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I have never and will never especially after learning they wouldn't serve or send our troops free coffee after other fast food places offered to help them. This was back in the early 2000s.
I am thinking that the people who get these items on the regular won't be seeing this anyway. I do get some of these but not everyday. Probably doesn't hurt anything. But for those that eat at restaurants every meal. It is sad to see children in the shape they are in. Where did our diets get so bad.
I worked at Wendy's. We always threw out the burgers that didn't get ordered in time. We made our chili with burger patties yes, but they weren't old or unwanted. They were just fresh burger patties that we cooked, and then chopped up to put in the chili.
We used broken patties and patties that had been on the grill too long to serve in a sandwich. Perfectly fine meat, just not acceptable as a 'fresh' sandwich anymore. These were then boiled to remove excess fat and chopped into chili meat for batches. The better trained your crew, the less broken/older patties you get. And yes, we always had to add fresh cooked patties to make the 10 pound batches because we trained well. Haven't managed Wendy's in 30+ years but still like their chili occasionally.
So I'm supposed to be scandalized that Wendy's reuses leftovers? Like every public school, corporate kitchen, other restaurant, and most people's homes? That's called "life on a budget," sweetheart....
I used to work there in the '80's. We did this and I find nothing wrong with it at all. The patties were not old. They also used the chicken for the chicken a-la-king for a potatoe topping. Also, back then there was no freezers. The pile of potatoes where freshly cut in a potatoe slicer! Miss those fresh days!
I also worked there. The burger patties can only be on the grill for a set time. When they teach that limit and there are no orders they put them in a plastic bin by the grill. When it's full they cover it and put it in the walk-in. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it and obviously, the chili tastes nice.
Everyone -- and their dog -- knows that Wendy's chilis is recycled unused beef patties. Seriously. You should be applauding them for not going the stuff to waste instead of criticizing them for it.
I will never stop eat filet o fish. Its always my way to go whenever I get McDonald’s for breakfast. It’s cheap, tasty and generally the best choice for me talking about McDonald’s breakfast menu.
I was an Asst. Manager at Arby's for a short time. The roast beef doesn't have a gray gelatinous film on it. It comes prepackaged and you open it up and pop it into the oven. It's red like any other beef product. There's nothing wrong with it.
@@harperstacey9604 So I worked for 2 weeks after training. I live in a very small southern town now that doesn't offer a lot in employment. I took the job because of that. During this time I was offered a job as General Manger of a Holiday Inn Express from a former employer. I much preferred working in the hospitality industry than fast food. I was better at it too. I was also older and it was easier to work with my mind than to work in a fast pace setting.
@@belle9438 Belle, I am glad that you found a better job. From the comments that I had read, it didn't seem like it was fun to work in a fast food joint. Thank you for answering my questions and God bless 🙏 you. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Every time I’ve talked myself into buying fast food, I think that “this time will be different” and I’ve always been wrong. Now I happily go hungry and wait till I get home.
Filet o fish is the last item on the menu that is almost exactly what it was when it was first introduced. Its expensive but its always predictably good.
I love the Filet O Fish. I really miss the Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Other places have them but it's just the sauce not the chicken patty that's Spicy. I wish they would bring it back.
I love it too. And you may have to wait a few more minutes for it to be cooked( they don’t sell like burgers do or as fast ) so are usually cooked as ordered. And, they are expensive to throw out if kept warm under lights waiting to be sold and fish is not something you play with as far as food poisoning goes, especially tartar sauce under hot lights.
Boy, oh boy, you hot that straight. Best, most delicious sandwich in the world. And, I mean that literally. I eat them in Taiwan, and I turn people onto them. They are a hidden gem, nobody knows about. I used to work at McDonald’s when I lied my age at 15. I was a young grill man. Best job I ever had. Loved every minute of working for that grand organization. Taught me teamwork. But, I digress. The little secret which makes the filet o fish so spectacular besides the tender crispy perfectly timed fish and the savory tartar sauce and the cheese, is the fact that the bun is not toasted- it is steamed. No other bun on the menu is steamed. Only the fish filet. Brilliant, Watson, Brilliant!!!
oh so you know about the doubles the frozen in the store is good jsut thaw out and make in oil ao bake fied yes the double one roll same price basically
@@scubatrucker6806 ok im refering to if you fry orbake at home since we dont have deep fryers n most cases you can get these fish pieces like gortons or mrs pauls and its as good as mcds for cheap
I was a manager for an Arby's franchise in Charlotte NC. The beef comes in preformed blocks, similar to chopped ham. It is baked in a convection oven and sliced to spec on a slicer as each sandwich is ordered.
I will never, under any circumstances, stop eating Bloomin' Onions. I don't care how unhealthy they are, they taste DIVINE. Life is short. If you can't treat yourself with something that delicious on special occasions, then you are not truly enjoying life.
I'll never eat Wendy's chilli after I heard about someone taking a dump in it in Michigan that's sick you don't know what your eating at these restaurants
If we were to cut out all the food that people say we shouldn't eat then there wouldn't be an obesity problem but a problem with people starving to death
No, we would just be so bored that it would feel like we were living longer. If "nutritionists" had their way, we wouldn't eat anything but kale. Yuck.
@Harper Stacy,it’s just a big sliced and coated fried onion,sort of like onion petals or onion straws,if you’ve ever heard or seen those. Blooming Onion is served at a restaurant called Outback Steakhouse.
Past Panera Bread Baker here! The claims on here about Panera’s pastries being “warmed” rather than baked fresh daily are false! Most of pastries are prepared, flash frozen before being baked and boxed at a central commissary then shipped to each Panera Store, based on that store’s needs. The cases are stored in a walk-in freezer where each night , near the end of their shift, the bakers pull the number of each to be baked the following night for the day after that. They tray them up, place them on racks, cover the racks with a large plastic bag then roll the racks into a walk-in cooker to thaw for the next night’s bake. Cookie dough is portioned, frozen, boxed then shipped to the stores the same way as the pastries. Muffin batter is prepared, packed in buckets which are frozen and shipped to the stores. Once a bucket of batter has been opened, the rest is sealed and stored in a walk-in cooler. Bread dough is prepared, portioned, frozen, boxed and shipped to stores the same way. This is how Panera Bread can assure that all baked product is consistent from one store to another. Every night, bakers pull racks of pastries, cookies, muffins and bread dough from the walk-in coolers. Each pastry has specific ‘preparations’, done by the bakers (think-scoring bear claws and fanning them out) before they are baked, cooled and finished (think-drizzling icing over cinnamon rolls). Panera bakers in Western PA work 10 hour shifts overnight so all baked product is fresh for the following day! Pastry items are so popular that they often sell out by lunchtime. Day-shift managers will often have to pull additional product from the freezer, thaw them, bake them and finish them if a product sells out. All left over product is bagged when the stores close and donated to local charity. I can tell you with certainty that all of the bakers that I knew took pride in their work, scrutinizing every step along the way. Additionally, bakers never knew when a quality control check would be performed on them by regional master baker managers.
I was also a night baker at Panera and did take a lot of pride in every one of my bakes (although many managers did not ) . Everything you said is true, but I am worried that recently things may have changed. I'd like to hear directly from more recent employees. I'm sad to see many of the old pastries have gone. What happened to the pecan rolls? And what's with those gross cinnamon rolls?
@@nuaru100 Hi! It’s so nice to hear from another “prideful baker”! Yes, our hard work definitely went unnoticed many, many times! Seemed the more we did to ‘prove’ our worth, the more work & responsibilities fell on our tired shoulders-nightly, right? Sadly I departed Panera & left behind all of my ‘talents’ in 2006. Early in my shift one night, as I bent over in the walk-in cooler to retrieve a box of fresh fruit I’d be using for pastries, I felt (& heard!) a sudden painful ‘pop’ in my low back! Within minutes, both of my legs started to go numb! I tried to ignore the pain & just walk (or work!) it off, to no avail. Realizing I was in trouble & not going to be able to complete my duties for the remaining hours of my 10 hour shift (alone-mind you!), I called our baking manager (who supervised the bakers in over 10 different Paneras). Seemed I caught him between a rock & a hard place! I’ll never forget him asking if I “can’t just stick it out”! No! I am loosing all feeling in my legs & I’m afraid I’m going to fall! I need to go to the ER! Well, at least an hour passed before he showed up to relieve me. I drove myself to the hospital that night & how I did that, I can’t tell you! It took about 12 weeks for a neurosurgeon to be approved to treat me & to finally diagnose: a ruptured disk between my 4th & 5th lumbar vertebrae. Even during the course of my medical treatment, Panera controlled which doctors I saw & what treatments I received. (If only the ER doctor would’ve ordered a CT scan or an MRI that night, the diagnosis wouldn’t have taken 12 wks of nonproductive physical therapy! ……but, I digress! Fast forward 17 years later, after 2 failed back surgeries & the horrors of 15 years of Fentanyl for pain relief, I am disabled & my entire life away of Panera has been completely turned upside down! On December 2 I am going to have a Spinal Cord Stimulator surgically implanted to prevent my brain from feeling the pain in my back & both of my legs. It’s not a cure-there never ‘will be’ a cure-but it’s an acceptable form of permanent (hopefully) pain relief. Next month I’ll turn 69; perhaps with the SCS surgery I can ‘live’ another 10, 15, 20 years? Maybe I can makeup for ‘some’ of the 17 years I’ve mustered through? We’ll see! The point of me sharing my story-Panera bakers are expendable, no matter how dedicated, professional or talented they are.
@@carolmackowiak752 Damn, that sounds horrible. I'm so sorry! My pain and suffering came more in the form of emotional anguish. Besides the lack of respect, there was the night the closing manager forgot to lock the back door (not the first time) and the cops making rounds tried the door and set off the alarms. I had no idea they did this. But suddenly all of the alarms went off, and I was left hiding in a dark corner holding the biggest knife I could find. By the time the police officers rounded the corner of the baking area I was a mass of raw nerves. Before that night, solo bakes were kind of fun, I played my music as loud as I wanted, and shouted out anything I cared to shout. Things were never the same after that night.
Does anyone expect fresh food at most fast food places. Suggesting not to eat something because it’s not super fresh just seems ridiculous. And not ordering because it’s bad for you, people go out to eat to get unhealthy but good tasting food. Most of the things on the list were just down right stupid, and no reason not to order them.
I think so too, especially in the case of Wendy’s chili. I would expect it to be fresh. I work for a fast food place, and there’s a certain time that the item “expires”, and if it’s not saved (given to an employee, put in something else, etc.), it just goes to the trash, but to fix the problem, they want the restaurant to buy a fresh thing of ground beef, or to buy the cut of meat that ground beef is made out of and grind it..., which creates more overhead for the restaurant...
I was thinking the same. Unless it’s advertised like Wendy’s, I don’t understand why anyone would expect that from a fast food joint. Personally, I expect fast food to not be expired, but not to be fresh. It’s processed food. Of course it’s not fresh.
