Skeptic Project

Just wondering if anybody had any thoughts on this as far as which Fast Food chains have good service, which ones they don't think do great service, How to enhance a Fast Food Chain service, or talk about whatever.

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I was sort of playing around the idea and I think Fast Food Restaurants should pay their employees by commission. Commission in this sense meaning that employees still get standard raises but also they get paid extra which is determined by the amount of people who come in and how much is being made. Based on the total amount earned a employees would make a certain percentage extra onto their paycheck. To determine how much a employees makes extra would depend on a lot of factors including hours worked, amount of business coming in when hours worked, employees position, among other factors.

This would give employees a stake in the company so to say. This would also give them more of a incentive to do quality work as well as promote the establishment they work at to get more business to make more money. It's also important to note that I recognize that they get paid by amount of business coming at a particular time when employee works. By recognizing this it gives the employee incentive to work the busy hours as it will reflect their work they put in to their paycheck.

I'd also recommend that the drive thru's be automated more meaning you order and pay through a machine rather than a person. This would go for inside purchases as well. This would also be less face time with the customer until they actually get their food and yes that's a good thing for the customer and for the employee. You'd save money on having a cashier do the same process as well as not having a person accountable as it be a machine. It saves time and less mistakes in the end.

I've really thought about owning my own fast food restaurant someday at which I'd implement such things into it. I think employers need to keep their employees happier with incentives. Yes, I understand that the employees have a job and that they should be thankful but lets up the stakes and give incentives to employees to keep the quality of work up as well as keep them happy or try too.

I'm sure CyborgJesus or someone can point out the name of the model I'm referring to when I describe my commission based pay system.

^ Wouldn't be to hard for to implement automated drive thru's. Banks already implement automated drive thru's with no problem. It may be a lot easier for the elderly to make a order or the design of a typical automated machine taking orders can be revised.

^ Haven't seen that yet but I will make a effort to now. I enjoy McDonalds service I don't get why when their building a new McDonalds they have two drive thru spots to place a order now. How does the drive thru employee keep track of orders?

I enjoy Burger King's service more even if the particular atmosphere is of pulling teeth to get anything done. It feels that one can speak their mind without the employee's taking it to seriously.

Here they always have two sections of the drivethru to place orders, but only one is ever used for some reason.

No I mean where you talk into the thing to order. They have two of them, but only one is used.

LOL I don't think I explained it good enough but a older style MCDonalds at a drive thru has 1 place to order, 1 place to pay, and 1 place to receive food. The new style McDonald's drive thru has 2 spots to order, 1 spot to pay, and 1 spot to receive food. Not sure why McDonald's wants two places to order just seems a bit much.

I think the second one is so the government can spy on us since I can't seem to find any other logic for it; that must be it.

Well here alot of people who work in fast food places are teenagers who just wan't a job on the side, most of the older people working there are managers or supervisors.

I'm sure CyborgJesus or someone can point out the name of the model I'm referring to when I describe my commission based pay system.

That sounds like something based on Marx's labor theory of value. I don't know if it would work, considering multiple people can be involved with taking an order, and others involved with putting the whole order together. So, how do you calculate commission without completely changing how the system of the restaurant itself works?

Commission usually works when you're actually selling something, so it may not work for all fast food transactions, but for selling certain packages, that might be a way to do it. When I was in high school, I worked briefly in a Loews theater. One of the thing Loews did (at least back then, I'm not sure if they still do it now or if any other chains do it) is sort of a limited commission based on up-selling.

How it worked is you would get commission if you sold certain package deals on concession. So if someone wants to buy a small popcorn, you ask them if they'd like the package that comes with a tub of popcorn no normal person could theoretically consume half of on their own (at least outside America) and a drink or two. When you sold these packages, you got commission.

FYI in Japan, some of the most gorgeous young women work at McDonald's. If they asked me to go from something on the dollar menu to a higher priced package meal, I'd probably do it.