Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Panic at the Krystal!
| If you've been to or by Krystal lately you've probably noticed their latest creation. Putting different kinds of cheese on your Krystal. As you know, I am a big fan of cheese on a Krystal. And not just "plain old American." I've done: I was working late last night teaching an "evening" corrosion control class. ("Evening" means 3pm-6pm). on the way home I decided to whip thru Krystal to try this new combo. It is important to know this is not my normal Krystal stop. Apparently the Krystal on Hawkinsville Rd doesn't get many customers with creative requests. The ad slogan is something like "Cheese My Combo" or "Cheese me." When i got to the counter the girl asked if I'd like to "Cheese my combo." I promptly replies "I sure do." Sadly, here is when the chaos began. Her next question was "Which kind of cheese?" I looked up at the sign proudly proclaiming the new combo with its three tasty slices of different cheeses and then looked back and said "well, I want one of each." This was greeted with a long pause. Apparently no one had ever done THAT before. So now she was stumped on how to distribute 3 types of cheese on a #1 combo that has 4 Krystals. I offered the suggestion that they really only needed to make me 3 Krystals, but that was promptly ignored. How dare I suggest anything less than a 4 Krystal Combo Meal. (Krystal used to have a 3 Krystal combo meal but it disappeared several years ago.) When it was all said and done my order will require government code breakers to figure out. I can clearly see I got 3 Krystals, and 1 cheese Krystal. Then I got an order of American cheese, an order of pepper Jack Cheese, and one order of Cheddar cheese. Plus fries and a drink. (I didn't dare try to upsize because I could sense the desteration growing across the counter.) Once the order was placed and I had paid, it took about 15 seconds for the cook in the back to ask what the heck the order was. So my cashier turned around and yelled "He wants one of each!" (Of course that mystery 4th Krystal still looming in the background.) Suddenly, there was a huddle by cashier, cook and manager. I distinctly heard someone state "We don't have American cheese." But this was quickly met with "Thats what we always use!" OK, so the American cheese mystery is solved. Pepper Jack seemed pretty easy since it has the little specks in it. Now for the Cheddar. Where's the cheedar? And then it hit: "Which one is the cheddar and which one is the American?" So now the manager is holding up the stack of cheddar and the stack of Amrican cheese side by side to show that "one is a different color than the other." This stunning revalation was greeted with happy smiles and nods all around. But I knew there was one question left to go. I only had to wait 3 minutes for it to be asked: "Which one is the Cheddar and which one is American?" Obviously for my order it shouldn't matter since I wanted one of each. But with the addition of the "Mystery Krystal" they suddenly had a problem. There was another 5 minutes of discussion before a decision was made. Personally I never heard what the final answer was. I was wondering why no one got the brilliant idea to do the following: Taste 1 to determine "Cheddar or American" Label all three cheeses. Finally they got my Krystals made and boxed up, and I felt I was home free. So close, yet so far. It then became time to place my order in the bag. And the cashier asked which one was which Krystal. Obviously it shouldn't matter, but I do appreciate her helpfulness. What I would have appreciated more would be for her to just stuff them all in the bag with my fries so I could go home. So my final alaysis of the new Cheese Me combo: It is not worth a 15 minute wait, UNLESS the 15 minute wait is filled with a similar Keystone Cops episode. What kind was the 4th mystery Krystal? I honestly have no idea. It was either Cheddar or American. The pepper Jack does stand out with a little kick to it, but the rest didn't seem terribly different. Tomorrow I'll be going to MY Krystal to get the Cheese me combo done correctly, and I'll report back then. Also, I have now see the MilkQuake machines in 3 different Krystals now, so it's coming, ladies and gentlemen. I'm getting excited!  |
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