Maybe MD's needs to get Don 'Big Mac' Gorske out more for promotional purposes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGLOF7j1zQ
I've heard of this guy. This surprised me though:
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McDonalds Changing How Its Burgers Are Cooked
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I've heard of this guy. This surprised me though:
EatinOlives
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The kitchens in most McDs are open and you can see in them to watch someone cooking the patties. I don't know where the idea that they microwaved them spread.
For what it's worth, there's places like Panera that DO microwave their food, so I guess the rumor spreads simply because there's precedent.
Schmidt is the man! You need to watch New Girl!
EatinOlives
Member
They already do this.
Toasted hamburger buns
Don't do this, Mickey D's.
Don't they "grill" them? Whatever they do now. I like em for a normal cheap cheeseburger.
Random Painted HIghway
Member
just saw the schmidt commercial and did a major double take. hope he is getting a healthy paycheck for that. bummed that he didn't use his fatsuit from new girl for the spot.
The irony is that there's a video around the internet somewhere of him talking about doing a triathlon, and having to stop eating fast food because it was making him fat.
Not me anymore! I still have to wait til people get over trying the new Chick Fil A though. THe lines create traffic all the way to the highway right now. Probably will take a few months (it took a year for people to get over Krispy Kreme and stop having 2 hour lines there, I hope Chick Fil A isn't that bad).
Which has me grumbling that I could have told Chick Fil A they'd do well here if they got some franchises here (took them too damned long).
KernelPanic
Member
I'm not sure what they can do.
I've had Mcdonalds Pizza.
McDonald's Subs
McDonald's lobster roll
McRib
Etc
Now mcTacos????
I think McDonald's is actually growing in Canada whereas they're in deep shit in the U.S.
We're gotten chipotle, Five Guys,Panera etc. I imagine they will struggle more as competition ramps up.
I've had Mcdonalds Pizza.
McDonald's Subs
McDonald's lobster roll
McRib
Etc
Now mcTacos????
I think McDonald's is actually growing in Canada whereas they're in deep shit in the U.S.
We're gotten chipotle, Five Guys,Panera etc. I imagine they will struggle more as competition ramps up.
It does depend on what you put in it. However, the tortilla + steak + white rice is already ~1400mg of sodium. I guess it depends what you mean by 'all the fixings', but you are almost assuredly over 2000mg, close to the recommended daily intake. You can check on their website, but you can easily make a steak burrito with over 3000mg.
Steak 'n Shake should have had toasted. If not they didn't do it correctly. That's from my summer of having worked at one as a teen. Worst job ever by the way.
Red Liquorice
Member
They could sprinkle it will unicorn bone dust and cook it by having Jesus fart on it - McD's would still taste like a greasy turd.
well yeah I mean you put bones in a burger and have some desert hippie fart on it it's gonna taste like shit
Pyroclastic
Banned
what kind of crazed man goes to burger king and gets nuggets
vagabondarts
Member
Having lived in Los Angeles and now living in Atlanta, I propose an In-n-Out and Chik-Fil-A merge so everyone can have the best of both worlds from coast to coast.
I miss the burgers from that joint and it would be huge here.
Operations
Member
Their burger business is worthless in this day and age. The McD real estate footprint is where the value resides; time to sell the business to a financial sponsor/private equtiy firm and let them maximize its value by tearing it apart.
pharmx
Member
No longer live in Georgia, but this sounds dangerous. I would be so broke and unhealthy, lol.
vagabondarts
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I don't even hate McDonald's, but either the prices need to go down or the food needs to get a bit better. There are just so many good options now for burgers.
I do think a much simpler menu would work. Single, Double, Triple hamburgers/cheeseburgers; Big Mac; chicken nuggets/sandwich; and shakes.
I do think a much simpler menu would work. Single, Double, Triple hamburgers/cheeseburgers; Big Mac; chicken nuggets/sandwich; and shakes.
rokkerkory
Member
Gross still.
Only fast food for me is chipotle
Only fast food for me is chipotle
GameGuru59
Banned
Wait... Really? Mc Donalds hamburgers are so shit I'd swear they were previously frozen. They're cooked there and they still taste like that?! Wendy's is destroying Mc Donalds burgers right now! And these fucks wonder why their sales are so low.
I would die lol.
uncredited male
Member
I worked there when they launched this and everyone would be given coupons with their order to get the sandwich for a dollar. As soon as the promotion stopped we sold about 1 an hour.
Thousand Island + Mayonnaise more or less.
IIRC, I read something about how the McRib only gets rolled out when the price of certain meat products are below a certain level. I guess it has a very slim profit margin.
I also remember a customer calling our manager over and chewing him out for 10 minutes becuase they didn't have the McRib anymore.
oneils
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Did you even read the story you linked to?
fudgey_lumpkins
Member
Burger King microwaves their burgers. McDonald's keeps their meat warm in their storage tray thing.
way more
Member
Really? They could save a lot of money by not installing broilers in all their restaurants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OslJnVhZXzU
I wonder why they would put those in every franchise when they don't need them. GAF cooking understanding comes through again.
DOWN
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People saying photographing your sandwich with the ingredients showing is false advertising? Lol
Just because your Big Mac doesn't look as good as the pic, doesn't mean it couldn't. Not false advertising at all.
And they cook the meat in store. Microwaved burgers is ridiculous.
Beautiful:
Just because your Big Mac doesn't look as good as the pic, doesn't mean it couldn't. Not false advertising at all.
And they cook the meat in store. Microwaved burgers is ridiculous.
