Ex-Workers Reveal The One Item You Should Never Order At McDonald's
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2017
- Every McDonald’s lover has go-to burgers, sandwiches, meals, and desserts whenever they have cravings for the fast food joint. You can never go wrong with classics like the Big Mac or their famous Chicken McNuggets.
Even their fries and McFlurries are enticing after a late night out dancing with your best buds, but are there any items that you should never order at McDonald’s?
It’s hard to not try everything on the menu at least once, especially when the fast food giant unveils a new item. However, according to ex-workers, there is one item that you should never order at McDonald’s.
#McDonalds #Food #Health
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What other fast food orders should you avoid?
Mashed
All fast food in general
Stick with Wendy's
Mace S what are you talking about T-Rex burger
Mace S if I was younger and in better shape I would seriously eat that T-Rex burger
Basically anything that you don't see come out of the grill / fryer.
I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of these heating boxes, trust me! I worked there like a week ago!
Not anymore and not a customer anymore!
This isn't about the fish sandwich at all. More about bad employees serving that sanchwich
R4ppingPanda Wow! You're 16 and a chef at McD?! Is that even safe to handle industrial cooking equipments/burners at this age?!...
superbly random uh 16 is 2 years away from 18, we're human too? I mean we can drive wat do u think lol?
Don't take the bait...
Im 15 and handle food there
meaturama McDonald's management are employees..... so you're still blaming employees.
I’m an ex worker and it all depends on the location. We never let fillet patties sit in warmer too long. The warmer keeps it hot once we take it out the grease. But if nobody is buying them, they just sit there and cook and get hard. So we always kept about 4 patties in the warmer instead of like 10+ patties to keep a low amount of waste if nobody was buying them. All of the crew wore headsets so we can all hear orders in drive thru, so as soon as a customer ordered a fillet, grilled chicken, nuggets etc... we would drop them fresh so it would be fresh out the grease when the customer received the food. Don’t try to make it seem like it’s every McDonald’s because it’s not. We also cleaned our bun steamer constantly. If nobody else knows trust me I do. My general manager was a clean freak and stayed making us clean EVERYTHING. Ok I’m done proving you wrong lol
Agreed. The Burger King by my house is disgusting. I then tried a Burger King out in the rich suburban area and it was absolutely delicious. It all depends on the employees, some are lazy fucks and don't care about the food they put out.
111justinjames yes! In a big city, they are probably just SO lazy. Now I am not saying they are all lazy. Some can actually work really hard because their McDonalds could be packed. If you live in a small town like me, they are probably the only McDonalds there and they can also be packed, making them care and work hard.
This probably doesn't mean much but thank you so much for caring about others, and taking pride in your job. Sounds silly but it means a lot to me. I get regular infusions at the hospital, and any chance I get that I think I can actually eat without throwing up I have to jump on. Usually I get this chance coming home from the hospital at 3 AM...and guess who's the only place that's open? 😅 Since my immune system is crap it could really mess me up if the hygiene it food was off. Never gotten sick there. THANK YOU! ❤
Wow. I want to go to that McDonald's. Then again, the one by me serves food at such a high volume, everything's pretty fresh until like 11pm.
Can I get the address of that location? That's amazing to hear that they would be that diligent about keeping things fresh and clean(sad I know) more often than not at the McDs in my area, and the two that I worked at, they really do sit for quite a while, same about the tarter sauce sitting around and the steamer never was cleaned and if it was it was never very well. Also more often than not if you ask for yours to be made fresh it just makes the employees get shitty at you for having to do extra work so you end up with sub par food anyways. I would love to find a store that's as you described
*Edit*
Also they really never can get the cheese on the sandwich
As an ex Assistant Manager I can definitely say the McDonald's I worked at followed all the safe food handling practices their company promotes. They are by far the leaders in following safe food handling standards.
I worked there as a high schooler for over 2 years. It was awhile ago but none of the food was left around for very long and the tarter sauce did not sit out for days. That's a ridiculous assertation.
These ex employees complaining were provably fired. I eat the fillet fish alot. This is bullshit. I'm 70 and still kicking.
I thought they say when you get older, you get smarter so how come a "70 year old" writes and sounds like a 12 year old lmao
lol 12 year olds don't use capitals
@@adrianatgaming8640 Hmm, good point.
What kind of fucked up McDonald's do they work at? I'm serious when I say because it's such a low selling item, we make every fish fillet fresh.
maddman9876 we have them sitting there all day at mine.
you guys work at McDonald's? holy fuck, im going to college.
Suck Eggrolls Yeah fuck McDonald's, but I mean shit happens.
Suck Eggrolls. Yah i picked weed over college but im picking college next year.
Are you now talking down to an fellow mcdonalds employee? XD you should get some new life standards
I work at McDonalds and there is a thing called a FREEZER, where you store FROZEN foods LIKE FISH so that they dont GO OFF. And Tartare sauce is changed daily if it isn't used up its chucked out.
Battle Brother They meant that once they fry a batch of like 6 and only use two, the other 4 will sit in the warmers for another hour before being used for an order again.
Well you're meant to remove them once the expire timer runs out on the UHC. But I know lots of people redo the timer when it runs out. The UHC keeps the Filet at a certain temperature so they don't go cold. I can definitely see the filets going off if you go to a Mcdonalds that is mostly quiet. Usually where I work Filets require a new batch every 20-30 minutes.
in my mcdonalds we only have one in the uhc (warmer) at busy times and then cook to order at quieter times, they only take a few mins to cook
We have 3 UHCs, filets are quite commonly ordered but nothing compared to the big macs or the double cheeseburgers. Though this video makes it seem like filets are all moldy and cold when they are served.
