12:23

DeepQantas: Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Money can't buy fried-eggship

# ? Apr 19, 2016 12:32

Noctiluca: sparkle sparkle

Hahahaha, my dad refers to the egg as the $1000 egg because the coop, supplies and chickens all up cost about $1000 aud.

# ? Apr 19, 2016 12:55

Chill la Chill: Don't lose your gay

joke_explainer posted:

I was googling to see what a thousand dollar egg was, and this rear end in a top hat came up:

http://theduncangroup.com/blog/the-six-thousand-dollar-egg

I am glad he eventually let his wife eat breakfast after what reads like 40 minutes of yelling about an egg.

Trying to figure out how to spend $75 on a breakfast meal here~

Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan

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# ? Apr 19, 2016 13:14

DeepQantas: Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

Six thousand dollar egg. We can rebuild Humpty Dumpty, we have the technology.

# ? Apr 19, 2016 13:16

Business Gorillas

Chill la Chill posted:

Trying to figure out how to spend $75 on a breakfast meal here~

It's pretty easy if you do brunch (ie: justify drinking on the Sabbath by putting your liquor in breakfast fluids like oj and coffee)

# ? Apr 19, 2016 13:35

Adiabatic: What have you assholes done now?

DeepQantas posted:

Six thousand dollar egg. We can rebuild Humpty Dumpty, we have the technology.

# ? Apr 19, 2016 14:50

ScrubLeague

Chill la Chill posted:

Trying to figure out how to spend $75 on a breakfast meal here~

I mean the dude sounds like he was on his way to a pretty solid mid-day bender. He also sounds like An rear end in a top hat.

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# ? Apr 19, 2016 15:14

yoober

joke_explainer posted:

I was googling to see what a thousand dollar egg was, and this rear end in a top hat came up:

http://theduncangroup.com/blog/the-six-thousand-dollar-egg

both sides of this are absurd like how can you be worried about one egg if you run out of eggs you do actually send the bus boy over to whole foods to get more eggs that's just what you do you don't horde eggs
eggs are for sharing

# ? Apr 19, 2016 19:10

LordVonEarlDuke

OP we have chickens too!

This one is Emily Chickenson. She was attacked by a Gul Dang hawk but we scared it away by throwing a broom at it. You can see she lost some feathers on her butt and we were worried she was dead since she wasnt moving but she's all good now. bok bok

# ? Apr 19, 2016 19:13

MrWillsauce

if I had a chicken I would name him captain peckhard

# ? Apr 19, 2016 20:42

LordVonEarlDuke

ours are Mary Shelley, Emily Chickenson, Chicken 3, and Shitheel

# ? Apr 19, 2016 20:46

alnilam

I don't have hens yet but we will soon, we were thinking of a p-funk theme
Boksy Collins
Dr Cluckenstein
...
That's all we have so far

# ? Apr 19, 2016 21:18

Luvcow: One day nearer spring

c-funk

# ? Apr 19, 2016 21:20

Noctiluca: sparkle sparkle

MrWillsauce posted:

if I had a chicken I would name him captain peckhard

chickens are girls usually

# ? Apr 20, 2016 00:05

MrWillsauce

okay then I'd name her captain peckhard after Dr Crusher who marries Captain Picard and then divorces him, but keeps his last name and gets to be the captain of a federation medical vessel and they call her captain picard

# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:35

alnilam

nice save

# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:38

Afro Doug

uh... women can be officers too. it's 2016... hello???

# ? Apr 20, 2016 04:04

MrWillsauce

nobody said otherwise, we cool

# ? Apr 20, 2016 04:06

Noctiluca: sparkle sparkle

the use of the pronoun him was the talking point

# ? Apr 20, 2016 06:49

joke_explainer

yoober posted:

both sides of this are absurd like how can you be worried about one egg if you run out of eggs you do actually send the bus boy over to whole foods to get more eggs that's just what you do you don't horde eggs
eggs are for sharing

yeah I totally agree, what it reads like is him trying to bully the staff into fulfilling his every whim, and while the service industry is supposed to provide good service, that's kind of a slippery slope you know? There is some line you have to draw to what you will or won't do. He sits there and verbally berates the employee for their idiocy and then goes to somewhere where he didn't expect to get breakfast to verify the price of eggs, which right there you know something is hosed up because he had to actually go to the store to check what the heck people pay for eggs these days.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 08:36

joke_explainer

Martha! They wouldn't put an egg on my burger! What do eggs cost these days? $1? $10? We must go to the... ugh... grocery store and see what these base consumers are spending on these eggs!

# ? Apr 20, 2016 08:37