@@baneverything5580 How so? A country doomed, yet everyone wants to come here, to the point of risking their lives, going into servitude, ( sexual and otherwise), having to pay tens of thousands of dollars, (even being without having any money of their own), and at times having their families held hostage until the debt is paid off ( sometimes at the loss of life), etc. Welcome to "Doomsville"!!
The ice cream machine always works at the McDonald's at my palace. The workers are there overtime to make sure that the machine consistently works, which I'm grateful for...because it's not like there would be dire consequences if I order a cone and I see that the machine is broken. Also, in regards to Wendy's, it's better to use the unused patties for the chili than to have it go to waste. The last thing we should be doing is wasting food. People in not so developed countries would wish to have the food that those in wealthy countries waste.
Yeah, but, McDonald’s is not a ice cream shop chain! This is why, the dipped cones more than likely didn’t last! In a actual ice cream shop/ restaurant they mostly know what they are doing and, this is why it would be better to get a dipped cone there to begin with! I did like when, they actually put the fresh strawberries in there milkshakes and, those caramel milkshakes they had out the year my daughter graduated high school,those, were pretty darn good!
@@keving10254 I cannot walk into your Canadian McDonald's to order a burger without knowing French first!!!! Da hell's wrong witchu people up there? Imma gonna slappa da snot outta yo face wit da wet spahetti. Mama Mia
Seems that this is always the 'excuse' for why the machine is 'down'... you would think Mc D's would have a redesigned machine made that you could simply disassemble the parts in minutes and you put them in an autoclave to clean them!
Have to respond about Arby' meat. I was a manager for three years at three different locations. It is all meat, made from top, middle and bottom round of cows. It is held together with real ground beef. It comes vacuum packed to stay fresh, never was frozen, no gelatin mass was in it, just the natural beef juices. My store cooked and sold over 2,000# a week, always high quality. Much much lower in fat than a hamburger,
@@heathenwolf4997 Why would you eat there more than once? Sorry I ate it every day five days a week for three years, never got sick once. I had a staff of 30, not one of them every got sick off the Arby's menu items.
5:35. I worked at Wendy's in the early 1990's. The chili meat is Only made from that days overcooked or "unused/unsold" patties. There were a few times we HAD to throw extra meat on the grill just to make more chili. The chili is frozen like a soup, in a bag. The meat is added. The chili, once made is only servable/saleable for 4hs then one must make more. I like the chili, personally.
I think we have all heard enough on how Wendy’s Chili was made through the yrs, no one wants to hear it anymore! Because, one the chili is always quite cold and, isn’t fit to eat and, it’s flavorless and, has no actual chili spices in it! Never liked or cared for it to begin with after trying it the first time in the 70s! But, what little, I have ate there through the years and, it being forced upon me to eat there, the chili still was consistently like this at a bunch of other locations! It isn’t fit to eat!
I worked at a Wendy's, and I can varify that when we needed more meat to make chili, we were instructed to overcook a few burgers and put them on the "warming" shelf above the grill. At the end of the day, we would put them into a bag in the cold room (huge refrig) for the night crew to make chili.
I stopped eating ANY 'fast-food' many years ago, and I started feeling better almost overnight. Now I either cook at home or go to a good-quality restaurant, and even then I'm taking a chance.
The way to get a fresh prepared Filet of Fish at McDonald's is to get one plain without the cheese (I don't have to have cheese on everything) and ask for tartar sauce packets. A friend of mine told me this secret. That way you'll get a hot sandwich. You'll have to wait for it but it's worth it.
If you demand that they throw in a fresh one and are willing to wait, in my town all the McDonald’s will make it fresh.edit: that goes for fries or any other item from cookies to pies biscuits burgers and especially chicken Pattie’s. Almost nobody exploits this as nobody wants to wait an extra 15 to 20 minutes.
I managed an Arby’s. The roast beef is packaged, yes; it’s a ten pound formed roast that is a mixture of sirloin, tenderloin, top round, and chuck that has some binder put in (beef navals, scrap pieces of all cuts of meat). When the roast is cut out of the bag, it is red in colour, not brown. It gets roasted in an oven for four hours. There is salt and water added to the mix. The roast comes to the restaurant frozen, and then is thawed in the fridge for 2-3 days. A formula is used to determine how much beef is required- there’s a lot of planning ahead. Even though I haven’t managed an Arby’s restaurant in over 25 years, I still eat there.
But you're talking about over 25 yrs ago. EVERYTHING has changed. NOTHING is as good as it used to be. It's hard to find a good burger, good fries, a good hot dog, or anything else anymore. Same goes for pizza, Chinese food... I worked at a KFC over 50 yrs ago. The chicken isn't even cut up the same as it used to be. I'll surely appreciate what we have available now, though, if they start convincing the population that bugs are delicious & nutritious🤢
Patrick, I have an Arby's story that just happened to me a couple weeks ago. I was on my way home and at 9:44 pm on 2/8/23 (I'm looking at the receipt as I write this) I decide to hit the Arby's drive-thru to pick up a sandwich for myself and my grandson who lives with me. The sandwich that I chose for myself was the French Dip & Swiss. I used to like that sandwich with the Au Ju gravy to dip it in. I noticed that in the last couple years they put less & less Au Ju in the cup for the sandwich to the point that it was only half full. Well, when I got home I discovered that they gave me the cup of gravy, but no sandwich. Maan, I was hungry, too. I had also ordered 2 for $4.99 Arby Melts for us for later, so at least I had something to eat. I called the Arby's on the phone to let them know that they didn't give me my sandwich and if they could make note somehow that they owed me a sandwich- $6.19. It was 10:00 pm now and the Arby's is 2 miles away. I would have driven back but they told me they closed at 10 but if I gave them my name they would give me my sandwich when I came back. So I proceeded to eat my measly Arby Melt and figured I could at least enhance it with my surprisingly nearly full cup of Au Ju. I dip my sandwich in it and... UGH, WTHeck?! What IS this, salt water?! What are they giving as Au Ju now? A bullion cube in hot water? Ok, as bad as that was it only gets worse. Nearly a week later I was in the area of the Arby's so I decided to pick us up a couple sandwiches again- they owed me one. I told them that they should have my name there for me to get my sandwich. I was refused.
6:01 in the early 2000s I was an assistant manager at Wendy's... I can attest that the Wendy's chilli is made with leftover patties. They are weighed out and portioned into bags. Then frozen. They are good for 7 days. When preparing to use the chilli meat, you place the bags inside a rethermalizer to thaw, then chop the meat with a spatula until you get pieces no smaller than a dime but no larger than a nickel. Add beans water and chilli powder and let simmer for no less than 4 hrs... But if it is a re-heat from the night before it only gets 2 hours
I will never forget the smell of the patties boiling in water. Sometimes I was lucky and the grill guy would cook off some patties for me to use. Usually not though.
Love Wendy's Chili and at 8 grams of fiber via the beans it is a very healthy choice. Who cares about leftover beef patties, I eat leftovers all the time.
While St. Louis Bread Co. changed its name to Panera in 1993 after Au Bon Pain bought them (though they are now no longer owned by Au Bon Pain as Panera sold Au Bon Pain twice in 1999 and 2021 respectively), they actually kept their name as St. Louis Bread Co. for locations within the St. Louis metro to honor their roots. As for the bloomin' onion...the wise Shrek once said, onions have layers. Them being fried adds another layer, and consuming your daily caloric intake in one go. So it's self-explanatory why one should avoid it.
I've never had any problems with the Bloomin Onion unless it wasn't cooked thoroughly. A good Bloomin Onion has to have some crunch and very little ting to it. Bloomin Onions are pretty tasty, but it's not ordered all the time. Outback understands.
I never avoided the blooming onion from the Outback. Live, laugh and love. You never know when your number is up. So eat the blooming onion and don't feel bad about it.
People like you are the ones who get an "ass wipe" on their product, although sometimes "ball cheese" is substituted. Have it your way! To avoid being labeled as a "Trumpy Special" simply ask for your product to be prepared without an ingrediate such as mayo or pickles. They will make your sandwich custom, and if you smile and act polite, you probably won't get any 'special sauce'. :))
@@crankychris2 chris... you used the TRUMP name... for people who want something fresh to eat... youre the problem... a typical snowflake douche bag who will forever work in fast food... because you'll never get marketable skills, due to your laziness
Say what you will, but I've no intention of giving up on McDonald's Fish Filet. I just go where there is a large Senior Citizen population and order one. Oh, and I still have my teeth so fooey to the McDonald's workers who claim bad dental hygiene is why Filet of Fish is a Seniors favorite. For all you Starbucks fans, great for you! You know what you want and are successful enough to pay for your selection. Enjoy! Me? I'm not picky so my favorite coffee right after my homemade mug is 7-11 coffee. The pick and favorite of pickup driving hands on workers everywhere. Mmmm, good!
I’m not *too* picky about my coffee, but I will never ever go to a Starbucks again, after one trip 20 years ago. It tasted like poison, & if I wanted to drink poison, I’d open a bottle of mercurochrome & drink that. I don’t like fish, so I won’t touch a fish sandwich of any sort anywhere. I used to love Arby’s Beef n Cheddar til I came across gristle in my meat. MAJOR turn off. Love their turkey sandwiches, tho. But then again, what can you do to ruin a turkey club or turkey ranch & bacon, turkey & swiss or even Arby’s turkey gyro.
Live healthy Eat healthy Exercise daily Die anyway. So what I am saying is.... Enjoy all things in moderation. I worked for the airlines and traveled all over the world. I've known many women all over the world. I've been a skydiver, owned a motorcycle and drove in exes of a hundred miles an hour, been backpacking into the wilderness with just what I had on my back, hiked up mountains, snowmobiled to the top of mountain in Iceland, explored the pyramids of Egypt, slept on the beaches in New Zealand with a female German exchange student I met that day, worked for law enforcement in a large metropolitan city, I love to cook and have cooked most of my own meals all my life, my mother is Italian and I learned to cook from her and took it to even higher levels, single most of my life, no children, been on a Kenya safari..... you get the idea. I am in my sixties now and I've lived the greater part of my life, enjoyed my life, and have very few regrets. Had I stayed in the house all my life afraid to venture out or try new and exciting things, I would still be in sixties today without all those great memories, and I would still die when my time comes. So what's the point of not getting out and enjoying life in moderation? Get out and enjoy your life. This is not a dress rehearsal and you don't get a do-over.
The ice machines in hotels and motels are never cleaned. I worked at Red lobster in the 70's and we cleaned the ice machines weekly which is more than I can say about most places that have these machines today.
I've really cut back on my fast food. This is mainly because my regular places like BURGER KING and MCDONALDS are not open in the morning, or the lobby's are closed...even now after the pandemic. They cannot get enough employees, and no-one wants to work the early morning or late even shifts--so they close the place. Then, I get so sick and tired of the service. No coffee. No diet coke. They are out of this, They are out of that. And of course, at MCDONALDS, those elusive shake and ice cream machines that no one ever cleans or repairs.
