As a former food truck worker, I just wanna say that customers can take forever to place an order. It would definitely speed up the checkout process to ring up two burritos at once, rather than in two separate orders. People suck at having their money ready at the window. So if anything, this person is doing everyone else in line a favor, assuming that they are just adding their own order to a pre-existing order.
Actual answer: it's completely fine to do this, as long as the process of telling the queueing individual your order doesn't impact the time it takes them to reach the front. Almost never will you find a food truck that is preparing a single food item from start to finish, handing it over before taking the next order. They're throwing several burgers on the grill, or dumping a dozen churros into the fryer, and handing an individual order's worth over as they're finished! Postmates-ing just streamlines the whole process, if anything, as it removes the time that it would take a second person to relay their order and hand over money etc. This question asker's tech is the future!
Adding sales is meaningless to the argument. Extending the wait time of everyone behind the first person is meaningless to the argument. The only thing that matters here is perspective. That sale was always going to go to that person; they were always going to approach the person first in line or someone else in line, and make their order through them by spending extra. That's just set in stone--it happened and it was going to happen. So imagine they had worked it out beforehand. pretend they knew each other, or the person was approached before the line formed, and the exact same arrangement was made. Is it cutting then? If one person goes into the line to make three orders for them and they're two friends, is that cutting? And what makes it different if it happens after the fact? There is no actual change in wait time for the line, the only thing that's changing is to perception of the people behind that first person. They BELIEVE they've been slighted on time, while the truth is that they're wait was always fixed and predetermined.
I have this image now of someone asking a stranger to buy their lunch, and a riot breaking out as society collapses.
I love how Justin's been thoroughly broken by this tangent.
As a former food truck worker, I just wanna say that customers can take forever to place an order. It would definitely speed up the checkout process to ring up two burritos at once, rather than in two separate orders. People suck at having their money ready at the window.
So if anything, this person is doing everyone else in line a favor, assuming that they are just adding their own order to a pre-existing order.
I've been excited for this bit to be isolated. This is definitely my favorite MBMBAM moment yet. Thanks for the upload!
"Food Train Inc's legal department is represented by McElroy, McElroy & McElroy." "Oh no."
Actual answer: it's completely fine to do this, as long as the process of telling the queueing individual your order doesn't impact the time it takes them to reach the front.
Almost never will you find a food truck that is preparing a single food item from start to finish, handing it over before taking the next order. They're throwing several burgers on the grill, or dumping a dozen churros into the fryer, and handing an individual order's worth over as they're finished! Postmates-ing just streamlines the whole process, if anything, as it removes the time that it would take a second person to relay their order and hand over money etc.
This question asker's tech is the future!
How did they miss Chew Chew Train?
I love that they chose Mark Ruffalo
We get that, you want to get on because *it's bad out here*
Food train sounding louder
EVERYONE JUMP ‘PON THE FOOD TRAIN
OH NO, THE RUFFALOBOTS ARE IN ATTACK FORMATION!
And I've been happy lately
THINKIN ABOUT THE GOOD EATS TO COME
Chowpiercer
"You have to live on Burgertrain"
No one has animated Foodtrain yet and that's an awful shame
Adding sales is meaningless to the argument. Extending the wait time of everyone behind the first person is meaningless to the argument. The only thing that matters here is perspective.
That sale was always going to go to that person; they were always going to approach the person first in line or someone else in line, and make their order through them by spending extra. That's just set in stone--it happened and it was going to happen.
So imagine they had worked it out beforehand. pretend they knew each other, or the person was approached before the line formed, and the exact same arrangement was made. Is it cutting then? If one person goes into the line to make three orders for them and they're two friends, is that cutting? And what makes it different if it happens after the fact?
There is no actual change in wait time for the line, the only thing that's changing is to perception of the people behind that first person. They BELIEVE they've been slighted on time, while the truth is that they're wait was always fixed and predetermined.
Don't yell at Travis