The Hurricanes put a bow on the 2022 regular season by beating the NJ Devils after having topped the Metropolitan Division with the added bonus of Frederik Andersen and Antti Raanta winning the franchise’s first Jennings trophy for fewest goals allowed by a goaltending tandem playing a minimum of 25 games in the season.
Yes…more free bird! 🙂
Given the time of day and the traffic, it’s back to White Oak to see if they can match their previous perfect score…
- 1657 – Mobile order placed via the app whilst in Clayton.
- 1710 – Arrived in the queue just barely in the outboard lane of the queue but move up quickly one position as the car in front of me abandons the queue. About 17m from the order boards at the choke point.
- 1712 – Order taker on the young side sporting a trainee badge decides to prove conclusively he needs a bit more training before being put in front of customers by starting the greeting with “hey” and then following it up with a blank stare after being given two attempts to correct that error.
- 1713 – Mobile app indicates order is ready even though I’m still 5m from the order board.
- 1715 – Arrive at the order board, appears to be good alternating lane discipline.
- 1716 – Young lady arrives with bag as I’m still making the left turn just past the order boards and starts off with a proper and very respectful greeting before handing off the bag.
- 1717 – Escape the queue to the right and pass six cars that were between me and the window.
Seven minutes…not bad at all in terms of time and certainly the fastest I’ve ever experienced at White Oak even though it was the dinner rush hour!
Come, Mr Tally Man, tally up me score here…
- Initial greeting: it wasn’t as bad as the last trip to Capital Blvd which was truly horrific. This was merely a matter of using the one word that irritates me and then showing no clue at all when the customer is outright telling you to find a more appropriate greeting. And he did it twice and then wanted me to tell him what to say. Sorry kid, that’s your trainer’s job. This would have been a full zero were it not for the girl delivering the order being *SPOT ON* in the greeting department without prompting and looking appropriately horrified when I shared with her the initial greeting I got and that is worth giving the half point of credit recovery in this case.
- Order correctness: spot on for the full point.
- Waffle fries: the box wasn’t filled to the brim but it’s close enough to not quibble and the temperature was decent but I would end up being thankful not getting a full packet of the fries because whoever was on that station had a hors categorie heavy hand on salting them! They were so darned salty that I could only imagine the salt vampire from Star Trek’s “The Man Trap” episode would have actually liked that much sodium chloride on the fries. Got to knock half a point on that one. Note to the salt succubus on the fry station…fries are one of those things where less is actually more when it comes to salt. You don’t have to completely coat the fries in salt to make them taste good!
- Sandwich: full marks for the sandwich, nice size and great coating.
White Oak scores a three out of four points tonight…not their best effort but still solid enough. At least the queue time wasn’t hideous! 🙂