Same I also work at McDonald’s 1 we go through the party’s fairly regularly and if not use there still in the freezer tarter sauce is also changed twice a day 1 through demand and the other store clean up at close
I like the Filet-O-Fish, but it's too damn small for the price they charge.
Jeffrey Emerson yes
It's only 1 dollar
@@vincentr6242 yea where you live at...down my way it 3 dollars for a damn sandwhich
@@groundshakersociety6637 oh here in Illinois there's something called the 1, 2, 3 dollar menu
Order 2....
Such a lie, fillet of fish is Cooked to order... I know because I cook them🤣
Lies
Eavy Muturuh nope
Banno Man thank you sir.
Right, and after cooked, it can only sit in warmer for 12 minutes. Strict McDonalds rule. I worked at one also.
But do you eat them? 😆
Many years ago I worked at a Mc Donald's in Roanoke Virginia. Every machine there from the grill to the steamer to the fountains were cleaned daily and some every shift.
When something's time was up it went straight to the trash. Our manager was on top of the store and staff and was and still is a very busy Mc Donald's. The only complaint I would have is the red light leading in and out took forever to change. 😎
Seymour Butts cam you tell me if the pancakes are frozen? I love them and I wish I could buy them my self
Yes they are
yeah I guess it depends on the area that ur fast food place is, its not the restaurant that's bad, its the staff
lol lol never eat food from a place with lots of ugly fat people working there, if their uniform looks like a mess, the food will be shitty
I can’t order one anyways. Every time I try, they hit me with the “Sorry filet-o-fish machine is broken”
Bryan Arnett That would mean one of the two Fryers they're cooked in is broken, which rarely happens.
Sonic does that with ice cream: they just don't want to fucking make it. Bastards
Bryan Arnett lol that is like saying the ice cream machine in broken but we can still me mcflurries
Just as well
Jerrick Bak i work at mcdonalds the shake machine and the ice cream machine to make mcflurries are seperate machines not the same
I worked at a McDonald’s and it was the cleanest fast food restaurant, I’ve ever been to or ate at and the fish fillet came in weekly with the rest of the produce. But yea I guess it depends where you live
Richard Vazquez yay!
Same
@Jessie Jay that term can have 2 _very_ different meanings
Because most of the stuffs in Mcdonald's are already processed or pre-made. A good example is the vegetables.
I used to worked at Wendy near my high school and you know at Wendy's they give you fresh cabbages and tomatoes? You know who cut the vegetables? Kids that barely had proper training. They don't practice good hygiene when doing vegetables, cutting the veges is easy so the manager will put this job to new, highschool workers. When it busy, people pay less attentions to this spot and trust me these kids do nasty things. I known it because I myself also did nasty things.
While shredded cabbages at Mcdonald doesn't taste good, it is a lot safer than the veges from Wendy, or at least the two Wendy's I went to. However, most of the time a proper, trained adult do the veges. Just try to avoid ordering a salad when it busy and you might be good.
My dad loved the Filet-O-Fish Sandwich and used to have it regularly. But then one day, he ordered one from McDonalds that he hadn't been to before. The sandwich gave him an allergic reaction and he had to be hospitalized. To this day, we have no idea what was in the sandwich that caused it, especially considering that at other locations, my dad was fine.
I’ve been eating fish fillet from McDonald’s all my life and this video ain’t going to stop me bitches
Same.. It's the only thing I order.. I have tried all the others just once, but nothing beats the fillet-o-fish for me
John Smith don’t u worry bud I won’t stop eating it. I hit the gym 3-4 times a week. And I eat atleast 2 ever week and it has absolutely no impact on my body
John Smith $5 ain’t shit to me...
I've never ordered it but now I have the urge to do so
Kevin Abla goodluck with that cancer and tumors.
ive worked at mcdonald’s for a couple years now, all of those things he said completely depend on the store, not all of them are like that. i will say however, it is fast food, you’re aware it isnt the best thing to put in your body. ive never eaten the filet o fish and i probably never will.
Was searching for this comment.
Same except with Arby's
i cant eat meat so i have no choice but to eat the fish
Angelkiddy x
shea that’s rough :P
Decided not to eat McDonald's after going into the restroom to pre. Someone in the stall stinking up the place. Out exited a McDonald's worker who left the restroom without washing his hands. This guy was the one who was taking the order. Immediately told the family we were leaving and going somewhere else to eat.
Mc d for all. It has filled
I wanna know how they get the bun so smooth?
Arooba xxx Many years ago I worked at Mc D's. The fish fillet buns were steamed.
Arooba xxx
Botox.
Carol Rogers Mmmm, Steamed *Buns*
Magical elves???
Arooba xxx chemicals
This is stupid. Of course it’s going to be frozen for at least few hours. Do you think they have a river out the back with staff going to throw a rod out every time someone orders?
Andrew F No at the McDonald's that I work at everything, most importantly fillet o fish, is always made fresh. the friers are cleaned everyday, too
Duh. What store doesn't bring in the fish straight from the river.
Andrew F Too funny Andrew.
Andrew F
Cersley? And here I thought the fish that I was getting from McDonald’s in Albuquerque New Mexico was straight out of the sea. Never ordering the sandwich again,
nonononononono. They don't fry the patties to order at mcdonalds, its not that they are frozen thats a concern, its the fact that new fillet o fish patties are fried up only when they have none that are currently fried up, its a system that works great with products that they shift instantly, like nuggets, chicken burgers and normal burgers, but a filet o fish, will be fried up, then sit on a heated rack for hours. When I worked as a grillfry at mcdonalds I would go entire shifts of never frying up filet o fish because we never sold them.