@@BabbleTop He never said it was fresh fish. But the McDonalds fish products are cut and flash-frozen within an hour of arriving on a boat, which is actually a whole lot safer fish than most fancy restaurants. It's certainly not unfrozen, but has basically zero protein breakdown.
for mcd filet-o-fish just tell them u will wait the 5 minutes for them to drop a fresh batch of filet into the fryer. i would be more concern on how long the oil have been used and refiltered though.
I know from cooking at home that this is true. Not to mention all the various foods that have been in the fryer. I don't eat fast food. It's better to learn how to prepare a meal. Then you know what's in it.
I am mostly vegetarian, and mostly cook all my meals, grain-based. But, a McDonald’s filet-o-fish is a taste sensation. Had a job at McDonald’s almost 5 decades ago, and I are them constantly. Quite delicious, with the steamed buns. All other McDonald’s sandwiches are toasted. Delicious sandwiches,
@@rogerrosen2323 but, there is a wonderful distinctive taste with a McDonald’s fish filet. I would choose it over a restaurant in a 5 star hotel. I know that’s insane. But, I seldom eat them now, for health purposes. It’s a very delicate sandwich with great tartar sauce, a delicate steamed bun, a little crisp crunch on the fish and the hint of cheese. I have tried others, including BK, which I trashed. Oddly enough, it is Donald Trump’s favorite sandwich. You know, if you are always watching your diet and eating 95% at home, you really crave the taste sensation of fast food when you splurge, over quality. You become so sick of quality. After six months in a foreign country, I finally found a Subway. Bought a six inch sub, egg salad, with every topping available, including hot peppers. It was a sensational taste. But, as far as satisfying hunger, I had to finish off by buying street food. The sub was a mere appetizer, but, a delicious appetizer.
I used to work at Wendy's. We grilled up burgers in the morning for the chili for that day. Burgers were made to order so there wasn't really "leftover/unused" ones to use. I don't know if that's still the case. That was 28 years ago when I worked there. And you can usually tell if a Filet O Fish is older or not. Older ones are a bit "stale" like they've been reheated. I'm still gonna eat them!!! Lol
The leftover process in Wendy's is sound, the meat is either over 140 or in the freezer packed separately by date, used FIFO(First In First Out) after 7 days frozen use or toss. The kitchen standards are well within food handling standards nationwide. The gluten tolerance cross contamination is something to address at each location, raw meats handling is addressed in training. An ex employee at Wendy's.
It's true that hardly any ice machines are cleaned regularly. Probably because their working parts are not "exposed" to kitchen workers, so they never see the crud building up inside. I used to work in a laboratory with an ice machine. The people there would take scoops of ice occasionally for their drinks at lunch....I tried to tell them that they should consider it "non-potable". It wasn't until one day I opened the front covers and showed them the water trickling down over parts covered in mold and dirt, that they got the message. I used to shut the machine off for an hour once a month and clean all the surfaces that water would touch. The in-line water filters on most of these machines are never changed either. Yecch!
--The Fillet o' Fish may not be that fresh because it's not that popular and people don't order it that often. --Then do your part and order it more often.
It is my favorite thing next to the nuggets. I always getbit with my points from the app. Filet O' Fish is tasty. Used to be tastier but they have to mix the fish they used to use with another now. Before, no one was dishing this fish except for McDonald's. Then everyone found out how tasty and now it's depleting.
@Doug Spooner at over $5 for a nasty burger I'll pass. I get nuggets and soda and breakfast sandwiches. When I get the Filet O' Fish, I get it free with my points.
Well, for one thing several yrs back, if you remember the last recession we had for one they done away with the COD and, instead they went with the cheaper cut, which isn’t as good as the COD, it isn’t fit to eat! That’s like they used to have the best sausage patties and, I always got 2 sausage biscuits when, we always went through the drive thru window! Well, during that recession they also went with a cheaper cut of sausage and, it isn’t near as good neither, a lot of people notice these things and, if you don’t bring back those quality products you used to have, it’s the quickest and, easiest way to lose a person’s business!
I worked at a Arby's about 23yrs ago, & that's not how the beef used to be. The beef came as basically a vacuum sealed pre-cooked whole roast, once heated in the oven we had to slice it on a deli slicer. Again that was almost 25yrs ago.
@@lorahughes7050 yes, the stores local to me sure took a nosedive. They USED TO HAVE doggone good burgers. Food AND service is poor. I always order my burger with "no cheese, please", but more often than not I recieve a mushy(microwaved?) cheese goo-burger instead of a hot & fresh burger off the grill.
Onion Chips - ( the breading) maybe made the same way with all restaurants that serve them. But, unfortunately Chili’s done away with their onion chips! The last time, I was in their, I told them you need to get them back!
As a McDonald’s employee I’m gonna tell you filet o fish is always straight out of the fryer because we don’t take enough of it to keep in cabinet. Could be different in other parts of the world but that’s how it is here
Blows my mind how many people knock fast food, or even restaurant food, for being frozen and warmed rather than 'fresh'. Its like people expect a full blown butcher shop in the backroom of the restaurant cranking out fresh cuts everyday - or that a franchise isn't going to get prepackaged food rather than hiring double the staff (double the money) in order to have an overnight crew to prepare all the food for the next day (and have ungodly amounts of waste everyday). If you want such fresh, straight from the farm food you need to prepare it yourself because it isn't realistic in the food industry unless you want to pay double or triple what you pay for food at current franchises. Also, not every franchise location has the same low or high standards of hygiene - the McD's in your town may be filthy and not worth the health risk, but the McD's franchise in the next town over might have stricter management pushing higher quality and hygiene. Case in point, go watch some Stephen Patula videos and tell me you wouldn't be happy to eat at that McD's knowing the kitchen is clean and the food was handled well.
I worked and made the chili and salads for Wendy's for nearly 2 years. Yes, they use patties that they had to take off the grill and put in a pan because you are getting patties off the grill, not from the pan like other places. The patties are then frozen. The next day those patties are boiled in water to cook and get excess grease out(remember, Wendy's chili is low fat and thisnis one of the reasons) after that you combine the chili mix with water and you put in freshly diced tomatoes. Cutting up the burgers was fun. 2 metal spatulas and you just start cutting though until only small pieces remain. You need to add onions ans peppers and then add the meat. It then cooks on the stove in a giant pan for 4 hours. For your fyi about left over chili, there usually isn't any and if there is it gets dumped out at the end of the night. Chili and salads are made fresh every day.
But how long ago was it that you worked there? I think Wendy's food quality has more recently declined. The burgers seem more microwaved to me than grilled anymore. They used to be pretty darn good burgers.
I work there and it's a process that takes hours to do as everything must be santized and washed properly. Taken apart carefully and put together the same way. Takes months to memorize there are so many peices to it. So they do it once a week. They need to have someone from Taylor come in and do it daily most McDonald's only have 1 maintenance guy and it can't fall on him everyday as he has other jobs to do daily.
@@DaBeastu I'm sure there is a lot to it and it's very important to keep it clean, as it affects the public's health. I think having someone come in who specializes in it is a great idea! It takes the pressure off of someone who might not be as careful and efficient as you. Thanks!
@@lindahandley5267 I don't disagree but I also don't own it. Would never want to I know how much owners get ripped off it's a wonder they break down so much
@@erniejones5008 don't know about yours but in Mason we did at both locations, it didn't last very long, literally about a month or so, they didn't really sell very well, but we did have them plus it must have been 6 or 7 years ago
I used to work at Wendy’s in the early 90’s and we did use burgers from the previous day or current day for the Chili, we didn’t serve Chili from the previous day though.
Also sweet tea. From anywhere. I one time got some sweet tea from one of those containers that you pull the handle down and the tea comes out and what I got was a layer of mold from where the tea was not refrigerated and left out for days. I have never gotten another cup of sweet tea ever again from any fast food chain.
The Outback's Bloomin' Onion. Tried them once. Not bad. However, I love onions, in general. Starbucks's Secret Menu. Never realized this existed, lol! McDonald's Dipped Cones. Outside of the original chocolate flavor, I had no idea that other flavors even existed. Never had them, not even the chocolate. Wendy's Chili. Love it! Panera Bread Pasteries. We have a Panera locally, but I've never eaten from Panera. Arby's Roast Beef. Love it! McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. Love it! Chick-Fil-A's Grilled Options. Love Chick Fil-A, but never had anything grilled. Subway's Roasted Chicken And Tuna. Love Subway! This one is a half-and-half. I've never had their Roasted Chicken, but their Tuna is normally my go-to. Fast Food Ice. Love it!
So on the Wendy's chili, I used to work there and yes it is left over meat but at least when I worked there we always labeled and dated the bags for 2 days and we kept only enough meat for the next morning. I don't know how they do it now though cause I worked there in the 90's
I remember the old Arbys (chuck wagon style) of the 70's. The oven was in the wall facing the counter and a big old chunk of meat was put on the slicer (also on the counter) from that oven, to make my Sandwich. At Burger Chef, we cooked the frozen Fish patty in a fryer reserved for Fish. The oil was filtered every night and replaced every couple of days.
i remember reading somewhere that the filet o fish sandwhich is probably the most healthy item at mc donalds. i very rarely eat fast food but i dont think i have EVER been to a mc donalds where i the cream machine was actually working
I think egg McMuffin is the healthiest item, last I checked, but I personally like the filet o’ fish. I also don’t think this video was right about the fish being left out for a long time. I’ve never had a filet o’ fish that didn’t taste fresh or like it had been left out or microwaved. The Patties probably sit in the freezer for a long time before being fried up, but they can keep for a long time in the freezer. Gimme my filet o’ fish!!
@@potownrob back in the 80s mcdonalds used to just make sandwiches and slide them down tray under warmer and when you order 1 they grab it from warmer rack for faster order processing. basically by time you pay food is handed to you from warmers. since the fish was less common there may be 1 or 2 sitting there for 15 minutes where as the regular burgers would sell as fast as they could reload the warmer rack. now days and for some time now mcdonalds or at least everyone i been to makes the sandwiches after they are ordered to allow people to customize them and get them fresh from the cooker. you just got to wait 5 minutes or so. the regular burgers are made with frozen patties of course but they get restocked daily i think. the quarter pounders are never frozen and do taste better. if you want a big mac ask to use the quarter pounder patties instead regular. its worth paying little extra. or just get double quarter and ask for big mac sauce and skip extra carbs and gluten of 3rd bun piece.
@@SgtJoeSmith hi Sarge, I unfortunately remember going to McDo in the 80s and 90s and seeing the burgers sitting on the racks. I’m not sure when they switched to making the burgers to order, but they were definitely doing it by the late 90s, and I worked there in 2000-01. I remember the burger patties sitting in the heated trays with timers that the cooks often ignored at least for one cycle. I worked the front counter and drive-thru, and I don’t remember anyone trying to order a Big Mac with two quarter patties (let alone half pound patties which we had at that time for the big tasty (or big nasty as we called it), and don’t remember there even being an option to upgrade to the bigger patties. I don’t think we even took credit cards back then. I remember them serving old chicken patties and nuggets that had been sitting in the trays, but can’t remember about the fish. If a customer asked for something fresh (be it burgers, chicken or fish), we would grill/fry it fresh for them as long as they were ok with waiting a few minutes for it. People like to order fries without salt just to get fresh fries, when they could just ask for fresh fries and we’ll make them fresh. They’ll just have to wait a few minutes for it.
