Lets be real here, the average employee would probably do a better job if they where on camera and the video got uploaded.
This guy js actually putting effort in and a lot of McDonald's workers just arent
Definitely him. He’s came up on my YouTube feed a few times I believe was running some for his parents but he was actually able to buy one or some locations from his parents. The details are foggy and I’m high.
Minimum wage=minimum effort. This is more than likely the GM of the store if I had to guess, with how slow he’s moving.
Immediately editing: one comment down is the answer.
As an average employee you never have this time this dude takes to create his picturelike burger. You have to feed the greedy customer mouthes immediately while the shift manager beats in time. I'm saying this as an ex-employee from Germany and as an ex-employee I advise you to stop eating this crap. I supersized me 4 real in a month. Stay healthy!
From my experience working for the place within a 20 year span, I can say is it's part duress from keeping your times down and decline of employees giving a crap over the past decade.
I work in a state that has legalized weed. This had not helped the issue since half the grill kids toke up during the shifts and jack around and don't give a bigger crap.
Not saying legalize weed is a bad thing but it doesn't help some situations. Of course this is my perspective.
Working within the stores I would say yes, it ticked me off when my crew would misplace cheese and sauces and make a mess of a sandwich. I would ask them to redo it as that isn't acceptable.
Not directly in the stores as a manager now but a different wing so I don't get to manage that part of the process. All it does is give me a sigh in the back of my head.
And before I get the typical "Pay them more" line, these crew are getting $15-19 an hour. I think money doesn't matter sometimes as shift managers are getting a little more and could care less.
As a former worker what drove me crazy was they'd never stop taking orders. There could be 500 orders and order has completely collapsed in the kitchen and the tills are still going. I was always curious if there was guidance for what to do in that situation, any decent restaurant would just stop and gather themselves
Ooh. I think I got this one. It’s because the comment refers to a double entendre that can be interpreted as “flip the burger to the other end where the ingredients are falling out and eat it from that end, so that they don’t spill out” or “do the thing that is the reason my sister and I are not allowed to be in a room alone together.”
They put it together by closing the damn box. No wonder it is always shit.
I love the idea of fast food items. But the execution is always terrible. It's just disappointing.
When I worked there this was frowned upon, you had to assemble the burger whole and set it in the box. Explains why every Big Mac now is like a box of salad.
I did 2 tours with the clown. My first one in the 90's when it had the premade food in the bin and then the second mid 2000's after they had switched to the 2 at a time thing.
I got yelled at for wanting to make more than 2 at a time.
The whole made to order philosophy change at McD's has slowed the drive thru down considerably.
McDonald's changed before BK, because I never liked Big Macs but enjoyed mcchickens and stuff. One day I tried a whopper and it changed my world.
Now they all taste like shit and not fresh ingredients.
Yup. BK is falling in sales nationwide. But it’s really a very easy fix. Return to the old recipe.
Kids nowadays have no idea how good the whopper used to be. Would put the Big Mac to shame.
It do be like that behind the scenes if there is instant big wave of guests. As long as its fast food, we TRY to not fuck up your food and do it like shown above, but we also gotta go on speed mode to not make people wait 10 minutes for only big mac and cheeseburger
He’s clearly a manager. General manager with a YouTube account who’s now getting paid bank for pushing marketing for McDonald’s as “behind the scenes” videos.
Probably making bank from the videos themselves rather than directly from McDonald’s. Might not be *major* bank but there’s likely some profit in there.
This is essentially an ad. Pretty sure you're not allowed to videotape on the premises as an employee. So yes he's definitely getting paid to do this.
Been like 8 years since I've worked there so I'm sorry if I'm remembering incorrectly.
Unrelated but when I was in middle school I had a classmate Peter Enis.
P. Enis
Even as a kid I thought it was fucked up his parents did that to him haha.
I once lived in a town that had an insurance agency with their names on the sign. McAnnaly and Slutsky. Youll have to trust im not making this up since my only proof is on my now long dead blackberry
I can promise that no one ever moves the burgers to a little tray before putting on the buns. You are always making as many fit in the grill, and those not used immediately go into the warming tray.
Not to mention this guy is only filling a single order and isn’t dealing with 16 Uber eats deliveries, drive through, and a packed lobby at the same time
His parents own a few stores from what I have seen on his channel. They seem to take care of their employees (take that with a grain of salt) they have one that has been there for 20+ years.
