If Chain Restaurants Were Honest - Honest Ads
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IF services like Factor were honest... nothing like ordering food in the mail and getting rotten remains full of mold and maggots and being unable to return it.
Factor...yikes those facilities are somehow even worse than fast food restaurants. Not to mention when they send you moldy food instead of refunding they offer credits for more moldy food. I guess this channel will take advertisements from anywhere lol
Sorry that I'm not the only one who experienced what Factor is really like. Ripoff city & so lazy - rubbery chicken breast with the same vegetables in so many dishes.
Fucking sellout!
No.
"own an air fryer. congratulations you've just unlocked our entire appetizer menu." just bought an air fryer a couple months ago!
didn't he mean 'deep fryer'?
@@benmnch2000yup. But the average viewer of this video will think an airfryer makes stuff just as good. Air(sorta)crisper just doesn't have the same ring.
@@damyuu23 With air fryers you dont eat trans fats...
@ where are you even getting transfats from these days? There are not normally transfats in deep fryers these days. It's not even legal for the past decade where i live. Air fryers are just mini convection ovens and are no replacement for deep frying. Most things from these kind of places aren't worth eating if they're not deep fried. I just choose to eat something else.
@@damyuu23 From heated up coocking oils (frying, baking)...
I notice the older the franchise/restaurant, the worst the food gets. They don't try anymore, they let popularity and nostalgia do the work.
It's called Enshittification.
Dude, the food was never good. It’s always come from a microwave or flash oven. It’s new and shiny so your mind tricks you into thinking the food is better. It all comes from the same prep warehouse, shipped in freezer trucks to all locations for 50 different restaurant chains.
Because they know that people will still buy it because they have name recognition and convenience on their side.
Popularity & nostalgia are 100% profit!
*cough* McDonald’s *cough* *cough* damn my throat’s really bad today
Have you all noticed that the appetizers are starting to be the same price as the entrees. I guess they got tired of people filling up on cheese sticks.
No, appetizers were always a ripoff, so I rarely bought them.
Yes though be fair with a good eye I can actually make a pretty tasty meal by ordering a bunch of appetizers to go 😊
I got dragged to a Chili's once. I ordered the nachos, because nachos are generally safe. It was $10 though, which was pretty steep at the time (~20 years ago), so I asked why. They said it was to pay for the "nacho machine", which ensures it's the same every time. When it arrived, there were -- and I counted twice to be sure -- exactly eleven chips. Almost a dollar per corn chip, each with a thin layer of bean and cheese precisely sprayed on. And they were soggy and bland. That was the last time I ever went to a Chili's.
@@ToyKeeper I think I would almost rather eat at McDonalds than those sit down chain restaurants.
Steakhouses are the exception.
12.99 for - uh - let's see...Yeah! 5 boneless wings! Or two small tacos! Or 4 Mozerella sticks!
When I worked fast food, I was that guy who took apart and cleaned the ice machine and ice bins. He is definitely not wrong. They need regular cleaning, and not just a quick rinse.
You and I were the only ones to clean them.
I was always the one who took apart the soda fountain and cleaned it. At one job the owner said, I thought the soda nozzles were black? I said no, clear. That was mold.
@thndrgrrrl We cleaned those every night. They were then soaked in sanitizer over night, and then rinsed and reinstalled each morning. It was just part of the daily routine.
I was the one dumping yesterday's ice coffee and not just pouring out the mold on top, if no coworker was there to witness it and stop me. I have virtually never had iced coffee since.
I worked at McDonald’s they only cleaned the soda machines when we had an inspection, they get pre-warned
I always ask for no ice simply because it dilutes the "liquid candy" that is soda.
This video has given me a much better reason.
it's good for your immune system
Thats not even true, the soda you get in these machines are not the same as the ones you get at the store, its formulated with the idea that its going to have more water added in the form of ice. Its a higher concentration than you are used to, just so it taste right when adding ice. Also, if you ask for no ice, they still end up filling it up less. They're not really giving you more soda.
@@gmcubedwhy would a worker on minimum wage care about filling less?