@potownrob back in 90s my mom or me in college would order fries without salt to get them hot. Plus we thought they were better without salt. And I'm talking now days for better big Mac ask for the quarter patties cause they are the non frozen patties currently where as big Mac uses the frozen ones like they always have
5:53 While on the subject of wrong words, "comprise" does not mean "makes." Instead, it means "is made up of" or "is composed of." So, "today's chili comprises yesterday's burgers." Think of it this way - the whole comprises the parts. End of lesson.
Went to McDonald's about eight months ago for breakfast, at the time they were only excepting drive thru business, no walk ins. Ordered an egg mcmuffin and hash browns. Got my meal, parked the car, opened the bag took out the meal only to see there were bits taken out of the food. Complained to the company only to have nothing done about it. I'll never eat at a McDonald's again!!
Filet 'O Fish is the only sandwich I'd order from McDonald's if and when I go there. Your sources seem to be disgruntled former employees so how reliable is that?
Thank you for reminding me why I quit eating fast food a decade ago. Have no idea how people even afford it these days. 10 bucks for a burger/fries/med drink is insane. To each their own 🤷♀
This is why I prefer to have a tuna sandwich at home (so I can control the amount of mayonnaise). I do like a good tuna melt in a restaurant on occasion.
I worked in restaurants for over thirty years. Many of them had a bloomin' onion cutter on the bottom shelf with all the other flash in the pan toys. None of them had it on the current menu.
When I discovered all the horror stories about fast food and after suffering some serious medical issues, I was forced to start cooking for myself. Over time, I not only enjoyed cooking my own food, but it became a challenge to try and replicate my old fast food favorites. Surprisingly, I realized how much of a passion I have for cooking and at the young age of 58, I'm considering going to culinary school. So, thank you for opening my eyes. Because of what you and so many others have exposed throughout the years about our food supply. I am now healthier, have a new career and I've saved money by not buying all that garbage.
I always do all the cooking at home for my wife & kids but sometimes my wife & I like to get away and hit a Buffet. Key is pig out on Seafood to get your money's worth avoiding heavily breaded items then sample everything else spoonful at a time to see what you like and can make at home. Internet is full of recipes if you like something you tasted.
It hasn’t been the same since they done away with COD and a few years during the last recession it was then, they changed a lot of their products and, another was their sausage patties and, these to aren’t fit to eat now at McDonald’s neither. All the fast food restaurants cut their COD then, but, most of those places brought their COD back, thank God, because, it’s my favorite!
I used to work at Subway. The Tuna is somewhere between 40-50% mayo, not 80% LOL! And I never saw any tuna that was past expiration. The employees open a big pack of tuna and mix it with the mayo ourselves during prep. So, depending on the person making it, there may be a little more or a little less mayo, but 80% is a big exaggeration. Not to mention, mayo isn't bad for you. It contains unsaturated fats which are actually healthy. The ONLY problem is that a lot of mayo is made with crappy quality oils like soybean oil instead of something good like extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil which are much better. Otherwise, the unsaturated fats in mayo are not unhealthy in any way. Quite the opposite, in fact. Not all fats are made equal, and the only types of fats that are super bad for you are trans fats, and the FDA banned trans fats in 2018.
@@sotabaka To be fair, a lot of diets can be done right or done poorly. For instance, I do the Ketogenic diet. There is clean Keto and dirty Keto. I'm somewhere in the middle. I try to eat a cleaner Keto more often than not, but sometimes have processed crap that still fits within my macros if I'm feeling too lazy to cook. Same goes with Vegan. But even their "healthy" foods taste like garbage, so... no thanks, haha!
I'm not sure if you're familiar with this, but there's a convenient store chain along the Mid-Atlantic region called Wawa that has the same procedure Subway has about presliced coldcuts. I'm not sure how their tuna's made, but they do freshly bake their rolls. Sorry, but I'm a slice-it-in-front-of-me hoagie/sub lover. I'm a native Philadelphian, and still live nearby/ far enough away to get deli-sliced sandwiches and cheese steaks.
Tuna just hasn't tasted as good since they started packing everything in water, it's getting hard to find good tuna packed in olive oil anymore. Packed in water tastes like a tin can not fish.
I worked at McDonald's, I remember giving a filet o fish to a costumer at 7pm that was cooked at 10:30am because the manager didn't want to throw those filet patties at all, never, she never liked wasting food because of food cost, etc.
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I have never and will never especially after learning they wouldn't serve or send our troops free coffee after other fast food places offered to help them. This was back in the early 2000s.
I am thinking that the people who get these items on the regular won't be seeing this anyway. I do get some of these but not everyday. Probably doesn't hurt anything. But for those that eat at restaurants every meal. It is sad to see children in the shape they are in. Where did our diets get so bad.
I personally, have never and will never spend one red cent of my money at Starbucks.
Me either!
I don't drink coffee, so I've never been to Starbucks either.
Same
UNION SOLIDARITY!
I never, ever get my coffee at “five-bucks”…for an obvious reason.
I worked at Wendy's. We always threw out the burgers that didn't get ordered in time.
We made our chili with burger patties yes, but they weren't old or unwanted. They were just fresh burger patties that we cooked, and then chopped up to put in the chili.
I worked at Wendy’s before we did use burgers that was left on the grill too long or we didn’t sell.
@@wblake22 dang that sux
@@All_I_can_say_is_Wow Yeah we would use the old meat from the night before with our chilli at Wendy's.
We used broken patties and patties that had been on the grill too long to serve in a sandwich. Perfectly fine meat, just not acceptable as a 'fresh' sandwich anymore. These were then boiled to remove excess fat and chopped into chili meat for batches. The better trained your crew, the less broken/older patties you get. And yes, we always had to add fresh cooked patties to make the 10 pound batches because we trained well. Haven't managed Wendy's in 30+ years but still like their chili occasionally.
Even if they were old... I can't tell you how many times I have used stale bread in cooking.
So I'm supposed to be scandalized that Wendy's reuses leftovers? Like every public school, corporate kitchen, other restaurant, and most people's homes? That's called "life on a budget," sweetheart....
Ikr
I used to work there in the '80's. We did this and I find nothing wrong with it at all. The patties were not old. They also used the chicken for the chicken a-la-king for a potatoe topping. Also, back then there was no freezers. The pile of potatoes where freshly cut in a potatoe slicer! Miss those fresh days!
Where are the budget prices? They're charging you to eat their garbage.
I also worked there. The burger patties can only be on the grill for a set time. When they teach that limit and there are no orders they put them in a plastic bin by the grill. When it's full they cover it and put it in the walk-in. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it and obviously, the chili tastes nice.
Damn right 👍
Everyone -- and their dog -- knows that Wendy's chilis is recycled unused beef patties. Seriously. You should be applauding them for not going the stuff to waste instead of criticizing them for it.
Especially since everyone does that same sort of thing at home. I don't eat fast food, but it's for other reasons.
@@qua7771 And we absolutely should use our leftovers!
I only order chili at wendys..I don't order anything else from the menu
@@ahbeemarie7451 And why not? I don't think anything wrong with the chili.
@@MartinIbert .. I only order the chili....I dont eat anything else from wendys
I will never stop eat filet o fish. Its always my way to go whenever I get McDonald’s for breakfast. It’s cheap, tasty and generally the best choice for me talking about McDonald’s breakfast menu.
If you only knew what's in it...
They serve it at breakfast?
Got to admit those are pretty good once in a while
@@discobikerAndRosie pollack. Every fast food restaurant uses pollack.
I don't eat it, but I know what she said is FALSE. McDonald's has staunch quality and food temp controls in place. That argument was baseless.
I was an Asst. Manager at Arby's for a short time. The roast beef doesn't have a gray gelatinous film on it. It comes prepackaged and you open it up and pop it into the oven. It's red like any other beef product. There's nothing wrong with it.
Thank u Belle ❤️
Belle, how come you were an assistant manager at Arby's for a short time? Did you find a better job? From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 So I worked for 2 weeks after training. I live in a very small southern town now that doesn't offer a lot in employment. I took the job because of that. During this time I was offered a job as General Manger of a Holiday Inn Express from a former employer. I much preferred working in the hospitality industry than fast food. I was better at it too. I was also older and it was easier to work with my mind than to work in a fast pace setting.
@@belle9438 Belle, I am glad that you found a better job. From the comments that I had read, it didn't seem like it was fun to work in a fast food joint. Thank you for answering my questions and God bless 🙏 you. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 You're very welcome
Every time I’ve talked myself into buying fast food, I think that “this time will be different” and I’ve always been wrong. Now I happily go hungry and wait till I get home.
True
Filet o fish is the last item on the menu that is almost exactly what it was when it was first introduced. Its expensive but its always predictably good.
I love the Filet O Fish. I really miss the Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Other places have them but it's just the sauce not the chicken patty that's Spicy. I wish they would bring it back.
I love it too. And you may have to wait a few more minutes for it to be cooked( they don’t sell like burgers do or as fast ) so are usually cooked as ordered. And, they are expensive to throw out if kept warm under lights waiting to be sold and fish is not something you play with as far as food poisoning goes, especially tartar sauce under hot lights.
My favorite
Boy, oh boy, you hot that straight. Best, most delicious sandwich in the world. And, I mean that literally. I eat them in Taiwan, and I turn people onto them. They are a hidden gem, nobody knows about. I used to work at McDonald’s when I lied my age at 15. I was a young grill man. Best job I ever had. Loved every minute of working for that grand organization. Taught me teamwork. But, I digress. The little secret which makes the filet o fish so spectacular besides the tender crispy perfectly timed fish and the savory tartar sauce and the cheese, is the fact that the bun is not toasted- it is steamed. No other bun on the menu is steamed. Only the fish filet. Brilliant, Watson, Brilliant!!!
The problem I've seen with the fillet of fish is that sometimes it's obviously refried. If your fish is slightly blackish,don't eat it.
I know what I'm having for lunch today. 2 double filet fish sandwiches from McDonald's. 😋😋
Go early and get them out of the dumpster. They are just as tasty and will save you $$$. 🤣🤣
Scuba trucker, you're making me hungry. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
oh so you know about the doubles the frozen in the store is good jsut thaw out and make in oil ao bake fied yes the double one roll same price basically
@@rogerrosen2323 its deep fried frozen. It's not thawed out first. I used to work at McDonald's when I was 16 when MCDLTs were around.
@@scubatrucker6806 ok im refering to if you fry orbake at home since we dont have deep fryers n most cases you can get these fish pieces like gortons or mrs pauls and its as good as mcds for cheap
I was a manager for an Arby's franchise in Charlotte NC. The beef comes in preformed blocks, similar to chopped ham. It is baked in a convection oven and sliced to spec on a slicer as each sandwich is ordered.