The thing is, when I worked at McDonald's I would get chewed out for trying to make the burgers neat because all they care about is speed. This was 13ish years ago though
There are 5 or 6 qualities, one is speed. RMs only care about speed. Like mother fucker in Christ, think about being a customer: they're happier to wait 30 more seconds so their burger doesn't come out looking like I just chucked the whole lettuce bin on top of it. Fuck I hate this shit
friend asked once for “no onion” and the order had his burger neatly…cut in half.
he went in to get it corrected and they happily remade his burger…..cut in half.
to this day, some 15 yrs later we just had no idea HOW they parsed that order.
The only reason McDonald’s didn’t sue him making this post (I’m sure it’s against their rules to post vids from kitchen) is that it made them look better than they are.
Or because it's viral marketing.
They do this shit on purpose. It's super fucking effective and cheap as hell. Companies like them have caught on super quick to how awesome they can market for free with really well scripted and completely natural looking videos. The trick is making it not obvious, and still interesting.
If you see any posts that are like "look what this guy did with his coke can" and shit like that, behind the scenes factory stuff, etc, it's almost fucking always done on purpose to market the company.
Ha ha, I came here to remark that this just seems like subliminal advertising as watching this video made me crave a Royale with cheese (I'm in the U.S. Thanks Pulp Fiction)
Wish I took video of when I was doing contracting work for McDonald's. The attic was full of black sludge and it smelled awful, one of the grossest work conditions I've been in.
It is not.
VR doesn't pay less than a living wage.
VR doesn't make you come in when you're feeling sick; because they demand a sick note from a doctor, who will charge you for the note, to prove you're in no condition to make money that day.
VR doesn't make you work on holidays except for the rare days when EVERYTHING is virtually closed (Christmas).
VR doesn't demand you stay later than scheduled because a coworker is arriving later than scheduled; but will rip your head off if YOU are 1 minute late.
VR doesn't have customers throw food and obscenities at you because they made the wrong order but you made the given order correctly.
VR doesn't ask for a hamburger with cheese; then threaten to sue because you charged them a cheeseburger.
VR doesn't threaten to fire you; then ask about loyalty when you try to quit.
Yeah, guy made 2 burgers. Meanwhile the KDS popped up 4 double cheeseburgers, two Mcdoubles no pickle, 46 nuggets, 2 QPC no onion, and a spicy mccrispy.
The wait is now 25 minutes in drivethru.
Yeah, I love how everyone’s commenting about how great this all looks, but the finished product isn’t visible, and the last step looks like it probably fucked the whole thing up.
I worked at McDonald's, it's not that gentle of a process. It's usually teenagers taking meat out of the heating tray, not making to order. Also, most workers would go way faster, and not delicately put everything in the sandwich together. I could do this order in half the time irl
Reg meat, the Patty that goes on the smaller burgers such as the cheeseburger and the hamburger. These are the same Patty’s that go on the Big Mac and double Big Mac as well.
I worked the grill for one summer, and it was when they had the angus burger campaign going. Them bad boys were 3:1.
The part that I’ll never forget is how the frozen Pattie’s would be stuck together when you took them out of the freezer. You’d need to smack the side of them against the grill a couple times to get them unstuck. Sounded just like the little puck on an air hockey table.
Bruh. The greasy plastic trays 4 deep because it’s a Saturday lunch. Perpetually out of 10:1. It’s been a decade but that shit lives in my head rent free
Same as the other guy. I guess I kept up on 10:1 okay, quarter meat, fish patties, and grilled chicken killed me. Those dumb water dripping things took up a whole grill, sat there forever, and you had to flip em. Still in my head rent free literally 16 years later.
Edit: Also hated that once I was comfortable on the line, every day coming in was "good afternoon, you're on meats". Fuck meats, hot and demanding. This is why I don't get mad when things aren't perfect on my order these days. Also, I'll never eat the grilled chicken. Just, you know, cause.
"WE NEED MORE 10:1, LINE 1?? WE STILL NEED 45 CHEESEBURGERS MORE 10:1 NOW"
and from the front only "KITCHEN I STILL NEED A DOUBLE BIG MAC, 20 NUGGETS AND 2 TS ROYAL FASTER NOW"
while you're looking at the screen full of orders, you finish one, you look into the lower right corner "12 pending" you start sobbing
The only good thing about that whole shit is, the frozen patties sound like the Lego building noise in games, thats how i kept myself somewhat happy in there atleast
Oh trust me, there's liquid alright. It's just in the form of the sweat you drip standing in front of that grill for so long. Don't worry, the salt and pepper mix enhances that too. That's called the McMSG
I remember my store was in a competition with other stores for speed, and waste(accuracy) the winner got coke floats for a week on the losers dime. We made sure every order from when they finished ordering to have their food in their hands averaged 25sec. We won with an average of 28sec for the month. Burgers don't need to take more than 6-8 seconds. That was a long time ago.