@@gmcubedI'm pretty sure OP called it "liquid candy" specifically because of that different formulation.
Mmmmmm, moldy ice 😂
I repair commercial ice machines, and the moldy ice machines line is an understatement.... 90% of ice machines are only cleaned when they break down because of how bad the mold and algae buildup has become that it prevents the machine from running.
While it is gross, you are unlikely to become sick if you consume it.
your last sentence explains why it doesn't get cleaned often. no point in decreasing profit margin if it doesn't get customers sick.
@@aceshigh5157we live in a society
Can you taste it? My Mold-free ice trays can taste funky, wouldn't the super mold affect taste?
They used to have a segment on the local news to highlight all the restaurants in Houston who got caught with “Slime in the Ice Machine”
Yay! I get a cold soft drink and a dose of penicilin for the low low price of my health.
When I was asst manager at a restaurant chain, I saw the profit side of things. It was INSANE. It costs less than a quarter for the soda and ice, the paper cup with the company logo costs more. That's like a 10x profit on every soda.
And they still had the audacity to pay people $7.25/hr. Even the GM was only making a little over $10/hr in 2016, back when Walmart was paying entry level employees the same. I did it for about 4 months, said "I made more as a delivery driver" and quit to go do exactly that. Plus I was salary, so my 40-50 hours quickly became 60 and I was technically making less than minimum wage per hour.
The franchise owner bought a new big house, 2 new cars, and opened at least 3 new stores that same year while his employees couldn't afford rent. I despised him.
And yes, the ice machine was full of mold. Most restaurants are hella gross in the kitchen area because no one gets paid enough to care and there isn't time to anyway.
That's the one thing I noticed at McDonald's. There's NEVER enough time for truly proper maintenance. We got a new boss like a year ago and he's definitely better at it, but there's only so much you can do with what little time there is when people don't stop ordering
That last paragraph is everything summed up. Eating at any restaurant is kinda rolling the dice from what I've seen. I think in a lot of places if customers entered through the kitchen, they would think twice about staying for dinner!
True story, 2006- Orlando FL. Our hotel mgr, owner had a red ink 📑 county code enforcement notice about the hotel bldg, ceiling 🏨 . He rolled up the next day in a new Porsche Cayenne SUV! 💰💰💰
A popular fast-food burger chain is pulling the pop/soda machines back behind the counters. I've already seen this at one.
@@joeybagodonuts6683 I had a guy come out of a famous fast-food chain place; as he approached he said "don't eat there" and kept walking. He didn't look happy. I left without ordering.
Having been working in the restaurant industry for over 26 years. This was absolutely spot on. BRAVO 😂
I hate eating out, nothing positive about the experience. My cars in getting some work done at a shop right now. So I have to eat out for 3 weeks straight. I'm on day 3 and I feel bloated and gained at least 4-5 lbs already. I hate it, I'm going to have to fast for 3 days a week for 6 months straight. When I'm able to eat normally again to lose weight. As my workouts do nothing to negate a 2,000-3,000 calorie meal of grease, oil, butter, salt a day.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9lWait, can you not pack a lunch from home? And sorry it's going to take 3 weeks to fix your car; that must really suck
@@RainbowFlowerCrow The kitchen I use is at another house 130 miles away. The kitchen in my house is non functional. Its been this way alongside 2 bathrooms being the same for going on 2 years. Too costly to repair. Without my car I can't drive to where I cook all my meals on the weekends every week.
I drive 130 miles every weekend to cook with my car. Otherwise I can't eat realistically. It does suck yes.
How? Why? I mean, how did you last that long? Why did you not get out of there? I'm genuinely asking, as I worked retail, warehouse, call centres, IT, teaching, and a line cook among other things. I could, would NOT go back to a restaurant.
@@user-gz4ve8mw9l Gosh, I hope things get better for you soon.. I understand how frustrating it is to not have a functional home. I hope your car is fixed now too; fingers crossed for you, eh
6:13 As a former Applebees server, I can tell you that _every_ vegetable item you get is prepared this way…😅
Suggestion: If Holiday Shopping Was Honest.
