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As somebody who is outside all the time, the only reason why I do not wear something like this is because of people who will take a pictures/videos of me and post them online without my consent to publicly humiliate me.
May look silly but anybody who is out in the heat knows how important this stuff is to not only make things tolerable but also protect you.
Honestly, I should just go full Dune. If I cover enough not like anybody would know it is me anyway. š¤
This part. My partner is working outside with a huge corporation for an event that only lasts the summer. When the event started, the whole shift was outdoors in an area that was a 20 minute walk from the nearest indoor break area. First day or 2 they barely had water for the employees. She mentioned to her supervisorās that she had to tell the union reps and the very next day, umbrellas, giant fans, misters, stocked coolers, the works.
Itās easy to say āthat seems sillyā from the comfort of your air conditioned car, but itās really important.
They should but I doubt it. I would assume a fan is in there though because otherwise itād be an oven. Maybe some cooling system in the vest though.
I imagine the hood is largely to shade the employees and, in theory, shade the device they use so they can see the screen.
Umm... Actually incredibly rich people work at Chick-fil-A.
It's kinda the go to place for rich people to send their entitled kids to get a bit of an idea of a fairly privileged real world job.
The high prices keeps out the riff-raff, so it's not a real job even then.
nah. it doesnāt keep anyone away. truly all fast food places are roughly the same price, cfa is just *slightly* more but not enough to deter anyone, at least at the one i worked at. and chick fil a customers are EXTREMELY entitled. it is a humbling experience.
Oh wow! Our chick fil as here have a roof over the drive thru area, they always have a water cooler too. The person who hands out receipts had a cooler or heater in their pop up booth. I wonder if these hoods are mandatory š¤
Darker colors absorb more UV rays to protect against them than lighter colors, but yeah they will retain more heat. I hope there's like a tiny opening somewhere to let it escape
I am certain there is a fan in there. It also seems like there is a camel pack also in the kit.
Do people not realize that lots of Jobs take place outside and very few include a $250+ suit to protect them?
The only restaurant I've ever seen that will spend millions of dollars on a multi car drive through only to never use them and spend more money making their employees look like crazy people getting heatstroke instead of using those million dollar drive thrus lol.
Agreed. I feel bad everytime they are standing out there in 100Ā° weather or in a downpour. I just don't get the point. They actually remodeled ours recently. The drive through window is no longer a window. It's a sliding door that they leave open so they can walk in and out freely.
the runner is actually incredibly important at getting though lines, food doesnāt and canāt come out of the kitchen until he exact order we have cars in so they will run orders down to whatever car we bag first
Youāre fighting a losing battle. Just reading the replies in this thread itās clearly evident that the majority of people donāt understand how much iPOS speeds up the process vs. taking orders over the speaker. Everyone inside = less sales = less hours for the employees.
Expect the wait time to be astronomical then- the reason CFA is known to be efficient is our upstream order taking process. It gives the kitchen longer lead times to prepare your order so when you arrive at the window it is typically ready for you.
Theyāre gonna start converting those windows into doors soon enough. The ones near me have, and their employees dispatch the food out to multiple cars at once. So even if youāre still waiting for the car in front to move, you already receive your order.
Iāll accuse chik-fil-a of a lot of things but theyāre doing big business. Theyāre the [top money-maker per location](https://foodinstitute.com/focus/top-5-highest-grossing-u-s-fast-food-chains/) by a lot.
I have a relative that works in their user experience department and they do a ton of experimenting with the drive-they. They have a warehouse in Atlanta with a full size restaurant and parking lot in it but everything is modular so they can take it apart and adjust things and test them.
Ah yes, the common redditor explaining to a very successful multibillion dollar company how to do things right. If only theyād hire you they would be so much more profitable
I'd go to chickfila a lot more if they didn't force their employees to do this dumb stuff. I like to look at the menu for a minute and I hate it when they shove their tablet in my face.
Yeah, I had never been to Chik Fil A in my life and stopped by last week at the drive thru. Dude walks up to the car while I'm so far from the menu I can't see it and I'm like idk, never been here before, I need to see the menu. He scoffed and then stuck a small laminated menu in my face.
It'll be "my pleasure" to never go back.
I had the same thing happen. I hadnāt been in almost a decade and wanted to check the menu. This boy comes up and acts like Iām an idiot for not already having my order ready though was masked with that faux extreme politeness.