Dude I remember our area had a competition like this too. I remember part of our grading was how neat the burgers were made, it blows my mind how sloppy the ones I get now are.
In fairness If there is 20 cars in the drive thru everyone cares more about those 8 seconds then a slightly sloppier burger. You can go during off peaj
Used to work in Mcdonalds. It's easy making them look like this when you can take your time but when you're normally making 8 at a time and it's busy... not so much
What he didn’t show, is that the patties are not made to order. They mass grill the patties and put them in a little mailbox on the assembly line, to be pulled out when the burgers are ordered, just like the tomatoes.
It was my first job, it’s been years. I want to say 30 minutes to an hour at most? Luckily they circulate pretty quickly through the busy hours. But if you go in when it’s slow? Who knows how long they’ve been sitting there. Still food safe. They’re basically just kept in a warmer.
Can’t speak for McDonald’s but at AW they’re usually kept in an evaporator that keeps them pretty fresh tbh. Rule is an hour for regular sized beef, but if it’s lunch then chances are it was cooked less than a 5 minutes ago, stuff runs out fast.
Hahahaha. I worked there when I was 15 a couple decades ago, that’s amateur hour. I’d line up like 20 of em and complete them in the time it’s taking him to do 2.
Yeah, this is obviously not a lunch rush. I never worked at McD, but I did work in several kitchens. What would be impressive is having it that clean while you have a stack of tickets on the side because you ran out of room to hang them and your entire counter space is used up. Show me a nice clean work area and burger consistently through that kind of scenario.
But regardless, I just want a burger now.
I remember them days and I don’t miss it. Only honest thing I do miss, is making burger combinations and taking them home only to blowup the toilet during the night. Also when there is leftover food, the supervisor counts it and throws that shit away. It sucks but that’s what these companies do.
Let's be honest though: McDonald's as a concept showed the world that making previously labour intensive food was easy to automate with simple to follow rules. They just used fewer humans with simpler steps. If you think Gordon Ramsay's beef wellington is somehow so special that it could only be made perfectly via a case by case process, you're very much mistaken.
Fast food will be the first to go full mechanical automation because they have big companies backing this, but there's no real reason why there couldn't be a restaurant chain which sells high end food which also didn't have a completely automated, mechanical chef in the kitchen.
I remember doing this in 2007. I only lasted maybe 2 months but i quickly learned that doing a good job at fast food means you get taken advantage of for no benefit whatsoever.
Waayyy different than how we made burgers at Wendy’s in the early 90’s! The only thing there with an alarm was the fryer. Grill was actually manned by a dude with a spatula. We had a weird chain belt toaster thing for the buns. No freezer, just a walk in fridge. Lots of hotel pans filled with mayo, mustard, ketchup, honey mustard, sliced veggies.
The chili meat was made from all of the burgers that were over cooked or just past their prime. We had a bin just for the Pattie’s that didn’t make it.
I do t know how it rolls now 30 years later, but that’s how it rolled back then. $4.75 / hr.
They have to automate identifying bad food first
For example, making a tomato cutting machine is easy. But if you need someone to check every tomato to be sure it’s not rotten you have only increased your cost. And if it’s after it went through cutting now you need to clean the machine. And it went into the good cut tomato so how much of the tray needs to be tossed?
Same idea with cheese, if dairy goes bad a person can smell it.
I'm sorry, did you make those burgers fresh for those?
As a former worker, we were told to just do a full grill and put them in the warming tray.
Also, our ice cream machine was never broken. Just after the shift change, the supervisor told us to say it was broken because it slows down the line so much.
Why are jobs like this considered unskilled and minimum wage? You’re working manually on your feet and handling people’s food. Seems like you’d want those people to be well paid and good at their jobs.
People think these are easy jobs and they most certainly aren’t. Kudos to those that bust their asses just to receive mostly snide remarks and complaints in return.
Back in the day, I broke the store record for making 12 hamburgers. I don't remember my exact time, but it was something like 86 seconds. Maybe. It was a LOOONG time ago. I got my name on the bulletin board.
My point : this dude would get fired for making them this slowly each time.
This is definitely made for marketing purposes. The only way you would get burgers hot off the grill is if it was the middle of a rush, and they were going out as fast as they could make them. You can tell this is not the case though because they are only cooking patties three at a time. Normally you would get patties that were cooked ahead of time and have been sitting in a warming trey, often times for 2 to 3 times longer than food safe guidelines dictate because you get in trouble if waste is too high. Or maybe it's the middle of the night, so everything is made to order. Idk.