Ooo good one. Especially if they calculate the death toll.
“Black Friday: where you trample over and assault people in stores the day after you celebrated being Thankful.”
I mean, it's October 13, what are you waiting for?! We've slowly been creeping our Holidaymas merchandise in stores for weeks! There are a mere 104 shopping days until Holidaymas and that includes the days we clear out Holidaymas merchandise for Shower Your Female Significant Other With Shallow Gifts Day merchandise and Rabbit Zombie Nonsense candy on December 3rd
they've done that! search for "if people who sell you shit on black Friday were honest" or something like that
Or any shopping.
It's been years since I've been to a sit-down chain restaurant and this is making me not regret that 😂
I like living in a small town, lots of non-chain restaurants that are actually pretty good
You must be fortunate enough to live in one of the few American small towns not decimated by Neoliberal capitalism.
@@timothyrockwell2638SHADDUP... XD
@@timothyrockwell2638Most small towns are this way. It's only the most isolated and impoverished areas that are dominated by chains.
@@timothyrockwell2638Main Street in my little hometown was nearly annihilated (not reduced by 10%-decimated) when Walmart opened up in the early ‘80s. It took over twenty years for that town to recover but none of those businesses returned and there are still empty shells of some of those dead stores to this day.
What "small town" has a lot of non-chain restaurants? We must have different definitions of small. I am from a small town, and the food was @ss.
Karen: I'm calling corporate.
Corporate: We do not care.
Corporate: "Hello this is Karen, I need to speak to your representative before taking your complaint."
Damn they thought of everything
O yeah!
That was exactly the reply I got from Taco Bell for the Queen Anne location in Seattle charging 3-4 times as much for each menu item than all the other locations in the city.
I had a GM who told me that telling a customer to call corporate is basically telling the to call 1-800-who-gives-a-sh!t.
@@steveleavell114 Lol people have definitely gotten fired/disciplined from corporate being called. Obviously depends on how often or articulated and valid the complaint.
Fun fact: Lobster was regarded as the cockroach of the sea for years. No idea when but there was a shift and now people start drooling at the idea of lobster.
yes, it was actually prison food
Wealthy people made it a popular by doing what they always do and eat things nobody else is in order to be different and as a result poor people picked up on it and started eating it too and now it’s a popular and very expensive food option
Yep was considered peasant food. Same with shrimp and other crustasians I believe.
Dipping it in melted butter hadn't been invented yet
It still is,
I worked at a place when I was in college that broke down and cleaned the soda and ice machines daily. I remember thinking "wow, none of the other places I've worked at did this....ever"
@@OnGuard3S we did, too. Sad that many stores don’t.
3:40 "Chains are the anonymous Tinder-hookup of food, a real _pump-&-dump."_
Talk about coining the perfect phrase - I think I'm going to have to steal this one. 👍👍
Before I read your username I assumed you were gen z...it was one of the things we in the states had decided for us we would stop saying about a dozen years ago
...you got a point on the ice machine. I cant for the life of me recall ours ever being taken apart.
...and dont even look at the top of our backup freezers n fridges in the kitchen.
Yeah and not just mold but roaches love ice machines too.
eat, don't look!
eat, don't look!
I work in an office building with a giant kuerig for everyone to use. One guy found mold floating in the water tank, who knows how long people have been drinking that!
I can attest that ice machines don't get cleaned unless someone deliberately takes the time out of their other tasks to do something that everyone gets mad at them for. Only other way to make it work is if you defrost it overnight and you work the opening shift in the morning and can clean it before upper management walks in and just turns on the machine again, because they can't stand the possibility of a customer complaining about not having ice.
When we defrost ours to clean it (regularly), we take a couple lexans of ice and chuck them in the freezer.
Restaurants: if you never see the grime, you'll come back here every time.
When you're here, you're disappointed 🙁 .....
The only restaurant I trust is Pollos Hermanos
I like the owner, Gus Fring. He has a smile you can trust.
