In Reply to: MEDIUM FRIES posted by Ray Dashner on November 12, 1996 at 13:10:47:
> Did you ever order medium fries without looking up at the menu
> boards? I tried this at the South Pasadena CA store. I wanted two
> bacon cheeseburgers and two medium fries. When the order taker
> tried to find the medium fries key, he said, "Sorry, we don't
> have medium fries. Only large and small".> I told him that was impossible. Everybody has medium fries.
> I asked for the manager. He listened to my request and said we
> don't carry medium fries. I told him that this store was missing
> out on the medium fries market, losing thousands of dollars in
> revenues each month. I told him how to satisfy the folks like me
> who want "two medium fries". Here's how simple it is; sell me one
> large fries and one small fries. When I arrive home, I put both
> together and divide the total in half. Each half is the size of
> the medium fries order that I wanted in the first place.> He was amused.
WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER IF ALL THE FASTFOOD CHAINS WOULD PRESENT THE
FRIES BY WEIGHT INSTEAD OF AN INNOCUOUS `SMALL, MEDIUM, OR LARGE`?