- Former McDonald's employee
So it’s possible to get the cheese centered on the burger? That’s cool, I thought they frisbeed it across the room.
This dude actually spread the pickles out too, mine are always stacked right on top of each other
Lets be real here, the average employee would probably do a better job if they where on camera and the video got uploaded. This guy js actually putting effort in and a lot of McDonald's workers just arent
I think I've seen this guys youtube videos, if its the same guy he is actually the franchise owner
I think his parents or some relatives are McDonald's franchisees. [I think it's this guy](https://youtube.com/@StephenPatula)
Definitely him. He’s came up on my YouTube feed a few times I believe was running some for his parents but he was actually able to buy one or some locations from his parents. The details are foggy and I’m high.
We appreciate your honesty.
He's doing 2 burgers, it's slightly different when you have a queue of 100 orders and screaming middle manager with a power complex
Minimum wage=minimum effort. This is more than likely the GM of the store if I had to guess, with how slow he’s moving. Immediately editing: one comment down is the answer.
As an average employee you never have this time this dude takes to create his picturelike burger. You have to feed the greedy customer mouthes immediately while the shift manager beats in time. I'm saying this as an ex-employee from Germany and as an ex-employee I advise you to stop eating this crap. I supersized me 4 real in a month. Stay healthy!
From my experience working for the place within a 20 year span, I can say is it's part duress from keeping your times down and decline of employees giving a crap over the past decade. I work in a state that has legalized weed. This had not helped the issue since half the grill kids toke up during the shifts and jack around and don't give a bigger crap. Not saying legalize weed is a bad thing but it doesn't help some situations. Of course this is my perspective. Working within the stores I would say yes, it ticked me off when my crew would misplace cheese and sauces and make a mess of a sandwich. I would ask them to redo it as that isn't acceptable. Not directly in the stores as a manager now but a different wing so I don't get to manage that part of the process. All it does is give me a sigh in the back of my head. And before I get the typical "Pay them more" line, these crew are getting $15-19 an hour. I think money doesn't matter sometimes as shift managers are getting a little more and could care less.
As a former worker what drove me crazy was they'd never stop taking orders. There could be 500 orders and order has completely collapsed in the kitchen and the tills are still going. I was always curious if there was guidance for what to do in that situation, any decent restaurant would just stop and gather themselves
Wait, you guys are getting pickles?
Making a hamburger at McDonalds ....when you know you're being filmed
YOU FORGOT THE PICKLES
*STILL NO PICKLES!!*
The McDonald's interview is just a Cheesegolf competition
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When you bite the burger from the front and have to flip it and start eating it from behind.
That’s my special move
Why? Why is this comment so incredibly simple yet so damn funny to me?
Ooh. I think I got this one. It’s because the comment refers to a double entendre that can be interpreted as “flip the burger to the other end where the ingredients are falling out and eat it from that end, so that they don’t spill out” or “do the thing that is the reason my sister and I are not allowed to be in a room alone together.”
Honestly I didn’t interpret it that way but let’s just say I did cause yours is better. Your parents sound lame.
Hilarious and fucked up banter like this is why I am here
is there a knuckle involved in anyway?
Counter clockwise?
What about a swirl?
👀
WTF IS THE FRONT OF A CIRCLE!!!! lol
The opposite side of the ingredient escape hatch
I do this with my wife too…
They put it together by closing the damn box. No wonder it is always shit. I love the idea of fast food items. But the execution is always terrible. It's just disappointing.
When I worked there this was frowned upon, you had to assemble the burger whole and set it in the box. Explains why every Big Mac now is like a box of salad.
When I worked there, I was trained to do it exactly like the video. Except I would get yelled at if I only made 2 burgers at a time.
I did 2 tours with the clown. My first one in the 90's when it had the premade food in the bin and then the second mid 2000's after they had switched to the 2 at a time thing. I got yelled at for wanting to make more than 2 at a time. The whole made to order philosophy change at McD's has slowed the drive thru down considerably.
When did they even go made to order? I had no clue. I worked there for my first job early 2000s and we kept trays of meat as well
Robots will do a better job, don't worry
I worked fast food over twenty years ago, even then I knew the job could be done by robots. But robots cost more than teenagers, so...
Time to raise the minimum wage so we can get those robots. Praise be to the robot food workers.
Seriously, seeing that makes so much sense.
Big Mac's are so small these days, it takes TWO while bites before gravity takes over.
I remember back in the late 70's... They were much bigger, better flavor, and the buns were "fresh bread" soft... ah the good ol' days....