Never ordered fillet o fish before but after watched this video I want to order one.
EDITED: Just tried this yesterday and I think I'm addicted to it. Please send help.
Hafiz Ahmad it's good
you'll love it
Ethan Wunder 🎶ba ba badaba i'm lovin it 🎶
It's really good lol
Hafiz Ahmad dude it's my favorite item wtf is wrong with me
That never happened when I worked there. The amount of secret and known checkups make it impossible to have that go under the radar.
Mind you, I am talking about a corporate owned location.
As someone who has worked at McDonalds for over 2 years now. I can say most of this video is false. The Fish doesn’t sit in cabinets for hours, the timer is 30 minutes then it is wasted. The tartar sauce is wasted during the overnights and replaced in the morning. The fish isn’t microwaved to make it “fresh”, they will remake the fish for you on request. The fish is ordered regularly actually. Probably once or twice every 20 minutes. So most of it gets used up anyways. The oil it is fryed in is drained every day. Usually once or twice. They refill it with new oil to keep sanitary. And the steamer is cleaned regularly. So I don’t know where this veteran employee is getting their information from.
I work at McDonald's, something all should know:
The eggs we make from scratch but other than that
All the food comes frozen, all we do is heat it. I have no idea how the food is created but I know how it's prepared.
Coffee is freshly brewed.
Tea they make and refill often.
Orange juice is made by machines.
Cookies are baked and stored in bags or front counter.
I don't recommend the fries, those things are a mystery to me. They come frozen we throw them in the oil for a few minutes, then we toss them down to salt them. They will look fresh still after months and they are very fatty.
The burgers are heated in an oven so are the chicken, (I don't know what the breading is made out of).
Salads are pretty good.
Breakfast menu: the sasuage pattys come frozen and are heated, bacon is heated, o are the biscuits and pancakes. Oatmeal is instant (don't know if the oats are nutritional as regular ones). Not many healthy breakfast choices (personally wish the sold chicken biscuits).
Desert: All Mcafes are made by machine, (ice creame)... pies are frozen and are heated...
some MCdonalds are open 24 hours, we lose food as fast as we prepare it so it's always fresh and coming... we get food safety inspections. Personally, I really wish I knew how the factories actually make the food, all we do is prepare it.
jazzy Angel cookies are not baked. They are microwaved
Not true William, the cookies are baked because they come frozen, I work a Mcdonald and I never saw anyone putting cookies in the microwave
Meagan Trudel still wrong the one I work at and several I worked at before all microwaved
Well, not in Quebec I guess haha
Meagan Trudel oh. Sorry if I came across as a smart ass. I'm sure oven baked is better
Was drunk once.... Then had a sober friend drive me to the golden arches and request a triple fish with extra cheese an tarter sauce.... ABSOLUTELY AWESOME but I was drunk 🤣😂
no satisfaction Ewww
no satisfaction - TRIPLE ... Wow .!. but No Tartar on Mine - 'wanna taste the FISH 🐟🐟🐟
We’ve all had a drunken 3am shame meal.
Tyler Durden not me
Guardian Diancie time to start living
Quite honestly what you get really depends on the restaurant. My daughter worked at a McDonalds and never had anything bad to say about their fish sandwiches. There were other things she questioned but not anything that would be a health hazard. Like making the fry bin go further than it should. Meaning they would put the Frys in the pack and lay it on the tray with the Frys sticking out trick. If you picked up the pack and put the fries in it completely you would find your lucky to have just over a half container full of fries. It wasn't always done and not everyone did it. It was usually someone who ordered a big order and the fries started running low and they were busy. Rather than just hold the order until a new batch finished some of the workers skimped on the fries. I can live with that because all I have to do is ask them to fill it. But doing something that causes a health risk that's a new ball game all together. Lucky for us her McDonalds was pretty conscious of making sure the fish was cooked when ordered. The tarter sauce never sat out and for the most part they did everything they could locally to ensure it was safe. Now what happened prior to it getting to her McDonalds that was an all together different thing but it was the one thing they couldnt control and so they just ensured their part was done correctly. I had fish from her McDonals regularly and I never once got sick or got a filet o fish that tasted like cardboard. I have gotten a cardboard filet o fish at different McDonalds before. Which is why I always asked for it fresh. I have at times asked when I ordered it to please cook me a fresh one and I would assure them I didnt mind the wait. Another trick I found to ensure I got a fresh one was to order it with a whole piece of cheese on it and let them know I would will pay the extra for the cheese. Its extremely hard to take a precooked sandwich and put a half on it so it looks whole. For anyone who didnt know, McDonalds puts a half piece of cheese on the filet o fish sandwich right down the middle. So if I order a filet o fish with a full piece of cheese like it's done with a cheeseburger they almost have to make sure its fresh because it's very hard to move a melted half piece of cheese on a fish patty. Honestly when I order it with a whole piece of cheese I have always gotten a fresh sandwich I have heard it's not an uncommon request. So there you go, one extra way to get a fresh filet o fish. Just be prepared to pay extra for the cheese.
THATS THE ONLY ITEM I ORDER I ALWAYS GET A FISH FILET NO TARTAR SO THEY HAVE TO MAKE IT FRESH!....