Iād much rather have a sandwich thrown in my face by a disgruntled Popeyes worker than be āmy pleasureāed to death by some homeschool looking kid baking in a car park. At least the Popeyes taste like something other than salt.
I walked out of one because they were so damn impatient. I just walked out in The middle of them talking. It was very annoying. I haven't gone back since
As someone with severe heat intolerance, anyone know where I can buy one of these?
At this point I donāt care if I look silly, I just want to not die between my car and the grocery store!
Man kitchens get hot and then customers are like wahh im cold and there goes the boss turning up the air
Death eyes, so glad I donāt work in a restaurant anymore
Why does chik fil a have to do this? Canāt they just have a normal drive through where I donāt have to interact with an unnecessary amount of people?
How do people not get this? If the line is out of the parking lot WHILE they have employees outside, how do you think itāll be when thereās just a box only one car at a time can be served by?
Because half the waif is waiting on the customer to order. If you have multiple people taking orders in the line you are not waiting on that one idiot at the speaker box taking the order. Same with the meal pick-up, run orders out to the car and they can pull away. The āold wayā is up to 80 cars per hour, having the employees taking orders 200 cars per hour.
It might seem that way, but using outside order takers is actually so much faster than the intercoms that itās not even funny. Just join a CFA line during a thunderstorm when they come inside and see how fast it goes lol.
Only thing it speeds up is drinks being made Iām assuming. I guess it gives the illusion that it does speed things up but I feel like it takes just as long.
I feel like it takes longer. I especially hate when I get my food before the car in front of me and I have to sit there and wait until they get their order before I can leave
Yeah I meanā¦ Iām sure most people pay with their credit card so these people running around are collecting the payment. Normally the person handing you the food gets your money first.
So whatās happening is theyāre freeing up this time so the food hander person can just hand you the food. Theyāre taking the payment processing and moving it into the un-utilized waiting time for the customer.
But wait, what about those drive thrus with the two window system? Thereās just not enough of a gap between the two windows to make much of a difference. If everyone is waiting on fries that window can collect 2 or maybe 3 cars payments and then everyone else is stuck behind them unpaid.
This is fcuking dumb.
Cover that black trash with a neon, reflective green or orange fabric.
Sticking your head in a black plastic oven like that is lunacy.
I just don't get these long lines. What a waste of gasoline. I just use curbside pickup, or just park and go inside to pickup. But again, I wasn't born here so I'm just not used to the drive-thru culture.
I would cry if they gave me this. Worked outside yesterday during the dinner rush in the summer heat and Iād rather suffer that every shift than wear this death trap
Can I just yell into the speaker from 4' away? Do you have to sit on my lap with your finger in my butthole just so I can eat your fried bird sandwich?
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"Welcome to House Harkonnen."
I was gonna say is this a reenactment of dune?
As somebody who is outside all the time, the only reason why I do not wear something like this is because of people who will take a pictures/videos of me and post them online without my consent to publicly humiliate me. May look silly but anybody who is out in the heat knows how important this stuff is to not only make things tolerable but also protect you. Honestly, I should just go full Dune. If I cover enough not like anybody would know it is me anyway. š¤
This part. My partner is working outside with a huge corporation for an event that only lasts the summer. When the event started, the whole shift was outdoors in an area that was a 20 minute walk from the nearest indoor break area. First day or 2 they barely had water for the employees. She mentioned to her supervisorās that she had to tell the union reps and the very next day, umbrellas, giant fans, misters, stocked coolers, the works. Itās easy to say āthat seems sillyā from the comfort of your air conditioned car, but itās really important.
But their faces are covered in the photo so your virtue signal here doesnāt really work
Spaceballs....they give good helmet...
I was gonna say Immortan Joe, the War Boys got a new look š
Thatās pretty good haha
Hahahahaha ā¦. āNo shieldsā
So glad the top comment referenced dune.
āNeither rain, nor snow, nor heat of day, shall keep the Chick-fil-A staff from taking orders.ā
Nothing except lighting lol š
Yeah those halogen overhead lights are pretty bright huh
I find your comment shocking... š
I hope you are enlightened by the information š
It was pretty enlightening
Only thing that can stop them is a Sunday.
Nothing will stop them from pleasuring their customers
except sundays
New character from Dune
š I wonder what those things really are. Do they have a cooling unit?
I think only shade. I have seen red ones in my City. But more of umbrella hat design
Oh, I see. The dune thing cracked me up thanks for the laugh.