I will never, under any circumstances, stop eating Bloomin' Onions. I don't care how unhealthy they are, they taste DIVINE. Life is short. If you can't treat yourself with something that delicious on special occasions, then you are not truly enjoying life.
Amen, to that!
Hell yes, they are wonderful and I don't care how unhealthy they are
Exactly what Outback wants you to say.
I totally agree. It's not like I eat 1 every week, lucky if get 1 twice a year
@@jamesgraham3116 it is? Then I guess we both win! Hooray! I'm glad we could make each other happy!
Filet-o-fish🤟🏼
I worked at Wendy's 30 years ago, made the chili and i still love it.
That’s all I ever get when I go to Wendy’s.
Only if it's not just beans👍
Now im in the mood for Wendys Chilli, and a large fry
I'll never eat Wendy's chilli after I heard about someone taking a dump in it in Michigan that's sick you don't know what your eating at these restaurants
Mine is a plain baked potato and a large Chile w/ onion I combine them into my version of Chile potato, LOTS of chile.
You mean "fly"?
@@artbrownsr ME TOO!
Fries 😡
If we were to cut out all the food that people say we shouldn't eat then there wouldn't be an obesity problem but a problem with people starving to death
It's like a garbage disposal. Ask a plumber and they'll tell you you can't ever put any kind of food down it.
Psych drugs cause huge weight gain among the other awful side effects.
No, we would just be so bored that it would feel like we were living longer. If "nutritionists" had their way, we wouldn't eat anything but kale. Yuck.
@@lyndayates7533 They also keep people from killing themselves.
@@do9138 I think love and compassion would do that.
If you’re not eating a blooming onion everyday,there is absolutely no reason you can’t order it.
Right? And as long as you don’t eat the whole thing by yourself, it’s fine.
What is a blooming onion? I never heard of it. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@Harper Stacy,it’s just a big sliced and coated fried onion,sort of like onion petals or onion straws,if you’ve ever heard or seen those. Blooming Onion is served at a restaurant called Outback Steakhouse.
@@mortikavalentinekennedy7326 is the onion delicious? By the way, thank you for answering my question. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Do you like onion rings? If yes, you probably will like it.
Past Panera Bread Baker here! The claims on here about Panera’s pastries being “warmed” rather than baked fresh daily are false! Most of pastries are prepared, flash frozen before being baked and boxed at a central commissary then shipped to each Panera Store, based on that store’s needs. The cases are stored in a walk-in freezer where each night , near the end of their shift, the bakers pull the number of each to be baked the following night for the day after that. They tray them up, place them on racks, cover the racks with a large plastic bag then roll the racks into a walk-in cooker to thaw for the next night’s bake. Cookie dough is portioned, frozen, boxed then shipped to the stores the same way as the pastries. Muffin batter is prepared, packed in buckets which are frozen and shipped to the stores. Once a bucket of batter has been opened, the rest is sealed and stored in a walk-in cooler. Bread dough is prepared, portioned, frozen, boxed and shipped to stores the same way. This is how Panera Bread can assure that all baked product is consistent from one store to another.
Every night, bakers pull racks of pastries, cookies, muffins and bread dough from the walk-in coolers. Each pastry has specific ‘preparations’, done by the bakers (think-scoring bear claws and fanning them out) before they are baked, cooled and finished (think-drizzling icing over cinnamon rolls). Panera bakers in Western PA work 10 hour shifts overnight so all baked product is fresh for the following day! Pastry items are so popular that they often sell out by lunchtime. Day-shift managers will often have to pull additional product from the freezer, thaw them, bake them and finish them if a product sells out. All left over product is bagged when the stores close and donated to local charity. I can tell you with certainty that all of the bakers that I knew took pride in their work, scrutinizing every step along the way. Additionally, bakers never knew when a quality control check would be performed on them by regional master baker managers.
Thanks for confirming a 2nd claim on here was false. The filet was false too, Mcds uses extreme quality and time control mechanisms like timers.
I was also a night baker at Panera and did take a lot of pride in every one of my bakes (although many managers did not ) . Everything you said is true, but I am worried that recently things may have changed. I'd like to hear directly from more recent employees. I'm sad to see many of the old pastries have gone. What happened to the pecan rolls? And what's with those gross cinnamon rolls?
@@nuaru100 Hi! It’s so nice to hear from another “prideful baker”! Yes, our hard work definitely went unnoticed many, many times! Seemed the more we did to ‘prove’ our worth, the more work & responsibilities fell on our tired shoulders-nightly, right? Sadly I departed Panera & left behind all of my ‘talents’ in 2006.
Early in my shift one night, as I bent over in the walk-in cooler to retrieve a box of fresh fruit I’d be using for pastries, I felt (& heard!) a sudden painful ‘pop’ in my low back! Within minutes, both of my legs started to go numb! I tried to ignore the pain & just walk (or work!) it off, to no avail. Realizing I was in trouble & not going to be able to complete my duties for the remaining hours of my 10 hour shift (alone-mind you!), I called our baking manager (who supervised the bakers in over 10 different Paneras). Seemed I caught him between a rock & a hard place! I’ll never forget him asking if I “can’t just stick it out”! No! I am loosing all feeling in my legs & I’m afraid I’m going to fall! I need to go to the ER! Well, at least an hour passed before he showed up to relieve me. I drove myself to the hospital that night & how I did that, I can’t tell you! It took about 12 weeks for a neurosurgeon to be approved to treat me & to finally diagnose: a ruptured disk between my 4th & 5th lumbar vertebrae. Even during the course of my medical treatment, Panera controlled which doctors I saw & what treatments I received. (If only the ER doctor would’ve ordered a CT scan or an MRI that night, the diagnosis wouldn’t have taken 12 wks of nonproductive physical therapy! ……but, I digress!
Fast forward 17 years later, after 2 failed back surgeries & the horrors of 15 years of Fentanyl for pain relief, I am disabled & my entire life away of Panera has been completely turned upside down! On December 2 I am going to have a Spinal Cord Stimulator surgically implanted to prevent my brain from feeling the pain in my back & both of my legs. It’s not a cure-there never ‘will be’ a cure-but it’s an acceptable form of permanent (hopefully) pain relief. Next month I’ll turn 69; perhaps with the SCS surgery I can ‘live’ another 10, 15, 20 years? Maybe I can makeup for ‘some’ of the 17 years I’ve mustered through? We’ll see!
The point of me sharing my story-Panera bakers are expendable, no matter how dedicated, professional or talented they are.
This video is such a crock of sh...
@@carolmackowiak752 Damn, that sounds horrible. I'm so sorry! My pain and suffering came more in the form of emotional anguish. Besides the lack of respect, there was the night the closing manager forgot to lock the back door (not the first time) and the cops making rounds tried the door and set off the alarms. I had no idea they did this. But suddenly all of the alarms went off, and I was left hiding in a dark corner holding the biggest knife I could find. By the time the police officers rounded the corner of the baking area I was a mass of raw nerves. Before that night, solo bakes were kind of fun, I played my music as loud as I wanted, and shouted out anything I cared to shout. Things were never the same after that night.
Want a fresh fish sandwich? Just change something- anything. No salt extra cheese, hold the sauce. You get a custom made sandwich.
Thanks for the advice. I will try it that way the next time I order a fish fillet at McDonald's. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Does anyone expect fresh food at most fast food places. Suggesting not to eat something because it’s not super fresh just seems ridiculous. And not ordering because it’s bad for you, people go out to eat to get unhealthy but good tasting food. Most of the things on the list were just down right stupid, and no reason not to order them.
And your comment proves why America is doomed.
I think so too, especially in the case of Wendy’s chili. I would expect it to be fresh. I work for a fast food place, and there’s a certain time that the item “expires”, and if it’s not saved (given to an employee, put in something else, etc.), it just goes to the trash, but to fix the problem, they want the restaurant to buy a fresh thing of ground beef, or to buy the cut of meat that ground beef is made out of and grind it..., which creates more overhead for the restaurant...
I was thinking the same. Unless it’s advertised like Wendy’s, I don’t understand why anyone would expect that from a fast food joint. Personally, I expect fast food to not be expired, but not to be fresh. It’s processed food. Of course it’s not fresh.
Agreed 👍
@@baneverything5580 How so?
A country doomed, yet everyone wants to come here, to the point of risking their lives, going into servitude, ( sexual and otherwise), having to pay tens of thousands of dollars, (even being without having any money of their own), and at times having their families held hostage until the debt is paid off ( sometimes at the loss of life), etc.
Welcome to "Doomsville"!!
I love Arby's Beef 'N Cheddar. They are absolutely delicious!
@robocat893 Couldn;'t agree more. I love it too 🤤
But very fake cheese made from vegetable oils ,highly toxin ,I helped build the plant
@@artcook1976 I don't care. Arby's Beef N Cheddar sandwiches are delicious. I'm sure no one has ever been sick or died from eating the cheese sauce.
@@robocat893 it's just slow growth cancer , enjoy friend 😉 but it mite not be your best decision in life
The ice cream machine always works at the McDonald's at my palace. The workers are there overtime to make sure that the machine consistently works, which I'm grateful for...because it's not like there would be dire consequences if I order a cone and I see that the machine is broken.
Also, in regards to Wendy's, it's better to use the unused patties for the chili than to have it go to waste. The last thing we should be doing is wasting food. People in not so developed countries would wish to have the food that those in wealthy countries waste.
Yeah, but, McDonald’s is not a ice cream shop chain! This is why, the dipped cones more than likely didn’t last! In a actual ice cream shop/ restaurant they mostly know what they are doing and, this is why it would be better to get a dipped cone there to begin with! I did like when, they actually put the fresh strawberries in there milkshakes and, those caramel milkshakes they had out the year my daughter graduated high school,those, were pretty darn good!
Here in richmond va the machine just dont work at the mcdonalds near the hoods
You must live in heaven...
Unfortunately most of us don't own a palace!
@@keving10254 I cannot walk into your Canadian McDonald's to order a burger without knowing French first!!!! Da hell's wrong witchu people up there? Imma gonna slappa da snot outta yo face wit da wet spahetti. Mama Mia
fast food people will always say the machine is down because its a real pain to clean it
It’s because, they don’t clean it, is why it broke down to begin with! It’s full of gummed up bacteria!
Machine down is subjective.
Seems that this is always the 'excuse' for why the machine is 'down'... you would think Mc D's would have a redesigned machine made that you could simply disassemble the parts in minutes and you put them in an autoclave to clean them!
Called lazy, get a different job then someone else will do it
Have to respond about Arby' meat. I was a manager for three years at three different locations. It is all meat, made from top, middle and bottom round of cows. It is held together with real ground beef. It comes vacuum packed to stay fresh, never was frozen, no gelatin mass was in it, just the natural beef juices. My store cooked and sold over 2,000# a week, always high quality. Much much lower in fat than a hamburger,
I have a bone to pick with Arby's. Why is it everytime I eat there, I puke?
