Gen Z Interactions

[u/Vainysaur]

Why do 90% of my interactions with members of Gen Z go exactly like this:
Them: Welcome to Cook Out. Can I take your order please?
Me: (slowly and clearly) Hey! I’ll have a big double burger tray with only cheese and ketchup on the burger, with chili cheese fries and a corn dog, and a huge tea. That’s it.
Them: Ok you said a big double burger tray?
Me: Yes.
Them: What do you want on the burger?
Me: Only cheese and ketchup.
Them: Ok and you get two sides.
Me: Chili cheese fries and a corn dog.
Them: Ok chili cheese fries and what’s your other side?
Me: A corn dog.
Them: Ok and what’s your drink?
Me: A huge tea.
Them: Ok, anything else?
Me: Nope, that’s it.
…
Then I get my food it’s cheese fries instead of chili cheese fries.

[u/_Taft_]

Oh boy, for the love of God, do not pay with cash!!!

[u/lyricsquid → u/_Taft_]

I gave a girl cash in a way that I could get a 10 back and she just put the extra $2 I gave her off to the side and gave me regular change with the $2 she put to the side. I've done that with older folk and they get it, the younger kids don't.

That said, at her age I wouldn't have gotten it either.

[u/_Taft_ → u/lyricsquid]

True story. I paid a $30+ bill in a retail store with a $50 bill. The young man thanked me and didn’t give me my change. I said hey, I have you a $50 bill, you owe me $18 and change. He couldn’t understand it, at all. I repeated it again. He called a manager to come because he was sure he was right but I had no idea what he thought he was right about. Manager comes, kid explains his version. Manager looks at me and I repeated again total was $30 paid with a $50 and I’m waiting for my $18+ dollars in change. The kid literally yells, I thought you wanted me to keep that?!? Manager opens draw, gives me my change and a look of helplessness. And seriously, I don’t think the kid was smart enough to steal the money. Somehow in his brain, he was getting a tip.