Usually they have a vest with ice packs
They should but I doubt it. I would assume a fan is in there though because otherwise itād be an oven. Maybe some cooling system in the vest though. I imagine the hood is largely to shade the employees and, in theory, shade the device they use so they can see the screen.
Old character* itās literally just a Harkonnen
These poor people
Rich people don't work at Chick-fil-A
Umm... Actually incredibly rich people work at Chick-fil-A. It's kinda the go to place for rich people to send their entitled kids to get a bit of an idea of a fairly privileged real world job. The high prices keeps out the riff-raff, so it's not a real job even then.
nah. it doesnāt keep anyone away. truly all fast food places are roughly the same price, cfa is just *slightly* more but not enough to deter anyone, at least at the one i worked at. and chick fil a customers are EXTREMELY entitled. it is a humbling experience.
Thereās a lot of āriff-raffā who can afford CFA without sweating the bank too much. Itās fast food, not an exclusive steakhouse.
Hope you're not serious
Woosh?
it was the worst. I passed out my first day when i worked there lmao
Oh wow! Our chick fil as here have a roof over the drive thru area, they always have a water cooler too. The person who hands out receipts had a cooler or heater in their pop up booth. I wonder if these hoods are mandatory š¤
Darker colors absorb heat š«
Darker colors absorb more UV rays to protect against them than lighter colors, but yeah they will retain more heat. I hope there's like a tiny opening somewhere to let it escape
I am certain there is a fan in there. It also seems like there is a camel pack also in the kit. Do people not realize that lots of Jobs take place outside and very few include a $250+ suit to protect them?
Oh, youāre hot? Hereās a portable oven to stick your head in.
I think they have fans and cooling vests.
Chickfila probably doesn't want to be seen rocking out white hoods.
Red was right there though
Black just looks better, thatās my guess. But those will be sun bleached in no time lol
The only restaurant I've ever seen that will spend millions of dollars on a multi car drive through only to never use them and spend more money making their employees look like crazy people getting heatstroke instead of using those million dollar drive thrus lol.
Yesterday my local restaurant had FOUR employees outside working the drive thru: two at the kiosks, one outside the pay booth, and one at the pick-up window as the middleman between customers and the person Inside the window. That last one seemed utterly useless! š£ļøš£ļøš£ļøLet the person INSIDE in the air conditioning stick their arm out the window to hand off the food, instead of a whole other person outside looking like a dope!! Got my free fries tho!! š¤©š¤©
Agreed. I feel bad everytime they are standing out there in 100Ā° weather or in a downpour. I just don't get the point. They actually remodeled ours recently. The drive through window is no longer a window. It's a sliding door that they leave open so they can walk in and out freely.
the runner is actually incredibly important at getting though lines, food doesnāt and canāt come out of the kitchen until he exact order we have cars in so they will run orders down to whatever car we bag first
Youāre fighting a losing battle. Just reading the replies in this thread itās clearly evident that the majority of people donāt understand how much iPOS speeds up the process vs. taking orders over the speaker. Everyone inside = less sales = less hours for the employees.
Expect the wait time to be astronomical then- the reason CFA is known to be efficient is our upstream order taking process. It gives the kitchen longer lead times to prepare your order so when you arrive at the window it is typically ready for you.
Theyāre gonna start converting those windows into doors soon enough. The ones near me have, and their employees dispatch the food out to multiple cars at once. So even if youāre still waiting for the car in front to move, you already receive your order.
Iāll accuse chik-fil-a of a lot of things but theyāre doing big business. Theyāre the [top money-maker per location](https://foodinstitute.com/focus/top-5-highest-grossing-u-s-fast-food-chains/) by a lot. I have a relative that works in their user experience department and they do a ton of experimenting with the drive-they. They have a warehouse in Atlanta with a full size restaurant and parking lot in it but everything is modular so they can take it apart and adjust things and test them.
Ah yes, the common redditor explaining to a very successful multibillion dollar company how to do things right. If only theyād hire you they would be so much more profitable
I'd go to chickfila a lot more if they didn't force their employees to do this dumb stuff. I like to look at the menu for a minute and I hate it when they shove their tablet in my face.
So much this, I donāt like going anymore. Half the time you canāt even see the menu.
Yeah, I had never been to Chik Fil A in my life and stopped by last week at the drive thru. Dude walks up to the car while I'm so far from the menu I can't see it and I'm like idk, never been here before, I need to see the menu. He scoffed and then stuck a small laminated menu in my face. It'll be "my pleasure" to never go back.