@@heathenwolf4997 Why would you eat there more than once? Sorry I ate it every day five days a week for three years, never got sick once. I had a staff of 30, not one of them every got sick off the Arby's menu items.
LOVE 😋 Arby's lamb gyro. 🥙 Too bad they no longer offer the 2 for $6 deal (coupon).
@@heathenwolf4997 because you are not a pirate that likes to eat at ARRRRbies.
Yar. 😀
Have you ever been inside a slaughterhouse, Willaim? Thought not...
5:35. I worked at Wendy's in the early 1990's. The chili meat is Only made from that days overcooked or "unused/unsold" patties. There were a few times we HAD to throw extra meat on the grill just to make more chili. The chili is frozen like a soup, in a bag. The meat is added. The chili, once made is only servable/saleable for 4hs then one must make more. I like the chili, personally.
I think we have all heard enough on how Wendy’s Chili was made through the yrs, no one wants to hear it anymore! Because, one the chili is always quite cold and, isn’t fit to eat and, it’s flavorless and, has no actual chili spices in it! Never liked or cared for it to begin with after trying it the first time in the 70s! But, what little, I have ate there through the years and, it being forced upon me to eat there, the chili still was consistently like this at a bunch of other locations! It isn’t fit to eat!
I like the chili too. I bring it home and have to wait to eat it because it's so hot. Tastes good and come on it's fast food.
I like Wendy's chili too. Super good on their taco salad.
NOBODY has to worry about McD’s chocolate dipped cones because the machines ‘ARE’ ALWAYS BROKEN‼️
Same with burger king
I worked at a Wendy's, and I can varify that when we needed more meat to make chili, we were instructed to overcook a few burgers and put them on the "warming" shelf above the grill. At the end of the day, we would put them into a bag in the cold room (huge refrig) for the night crew to make chili.
Cooking and refreshing meat. Wow...
@@hardyjoe4278 I know right
@@hardyjoe4278 ( Irish accent) "Just like the way me mother used to make it"
So what?
No matter how many of these likewise videos discourage the consumption of Wendy's chili... I will never be deterred!
I eat the fillet o fish but always order it made fresh and they always do that for me.
I hate when they use foods being unhealthy as a reason not to eat unhealthy food
haha😉
Aw, I love Subway's Tuna subs. I've never gotten sick from Subway. I haven't had a Tuna sub in a very long time though. I usually get turkey and ham.
So, not getting sick off of something immediately means it's good food? What kind of logic is that?
I get the Club. Yum.
use any coupons they give in papers subway is a rip off what you get for the price tuna small amt 2 or 4 small scoops
Actually I did one time working ate a foot long afternoon and dinner for couple weeks ,I did get get sick and weak never ate them again 🙃
Subway used to have the best subs but, 3 yrs before the pandemic they started to go down hill! During a move we ate there everyday!
I don't think if I eat a blooming onion from Outback it's going to be any worse for me than all the crack I smoke
spare rib made a loaf of onions there all closed here in ny
Right i have drank 30 beers a day for over 25 years and never had an issue.
I stopped eating ANY 'fast-food' many years ago, and I started feeling better almost overnight. Now I either cook at home or go to a good-quality restaurant, and even then I'm taking a chance.
I’ve found that since buying an air fryer, I can eat healthy fast food at home. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever bought.
The way to get a fresh prepared Filet of Fish at McDonald's is to get one plain without the cheese (I don't have to have cheese on everything) and ask for tartar sauce packets. A friend of mine told me this secret. That way you'll get a hot sandwich. You'll have to wait for it but it's worth it.
ask for a fish double one roll 2 fish though small but only same price it seems
Ask for no salt…they will drop it fresh
Knew that for ever you always minus something
If you demand that they throw in a fresh one and are willing to wait, in my town all the McDonald’s will make it fresh.edit: that goes for fries or any other item from cookies to pies biscuits burgers and especially chicken Pattie’s. Almost nobody exploits this as nobody wants to wait an extra 15 to 20 minutes.
@@samueldavis5895 but will they add any "special ingredients" if you request fresh(?)
I managed an Arby’s. The roast beef is packaged, yes; it’s a ten pound formed roast that is a mixture of sirloin, tenderloin, top round, and chuck that has some binder put in (beef navals, scrap pieces of all cuts of meat). When the roast is cut out of the bag, it is red in colour, not brown. It gets roasted in an oven for four hours.
There is salt and water added to the mix. The roast comes to the restaurant frozen, and then is thawed in the fridge for 2-3 days. A formula is used to determine how much beef is required- there’s a lot of planning ahead.
Even though I haven’t managed an Arby’s restaurant in over 25 years, I still eat there.
It's precooked no matter what
But you're talking about over 25 yrs ago. EVERYTHING has changed. NOTHING is as good as it used to be. It's hard to find a good burger, good fries, a good hot dog, or anything else anymore. Same goes for pizza, Chinese food... I worked at a KFC over 50 yrs ago. The chicken isn't even cut up the same as it used to be. I'll surely appreciate what we have available now, though, if they start convincing the population that bugs are delicious & nutritious🤢
Patrick, I have an Arby's story that just happened to me a couple weeks ago. I was on my way home and at 9:44 pm on 2/8/23 (I'm looking at the receipt as I write this) I decide to hit the Arby's drive-thru to pick up a sandwich for myself and my grandson who lives with me. The sandwich that I chose for myself was the French Dip & Swiss. I used to like that sandwich with the Au Ju gravy to dip it in. I noticed that in the last couple years they put less & less Au Ju in the cup for the sandwich to the point that it was only half full. Well, when I got home I discovered that they gave me the cup of gravy, but no sandwich. Maan, I was hungry, too. I had also ordered 2 for $4.99 Arby Melts for us for later, so at least I had something to eat. I called the Arby's on the phone to let them know that they didn't give me my sandwich and if they could make note somehow that they owed me a sandwich- $6.19. It was 10:00 pm now and the Arby's is 2 miles away. I would have driven back but they told me they closed at 10 but if I gave them my name they would give me my sandwich when I came back. So I proceeded to eat my measly Arby Melt and figured I could at least enhance it with my surprisingly nearly full cup of Au Ju. I dip my sandwich in it and... UGH, WTHeck?! What IS this, salt water?! What are they giving as Au Ju now? A bullion cube in hot water? Ok, as bad as that was it only gets worse. Nearly a week later I was in the area of the Arby's so I decided to pick us up a couple sandwiches again- they owed me one. I told them that they should have my name there for me to get my sandwich. I was refused.
6:01 in the early 2000s I was an assistant manager at Wendy's... I can attest that the Wendy's chilli is made with leftover patties. They are weighed out and portioned into bags. Then frozen. They are good for 7 days. When preparing to use the chilli meat, you place the bags inside a rethermalizer to thaw, then chop the meat with a spatula until you get pieces no smaller than a dime but no larger than a nickel. Add beans water and chilli powder and let simmer for no less than 4 hrs... But if it is a re-heat from the night before it only gets 2 hours
I will never forget the smell of the patties boiling in water. Sometimes I was lucky and the grill guy would cook off some patties for me to use. Usually not though.
Love Wendy's Chili and at 8 grams of fiber via the beans it is a very healthy choice. Who cares about leftover beef patties, I eat leftovers all the time.
Gross
I seen patty parts in the chili. I don't see any big deal about that if you can eat fast food.
@@qua7771 who care the burgers are good and they use them in the chili
While St. Louis Bread Co. changed its name to Panera in 1993 after Au Bon Pain bought them (though they are now no longer owned by Au Bon Pain as Panera sold Au Bon Pain twice in 1999 and 2021 respectively), they actually kept their name as St. Louis Bread Co. for locations within the St. Louis metro to honor their roots.
As for the bloomin' onion...the wise Shrek once said, onions have layers. Them being fried adds another layer, and consuming your daily caloric intake in one go. So it's self-explanatory why one should avoid it.
I've never had any problems with the Bloomin Onion unless it wasn't cooked thoroughly. A good Bloomin Onion has to have some crunch and very little ting to it. Bloomin Onions are pretty tasty, but it's not ordered all the time. Outback understands.
I never avoided the blooming onion from the Outback. Live, laugh and love. You never know when your number is up. So eat the blooming onion and don't feel bad about it.
Wendy's chili....well....I use leftover meat in my chili too!!! Leftover steak isn't very good reheated, so the best thing is to make chili with it.
But nothing worse than chicken reheated (except frost bitten meats) Even chili can’t hide those tastes
Wendy's chili is great with cheese in it. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Cheese, onion, & sour cream (but I put that in all chili, even my own)
@@ladysnake3571 thank you for responding to my comment and thank you for the info. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
I always ask to drop the McDonald's Fish hot and never accept it otherwise.
People like you are the ones who get an "ass wipe" on their product, although sometimes "ball cheese" is substituted. Have it your way!
To avoid being labeled as a "Trumpy Special" simply ask for your product to be prepared without an ingrediate such as mayo or pickles. They will make your sandwich custom, and if you smile and act polite, you probably won't get any 'special sauce'. :))
@@crankychris2 chris... you used the TRUMP name... for people who want something fresh to eat... youre the problem... a typical snowflake douche bag who will forever work in fast food... because you'll never get marketable skills, due to your laziness
Oh my god! That guy that threw that garbage bag behind his back and ending up on his back was a trip!🤣😁🤣😁😂
Say what you will, but I've no intention of giving up on McDonald's Fish Filet. I just go where there is a large Senior Citizen population and order one. Oh, and I still have my teeth so fooey to the McDonald's workers who claim bad dental hygiene is why Filet of Fish is a Seniors favorite.
For all you Starbucks fans, great for you! You know what you want and are successful enough to pay for your selection. Enjoy!
Me? I'm not picky so my favorite coffee right after my homemade mug is 7-11 coffee. The pick and favorite of pickup driving hands on workers everywhere. Mmmm, good!
I’m not *too* picky about my coffee, but I will never ever go to a Starbucks again, after one trip 20 years ago. It tasted like poison, & if I wanted to drink poison, I’d open a bottle of mercurochrome & drink that. I don’t like fish, so I won’t touch a fish sandwich of any sort anywhere. I used to love Arby’s Beef n Cheddar til I came across gristle in my meat. MAJOR turn off. Love their turkey sandwiches, tho. But then again, what can you do to ruin a turkey club or turkey ranch & bacon, turkey & swiss or even Arby’s turkey gyro.
We all love the McDonald's fish sandwich. We don't care..
Or you can order and eat whatever the hell you want...just don't do it all the time and stay on top of your fitness. Enjoy your life
EXACTLY!!!!
We will all die sooner or later,not that I can afford any of this stuff 👍..
People that get proper exercise get away with quite a bit, but we all age eventually.
Live healthy
Eat healthy
Exercise daily
Die anyway.
So what I am saying is.... Enjoy all things in moderation.
I worked for the airlines and traveled all over the world.
I've known many women all over the world.
