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quote:Originally posted by Wyatt Earp
quote:Originally posted by mlincoln
Why have you made a lot of enemies in your car wash business?
My car wash was known to be the best around, by a wide margin. I didn't tolerate a lot of crap and thus people told me they'd drive past 7 car washes 30 miles from a larger city to use my wash.
In order to have 50 people a month say good things about my car wash, I had to have 1 or 2 think I was a pri## for being too picky. I didn't allow nails or broken beer bottles to be washed out of pickup beds, I didn't allow the center pivot guy to clean a flatbed trailer load of greasy gearheads, etc.
The business model worked very well - I did far above the national average in a town of 2,000 people, when even my banker said this town would never support the nice wash I was building. He admitted his mistake 5 years later as he was loaning me another $250,000 to expand. [:D]
Anywho, my first job was a carhop at an A&W when I was 14. Then I was a cook there. I can tell you with no hesitation that most guys who never worked in a restaurant, would be shocked to know how much spit or snot yoi've ingested. It would take something as slight as a customer being a little curt while ordering his Papa Burger, to get spit on his burger, or to have a cook stick his hand down his pants, rub his crotch, then wipe his hand on that customer's hamburger patty as everyone in the kitchen laughed. Trust me, this happens a LOT, and it's why I'm NEVER rude at the drive-thru.
So, it's not hard to imagine that some minimum wage cook who I banned from my car wash, would seek revenge.
Sounds like your business does right well! Good for you! I usually wash my car in the driveway, but I appreciate that you try to keep things spiffy and safe for people using your facility.
Those are some gross stories. I worked in an Outback Steakhouse (very clean and very well run), in a Chinese restaurant (also clean), and in a dying restaurant in a Woodward and Lothrop (infested by cockroaches and rats). I never saw anybody do gross stuff like that, but I'm sure it does happen. I don't think I'm going to eat out for awhile. . .
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Sounds like your business does right well! Good for you! I usually wash my car in the driveway, but I appreciate that you try to keep things spiffy and safe for people using your facility.
Those are some gross stories. I worked in an Outback Steakhouse (very clean and very well run), in a Chinese restaurant (also clean), and in a dying restaurant in a Woodward and Lothrop (infested by cockroaches and rats). I never saw anybody do gross stuff like that, but I'm sure it does happen. I don't think I'm going to eat out for awhile. . .
I think most of the bad stuff happens when employees are teenagers.
Btw, I sold the car wash 9 months ago. It kept me up at night worrying about all the foolish things people did. I had 15 video cameras on a small 1/2 acre lot, and still they did stupid stuff on a regular basis.
quote:Originally posted by timinpa
I'm thinking if it happens every time, go get a fresh DR Pepper at the drive-in, then contact the health dept. to have it tested.
quote:Originally posted by bartman45
Yikes.another thought...WHAT do they do to your food at that place.........[:D]
The cockroach stories I could tell from my employment at A&W...
All the employess in the A&W could hear the customer order his food on the speaker. If he was mouthy it was not that uncommon for his hamburger patty to be dropped on the floor before it went in the bun. And all this time you thought the Teen Burger's crunchiness was bacon bits. [:D]
Wyatt - Any update - Were you able to get the remaining DP you had checked by anyone or did you decide to contact the Heath Department? Just curious if you were able to get to the bottom of what was going on......Mark
quote:Originally posted by sigarmsp226
Wyatt - Any update - Were you able to get the remaining DP you had checked by anyone or did you decide to contact the Heath Department? Just curious if you were able to get to the bottom of what was going on......Mark
Nope, struck out. The health department couldn't decide who would be in charge of something like that and after a half a day of sending me to different people, they finally found who was in charge of that, told me he'd call me back and he never did.
It was a classic circle jerk. I just decided I can never go to that restaurant again.