Curtistine Miller I'll try that XD
Doing that doesnt necessarily mean you will get a fresh one lol. They will just give you a clean one out the tray( which most likely has been there for 20 to 30 mins heated) slap some cheese on it a out the window it goes. Trust me i worked there for 3 years
Can't eat it without tartar sauce though
Ramy Fares AW.OK THANKS
Curtistine Miller actually when people order that we just wipe the sauce off we don’t get a new sandwich
Not many people order this sandwich 30 seconds later the fish sandwich it one of the most popular in the United States... bruh
Its because we all want to die
"...the sandwich is still a popular seller.." Not the "most popular" as you said.0
the first statement was out of the worker's personal experience at the McDonald's he worked at
And you are the worst kind of mankind to tell everyone to pay for anything
Not because its popular, means its being sold tho. Maybe popular as to hate
Lol what am i sayin didnt even watch
You guys legit made a news article based on a Reddit comment that at the time had 1 vote on it? By some random anonymous person claiming to be an employee with no verification?
Raim Surion .......that random person might be the people making this video, lol
Raim Surion good point
no40 lol
I honestly don't think sitting around for a few hours is a big deal either - it's not ideal, but I like to buy an extra Big Mac for lunch, and eat it for dinner ~ like 6-ish hours.
I thought based off the video title half of the fish was gonna be toothpaste or something.
You’re not giving up fof for nothing are you?
The file o fish is that bomb. Plain and simple. It is pricy though, and I wish they would just put a full slice of cheese on it.
TWDxKILL3R I work there and I do put a full slice on lmao It’s annoying having to half it
Filet O’ fish machine broke
Understandable, have a great day.
But we also can just use one of the many microwaves for the buns
Reddit is a credible source now?
its where Drs go to get a second opinion on stuff
that would be a fair point if it was used as a second opinion, but instead it is the only source used by the video in the critique bit
Indeed. These posters could be disgruntled ex Mc Donalds employees or representatives of some other fast food establishment. Take this 'advice' with a pinch of salt (no pun intended).
Richard White Lol yes😂😂
Dont worry, you didn't pun anything :)
Never had a problem. It's not individual products you should be concerned about, it's individual stores. Spend a little time inside before your first drive thru order. Same applies for any chain. Also, any "restaurant row" is only as good as the local health inspector, and, some aren't so good.
Exactly. The McDonald's I worked at was very strict about making more food than necessary. And if food really has been in the cabinet for so long that it's no longer 'fresh', it gets thrown out, not served up.
Lance Baker Well, since most are owned by franchisees who have little restriction over how they run the place, there are actually very big differences between stores.
Lance Baker, I challenge you to take a long road trip and stop by every McDonald's along the way, or at least stock up there every time you top up your tank. There are differences. Even if all you eat is from the same chain, if you drive long distances a lot, you will have preferences to go to some locations and skip others. Make sure to give your favorites a good rating on google maps so they'll stay in business longer. Maybe they'll even expand and buy out the crappy locations.
OptimisticPessimist Don't bother, these close-minded people won't listen to anyone. Trust me, I tried.
King Reaper Cancer inducing, like the other 75% of the food you find in US malls? Sounds like a pot calling the cattle black to me.
When I was a teenager I worked several months for Burger King. While it was, like any other fast food place, a crappy job I honestly can't say there was anything I ever found that was truely nasty. Everything got cleaned on a regular basis and never saw anything unsanitary.
Lesson end of the day: just cook food yourself
Yeah, getting your sources from reddit. Very credential.
L H *credible
L H I will take info from Reddit with grain of salt. But I won't totally dismiss it. There are lot of sketchy things in pretty much any business, it is just a matter of if you know where to look and if you want to see it.
Credential?
Why not? I can believe that people on reddit worked at McDonalds
UnoriginallyInclined sure, but it's not really a credible source, it could just be the specific restaurant the poster worked at that had those problems... They could even just be making it up, anyone can make a Reddit account and post whatever they want.
Kinda want a fillet o fish now
Grant Nagel same
Same
Kinda want the rain to stop
Same
I think that was the point of the video right? If you ignore the narrative and quotes. That shit looks amazing.
I order my fillet o fish with a double pattie, double sauce, tomato and lettuce and they have to make it right there and then for you! And to my knowledge (and I used to work at Maccas here in Australia, the fish we used to use was Tasmanian Basa and I also know there were always fresh deliveries twice, sometimes three times a day to our store and the kitchen and entire attitude towards operational procedures was so regimented and strict it was as close to para-military as you can get. The family I worked for ran 8 different restaurants in Queensland, Australia.
The public doesn't seem to understand that IF and WHEN you make ANY demands on how Fresh you want your food or ANY complaints about the food in general you can find yourself on the back end of one fast food order that was more than you bargained for. In other words, don't piss off the order taker and the people who make your food at ANY fast food joint. You will find yourself eating something that was probably dropped on the floor on purpose and spit on. Be weary ....very weary of fast food joints.
It actually made me crave a fillet o fish lol
Dr Elite how? despite allow all this video claims. youd it a fish sandwhich with cheese? i hate burst your bubble and i think chef Ramsey would agree with me. fish and cheese dont go together.
TheUltrasora well thats your opinion lol
Same
Dr Elite me too I'm going for one right now. Extra tarter sauce please. 🍔🍟😋
Autumn Potato samme
I'm watching this and eating Filet-O-Fish right now. Ironic.
H. Al-Ghamdi u disgust me sir
That’s not irony lol
And keep on eating them this place was just nasty the workers specifically ..I thought I was gonna be some poison that McDonald's put no it justppl stating that they were lazy as fuck and didn't clean or worry about food
Please learn the difference between irony and coincidence.