I've been a skydiver, owned a motorcycle and drove in exes of a hundred miles an hour, been backpacking into the wilderness with just what I had on my back, hiked up mountains, snowmobiled to the top of mountain in Iceland, explored the pyramids of Egypt, slept on the beaches in New Zealand with a female German exchange student I met that day, worked for law enforcement in a large metropolitan city, I love to cook and have cooked most of my own meals all my life, my mother is Italian and I learned to cook from her and took it to even higher levels, single most of my life, no children, been on a Kenya safari..... you get the idea.
I am in my sixties now and I've lived the greater part of my life, enjoyed my life, and have very few regrets.
Had I stayed in the house all my life afraid to venture out or try new and exciting things, I would still be in sixties today without all those great memories, and I would still die when my time comes. So what's the point of not getting out and enjoying life in moderation?
Get out and enjoy your life.
This is not a dress rehearsal and you don't get a do-over.
Great job BABBLE 💯👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I Love Arby's Roast Beef, and Mcdonalds Fish sandwich!
The ice machines in hotels and motels are never cleaned. I worked at Red lobster in the 70's and we cleaned the ice machines weekly which is more than I can say about most places that have these machines today.
I worked at Arby's, it is frozen but we never added any weird blue gel lol
But does it taste good
Cooked before package
I've really cut back on my fast food. This is mainly because my regular places like BURGER KING and MCDONALDS are not open in the morning, or the lobby's are closed...even now after the pandemic. They cannot get enough employees, and no-one wants to work the early morning or late even shifts--so they close the place. Then, I get so sick and tired of the service. No coffee. No diet coke. They are out of this, They are out of that. And of course, at MCDONALDS, those elusive shake and ice cream machines that no one ever cleans or repairs.
You're in the wrong part of the woods
I love McDonalds fillet of fish. But the fish and cheese has gotten so small
@Roadrun100 I don't think anything fish in McDonalds is fresh.. just saying 😏
@@BabbleTop He never said it was fresh fish. But the McDonalds fish products are cut and flash-frozen within an hour of arriving on a boat, which is actually a whole lot safer fish than most fancy restaurants. It's certainly not unfrozen, but has basically zero protein breakdown.
they only put a half piece of cheese on a single filet but a double gets one whole piece
for mcd filet-o-fish just tell them u will wait the 5 minutes for them to drop a fresh batch of filet into the fryer. i would be more concern on how long the oil have been used and refiltered though.
I know from cooking at home that this is true. Not to mention all the various foods that have been in the fryer. I don't eat fast food. It's better to learn how to prepare a meal. Then you know what's in it.
I am mostly vegetarian, and mostly cook all my meals, grain-based. But, a McDonald’s filet-o-fish is a taste sensation. Had a job at McDonald’s almost 5 decades ago, and I are them constantly. Quite delicious, with the steamed buns. All other McDonald’s sandwiches are toasted. Delicious sandwiches,
@@angeloiodice9304 we had a bk whaler ages ago like a fish whpper/the mcd fish ask for a double fish one roll and 2 fish almost the same price
@@rogerrosen2323 well, that’s truly a whopping big fish sandwich
@@rogerrosen2323 but, there is a wonderful distinctive taste with a McDonald’s fish filet. I would choose it over a restaurant in a 5 star hotel. I know that’s insane. But, I seldom eat them now, for health purposes. It’s a very delicate sandwich with great tartar sauce, a delicate steamed bun, a little crisp crunch on the fish and the hint of cheese. I have tried others, including BK, which I trashed. Oddly enough, it is Donald Trump’s favorite sandwich. You know, if you are always watching your diet and eating 95% at home, you really crave the taste sensation of fast food when you splurge, over quality. You become so sick of quality. After six months in a foreign country, I finally found a Subway. Bought a six inch sub, egg salad, with every topping available, including hot peppers. It was a sensational taste. But, as far as satisfying hunger, I had to finish off by buying street food. The sub was a mere appetizer, but, a delicious appetizer.
I do not think anyone eats out to control a diet. They go to eat out and have fun. The trick is moderation.
@Passquale Caiazza i absolutely agree with this 👌
I used to work at Wendy's. We grilled up burgers in the morning for the chili for that day. Burgers were made to order so there wasn't really "leftover/unused" ones to use. I don't know if that's still the case. That was 28 years ago when I worked there.
And you can usually tell if a Filet O Fish is older or not. Older ones are a bit "stale" like they've been reheated. I'm still gonna eat them!!! Lol
I love how they cut to papa John right when she said greasy at 6:30 lol
Steak & shake makes their chili with left over hamburgers too
The leftover process in Wendy's is sound, the meat is either over 140 or in the freezer packed separately by date, used FIFO(First In First Out) after 7 days frozen use or toss. The kitchen standards are well within food handling standards nationwide. The gluten tolerance cross contamination is something to address at each location, raw meats handling is addressed in training. An ex employee at Wendy's.
It's true that hardly any ice machines are cleaned regularly. Probably because their working parts are not "exposed" to kitchen workers, so they never see the crud building up inside. I used to work in a laboratory with an ice machine. The people there would take scoops of ice occasionally for their drinks at lunch....I tried to tell them that they should consider it "non-potable". It wasn't until one day I opened the front covers and showed them the water trickling down over parts covered in mold and dirt, that they got the message. I used to shut the machine off for an hour once a month and clean all the surfaces that water would touch. The in-line water filters on most of these machines are never changed either. Yecch!
I thought I was the only one,who would not spend my money at Starbucks
No, you are, not alone. Overpriced, not good coffee and snacks.
Good, one less person in front of me 😂
I'm surprised that the Philadelphia Starbucks is still open.
--The Fillet o' Fish may not be that fresh because it's not that popular and people don't order it that often.
--Then do your part and order it more often.
I do. I love them
It is my favorite thing next to the nuggets. I always getbit with my points from the app. Filet O' Fish is tasty. Used to be tastier but they have to mix the fish they used to use with another now. Before, no one was dishing this fish except for McDonald's. Then everyone found out how tasty and now it's depleting.
@Doug Spooner at over $5 for a nasty burger I'll pass. I get nuggets and soda and breakfast sandwiches. When I get the Filet O' Fish, I get it free with my points.
Well, for one thing several yrs back, if you remember the last recession we had for one they done away with the COD and, instead they went with the cheaper cut, which isn’t as good as the COD, it isn’t fit to eat! That’s like they used to have the best sausage patties and, I always got 2 sausage biscuits when, we always went through the drive thru window! Well, during that recession they also went with a cheaper cut of sausage and, it isn’t near as good neither, a lot of people notice these things and, if you don’t bring back those quality products you used to have, it’s the quickest and, easiest way to lose a person’s business!
I worked at a Arby's about 23yrs ago, & that's not how the beef used to be. The beef came as basically a vacuum sealed pre-cooked whole roast, once heated in the oven we had to slice it on a deli slicer. Again that was almost 25yrs ago.
Years ago Wendys tasted good now microwaved meat not freshly cooked tasted yuck
@@lorahughes7050 yes, the stores local to me sure took a nosedive. They USED TO HAVE doggone good burgers. Food AND service is poor. I always order my burger with "no cheese, please", but more often than not I recieve a mushy(microwaved?) cheese goo-burger instead of a hot & fresh burger off the grill.
You'll never take away my blooming onion
Onion Chips - ( the breading) maybe made the same way with all restaurants that serve them. But, unfortunately Chili’s done away with their onion chips! The last time, I was in their, I told them you need to get them back!
As a McDonald’s employee I’m gonna tell you filet o fish is always straight out of the fryer because we don’t take enough of it to keep in cabinet. Could be different in other parts of the world but that’s how it is here
As someone who used to be a McDonald’s employee, at our store we also made new filets rather regularly and the old ones would be thrown away.
Blows my mind how many people knock fast food, or even restaurant food, for being frozen and warmed rather than 'fresh'. Its like people expect a full blown butcher shop in the backroom of the restaurant cranking out fresh cuts everyday - or that a franchise isn't going to get prepackaged food rather than hiring double the staff (double the money) in order to have an overnight crew to prepare all the food for the next day (and have ungodly amounts of waste everyday). If you want such fresh, straight from the farm food you need to prepare it yourself because it isn't realistic in the food industry unless you want to pay double or triple what you pay for food at current franchises. Also, not every franchise location has the same low or high standards of hygiene - the McD's in your town may be filthy and not worth the health risk, but the McD's franchise in the next town over might have stricter management pushing higher quality and hygiene. Case in point, go watch some Stephen Patula videos and tell me you wouldn't be happy to eat at that McD's knowing the kitchen is clean and the food was handled well.
I worked and made the chili and salads for Wendy's for nearly 2 years. Yes, they use patties that they had to take off the grill and put in a pan because you are getting patties off the grill, not from the pan like other places. The patties are then frozen. The next day those patties are boiled in water to cook and get excess grease out(remember, Wendy's chili is low fat and thisnis one of the reasons) after that you combine the chili mix with water and you put in freshly diced tomatoes. Cutting up the burgers was fun. 2 metal spatulas and you just start cutting though until only small pieces remain. You need to add onions ans peppers and then add the meat. It then cooks on the stove in a giant pan for 4 hours. For your fyi about left over chili, there usually isn't any and if there is it gets dumped out at the end of the night. Chili and salads are made fresh every day.
But how long ago was it that you worked there? I think Wendy's food quality has more recently declined. The burgers seem more microwaved to me than grilled anymore. They used to be pretty darn good burgers.
I still feel some type way about that onion appetizer because it was at Benagin's first
I'd rather eat at all these places than at some ppls homes!
And all that you've described we do 8n our home!
Alot of cutting clips went into this and it was awesome! Thanks
The Panera I worked at did make their own pastries and the hot water bath the video shows is for soups. Panera also donates the left over pastries.
McDonald's ice cream machine is always 'broken'. They're too lazy to break it down and wash it at the end of the day.
I work there and it's a process that takes hours to do as everything must be santized and washed properly. Taken apart carefully and put together the same way. Takes months to memorize there are so many peices to it. So they do it once a week. They need to have someone from Taylor come in and do it daily most McDonald's only have 1 maintenance guy and it can't fall on him everyday as he has other jobs to do daily.
They have a tendency to break and the maker has a contract with McDonald's that only they can service them
@@mnicrashSoren our rarely goes down but yeah they do and Taylor makes stacks on it breaking down.
@@DaBeastu I'm sure there is a lot to it and it's very important to keep it clean, as it affects the public's health. I think having someone come in who specializes in it is a great idea! It takes the pressure off of someone who might not be as careful and efficient as you. Thanks!
@@lindahandley5267 I don't disagree but I also don't own it. Would never want to I know how much owners get ripped off it's a wonder they break down so much
Still a McDonald's employee as I've mentioned before and just so you know McDonald's discontinued the dipped cones back in 2016
I don’t even remember my McDonald’s in Iowa ever having them
@@erniejones5008 don't know about yours but in Mason we did at both locations, it didn't last very long, literally about a month or so, they didn't really sell very well, but we did have them plus it must have been 6 or 7 years ago
I miss the dipped cones!! Nothing better
Those were sooo good
I worked for McDonald's. The fish comes frozen and put into the fryer for a few mins.