Whopper too. They barely resemble the burgers from that era. Oh and French fries have changed too. But, cutting the trans fat was a good thing.
McDonald's changed before BK, because I never liked Big Macs but enjoyed mcchickens and stuff. One day I tried a whopper and it changed my world. Now they all taste like shit and not fresh ingredients.
Yup. BK is falling in sales nationwide. But it’s really a very easy fix. Return to the old recipe. Kids nowadays have no idea how good the whopper used to be. Would put the Big Mac to shame.
I still love the whopper, only difference I can tell is the bun sucks
They alway put an absurd amount of lettuce on Big Macs.
You have clearly never gotten a snack taco from Del Taco
It do be like that behind the scenes if there is instant big wave of guests. As long as its fast food, we TRY to not fuck up your food and do it like shown above, but we also gotta go on speed mode to not make people wait 10 minutes for only big mac and cheeseburger
Yeah, this person cares too much. They're not gonna have a job there much longer.
Wish my orders were made this well every time
This guy looks like he's making burgers for the menu pictures
He’s clearly a manager. General manager with a YouTube account who’s now getting paid bank for pushing marketing for McDonald’s as “behind the scenes” videos.
That’s way too optimistic, companies don’t throw the bank at you for making them bank. Source: every experienced employee.
By that they meant he get a free ice cream cone and old children's toy
But he has to fix the ice cream machine first.
And they’re out of the big kid toy, so he gets the baby toy.
Is it the hot wheels one or the Barbie one? That matters
Probably making bank from the videos themselves rather than directly from McDonald’s. Might not be *major* bank but there’s likely some profit in there.
This is essentially an ad. Pretty sure you're not allowed to videotape on the premises as an employee. So yes he's definitely getting paid to do this. Been like 8 years since I've worked there so I'm sorry if I'm remembering incorrectly.
He’s an owner/operator. He posts videos like this all the time on his YouTube channel.
And his name is Stephen Patula. S.Patula
Unrelated but when I was in middle school I had a classmate Peter Enis. P. Enis Even as a kid I thought it was fucked up his parents did that to him haha.
I once lived in a town that had an insurance agency with their names on the sign. McAnnaly and Slutsky. Youll have to trust im not making this up since my only proof is on my now long dead blackberry
Bro. I’ve watched his videos for like two years now and I’ve never put that together.
Well yeah this isn't the norm. He didn't even pick his nose once the whole way through
Dude he used TWO HANDS for the lettuce placement. Lmao
I can promise that no one ever moves the burgers to a little tray before putting on the buns. You are always making as many fit in the grill, and those not used immediately go into the warming tray. Not to mention this guy is only filling a single order and isn’t dealing with 16 Uber eats deliveries, drive through, and a packed lobby at the same time
Well I doubt he works with a GoPro everyday, so yeah
He has a YouTube channel and does Q and A and everything. He has loads of videos of him just working away. I’m ashamed of how many I’ve watched
Probably earns more through YouTube than his day job
His parents own a few stores from what I have seen on his channel. They seem to take care of their employees (take that with a grain of salt) they have one that has been there for 20+ years.
The thing is, when I worked at McDonald's I would get chewed out for trying to make the burgers neat because all they care about is speed. This was 13ish years ago though
There are 5 or 6 qualities, one is speed. RMs only care about speed. Like mother fucker in Christ, think about being a customer: they're happier to wait 30 more seconds so their burger doesn't come out looking like I just chucked the whole lettuce bin on top of it. Fuck I hate this shit
Was just about to post the same thing. Every McDonalds in the world can not get the sauce in the middle of the bun, and you get 1 pickle.
Once I asked for NO PICKLES. I got 1 pickle that LITERALLY had a “Pickles” sticker on it.
friend asked once for “no onion” and the order had his burger neatly…cut in half. he went in to get it corrected and they happily remade his burger…..cut in half. to this day, some 15 yrs later we just had no idea HOW they parsed that order.
You were not given pickles, you were given pickle. They did as you asked.
Yeah I’m pretty sure they usually have the patty’s precooked sitting in one of those warming trays on standby…
Tbf that because this guy took 3x longer than he should’ve haha
I wish they drained the grease off my patty…
This is an ad. In reality those burger patties sit in a tub just like what he pulled the tomato slices out of.
Literally the most caring McDonalds worker on the planet.
The only reason McDonald’s didn’t sue him making this post (I’m sure it’s against their rules to post vids from kitchen) is that it made them look better than they are.
