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This may get moved to Covid forum, but I will leave that to our excellent administrators.
Well, after Door Dash my wife and I decided to do local pickup.
First one at Perkins was great.
Arrived at time was told food would be ready
Had on my mask, face shield, walked up to cashier, gave her my card, got the slip back which I needed to sign (mistake here, next time I will bring my own pen, I think “personal pens” has been mentioned as a High Power Rocketry launch card recommendation), our food was there, in and out in probably 2 minutes.
Second one at Perkins not so great.
Called in my order, was told 20 minutes or less.
Arrived in 20 minutes........food not ready. “just a few minutes” was told.
Tried to find an out of the way place to wait and maintain social distancing, not easy as the place was packed, and off course nobody can wear a mask while eating and drinking (and talking and laughing.)
20 minutes later my order was available.
Lesson learned.
I will give a place benefit of the doubt once. Once I have been burned (next time with Perkins), I will arrive and park at the time they say food should be ready. I will CALL from my car and confirm the food is actually ready for pick up. If it isn’t, I will give them the option, either to call me on my cell when it is ready or I call every five minutes until I get a “yes” it is ready for pickup.
This is as much for their safety as mine, the less time I spend standing around the less likely I am to spread or contract Covid.
After seeing how crowded this place was, until this plague is under control, while I will likely still get take out food, I don’t think I am going to be sitting down at a restaurant for the foreseeable future. Our hospital has over 90 Covid patients, over 20 on vents. The irony is that our county has a mask mandate, and even while I see many people wearing masks wrong (just over the mouth is the most common), there is NO MASK MANDATE in adjacent counties in our County hospital catchment area (means even though they don’t live in our county ours is the nearest major hospital that can handle serious Covid patients.). So MOST of our hospital Covid Patients aren’t from OUR county. I was shocked to see people in their 70s or 80s and a middle aged relatively obese guy in A wheel chair with a leg amputated (the guy’s leg, not the chair), likely diabetic and hyptertensive, people clearly high risk mortality if they get Covid, just going out to a public restaurant to eat as if nothing was going on.
Anyway, my wife and I enjoy restaurant food from good places and want to support the local economy, but food needs to be ready on time, if not I will call and make sure it is ready before I enter the business site.
Well, after Door Dash my wife and I decided to do local pickup.
First one at Perkins was great.
Arrived at time was told food would be ready
Had on my mask, face shield, walked up to cashier, gave her my card, got the slip back which I needed to sign (mistake here, next time I will bring my own pen, I think “personal pens” has been mentioned as a High Power Rocketry launch card recommendation), our food was there, in and out in probably 2 minutes.
Second one at Perkins not so great.
Called in my order, was told 20 minutes or less.
Arrived in 20 minutes........food not ready. “just a few minutes” was told.
Tried to find an out of the way place to wait and maintain social distancing, not easy as the place was packed, and off course nobody can wear a mask while eating and drinking (and talking and laughing.)
20 minutes later my order was available.
Lesson learned.
I will give a place benefit of the doubt once. Once I have been burned (next time with Perkins), I will arrive and park at the time they say food should be ready. I will CALL from my car and confirm the food is actually ready for pick up. If it isn’t, I will give them the option, either to call me on my cell when it is ready or I call every five minutes until I get a “yes” it is ready for pickup.
This is as much for their safety as mine, the less time I spend standing around the less likely I am to spread or contract Covid.
After seeing how crowded this place was, until this plague is under control, while I will likely still get take out food, I don’t think I am going to be sitting down at a restaurant for the foreseeable future. Our hospital has over 90 Covid patients, over 20 on vents. The irony is that our county has a mask mandate, and even while I see many people wearing masks wrong (just over the mouth is the most common), there is NO MASK MANDATE in adjacent counties in our County hospital catchment area (means even though they don’t live in our county ours is the nearest major hospital that can handle serious Covid patients.). So MOST of our hospital Covid Patients aren’t from OUR county. I was shocked to see people in their 70s or 80s and a middle aged relatively obese guy in A wheel chair with a leg amputated (the guy’s leg, not the chair), likely diabetic and hyptertensive, people clearly high risk mortality if they get Covid, just going out to a public restaurant to eat as if nothing was going on.
Anyway, my wife and I enjoy restaurant food from good places and want to support the local economy, but food needs to be ready on time, if not I will call and make sure it is ready before I enter the business site.
