You Shouldn’t be Allowed to Make More than 2 Orders at Panda Express.

I swung by a Panda Express (no drive-thru) for lunch today and the line didn’t look to long so I was pretty excited. That was until the guy in line in front of me said he had SEVEN orders to make. SEVEN! You add 6 more people to this line and I likely decide to spend my precious lunch hour somewhere else. To make it worse, 6 of the 7 orders were double orange chicken and the 7th included an order of orange chicken as well, completely wiping out their ready supply. Of course I’m not going to not get orange chicken (what do you even combine in that situation? Beijing beef aqnd sweet and fire chicken? Talk about a disappointing lunch) so now we’re ticking more time off the lunch clock while I wait for the fresh batch to be done. By the time I’ve secured my meal I’m already 37 minutes into my lunch and might as well just head right back to the office. Which brings me to my main point: If you have more than 2 orders and haven’t ordered ahead, you should have to make 2 at a time and go to the back of the line again for your next round of orders.

I’m not a completely unreasonable man, if you have 3 orders that could potentially be persuaded that you can order all of them at once. But 3 is definitely the absolute max.