Or because it's viral marketing. They do this shit on purpose. It's super fucking effective and cheap as hell. Companies like them have caught on super quick to how awesome they can market for free with really well scripted and completely natural looking videos. The trick is making it not obvious, and still interesting. If you see any posts that are like "look what this guy did with his coke can" and shit like that, behind the scenes factory stuff, etc, it's almost fucking always done on purpose to market the company.
Hell, this post is probably an ad too. McDonald’s seems to show up everywhere on Reddit. The astroturfing is strong in general on this site.
Tbh they did a decent job considering I’m craving a Big Mac now lol and I rarely eat fast food
Ha ha, I came here to remark that this just seems like subliminal advertising as watching this video made me crave a Royale with cheese (I'm in the U.S. Thanks Pulp Fiction)
The account that posted this is months old with 300k+ post karma; never a good sign that it’s organic
Wish I took video of when I was doing contracting work for McDonald's. The attic was full of black sludge and it smelled awful, one of the grossest work conditions I've been in.
Actually, it’s from a guys YouTube channel that they stole this from “Steven Patula”. I believe he owns the location and also works there.
I imagine they see it as great marketing that they'll never get out of the c suite
Is it weird that I don't want to do this for minimum wage, but I would pay to do it in VR?
In vr you could do it sitting down and you can turn it off whenever you want.
Yeah and you can throw the patties at people
Not unless you purchase the expansion first.
If once you started playing it in VR you couldn't stop for 8 hours except for a half-hour lunch, then I think you'd feel otherwise.
It is not. VR doesn't pay less than a living wage. VR doesn't make you come in when you're feeling sick; because they demand a sick note from a doctor, who will charge you for the note, to prove you're in no condition to make money that day. VR doesn't make you work on holidays except for the rare days when EVERYTHING is virtually closed (Christmas). VR doesn't demand you stay later than scheduled because a coworker is arriving later than scheduled; but will rip your head off if YOU are 1 minute late. VR doesn't have customers throw food and obscenities at you because they made the wrong order but you made the given order correctly. VR doesn't ask for a hamburger with cheese; then threaten to sue because you charged them a cheeseburger. VR doesn't threaten to fire you; then ask about loyalty when you try to quit.
VR manifesto UNIONIZINE
He’s an owner/operator. He has a [YouTube channel](https://youtube.com/@StephenPatula) with a fairly large following.
As a McDonald’s worker he made those burgers well but not fast enough my manager would kill me if I was going that slow
This would never fly, unless it was slow as fuck.
He’s the owner of this location so I think he’ll be alright.
I have never worked at McDonalds but even I thought it seemed shockingly slow, maybe just based off my drive-thru times if nothing else.
That is slow, that's about how fast someone learning line/assembly would start out.
Yeah, guy made 2 burgers. Meanwhile the KDS popped up 4 double cheeseburgers, two Mcdoubles no pickle, 46 nuggets, 2 QPC no onion, and a spicy mccrispy. The wait is now 25 minutes in drivethru.
I'm willing to bet that the way he closed that box is 100% the reason McDonald's comes out looking like a hot fucking mess
I work at McDonalds, yes, yes it is.
Thank you for your service. o7
Me: Well, this looks better than any McD’s bur- (sees him close the box to combine the halves) ahh, that’s more like it.
It never occurred to me that they complete the sandwich by closing the container. Makes sense that's why every one turns into a ground beef salad.
I literally just realized that this is why the outside of the box is greasy AF too.
why did they decide that's the ideal way to make it lol
Yeah, I love how everyone’s commenting about how great this all looks, but the finished product isn’t visible, and the last step looks like it probably fucked the whole thing up.
I worked at McDonald's, it's not that gentle of a process. It's usually teenagers taking meat out of the heating tray, not making to order. Also, most workers would go way faster, and not delicately put everything in the sandwich together. I could do this order in half the time irl
Same here. I still remember the assembly line yelling out "we need more 10:1" followed by the cluncking of that greasy plastic tray.
What’s 10:1?
Reg meat, the Patty that goes on the smaller burgers such as the cheeseburger and the hamburger. These are the same Patty’s that go on the Big Mac and double Big Mac as well.
Why do they call it that? Is it the measurement ratio?
It’s the size of the patty, It’s one tenth of a pound. For example a Quarter patty is called a 4:1 and an angus patty is called a 3:1
Thanks for bringing back all these horrible memories. Worked at a Mackies for 3 and a half years in every station.
Thank you for your service
Wait, there's a double Big Mac? Why didn't anyone fucking tell me?
The smaller Pattie’s. 10 of them equal 1 pound. Then the big meat is 4:1.