Hell, after being treated to a bread wrapper closer in a taco, some plastic bits in a burger, extra onions when none were ordered, and the greasiest, most unpalatable fries ever dipped into cold grease; I never eat at Sonic that restaurant anymore- the kids are too stupid to fix a shake, or too involved in sabotaging the food to get your order right!
I'd rather go to the Chinese reataurant down the road where they dump the old plates back into the buffet.
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quote:Originally posted by mlincoln
Why have you made a lot of enemies in your car wash business?
My car wash was known to be the best around, by a wide margin. I didn't tolerate a lot of crap and thus people told me they'd drive past 7 car washes 30 miles from a larger city to use my wash.
In order to have 50 people a month say good things about my car wash, I had to have 1 or 2 think I was a pri## for being too picky. I didn't allow nails or broken beer bottles to be washed out of pickup beds, I didn't allow the center pivot guy to clean a flatbed trailer load of greasy gearheads, etc.
The business model worked very well - I did far above the national average in a town of 2,000 people, when even my banker said this town would never support the nice wash I was building. He admitted his mistake 5 years later as he was loaning me another $250,000 to expand. [:D]
Anywho, my first job was a carhop at an A&W when I was 14. Then I was a cook there. I can tell you with no hesitation that most guys who never worked in a restaurant, would be shocked to know how much spit or snot yoi've ingested. It would take something as slight as a customer being a little curt while ordering his Papa Burger, to get spit on his burger, or to have a cook stick his hand down his pants, rub his crotch, then wipe his hand on that customer's hamburger patty as everyone in the kitchen laughed. Trust me, this happens a LOT, and it's why I'm NEVER rude at the drive-thru.
So, it's not hard to imagine that some minimum wage cook who I banned from my car wash, would seek revenge.
Sounds like your business does right well! Good for you! I usually wash my car in the driveway, but I appreciate that you try to keep things spiffy and safe for people using your facility.
Those are some gross stories. I worked in an Outback Steakhouse (very clean and very well run), in a Chinese restaurant (also clean), and in a dying restaurant in a Woodward and Lothrop (infested by cockroaches and rats). I never saw anybody do gross stuff like that, but I'm sure it does happen. I don't think I'm going to eat out for awhile. . .
Sounds like your business does right well! Good for you! I usually wash my car in the driveway, but I appreciate that you try to keep things spiffy and safe for people using your facility.
Those are some gross stories. I worked in an Outback Steakhouse (very clean and very well run), in a Chinese restaurant (also clean), and in a dying restaurant in a Woodward and Lothrop (infested by cockroaches and rats). I never saw anybody do gross stuff like that, but I'm sure it does happen. I don't think I'm going to eat out for awhile. . .
I think most of the bad stuff happens when employees are teenagers.
Btw, I sold the car wash 9 months ago. It kept me up at night worrying about all the foolish things people did. I had 15 video cameras on a small 1/2 acre lot, and still they did stupid stuff on a regular basis.
I'm thinking if it happens every time, go get a fresh DR Pepper at the drive-in, then contact the health dept. to have it tested.
NO ICE PLEASE so it will not be watered down
Yikes.another thought...WHAT do they do to your food at that place.........[:D]
The cockroach stories I could tell from my employment at A&W...
All the employess in the A&W could hear the customer order his food on the speaker. If he was mouthy it was not that uncommon for his hamburger patty to be dropped on the floor before it went in the bun. And all this time you thought the Teen Burger's crunchiness was bacon bits. [:D]
Maybe the Visine in my DP is karma? [:D]
Wyatt - Any update - Were you able to get the remaining DP you had checked by anyone or did you decide to contact the Heath Department? Just curious if you were able to get to the bottom of what was going on......Mark
Nope, struck out. The health department couldn't decide who would be in charge of something like that and after a half a day of sending me to different people, they finally found who was in charge of that, told me he'd call me back and he never did.
It was a classic circle jerk. I just decided I can never go to that restaurant again.
I'd rather go to the Chinese reataurant down the road where they dump the old plates back into the buffet.