H. Al yeah it’s never made me ill
Back in 1978 my first real job was working at McDonald’s. I ate a filet o fish for dinner one afternoon after getting off work. That night I woke up around 2 in the morning with an awful stomach ache. Soon I starting vomiting and had severe diarrhea. That fish sandwich never digested and I was throwing it up. I was sick for two days and found out that the cooler that was used to store the tarter sauce broke so the sauce was not refrigerated all day. To this day I have never eaten another McDonald’s filet o fish.
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I'm sure they've fixed it by now.
My daughter worked at McDonalds for years and in a few different restaurants as well. She said the content of this video as far as she is concerned is pure garbage. The food at the restaurants she worked at were always fresh and stored according to food hygiene standards and the equipment was regularly cleaned.
How many people in AMERICA catch, clean and cook their fish? I eat a filet of fish 2 or 3 times a year and I'm almost 70.
hitechburg, Nice.
You got swag
If they catch their own fish they can't be too bright with all of the Mercury and other carcinogens in the waters. And if someone buys farm raised fish they use animal waste in the foods they give to the little growing fishes. They use to include that animal waste in the dry pet foods until the government clamped down. How is your pet animal going to tell you that the food you feed it sucks and that they would be happier to receive table scraps.
What do you eat?! Do you have a supply of food that is 100% free of any toxins or genetic engineering?! It would good of you to share the source of this great food so that we can all eat healthy.
We both know that would be almost an impossible task. The person who grows their own food through indoor hydroponics still has to rely on unnatural nutrients to make it grow. The few independent farmers left can't even have fields of naturally growing normal seeds because of the winds blowing the genetically modified suicide seeds from their neighboring large corporate farms. Regular folk with limited budgets can't afford the organic stuff from the supermarket , even presupposing it was really free of harm and not some crooked farm using the organic label to raise the prices of their crops. One can only limit the harm and that doesn't mean eating fish or other foods with known toxins. Does anyone believe the municipalities purify the water of all carcinogen's coming from the open cesspool of a river the water is carried on? Natural spring water free of contaminates is a necessity in regards to preparing foods for personal consumption. Even the ice cubes have to be spring water. People in my area where the municipal water is toxic, have been found to contract lung cancer just from inhaling the mist while taking a shower.
What should you not order on McDonalds? °-°
Wendy's: everything
its shit
The baconator is pretty good.
Wendy’s> Mcdonald’s
stupid dog in 2013ish - After Wendys staff/mgt stole 40+$ from my hubby and I, we quit them. We gave them a 50$ and bought less than $10 but management sided with til operator so we were ripped off.
Wendy's is shit
The funny thing about this video is that some people don’t know the quarter pounder is the only freshly made item at McDonald’s but there are times where there were extra pounders made so there under a heater or spicy nuggets haven’t been getting sold so there under a heater but depending on who the supervisors are under these circumstances they’ll throw the food that has been getting heated for a long time and make new food to replace it. I work at McDonald’s, the closest to fresh food you’ll get is getting cooked food from us that we’ve had in a fridge or a freezer and the only reasons you would get extremely old food that was previously frozen is if the store couldn’t cook that food for a long span of time for some reason (the chances of that happening are slim) or if the store has very, very low traffic because at the store I work at, at least having food that’s been in the freezer or fridge for too long never occurs but when hat occurs several times throughout a week is that we don’t have enough of a product in the freezer and fridge
The highlights at 1:53 are extremely accurate. I worked at McDs for a few months. Even if the filet of fish was fresh, the tartar sauce would often get left at room temp for days and get coagulated and still end up in every filet of fish sandwich.
McDonald’s was my first job when I was 15. I can attest to this. Everything the reddit users said was spot on. Patties of any kind (chicken, fish, beef) are made ahead of time so that when someone orders, you don’t have to wait on them to be cooked. They’re kept warm in warmers that have timers that monitor their freshness. When the timer goes off, you’re supposed to throw out the food because it’s no longer considered fresh. Luckily, most food gets used before the timer runs out, but not usually for the fish. The filet o fish rarely gets ordered, so many employees will simply reset the timers over and over and over- sometimes for hours. Either because they’re too lazy to make more and record it on the waste sheets, or because the managers don’t want product to be wasted.
filet of fish is pretty much the only thing i eat at mcdonalds on the rare occasion i eat there... i really don't care if it sits out for hours, hell, i've eaten stuff that was sitting out in my house for days. like, i have an immune system, never got food poisoning or anything before. as long as its fine taste and texture wise what's the big deal? which it is, never got a bad one yet. im paying for FAST food not FRESH food... if i wanted something high quality i certainly wouldn't be going to mcdonalds.
I am a shift manager at a McDonald's in New Zealand, and i whip all of my crews' asses if they reset timers (let the food sit in the heated cabinet). It is super frowned upon where I'm from. If we do have to reset timers, I make sure I try one of the patties and throw them out straight away if they aren't up to standard.
That's a very good reason to stock in the warmer the minimum expected demand for the current freshness period and prepare more on demand when it comes unpredicted. This may be why some locations have waiting parking spots. Just make sure the customer knows how long the wait will be before confirming their order.
Number 15:
Tom Seath I worked in a store in Aus for a while and I can say our managers kept us on a short leash. Most of the time it is lazy workers with a shady code of ethics that fuck over an otherwise upstanding establishment. Out of all the places I’ve worked, maccas had the strictest policies on hygiene and cleanliness. The managers would never let you forget it.
Relying on posts on Internet sites to be used as facts???