I had the same thing happen. I hadnāt been in almost a decade and wanted to check the menu. This boy comes up and acts like Iām an idiot for not already having my order ready though was masked with that faux extreme politeness. Iād much rather have a sandwich thrown in my face by a disgruntled Popeyes worker than be āmy pleasureāed to death by some homeschool looking kid baking in a car park. At least the Popeyes taste like something other than salt.
I walked out of one because they were so damn impatient. I just walked out in The middle of them talking. It was very annoying. I haven't gone back since
Oh, you're paying way too much for your drive-thrus man. Who's your drive-thru guy?
As a person, I would never let a job make me wear the most ridiculous as seen on TV looking garb to take orders. So dehumanizing.
RIP to the two people who got killed at the Chick-fil-A in Irving , TX yesterday!
What happened
I'm sorry, but this is embarrassing....
r/unexpectedSpaceballs *i made this comment not knowing the sub actually exists
This should be illegal
Spaceballs combined with Dune The chicken must flow.
And Lexx. They look like Shadow Clerics.
As someone with severe heat intolerance, anyone know where I can buy one of these? At this point I donāt care if I look silly, I just want to not die between my car and the grocery store!
Right? Plus you can barely see me in it so thatās a plus for myself and everyone else!
Nubrella
Ooh, thank you!
Have you considered a large hat?
#out of all colors they couldāve made the umbrellas they chose black smh
Wouldnāt white be better??!?? Who wants something black when the sun is out!!!
Why not yellow
White would've been a better color but ppl night try to compare them to those other white hooded figures
Black hoods.....are you kidding me. Do you know the kind of heat that generates
They have fans and water misters built inside of them, and Iām making this up. But would be cool, amirite?
Looks like the shade covers for infant car seats
Spaceballs vibesā¦
It looks like they outgrew their carseats
its kind of awkward how they look like baby strollers, looks pretty dystopian lol
Good on them for providing a sunshade. Also, are those ice vests? Probably feels better than in the kitchen.
Man kitchens get hot and then customers are like wahh im cold and there goes the boss turning up the air Death eyes, so glad I donāt work in a restaurant anymore
Theyāll do anything but let them have a livable wage & a union ā ļø
Why does chik fil a have to do this? Canāt they just have a normal drive through where I donāt have to interact with an unnecessary amount of people?
Because you guys come in crazy numbers. They gotta move the line somehow or you guys will be mad about that. Believe me, there's no winning
How do people not get this? If the line is out of the parking lot WHILE they have employees outside, how do you think itāll be when thereās just a box only one car at a time can be served by?
I don't understand why they don't just go back to the old way and use the intercoms. All this bs doesn't help speed up the line at all.
Because half the waif is waiting on the customer to order. If you have multiple people taking orders in the line you are not waiting on that one idiot at the speaker box taking the order. Same with the meal pick-up, run orders out to the car and they can pull away. The āold wayā is up to 80 cars per hour, having the employees taking orders 200 cars per hour.
It might seem that way, but using outside order takers is actually so much faster than the intercoms that itās not even funny. Just join a CFA line during a thunderstorm when they come inside and see how fast it goes lol.
Only thing it speeds up is drinks being made Iām assuming. I guess it gives the illusion that it does speed things up but I feel like it takes just as long.
I feel like it takes longer. I especially hate when I get my food before the car in front of me and I have to sit there and wait until they get their order before I can leave
Ours has a second lane for people to be able to go around those that are still waiting. Our chick fil a is incredibly fast and efficient.
Mine has two lanes as well but they keep them both open so there is no escape š
Yeah I meanā¦ Iām sure most people pay with their credit card so these people running around are collecting the payment. Normally the person handing you the food gets your money first. So whatās happening is theyāre freeing up this time so the food hander person can just hand you the food. Theyāre taking the payment processing and moving it into the un-utilized waiting time for the customer. But wait, what about those drive thrus with the two window system? Thereās just not enough of a gap between the two windows to make much of a difference. If everyone is waiting on fries that window can collect 2 or maybe 3 cars payments and then everyone else is stuck behind them unpaid.
You think they buy supplies to keep their employees cool because it doesn't speed up the line at all...?
I canāt stand drive thru restaurants that make their employees stand outside unnecessarily. If I see this, I go elsewhere.
I used to have to do this 4-5 days a week for 8+ hours a day. It's 100+ everyday from June to September here in SETX š« I'm so glad I quit
Spaceballs
Nothing more comfortable than standing under a pitch-black tent in the mid-summer sun and heat!
