You're expecting Shanahan to give comp this guy some tickets as an apology?
I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.
It's kind of silly to assume you're the only person here with "real world" experience.
Never said anything of the sort, simply saying the approach to a poor customer service experience in the service industry is TOTALY different than the approach to a poor customer service experience in the entertainment business.
For someone to tell a service industry "story" that ends with store manager clearly lacks an understanding of the hierarchy of management in the service industry and their desire to stop poor feedback from going up the food chain.
In the service industry a manager’s bonus is often graded in part with a customer service experience score, I know mine was. If I didn’t have a rating of 98% of people would return I lost that portion of my bonus, so in an effort to keep my bonus I made sure every negative comment was followed up personally by me and usually the person had their night comp’ed plus received a free night stay. If I followed up that negative was then eliminated from the pool of comments.
So this discussion started with the statement that the customer is always right, well the customer might not always be right but I can guarantee you that in the service industry the customer will always get what he wants if he is persistent and goes up high enough the food chain.
So to sum it up the McDonalds story is a water bucket with a big hole in the bottom of it, it don’t hold water, don’t believe it for one second.
Back to Kadri, his words, “we don’t need fans like that”.. he is implying that he only wants mindless robots who don’t show emotion and only pat him on the back at all times… sounds exactly like what a child with few life experiences like Kadri would say… they tend to be overly sensitive to criticism.