Welcome to the 21st century
njam101 Reddit is a good source! No reason not to trust random people.
i go to reddit for my medical advice
Don't know if it's different in the US but I'm in Britain (ex McDonald's worker) and we never pre-made them. They're only ever made when ordered. And until then, they're kept in the freezer. I think this has changed now, but what I'd really watch out for is the chicken. That was pre-made and it would sit in a container to be kept warm forever. Despite the fact they were only allowed to be there for 20mins or something, then binned for a new batch to be made. I'm sure that's different now and pretty much everything is made to order.
I got food poisoning from Filet of Fish. My buddy who doubled down on them almost died.
As an ex Starbucks partner mine would be Frappucinos. Any of them, the "coffee" in it is a powder that costs Starbucks 88 cents to make. And what keeps the ice from clumping is a syrup known as "base" that has ass loads of sugar. Just remember every time you get one It's 5% milk, 10% ice, 80% "artificial flavors" that Starbucks also doesn't seem to have to give any info on...
Been eating these since a kid.....aint turning around now
Easy Mon3y same
I asked if they could cook my filet o fish in the basket with hot oil. They said no and microwaved it. The fish was dry and rubbery....totally disgusting!!
The sandwich isn’t bad ,the employees are bad
Well, most of it is true in some way. The Filet o Fish(FoF) has a separate deepfryer. And at the end of every day, every fryer is cheched to see if the oil is still useable. Truth is tho, rarely people order a FoF so the oil isn't often used, therefore it is not often replaced, but all still useable oil is filtred every night. In our restaurant, FoF'es were almost always made to order. Only when it was a busy day, we would keep 1 warm, and according to rules you can keep fried chicken and fish for 20 minutes. After that you have to throw it away. But this would go for everything, most stuff is usually thrown away after maybe one hour. And if we had a FoF order, we knew that it was "old" and when it could wait, we would fry a new one, an throw the old one away. As for the steamer, no it's not often cleaned, maybe once a day with a moist cloth. But it doesn't get dirty either.
You can also tell if your FoF is fresh or not, same goes for chicken nuggets/patties. If the crust is crispy, then it's fine. Otherwise just go back and ask for a new one. And as for the sauce. The dispensers are stored in the fridge between opening and closing hours and have a shelf life of 2 days if I can remember correctly. It would probably be used longer, but I don't really see any harm in it. I don't know about 24/7 stores tho. And keep in mind that at every McDonalds work different people and those might follow the rules strictly, or don't. The restaurant I worked for only reset "freshness" of products so we didn't have to make new ones. But after a certain amount of time you had to. We kinda went by this rule: If you would eat what you made, you could sell it. So long story short, it is nowhere as bad as this video wants you to believe it is!
i worked at BK, oil was barely changed, had to tell managers we need to change it, it was almost black
LONG LIVE FILET O FISH IS THE BEST THING OUT THERE BRO
12chrismi The Legend wow long comment I got bored at the first paragraph
Actually, the Fillet o fish sandwiches are very popular among Catholics during lent. That’s why you see ads for fillet o fish Friday’s during March!
John O'Donohue wait till they do a “Add extra fish patty for 50c” offer during Lent as well!
What exactly is lent
xRebecckahx the period between Ash Wednesday in Feb-March and Good Friday in April
Rabid Leroy Fan Portal ohh that's what those days are for, okay thanks
xRebecckahx Yeah, during that time period, Catholics obstain from meat, with the exception of fish. McDonalds capitalizes on this.
I worked at the McDonald’s in North Idaho and I this is true. While it’s common to reset the timer on things we sold a lot less fish than burgers or chicken so they could go over four resets often. And while leaving the sauce out would get you fired at my store, the microwave reheat we certainly did. In fact, we were forbidden to make anything fresh... unless it was for ourselves when we were closing up =)
I find that some locations always make it fresh, while others always give you a dried-up greasy hockey puck. I avoid ordering in those latter places. And if I do ever get a hockey puck, I return it.
now I want a filet o fish
igbatious Same lol xD
In my McDonalds in Denmark, we do not have a filet-o-fish patty lying around for hours. We simply fry fresh patties when ordered, which takes around 3:20 minutes. That way we don’t “waste” as much food, and also only serve fresh food
Cheers
Simon Same in Finland, its random to hear that mcdonalds is so hated in america...
Same in US . This video is a lie .I still do not suggest people eat fast food on a regular basis .
Simon yeah, same over here in the Netherlands....
I worked at McD in Germany for a while. There were really strict rules about the time that we were allowed to keep done burgers waiting.
They were also very strict on cleanliness and freshness. I doubt, that rotten food is served here. If a restaurant does it, they are breaching the internal rules.
I've *never* seen that dropped food was still served. Somebody doing this might have been fired on the spot.
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Pizza is one of the safest things you can eat. It goes from 450 degrees straight into a container, without being touched. Fast food salads, sandwiches, burgers, etc., usually go straight into your mouth after being fondled by a minimum wage teen-ager.
I work at McDonald's and I'd say it depends on the facility. Where i work we usually filter the oil and if its been out forever then we remake it. The only consistent concern is the room temp tartarsauce and the transportation
It's good. Just don't eat it everyday.
Kaz Kobb Absolutely, goes for anything except maybe cyanide
Kaz Kobb agreended
Big Smoke
Did you enjoy your two number 9's?
Kaz Kobb And your number 9 large.
Big Smoke and your number 6, with extra dip
Nobody is getting sick from this fish sandwich. Fat, perhaps....but not sick.
