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Anyone fed up with the services provided by Chartwells?

edited June 2007 in General
I know theres constant bashing with how horrid the food is, but the service is what I'm not impressed with. For anyone that isnt aware, Chartwells caters the food to Ravens, McKenzie and Simon Cs (to the best of my knowledge, the fresh food at least) [evident by the fixed price of soup/chili, which is really the only thing I get]

I'm fairly certain all the workers there are mere peons that gets a base wage, hence they consist of mainly the most marginal of the population. Regardless, with the past couple experiences, I find their service ridiculously bad.

Today I was at McKenzies buying chili since I was dumb enough to not bring ample amount of food to feed myself. The girl that was two place infront of me apparently misheard the cashier lady when she said 5.04 since she only paid a 5 and was starting to walk away. The cashier lady practically screamed for her saying its 5.04 asking for the extra 4 cents. So the poor girl comes back digging through her change purse or w/e looking for a nickel.

For anyone that hasnt been to McKenzies, the cashier stands in the middle with two lines going from either side. So by the time I was next to check out, meaning 3 more customers have come and gone, the poor girl was still digging for 4 cents. Anyways, I got to the cashier with my chili, and the bitch of a cashier just stuck her hand out at me. I was just wow, in lack of a better word, stunned. Did she expect me to know how much the chili is? She didnt bother ringing up my chilli and had the nerve to just stand there with her hand stuck out at me. After an awkward 10 or 15 seconds, I shrugged my shoulders notioning WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT ME TO PAY. So she rings it up, tells me 3.30
I pay her two tunies and she fucking gives me 68 cents in change. While the poor girl looks for 4 cents, she fucking penny pinches me for 2. Honestly, what the fuck. I didnt feel like making a deal out of two cents, but wow...I mean, you think the overpriced food is making them enough of a killing they dont need to like ye know, steal 2 cents? Or at least hmm, say the price right if it is actually 3.32?

Theres some other shit at simon Cs but I think this is a long enough rant. Basically it had something to do with the take a penny, leave a penny tray. See if you can figure it out

Comments

  • Pro
    edited January 2007
    they are so awfully slow. and yeah the food sucks ass too. i'm surprised more people don't just grab the food and leave without paying
  • edited January 2007
    Your right dude, the service at Chartwells is shittered. The foods bad enough but I only eat it when I have no other options but it just makes things that much worse when the lady serving you the food is grumpy and giving you ugly looks like fuck its not my fault you gotta work here
  • edited January 2007
    Pro said:
    they are so awfully slow. and yeah the food sucks ass too. i'm surprised more people don't just grab the food and leave without paying
    Lol... once after standing there for a minute with no one even bothering to come to the cashier, while many workers walking by I thought to myself "if they don't want their money, I'm not gonna force it on them"... :D

    Yeah, they deserve to be robbed though... The workers are real bitches...
  • edited January 2007
    Weird cuz I had a bad experience there this morning!

    It was 10am and there were only a few customers and a ton of employees doing god-knows-what behind the scenes (I could hear them yakking). I thought I'd grab a breakfast bagel so I was waiting in front of what becomes the burger place at lunch, but they serve breakfast sandwiches in the morning. No employees in site. I look at the lady at the cafe but she avoids my eye like "not my problem", ditto with the cashier. So I see some lady at the sandwich bar literally standing waist-deep in all the lettuce she's cut and she ignores me as well. A few employees even went behind the counter I was waiting at, grabbed something and wandered off again while ignoring me. Good work guys. Yeah... I waited for 10 minutes before grabbing a muffin.
  • edited January 2007
    Chartwells also runs the Residence Dining Hall located just beyond the WMC parking lot and the Visitor's Parking lot. They use the shittiest ingredients. The service is fine there but the food sucks, like really sucks, can't wait till next year and I don't have to eat in there.
  • edited March 2007
    -bought one of the take out sushi; rice are dry!!!
    -the cashier ladies are rude; especially the chinese lady with eyeglasses
    -can't believe pizza is $3.95
    -the combo meal are pricey
    -the rice krispy are soggy
  • edited March 2007
    ^ I notice that she is nicer to older caucasian males. Maybe that's cuz she probably thinks they have money cuz it's more likely that they're a prof.
  • edited March 2007
    water said:

    -the cashier ladies are rude; especially the chinese lady with eyeglasses
    Yeah I always try to avoid her.. This one time she rings up my food and says "$3.35," but I didn't really understand her because of her accent so I asked, "$3.35?" to confirm the price and she says yes. As I'm walking away she yells..

    "NO!!! $3.55!!!"

    Me: but you just said..
    Her: NO!!

    Talk about rudeness!
  • edited March 2007
    That Chinese lady seriously pisses me off, she's got the worst attitude ever. Sometimes I would swear at her in Spanish.
  • edited March 2007
    El_Cambumbo said:
    That Chinese lady seriously pisses me off, she's got the worst attitude ever. Sometimes I would swear at her in Spanish.

    OMG she pisses me off too!!!

    She sticks out her hand and doesn't tell me the price either... argh, so annoying.

    So rude. Doesn't even say "hi"
  • edited March 2007
    lol i just remember her yelling NEXT PLEASE at everyone after ringing up the last person

    the service is bad, but i guess im just expecting it, so it doesnt really bug me
  • edited March 2007
    El_Cambumbo said:
    That Chinese lady seriously pisses me off, she's got the worst attitude ever. Sometimes I would swear at her in Spanish.
    I usually mutter some swear words in punjabi as I walk away too lol
  • edited March 2007
    Me thinks they are bitter that they stuck at a dead end job while us muchachos are getting ahead in life
  • edited June 2007
    I hate that lady too
  • edited June 2007
    Last year, I was waiting for the bus & I reached in my backpack & my wallet was gone! I went back to my tutorial room, nothing. Checked the areas I was walking earlier, nothing. Called lost & found, then cancelled my visa, because I was starting to get worried. Then I went to the cafeteria because I was eating in one of the booths before. At this time, the cafe was closed, but they were cleaning up. I knocked on the glass door to get the lady's attention & no response. Again, I knocked louder & said excuse me, no response. Knocked again & excuse me, no response. Started banging the door, she looked over and yelled we are closed. I told her I lost my wallet & I want to check the cafeteria. She said, we've cleaned up the entire cafeteria & there was no wallet. I asked if I could just take a quick look, because I was in there just over 1 hour ago. She said there was nothing & to call lost & found. I told her I already called & I have looked everywhere, this is the last place it could possible be. Just let me ease my mind, so i know its not in there for sure. She said its not in here. Then I started getting really mad. I yelled this is really stupid, because I'm going to go home, get no sleep, then be back here at 8:00 in the morning. Then I said, what would you do if you were me?. She looked stunned and gave me a huh? look. Then I repeated, what would you do if you were me?. At this time the manager came out from the back and opened up the door to let me in, she didn't even say one word, probably because she heard me yelling. I went to the booth where I was sitting & GUESS WHAT? It was there, on the floor, with everything in it. I then told them I found it. And the bitch that would not let me in the first place said with a sign of relief and her hand on her chest, "Oh, I'm Soooo glad you found it". How fake was that! Anyways, maybe some you saw me, because I remember poeple starring at me when I came out. But I didn't care, I have my wallet & I know I would be looking at me too.
  • edited June 2007
    i bring my own lunch to school

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