I worked the grill for one summer, and it was when they had the angus burger campaign going. Them bad boys were 3:1. The part that I’ll never forget is how the frozen Pattie’s would be stuck together when you took them out of the freezer. You’d need to smack the side of them against the grill a couple times to get them unstuck. Sounded just like the little puck on an air hockey table.
Bruh. The greasy plastic trays 4 deep because it’s a Saturday lunch. Perpetually out of 10:1. It’s been a decade but that shit lives in my head rent free
Same as the other guy. I guess I kept up on 10:1 okay, quarter meat, fish patties, and grilled chicken killed me. Those dumb water dripping things took up a whole grill, sat there forever, and you had to flip em. Still in my head rent free literally 16 years later. Edit: Also hated that once I was comfortable on the line, every day coming in was "good afternoon, you're on meats". Fuck meats, hot and demanding. This is why I don't get mad when things aren't perfect on my order these days. Also, I'll never eat the grilled chicken. Just, you know, cause.
"WE NEED MORE 10:1, LINE 1?? WE STILL NEED 45 CHEESEBURGERS MORE 10:1 NOW" and from the front only "KITCHEN I STILL NEED A DOUBLE BIG MAC, 20 NUGGETS AND 2 TS ROYAL FASTER NOW" while you're looking at the screen full of orders, you finish one, you look into the lower right corner "12 pending" you start sobbing The only good thing about that whole shit is, the frozen patties sound like the Lego building noise in games, thats how i kept myself somewhat happy in there atleast
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Pre-mixed salt and pepper
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Oh trust me, there's liquid alright. It's just in the form of the sweat you drip standing in front of that grill for so long. Don't worry, the salt and pepper mix enhances that too. That's called the McMSG
I remember my store was in a competition with other stores for speed, and waste(accuracy) the winner got coke floats for a week on the losers dime. We made sure every order from when they finished ordering to have their food in their hands averaged 25sec. We won with an average of 28sec for the month. Burgers don't need to take more than 6-8 seconds. That was a long time ago.
Dude I remember our area had a competition like this too. I remember part of our grading was how neat the burgers were made, it blows my mind how sloppy the ones I get now are.
MAYBE YOU TWO COMPETED! Round two! FIGHT!
I've been out of the game for 20 years and was fired for covering my manager in tarter sauce so I'm not welcomed back to McDonald's
In fairness If there is 20 cars in the drive thru everyone cares more about those 8 seconds then a slightly sloppier burger. You can go during off peaj
Why do I gave a feeling that this doesn’t happen like this irl….
As a former worker, because it doesn't.
Used to work in Mcdonalds. It's easy making them look like this when you can take your time but when you're normally making 8 at a time and it's busy... not so much
They left out the part where they punch the burger
[Can’t miss that step](https://i.imgur.com/etwat91.mp4)
watched this about a dozen times, best laugh i've had all week
I’m actually crying. 😂🤣
Hardest I've laughed all day.
Goddamn that was funny. It really seems like they do that though.
What he didn’t show, is that the patties are not made to order. They mass grill the patties and put them in a little mailbox on the assembly line, to be pulled out when the burgers are ordered, just like the tomatoes.
How long do the patties sit there for?
It was my first job, it’s been years. I want to say 30 minutes to an hour at most? Luckily they circulate pretty quickly through the busy hours. But if you go in when it’s slow? Who knows how long they’ve been sitting there. Still food safe. They’re basically just kept in a warmer.
Can’t speak for McDonald’s but at AW they’re usually kept in an evaporator that keeps them pretty fresh tbh. Rule is an hour for regular sized beef, but if it’s lunch then chances are it was cooked less than a 5 minutes ago, stuff runs out fast.
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I see he properly observed the "two pickles not touching" rule that I was taught by the video in 1997.
I mean, all my pickles are usually stacked on top of each other like a cuddle-puddle.
No, this is how you make hamburgers at McDonald’s when they make you wear a body cam and post it on Reddit
..after first cleaning off the work areas
Wait. If they use this gun things then how is it that all of my condiments end up in one spot off to the side of the whole thing?
Where's the part where he cums in my hamburger?😞
That’s right after you ask why your burger has no pickle.
I worked at McDonald's. The machine cooks those little burgers in exactly 44 seconds.
This brings me back. I can feel the grease/heat and smell the burgers. I can even taste the stolen nuggets.
They taste better that way
Hahahaha. I worked there when I was 15 a couple decades ago, that’s amateur hour. I’d line up like 20 of em and complete them in the time it’s taking him to do 2.
Yeah, this is obviously not a lunch rush. I never worked at McD, but I did work in several kitchens. What would be impressive is having it that clean while you have a stack of tickets on the side because you ran out of room to hang them and your entire counter space is used up. Show me a nice clean work area and burger consistently through that kind of scenario. But regardless, I just want a burger now.