Sonic in Houston operates exactly like the McDonald’s mentioned in this vid. We use to let onion rings, corn dogs, anything fried, it all just sat under a heat lamp then got retried to make it hot. Only thing I’d recommend is the 6in hot dogs as they’re all beef and are cooked on a rotating hot dog grill that is cleaned twice a day.
I worked for McDonald’s, people who ordered fish fillets usually got fresh filets. We would never leave filets out for hours, it’s illegal to keep food past their use by time.
Weirdly enough it made me want to eat fillet-o-fish :|
SamPlushyFive i had 1 while I was watching this lmao
SamPlushyFive Me too
SamPlushyFive Mhmm, I don't particularly care.
#metoo
I have NEVER seen filet o fish on special for 2 for $3.50! Still, I have to order it because it's my favorite!
pegw legg 2 for 5 bucks in orlando
back when i lived in the us in 2014 we would have 2 for 3.50, but thats only certain times of the year. i think they just wanna get rid of overstock of fish.
. They always put the filet of fish on sale for the Christian lent season. Because lots of people give up meat or can't eat meat on Fridays. So even in 2017 America still gets 2 for 350
Where I live fish fillet is expensive as a Whopper usually 3.99 -$4. The only time it's on sale is during Lent and you can usually get it for a dollar but only on Fridays for the " no meat on Friday" crowd
In Austria we nowdays pay around 4-5 Us Dollars for each! I remember a decade ago it did cost a dollar less than that
Were 40c when first introduced. Had a full cheese slice, not 1/3 like today. It's a rare occasion to get one properly assembled - part of the filet is sticking out from the bun, the 1/3 cheese slice slid off the filet the oppsite side, tartar sauce dollop only on one side. And you can't "Fix" it 'cuz everything is melted together.
I worked at 3 different McDonald's. Here's what I can say about the Filet oh Fish.
1) Steam Bun machine is cleaned every 8 hours or so
2) Fish Patties are always deep fried in their own specific vat that fries and chicken can't touch
3) Tartar Sauce Bottles, once used, stay out, never refrigerated, unless it's a McDonald's that closes, in which case, they'll refrigerate it at closing time, but that could still mean room temp tartar sauce that's been sitting out for 10 hours for night shift.
4) they rip apart half a slice of cheese that's probably been sitting in room temp all day
5) fish patties last about an hour before being thrown out..... but if that's a lazy store, and 2 of the 3 we're, be prepared for fish that's been sitting in a warmer all day
5) Sandwhiches on the serve station don't last long if people cancel the order cause someone else will probably order it, but the last two make it a problem regardless
People crying about food sitting around are the same that will eat thanksgiving dinner after it's sat out for 10 hours.
no shit.
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Ted Logan Exactly!
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I don't care. Filets are freaking delicious!
they are if they are fresh..
njt002 Ikr when I get it the bun its just amazing
I thought I was like the only few that loved the filet-o-fish
Fish and tartar sauce
YES! ALL HAIL THE FILLET-O-FISH!
Brits have a reputation to eat loads of fish like one of them fish and chips (chips in the UK are just big french fries that seem to not been fried). But somehow in the mcdonalds in the uk, no one seems to order the filet-o-fish except my sister
I worked at McDonalds many years ago, around 1971. Back then, anything that sat for 10 minutes, got tossed, including the fish.
Damn presenters voice was grinding....
Vincent Kaniatobe wasn't it just!
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Now I'm hungry for some of that fish sandwich.
I was a ex employee many years ago in my teens.... McDonald's used a chemical on all products so you still feel hungry after a meal... That's why u always can have another McDonald's when you have had your first... IV never met a person to this day and walks out of McDonald's stuffed... There's always room for another... Why?
Avoid ALL fast foods!!! McDonald's and all other fast food restaurants should be taxed for all of the health problems they cause.
idc what sht is in my chicken, if it tastes nice it's going in there
PandaCom While ignoring how your body observes it.
BoomSonicSuper thank you
PandaCom same lol
Fucking vegans can suck my ass
Do what u want but that food makes u sick.
Been eating filet o fish for thirty years without any issues. I'm betting on all those preservatives they use.
It's preserving your life lol
Go eat somewhere else or make your food at home, with things you know the ingredients of, McDonald's preservatives aren't gonna "preserve your life", the only thing that they're gonna preserve well is your corpse after death (what a fun post-mortem trivia, huh?)
Thomas Jefferson along with many other of our founding fathers owned and enslaved many a fish.
Jefferson would wake up in the wee hours of the nite, tell his wife Jane he was going to drain the bladder, and then make his way to the family aquarium.
He would then doff his habiliments and fraternize with the denizens of the sea.
Scientist that study germline and epigenetics report an uncanny similarity between Jefferson's sperm and the tartar sauce that's smeared onto the Filet-o-fish sandwich.
Restaurants are inspected for food safety on a regular basis. Anything serious would get them shut down and the franchisee would loose his franchise rights.
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I will never order another McDonalds Filet-O-Fish again. The last 2 times I had one I violently hurled them both back up.
They are telling the truth. I worked at McDonald's in San Antonio Texas for 7 months the fish sat in the warmer for hours. That's not all the rest of the meat would also sit for hours.
The eggs would sit in the afternoon all afternoon and still a lot of the times be served. The sauces would sit out for days. If a sauce was emptied the container was filled without being cleaned. There are employees who will put raw meat with cooked as a holding place before placing it on the grill. Utensils and other dishes would be dropped on the floor and not be washed before being used. Once I dropped an entire case of little patties on the floor as I was trying to throw them out she placed them back in the box to be used. The same manner put food in a broken freezer. When I said something I was yelled at.