Beautiful:
We can assume the people that make "Advertisements that don't look like reality" are gonna be as manipulative as the advertisements themselves.'
Here are some instagram pics of what actual people are getting.
I'm not getting instant diarrhea looking at those. Maybe the internet exaggerated a little?
fudgey_lumpkins
Member
That's exactly why Burger King's food is so dry. The bottom half of the bun is topped with a cold burger and placed in the microwave while all the condiments are placed on the top half then they put the two halves together and wrap it up.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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That explains why bk is terrible.
I tried it once. The mushroom one was pretty good. Like....REALLY good. I was a little surprised.
BlitzerRadic
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Daniel B·;165558152 said:
Dude youre trippin. IF they wanted to make it look like the advertisement they could, its all the same exact ingredients. But no one wants to go to mcdonalds and wait 10 min for a pretty quarter pounder.
And mcdonalds "false advertising" is nothing compared to ads for apparel worn by models. Stuff you buy off the rack will not look like what the models are wearing because they pin the hell out of everything.
Toasted hamburger buns
Don't do this, Mickey D's.
But Don...
It was your idea!
When I worked at McDonald's years ago, the franchise location that employed me did have one or two microwaves in the back. They were used to warm up the burger before it was sent out. The microwaves were eventually removed and stricter quality control was enforced.
McDonald's meat is raw and frozen, and is stored in a refrigerated cooler near the grill. The grill has already been shown in this thread, but I wanted to add that it does also use a lot of pressure to squish the burgers, decreasing cooking time and keeping the burgers from becoming misshapen. After grilling the burgers, I was required to sprinkle seasoning on them. Those burgers, as well as all of McDonald's meats, were placed in a lined tray that was inserted into a custom warming slot. Each slot had a timer above it to track cook times, and when the timer went off, we were to throw the meat away. We rarely did. Additionally, there was a warming bay for prepared burgers available for the workers up front to access, and no burgers were supposed to sit in there for longer than 10 minutes. People noticed when we left them for too long (the burgers would dry out) so it was usually enforced.
Buns were toasted through a top-loading belt-fed toasting oven. The heating plates inside the oven were anti-stick coated, but the coating would burn off or get so covered in bun remnants that the buns would often exit a shredded, burned mess. Cleaning that was a chore and tended to be the thing that slowed down our orders. Maintenance of that oven tended to be a nuisance and dangerous, requiring us to either accept minor burns to swap out the anti-stick sheets quickly, or wait for it to cool before making the swap.
McDonald's also had contests across all its stores to seek out the best employees in every department, offering prizes and promotions to the winners. The winners would eventually be able to work for a bit in their main location--or maybe it was the test kitchen; I don't remember.
McDonald's food is often unhealthy, but there is a surprising amount of optimization and testing involved before the burger ever makes it to the franchise locations. It was a little unnerving to me at times, because I felt like I was working on a science experiment rather than a recipe.
McDonald's meat is raw and frozen, and is stored in a refrigerated cooler near the grill. The grill has already been shown in this thread, but I wanted to add that it does also use a lot of pressure to squish the burgers, decreasing cooking time and keeping the burgers from becoming misshapen. After grilling the burgers, I was required to sprinkle seasoning on them. Those burgers, as well as all of McDonald's meats, were placed in a lined tray that was inserted into a custom warming slot. Each slot had a timer above it to track cook times, and when the timer went off, we were to throw the meat away. We rarely did. Additionally, there was a warming bay for prepared burgers available for the workers up front to access, and no burgers were supposed to sit in there for longer than 10 minutes. People noticed when we left them for too long (the burgers would dry out) so it was usually enforced.
Buns were toasted through a top-loading belt-fed toasting oven. The heating plates inside the oven were anti-stick coated, but the coating would burn off or get so covered in bun remnants that the buns would often exit a shredded, burned mess. Cleaning that was a chore and tended to be the thing that slowed down our orders. Maintenance of that oven tended to be a nuisance and dangerous, requiring us to either accept minor burns to swap out the anti-stick sheets quickly, or wait for it to cool before making the swap.
McDonald's also had contests across all its stores to seek out the best employees in every department, offering prizes and promotions to the winners. The winners would eventually be able to work for a bit in their main location--or maybe it was the test kitchen; I don't remember.
McDonald's food is often unhealthy, but there is a surprising amount of optimization and testing involved before the burger ever makes it to the franchise locations. It was a little unnerving to me at times, because I felt like I was working on a science experiment rather than a recipe.
DoktorEvil
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It's hard to have the people behind the grill or even at the register care about their jobs when the most common way to slight someone is to say "ended up working at a McDonalds".
It's the places with solid management teams that can have consistently good Mickey D's and they aren't the places that are heavily optimized for speed.
LyleLanley
Banned
Serve breakfast all day and never serve the McRib again because it's fucking garbage.
SapientWolf
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They don't cook the meat in those ad burgers.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
I'll agree with this, I tried the McRib once because of all the hype about it being back a couple years ago, it was fucking disgusting. It's just a Banquet TV dinner "pork" rib shaped patty on a bun.
30yearsofhurt
Member
I was going to do a lamb roast tonight but I want a big mac now.
LyleLanley
Banned
Everything about it is bad. The meat's bad, the sauce is bad and worst of all it's not a Sausage McMuffin.
LumpOfCole
Member
Yeah it's my favorite fast food place. I have no clue why they didn't toast the bun that time but it ruined my experience at that location.
ultrazilla
Member
Gotta agree here. Can you imagine a Big Mac with nice sized ground beef patties and not paper thin cup coasters?
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