Fast Food Workers, What should we NEVER Order? - Reddit Podcast

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[wildduckification]

There is no better encouragement to just go home and cook for yourself or do a packed lunch than hearing these stories.

[Josmusicandcovers]

When I worked at my old job... The salads. There were rotten pieces of lettuce, expired ingredients, butts of the lettuce which were never cleaned properly. I did prep on weekends and made sure everything was up to standard. No one else would.

[draculastraphouse]

Let's be honest here, if you eat out, you have to 100% accept you're inevitably going to end up eating some nasty crap and you won't even be aware of it. Someone could've dropped your burger and you wouldn't know as you sit there enjoying every bite

[QueArres]

I've worked a couple of food service locations (namely a movie theater and a convenience store). Avoid fountain drinks if you can. Those nozzles and hoses get absolutely disgusting, and not every place cleans them. The theater I worked was really meticulous about it, but I had to teach the manager at the convenience store how to disassemble the nozzles on their machine so it could be clean. The amount of black gunky buildup we found still haunts me.

[lauralarrabee]

Diabetes in a cup is the best way to explain Starbucks.

[peccatumDei]

That arena serving "reruns" needs to be reported to the county health authority.

[cmndrkool]

Never come into the lobby five minutes before closing and sit there with your friends on your phones. If you did that to me back when I worked in fast food, you would get your food in to go bags. It’s disrespectful because there are people who can’t leave until the lobby is 100% clean.

[jamesszalla]

I worked at Wendy’s about thirty years ago. They were maniacal about freshness and product quality back then. We most certainly didn’t go by “they’re not old until they’re sold” back then.

[starrystarrynight]

I worked concessions at Cinemark before the pandemic. It wasn't my favorite place to work but I will have to say it was very, very clean. We painstakingly pulled apart all the pop machines and Starbucks stuff that were used that day and everything was washed and sanitized. The nozzles even pulled off, washed and sanitized, every night. The popcorn used that day was always thrown out.There was a cleaning crew that come in after the theater closed and clean the poppers. The hot dogs and pizza were thrown out after sitting for 2-3 hours, that's why sometimes the hot dogs aren't ready, they need to be cooked. Nacho sauce was "rotated" so it wasn't sitting long. The hot dogs warmers were cleaned and sanitized every night. The popcorn shovels were washed and sanitized every night, as well anything used for ice cream. If we dropped something it has to be immediately replaced with a clean object or washed and sanitized. I never work at a Cinemark with a bar but I'm sure that is kept to the same standards.

[LebasiH]

I knew they were gonna mention the McDonald's fresh fries hack!
Yeah my boyfriend who used to work at McDonald's for almost 5 years says they all hated it when customers asked for no salt on their fries and then asked for salt on the side.
He just says to ask for fresh fries if you want them, but be nice about it
I, however, just hate salt with a passion, so I get both my burgers and fries there without salt. And I am very happy to wait the extra time.

[joscelynvos]

The overall take away I get from this is. If you can, plan meals ahead at home. You'll probably add several years to your life, and save a ton of money. 😬

[Zacian.]

For ANY Pizza restaurant
If you are choosing an item from the menu, dont buy it as is. Add something like "I would like that with extra cheese" or "Can you add some extra mushrooms"
In these cases, attention to preparing the pizza is more than twice than that of a 'normal' pizza
Bonus, it tastes better too

[dragoness]

Former fast food worker here, McDonald's is typically safe especially if the manager is engaged with things, but if you go to (a smaller) Pizza Hut, be wary of the large pan pizzas. Let's just say that not enough space airing out pans and some workers being impatient or not caring has made me suspicious of pan pizzas even if I were the one scrubbing them. It was typically easier to air out the personal pans and breadstick pans because those two can be stacked to give enough airflow, but most of the pan pizzas we made weren't personal pan size.

Also the people who say that not wearing gloves but washing more often is cleaner are on the money. Only wear gloves if you have to handle ready-to-serve food without tools, if you have something bleeding or suspicious (like a rash) on your hand, or you would otherwise be in trouble with customers or (less likely but still happens, especially if the former happens) management. Gloves are a breeding ground for food (crucially, potential allergens) to build up and sweat to build up inside. It's quicker and cleaner to wash hands for 30 seconds and get back to it than it is to spend an extra 45-70 seconds throwing away gloves and getting a new pair with a wash between those steps.

[erikstephens]

If you order food from Marco's Pizza, don't get anything with salami. That stuff was used so rarely that it would often spoil, and we'd forget to switch it out. Many of my coworkers didn't even check if it went bad before putting it on the food (workplace morale was dangerously low). So unless they've changed their menu and use salami as an ingredient more often than in 2017, stay away from the salami.

[crystalreidinger]

9:40 drive thrus are almost always quicker than going in since they're timed they just ignore the people inside. I've waited well over 10 minutes for basic orders inside when I've seen countless cars go bye.

[foxtrotdeltausn]

You are the genius, you sit and read subreddits while playing random game play and subtitles. That's awesome!

[MrAwesomedude]

I think the Japanese fast food one with the Volcano roll was Sarku. There was one at Ft Campbell back when I was in the Army, and the person described it pretty well: casual Japanese fast food, kinda like the Panda Express of Japanese food, but still fairly more accurate to Japanese cuisine than Panda Express is to Chinese). I liked their shrimp and chicken teriyaki (both meats, grilled in front of you while you watch behind plexiglass). The polynesian manager there knew me because my ex wife and I would go there fairly frequently. So he'd always ask something like, "Extra teriyaki as usual, bro?" to which I'd say hell yeah, and he'd squirt extra teriyaki on the meat while it was cooking and mix it with the rice. They're not the same quality you'd get from an actual sit down Chinese restaurant, but they're damn good if you're in a rush and just want a quick bite.

[vickys]

“They’re not old until they’re sold”…..this is applied everywhere you have to spend money lol. Goodness gracious 😔😔

[eric]

For the egg whites at IHOP, when the waitress came back and said they were "looking" for egg whites, she should have immediately said, "No, please use fresh eggs, seperate the egg whites from the yolks and use those."

[alfiesmullet]

When i worked at wendys like 20 years ago, the beef for the chilli was the pattys that would be on the grill too long to serve in a burger, put in a drawer till the end of the day.. then at the end of the day they had us rinse them with water, out them in a bag in the fridge overnight and the next morning, rinsed again before being chopped up and put into the chili pot