I normally love an Arby's. Fast food that focuses on meat. The concept is great but service at this particular Arby's fell completely apart at dinner time tonight.
One girl with a manager were all that existed in the building. My husband waited 20 minutes for just one car to leave the drive through service window and when it was his turn he was told they could not print out a receipt! This is ridiculous! They took my husband's debit card but did not tell him until after they placed a charge on it that they would not be giving him a receipt! Seriously they had zero rolls of blank register tape? They could not place a big sign on the ordering board and service window stating that there would be no receipts? They could not bother to tell every single customer at the drive up speaker, before they ordered, that they would get no receipt for what they paid for?
I find myself getting more and more frustrated with the lack of service in America. Companies should NOT be open if they don't have an adequate amount of staff to run it and yes a receipt for your purchase is a necessity for many reasons!
1) Every customer has the right to know what they were charged, per item, in their purchase and whether the tax rate is correct along with the total! I will be calling the State of NJ Taxation department tomorrow to find out if this is still the law in NJ.
2) Another reason for a receipt is the proof of what the company billed you for if that is different than what the company gave you. IE: Along with rest of our order my husband asked for 2 classic beef n cheddar sandwiches but what we got was 2 classic hot roast beef sandwiches. NO cheese on either sandwich! For the cheese lovers of the world you can understand our frustration.
Now we have no receipt to prove we ordered anything much less beef sandwiches with cheddar on them. We can prove our Wells Fargo Bank is transferring $35.25 to Arbys which is a rather large amount for two people ordering at the drive through but unfortunately Wells Fargo is just showing that total deduction and nothing more. Arbys will be getting my phone call tomorrow after I call the NJ Department of Taxation.
National corporations need to close businesses that don't have enough staff to change a register receipt. If they don't have enough staff for that simple, quick task then I can only guess at how well the building and appliances are being cleaned, how quickly delivered meat is being put into refrigeration versus sitting out waiting for staff. Corporations need to worry about food safety, state laws concerning taxation and whether customers are getting the food they ordered. Simple but very reasonable expectations. read more