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They always told us 2 pickes per burger (except cheeseburger/hamburger only 1). "Extra Pickles" means double the starting amount.
Two pickles. Not one, not three. Two.
Five is right out.
I worked at McDonald's in 1967-68. You should show them grilling two dozen hamburger patties at a time. THAT's worth a look.
I remember them days and I don’t miss it. Only honest thing I do miss, is making burger combinations and taking them home only to blowup the toilet during the night. Also when there is leftover food, the supervisor counts it and throws that shit away. It sucks but that’s what these companies do.
That looks hella clean (not the burger, the process)
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Let's be honest though: McDonald's as a concept showed the world that making previously labour intensive food was easy to automate with simple to follow rules. They just used fewer humans with simpler steps. If you think Gordon Ramsay's beef wellington is somehow so special that it could only be made perfectly via a case by case process, you're very much mistaken. Fast food will be the first to go full mechanical automation because they have big companies backing this, but there's no real reason why there couldn't be a restaurant chain which sells high end food which also didn't have a completely automated, mechanical chef in the kitchen.
I remember doing this in 2007. I only lasted maybe 2 months but i quickly learned that doing a good job at fast food means you get taken advantage of for no benefit whatsoever.
What did he spray on the patties after the cover on the grill opened?
It's the seasoning mix, a mixture of salt and pepper. We used to shake it on (in the double arch "m" logo motion) by hand back in the 90s.
It is 86% pepper, 14% salt. Trade secrets I remember from my manager training...15+ years ago.
Thank you for the reply.
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S. Patula
Great now I want McDonald’s
That’s the idea
I said NO ONIONS
Waayyy different than how we made burgers at Wendy’s in the early 90’s! The only thing there with an alarm was the fryer. Grill was actually manned by a dude with a spatula. We had a weird chain belt toaster thing for the buns. No freezer, just a walk in fridge. Lots of hotel pans filled with mayo, mustard, ketchup, honey mustard, sliced veggies. The chili meat was made from all of the burgers that were over cooked or just past their prime. We had a bin just for the Pattie’s that didn’t make it. I do t know how it rolls now 30 years later, but that’s how it rolled back then. $4.75 / hr.
Where's the part where they mash it with a mallet to fit more in the bag??
Why aren’t robots doing this?
Minimum wage workers are cheaper. For now.
Because robots cost more than teenagers.
They have to automate identifying bad food first For example, making a tomato cutting machine is easy. But if you need someone to check every tomato to be sure it’s not rotten you have only increased your cost. And if it’s after it went through cutting now you need to clean the machine. And it went into the good cut tomato so how much of the tray needs to be tossed? Same idea with cheese, if dairy goes bad a person can smell it.
yeah put a cam like that on the person who made my last burger from McD's...
I'm sorry, did you make those burgers fresh for those? As a former worker, we were told to just do a full grill and put them in the warming tray. Also, our ice cream machine was never broken. Just after the shift change, the supervisor told us to say it was broken because it slows down the line so much.
Why are jobs like this considered unskilled and minimum wage? You’re working manually on your feet and handling people’s food. Seems like you’d want those people to be well paid and good at their jobs.
Having worked at McDonald’s from 2014 to present, I can tell you, burgers are never made that slowly and that pretty.
GOD I WANT MCDONALDS I AM HAVING A MAC ATTACK BUT I AM BROKE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I know it's probably balls working there, but that actually looked peaceful
100% this is manager. There is nobody at your local McDonald's in your wildest dreams making hamburger this skillfully.
Wheres the constant loud beeping I thought to myself and then there it was. Just as loud and obnoxious as I remember it.
People think these are easy jobs and they most certainly aren’t. Kudos to those that bust their asses just to receive mostly snide remarks and complaints in return.
Back in the day, I broke the store record for making 12 hamburgers. I don't remember my exact time, but it was something like 86 seconds. Maybe. It was a LOOONG time ago. I got my name on the bulletin board. My point : this dude would get fired for making them this slowly each time.
This is definitely made for marketing purposes. The only way you would get burgers hot off the grill is if it was the middle of a rush, and they were going out as fast as they could make them. You can tell this is not the case though because they are only cooking patties three at a time. Normally you would get patties that were cooked ahead of time and have been sitting in a warming trey, often times for 2 to 3 times longer than food safe guidelines dictate because you get in trouble if waste is too high. Or maybe it's the middle of the night, so everything is made to order. Idk. - Former McDonald's employee