Food will sit in the window for hours already made and be given to a customer.
The employees are also not allowed to use the bathroom during peak hours, which was at least 6 times a day and lasted for hours.
I could go on and on instead I will leave you with 1 final image which should make you not ever eat Mc Donald's again.
Rabbi Finkelstein openly admits they take children drain the blood send the bodies to a processing plant to be ground up and sold to McDonald's for their hamburger and sausage patties.
Don't take my word for it look it up. There's also aborted baby DNA in all sports drinks and also does as well as pre made Lipton ice tea. It's also when so much other food.
It might be only at that person's store
Fil-O-Fish is the
only thing I order from Mcdonlads.
Daniyal Shah nah, because everything else McDonald’s sell makes me feel tired.
Daniyal Shah Yeah, McDonald’s drains my energy, and I feel like shit after eating it.
Louis Goo Saatchi same😂😂😂😂😂😂
Daniyal Shah i am and the mcdonald we know dont sell halal food so we order a vegetable burger or fish-O-filet
Daniyal Shah i am and the McDonald's my mum knows isnt halal so we either take a vegetable burger or Fil-O-Fish
at the McDonalds I currently work at, the fillet is cooked when the order is placed, the only problem is that for a fillet o fish we use half a cheese slice, so that other half cheese slice will be sitting there until another fillet o fish is ordered, which can take up to 30 minutes
Ironic. The fish is the only thing I DO still regularly get as an ex-employee. If you want to make sure it's fresh, request "no salt". The standard prepped patties are seasoned with a salt/pepper blend when it comes out of the fryer. Ask for this blend to be held and you can get a fresh patty. (Unless they ignore you, but you can check for the pepper.)
What it ultimately comes down to in terms of quality with the food, is the Employees. Some will use an old Fish patty just because they're lazy, some will make it fresh. Personally, i leave the Fish in the cabinet for a few minutes after their timer goes off-- only because i keep them up while the fresh ones cook. So, i can safely assure you my McDonald's' Fish is never bad, if I'm the one making the sandwhich.
As i said, it has to do with the Employee. If a Manager let's that shit slide, they deserve to be fired. I serve food the way i would want it served to myself.
Most ignorant thing about the Filet O Fish is McDonald’s is too cheap to put a whole damn slice of cheese on it!
There's actually a reason they only put a half slice of cheese on it, and it's not to save money. When they did consumer research on the Filet O Fish, they found that people preferred a half slice of cheese over a full slice because the full slice of cheese was overpowered the milder flavor of the fish.
pred0212 I get 2 full slices of cheese. Guess I’m not a normal consumer
Yea I worked there and I never knew why they made us do that.
Cheese is usually the best thing on a sandwich.
thrasherx2k1 who would even what cheese with fish? I’ve always wondered why McDonald’s has ever offered cheese with their fish sandwich! I never order mine with cheese or tata sauce! Just a little ketchup or lemon if possible is all I like on fish!
Hungry Jacks stopped selling fish burgers due to degraded product. Maccas on the other hand have shrunk their fliet by almost 50%. The pattie is no longer thick, approx., 10/12mm....more like 5/7mm.
Worked briefly at McDonalds. If customers knew what really went into their crap, they'd run the other way.
I have gone for Filet-o-Fish more times than any other meal. I have never felt disappointed with it
No McDs keeps cooked fillets, no one orders them. They are always cooked fresh. The oil they are cooked in is also only used for fish.
Exactly
i worked at McDs we had fryers for fries, chicken stuff, and cant remember if fish could go into chicken or had its own, i did fast food hated serving old food
Depends how busy you're location is. I work in one in a capital city so we always have atleast 2 in the warmer
Gregory Everson yeah its cooked in the ssme fryer but not the same oil. Sometimes the same oil as sides if its super busy and you don't have a choice
responsible lobster the one worked at was busy from breakfast till about 3-4pm then busy again at 5-9pm, we changed oil daily
"fast food seafood at a place that doesn't even specialize in seafood" should've been enough of a concept to prevent any sane person making such a foul decision
never had a mcnasty fishpatty, never will.
They also sell soda and the soda doesn't kill you instantly
The Filet-O-Fish is safe on Fridays during Lent. Always fresh then. LOL
That Filet-O-Fish is so small I don't think they use anything but minnows. McDonald's is disgusting anyway, and their ice cream machine is always broken.
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“Broken”
fillet o fish is nasty
Look, if it tastes good I eat it. Lol
Just Ai true
Same
Just Ai
That's just artificial flavoring lol
undrtakr900 lol true, but it’s tasty though
Filet O Fish....I like it. And it tastes really good. So i dont care if its made out of Ronald McDonald's yeast infected ass juice....
Joe S. OML LMAO
dangerous borderline woman ...why Thank You! 😁
Joe S. same lol
Joe S. Saaaame
Joe S. ya
I feel like this is more related to American McDonalds, I worked at a McDonalds in the UK over my summer holidays and the fryers and streamers were cleaned every morning, all the burgers are made to order and the filet ‘o’ fish is no exception, also the tarter sauce aswell as any sauce with a mayo base were kept in fridges when not in use
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This is my favorite sandwich they serve.
Abdullahi Mohamed ...Mine too...😳😩
tough luck!
Abdullahi Mohamed mine too
Abdullahi Mohamed its no more my favourite fish burger ...
Abdullahi Mohamed me too :,(
They Ussually don't cook fillet of fish in advance .they normally just cook them up fresh . and by the way it's A STEAMER ! what kind of bacteria can live INSIDE A STEAMER ???????