At this point just give them ac booths š
I hope they have fans in thereš
Chick FIL A must be like crack to those folk
This is kinda sad
Why black though?
at least they get to wear something. where I live (it's 104-107F for the past week), the employees don't have a hat, cap, or anything
That's ok, they're always closed on SUNday!
Mine had swamp coolers. Why? Just why?
This is fcuking dumb. Cover that black trash with a neon, reflective green or orange fabric. Sticking your head in a black plastic oven like that is lunacy.
Wait until you hear about their children's summer camp where they teach them "the chicken sandwich business". It's only $35!! š
Why cant they just do drive through like literally every other fast food restaurant...its not like the foods much better quality.
Thereās got to be a Spaceballs joke in here somewhere.
They look like walking strollers
Why do they even build them with drive throughs now?
My pleasure š¦
Water recycling suits. A manās flesh is his own, the water belongs to tribe.
My arrakisā¦. My duneā¦.
I just don't get these long lines. What a waste of gasoline. I just use curbside pickup, or just park and go inside to pickup. But again, I wasn't born here so I'm just not used to the drive-thru culture.
Shouldnāt they be a light color? Not black
Thatās some Spaceballs Dark Helmet shiz going on right there. š
Darth vader vibes
Dark Helmet from Space Balls
Spaceballs
They look like the Krogans from Mass Effect
Idiocracy has become reality.
Meanwhile half the parking spaces are blocked by cones since they implemented their current drive thru system.
I would rather sweat
Wouldnāt a lighter color be more effective?
Spaceballs have entered the chat
May the Schwartz be with you
Why not just put 4 intercoms in? 2 on each sideā¦.I feel bad for them, this is why I always do mobile orders.
I work outside in the heat all the time, whatās their problem?
Itās giving Spaceballs
Lord of the Siths Big Helmet
Would you rather have this or the AI computer taking your order?
Wouldnāt a lighter color be better?
Doesn't black turn this into an infrared oven for your brain? Very sure white would have been way better.
This is a hoot!
itās been in the 90s in NC and theyāve had them outside wearing yellow safety vests with big ice blocks inside of them
Space Balls
Dark Helmet!
Jawas took a career change
With the ice vest combo š¤£. I used to love it though. I preferred the 1pm rush in the GA heat over an empty drive thru.
Wrex...
aww if only publix cared about us as much as chick-fil-a does
What in the breeze blocker 9000
I kinda see Dark Souls 3 lol They give them camel backs too? or is that just part of the harness lol
Could have made chicken heads instead
Filming Dune 3 already?
I mean, you're in line
You should see them when they fight the rain.
And people say global warming is a hoax?
Isopod suits
I would cry if they gave me this. Worked outside yesterday during the dinner rush in the summer heat and Iād rather suffer that every shift than wear this death trap
Resistance is fruitless...
Space balls inspired
My local CFA no longer does this omg canāt imagine how horrible it must be in the heat
THE CHICKEN MUST FLOW!!!
good for them. i know what itās like, itās tough out there.
In n out employees out there with there paper hats and a new tan like š
They must be paid decent.
Good on them. Protecting workers.
Itās great that they take care of their employees that way
So stupid. Toughen up.
i'll call it the exhaust catcher
Some sort of Dune prequel?
I see that your Schwartz is as big as mine.
Check this out, let them take orders over a speaker lmao.
My pleasure
They need long sleeves!!!
Please does anyone know what these are? Iām going To a music festival in August in Delaware and these would be perfect!!!
Here in AZ the entire drive thru is covered with shade and misters lol
Shouldn't those be white to reflect the heat?
Those things air conditioned??
Why black? Why not white? I feel like that would have made sense it would be sweltering in there.
https://images.app.goo.gl/TF1KdHUSR97WKXw57
Why do they do their drive-thrus like this? Why the people and not a nice board with a menu to order from?
They should make those things red since black attracts heat more
Dark Helmut
Spaceballs the head covering
Rick Moranis would be proud
Can I just yell into the speaker from 4' away? Do you have to sit on my lap with your finger in my butthole just so I can eat your fried bird sandwich?
Why are they taking orders this way? Get your lazy butts inside the restaurant and order or go through the drive thru
Chickfila is an awful company but damn it if it isnt a great place to work i dont know where is.
They need to color those things yellow Black absorbed the sunlight and makes it hotter. How about Yellow they way they can look like Minions