Those fish sandwiches are high as hell but they are good.
@@joetroutt7425 I love them. Just had one a few days ago. Extra tartar sauce. Still alive and kicking
I used to work at Wendy’s in the early 90’s and we did use burgers from the previous day or current day for the Chili, we didn’t serve Chili from the previous day though.
Haven't been to Starbucks in over 4 years after a latte cost me $4.75 (and it was miniscule and not so great.)
@EagleEye i think that there are other coffee shops that are better than Starbucks, It's way too overrated 🤷
Also sweet tea. From anywhere. I one time got some sweet tea from one of those containers that you pull the handle down and the tea comes out and what I got was a layer of mold from where the tea was not refrigerated and left out for days. I have never gotten another cup of sweet tea ever again from any fast food chain.
The Outback's Bloomin' Onion. Tried them once. Not bad. However, I love onions, in general.
Starbucks's Secret Menu. Never realized this existed, lol!
McDonald's Dipped Cones. Outside of the original chocolate flavor, I had no idea that other flavors even existed. Never had them, not even the chocolate.
Wendy's Chili. Love it!
Panera Bread Pasteries. We have a Panera locally, but I've never eaten from Panera.
Arby's Roast Beef. Love it!
McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. Love it!
Chick-Fil-A's Grilled Options. Love Chick Fil-A, but never had anything grilled.
Subway's Roasted Chicken And Tuna. Love Subway! This one is a half-and-half. I've never had their Roasted Chicken, but their Tuna is normally my go-to.
Fast Food Ice. Love it!
But outback is NOT fast food?
Thank u. Jacob !!🙂👍
So on the Wendy's chili, I used to work there and yes it is left over meat but at least when I worked there we always labeled and dated the bags for 2 days and we kept only enough meat for the next morning. I don't know how they do it now though cause I worked there in the 90's
I've eaten Fillet of fish from Macca's for years. Never been sick
I remember the old Arbys (chuck wagon style) of the 70's. The oven was in the wall facing the counter and a big old chunk of meat was put on the slicer (also on the counter) from that oven, to make my Sandwich.
At Burger Chef, we cooked the frozen Fish patty in a fryer reserved for Fish. The oil was filtered every night and replaced every couple of days.
i remember reading somewhere that the filet o fish sandwhich is probably the most healthy item at mc donalds. i very rarely eat fast food but i dont think i have EVER been to a mc donalds where i the cream machine was actually working
I think egg McMuffin is the healthiest item, last I checked, but I personally like the filet o’ fish. I also don’t think this video was right about the fish being left out for a long time. I’ve never had a filet o’ fish that didn’t taste fresh or like it had been left out or microwaved. The Patties probably sit in the freezer for a long time before being fried up, but they can keep for a long time in the freezer. Gimme my filet o’ fish!!
@@potownrob back in the 80s mcdonalds used to just make sandwiches and slide them down tray under warmer and when you order 1 they grab it from warmer rack for faster order processing. basically by time you pay food is handed to you from warmers. since the fish was less common there may be 1 or 2 sitting there for 15 minutes where as the regular burgers would sell as fast as they could reload the warmer rack. now days and for some time now mcdonalds or at least everyone i been to makes the sandwiches after they are ordered to allow people to customize them and get them fresh from the cooker. you just got to wait 5 minutes or so. the regular burgers are made with frozen patties of course but they get restocked daily i think. the quarter pounders are never frozen and do taste better. if you want a big mac ask to use the quarter pounder patties instead regular. its worth paying little extra. or just get double quarter and ask for big mac sauce and skip extra carbs and gluten of 3rd bun piece.
@@SgtJoeSmith hi Sarge, I unfortunately remember going to McDo in the 80s and 90s and seeing the burgers sitting on the racks. I’m not sure when they switched to making the burgers to order, but they were definitely doing it by the late 90s, and I worked there in 2000-01. I remember the burger patties sitting in the heated trays with timers that the cooks often ignored at least for one cycle. I worked the front counter and drive-thru, and I don’t remember anyone trying to order a Big Mac with two quarter patties (let alone half pound patties which we had at that time for the big tasty (or big nasty as we called it), and don’t remember there even being an option to upgrade to the bigger patties. I don’t think we even took credit cards back then. I remember them serving old chicken patties and nuggets that had been sitting in the trays, but can’t remember about the fish. If a customer asked for something fresh (be it burgers, chicken or fish), we would grill/fry it fresh for them as long as they were ok with waiting a few minutes for it. People like to order fries without salt just to get fresh fries, when they could just ask for fresh fries and we’ll make them fresh. They’ll just have to wait a few minutes for it.
@potownrob back in 90s my mom or me in college would order fries without salt to get them hot. Plus we thought they were better without salt.
And I'm talking now days for better big Mac ask for the quarter patties cause they are the non frozen patties currently where as big Mac uses the frozen ones like they always have
I love Filet-O-Fish and where i go it is always fresh. I'm in Germany , may be i t s different in the US. But here it is really fresh and delicious.
5:14 Smooth move, Ex Lax! 😂
5:53 While on the subject of wrong words, "comprise" does not mean "makes." Instead, it means "is made up of" or "is composed of." So, "today's chili comprises yesterday's burgers." Think of it this way - the whole comprises the parts. End of lesson.
Went to McDonald's about eight months ago for breakfast, at the time they were only excepting drive thru business, no walk ins. Ordered an egg mcmuffin and hash browns. Got my meal, parked the car, opened the bag took out the meal only to see there were bits taken out of the food. Complained to the company only to have nothing done about it. I'll never eat at a McDonald's again!!
My granddaughter brought me a double cheese burger. One bite, threw the rest away. Absolutely no beef taste. Must have been kangaroo meat.
Filet 'O Fish is the only sandwich I'd order from McDonald's if and when I go there. Your sources seem to be disgruntled former employees so how reliable is that?
Thank you for reminding me why I quit eating fast food a decade ago. Have no idea how people even afford it these days. 10 bucks for a burger/fries/med drink is insane.
To each their own
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So interesting to see so many of my UA-cam faves sampled in this video -
This is why I prefer to have a tuna sandwich at home (so I can control the amount of mayonnaise). I do like a good tuna melt in a restaurant on occasion.
What else do you put on your tuna sandwich besides mayonnaise? Do you add tomato or cheese? From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Starbucks has a secret Brittany Griner Inspired Menu item. "The Borscht Baller But(t) Cream Bagel with Everything" (eggplant emoji)
I worked in restaurants for over thirty years. Many of them had a bloomin' onion cutter on the bottom shelf with all the other flash in the pan toys. None of them had it on the current menu.
Never had Starbucks that I can recall....not interested in spending that amount for coffee or pastries?
@Penny Giller actually other coffee shops are better than Starbucks. I think the place became overrated 🤔
The pastries at Starbucks are usually stale. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
I like a Jack In The Box Spicy Chicken Sandwich once in a while, surprisingly good. And Taco Casa, I'm not stopping Taco Casa!!!
You cameoed my favorite SBSP episode which is also the first, well done editors! 01:40 👀
When I discovered all the horror stories about fast food and after suffering some serious medical issues, I was forced to start cooking for myself. Over time, I not only enjoyed cooking my own food, but it became a challenge to try and replicate my old fast food favorites. Surprisingly, I realized how much of a passion I have for cooking and at the young age of 58, I'm considering going to culinary school. So, thank you for opening my eyes. Because of what you and so many others have exposed throughout the years about our food supply. I am now healthier, have a new career and I've saved money by not buying all that garbage.
I always do all the cooking at home for my wife & kids but sometimes my wife & I like to get away and hit a Buffet. Key is pig out on Seafood to get your money's worth avoiding heavily breaded items then sample everything else spoonful at a time to see what you like and can make at home. Internet is full of recipes if you like something you tasted.
Congratulations on the New Chapter in your life!!
That proves it's Never to late to find your Purpose after the Detours!🤗🥳🥳
After getting a shitty Halloween drink a few years ago at Starbucks, I’ll NEVER go back!
Thank u. Agree. Let Alone,. Their high $$$. !!!
When I order fila I fish I always always always say fresh. Granted you may get pulled up and wait it's worth it.
It hasn’t been the same since they done away with COD and a few years during the last recession it was then, they changed a lot of their products and, another was their sausage patties and, these to aren’t fit to eat now at McDonald’s neither. All the fast food restaurants cut their COD then, but, most of those places brought their COD back, thank God, because, it’s my favorite!
Wendy’s Chili is wonderful on a Cold Rainy Day.
Bloomin onions are the best hah. Yes imediatly cause diarrhea but they are awesome
I used to work at Subway. The Tuna is somewhere between 40-50% mayo, not 80% LOL! And I never saw any tuna that was past expiration. The employees open a big pack of tuna and mix it with the mayo ourselves during prep. So, depending on the person making it, there may be a little more or a little less mayo, but 80% is a big exaggeration. Not to mention, mayo isn't bad for you. It contains unsaturated fats which are actually healthy. The ONLY problem is that a lot of mayo is made with crappy quality oils like soybean oil instead of something good like extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil which are much better. Otherwise, the unsaturated fats in mayo are not unhealthy in any way. Quite the opposite, in fact. Not all fats are made equal, and the only types of fats that are super bad for you are trans fats, and the FDA banned trans fats in 2018.
plot twist ... most "bad food" is vegan ... like fries with ketchup ARE vegan
@@sotabaka To be fair, a lot of diets can be done right or done poorly. For instance, I do the Ketogenic diet. There is clean Keto and dirty Keto. I'm somewhere in the middle. I try to eat a cleaner Keto more often than not, but sometimes have processed crap that still fits within my macros if I'm feeling too lazy to cook. Same goes with Vegan. But even their "healthy" foods taste like garbage, so... no thanks, haha!
I'm not sure if you're familiar with this, but there's a convenient store chain along the Mid-Atlantic region called Wawa that has the same procedure Subway has about presliced coldcuts. I'm not sure how their tuna's made, but they do freshly bake their rolls. Sorry, but I'm a slice-it-in-front-of-me hoagie/sub lover. I'm a native Philadelphian, and still live nearby/ far enough away to get deli-sliced sandwiches and cheese steaks.
Tuna just hasn't tasted as good since they started packing everything in water, it's getting hard to find good tuna packed in olive oil anymore. Packed in water tastes like a tin can not fish.
I used to work at Arbys and all of the meat is 100% real.
It's been a long time since I ate at Arby's. How much are the sandwiches now? From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 their sandwiches aren't too bad money wise.
Great video. 👏🏻🤣
I worked at McDonald's, I remember giving a filet o fish to a costumer at 7pm that was cooked at 10:30am because the manager didn't want to throw those filet patties at all, never, she never liked wasting food because of food cost, etc.
Could always have the worker eat them for lunch, lmao!
It was COD back then, to! It sure isn’t now!
The only problem with your story, is it never happen. Don’t lie, it doesn’t make you one of the cool kids.
Order at 11 AM. It will always be fresh!😁
That's totally against McDonalds policy. They have a maximum holding time of 30 minutes.