MIX and CityNotSoSuper

Just been to get a sarnie at Mix. what the hell is it with their ordering system? you order your sarnie at 1 counter, your drink at another, and pay at a third, which is inbetween the first 2. There are lost people milling about all over the place, sandwiches and drinks landing up with the wrong people. It's chaos. The only place worse is the deli counter at CitySuper in IFC. That has taken stupidity to a whole new level.

There you queue (or "line up" if you're american) at the food counter and give your order to the bloke behind it. He carefully writes it down on a bit of paper which he gives you. you then queue at another counter to pay. Once you have pais a seperate person staples the receipt to your original piece of paper. you then go back to your first queue, with all the people who have yet to even decide what they want. then you get to the front and give your piece of paper and stapled receipt to the server, who finally actually makes your lunch. What an effing stupid system. It takes hours just to get a bottle of water. I now don't bother to go there at all even though they do great japanese lunchbox type things because i'm not sure that I will be able to prevent myself from impaling either the writer, server, till-operator or receipt-stapler on a pair of sharpened chopsticks.