@PlebNC truly a dedicated owner who takes pride in his business
The chicken there is so good. It's addicting like some kind of drug.
It's those commercials that the owner stars in himself... he's such a nice guy😃
You should try their blue ice!
Inspire Brands is the company who owns Jimmy John's, Dunkin, Arby's, Sonic that's owned by Roark Capital who owns over 50 brands and just bought Subway for over 9 billion dollars.
Hahaha, they bought subway. One born every minute.
@Wdavidmetzger Google Roark Capital Profile.
This might not apply to all big chains, but I can tell you from my experience working at a large chain casual dining restaurant for 6 years that our veggies were delivered fresh every day, we made our soup from scratch daily, and we didn’t microwave the food or the plates. And guess what? Our ice machines were melted down, disassembled, scrubbed, and sterilized every week!
A bit absurd that you tell us all this but don't mention the name.
Could you tell us the name and location of that restaurant, please?
Yes. Dox yourself or your lying...
@@RainbowFlowerCrow
No, no he can't. He's actually making it up is the problem here
My father owned several KFC restaurants between 1966-1992. We ran our stores as we saw fit. (I worked there myself)
We had control of things we prepared (like cole slaw) and several optional choices varying by region or time of year. Several years we offered stuffing w/gravy instead of potatoes during Nov.&Dec. It was so popular, people asked for it months after we stopped selling it (Corporate rules).
But things got really bad when Pepsi bought R.J. Reynolds. We had reps come in, telling us what/how to do things…mandated our Cole slaw sauce and changed the GRAVY! We also had to switch to “the new way” of breading the chicken due to Health Department regulations (silly fucking laws) which changed the look and flavor of the chicken. My father resisted the change and was threatened by Corporate they’d take away his franchise license. In our state NC, we were top 3 in sales for 20 years straight…in a town of 25,000. We knew our customers and we tweaked our food to their tastes. Dad was a great owner!
My dad finally sold his rights to another franchise owner.
Pepsi killed the old KFC. It’s a shadow of its former self.
Explains a lot because KFC is ass now
I didn't expect a youtube comment about KFC to make me depressed when I woke up today.
The truth comes out. KFC really isn't the same. Grandpa's not really 'just sleeping'.
Where in NC? Eastern, like Greenville or coastal like Wilmington or more western?
@@davidhowell1415 yes, like Greenville, anything east of G-ville is considered Eastern NC
"Calories? We like to call those 'flavor points' here at _________ ___________ Factory" - something I actually heard a server say once.
I love Taco Klaxon! When I was a kid they'd let you crank the Taco Klaxon handle on your birthday!
It was suggested that Roger should only be paid minimum wage for this one... to 'keep within the theme'.... But that intern hasn't been back to work in a few days.
And he's not answering his phone.
And they found his car behind the Hortco Weiner Factory.
And Roger brought free hotdogs to the shoot...
Ok, now we need "If true crime series was honest"!
I've started exploring local restaurants more and while you dont get that consistency, they often give you more food for less money. Sometimes the place does suck, but sometimes its just better across the board compared to a chain
I immediately got a cheesecake factory ad after the video ended. I love it when humor just falls in your lap
My inalienable right to have the freedom of illusion of choice.
The ice machine mold is completely true
I’ve never worked fast food but my siblings did and told me stories about things. Made me never want to eat there. I did work for 7up for a short while. I started as a warehouse worker and then a driver for a short time. Taking soda into those restaurants really opened my eyes.
We like chilis and the head chef at the location we go to is super picky. We had our meals come out a little longer because it was busy and he gave us gift cards and apologized because it took too long. We have not gone to other ones because he does such a good job on the food. Sometimes you get someone who cares and it makes the quick food good. Thanks chilis chef you cared and we have never had even an average meal at your restaurant. Food workers are overworked and underpaid. I NEVER give less than a 50 Percent tip unless you messed up. If the kitchen messed up and you took care of it then you get a good tip.
Thank you restaurant workers!
I have enjoyed the blooming onion for over 10 years. Now I know how to make a makeshift one at home and save $11 and a trip. Thanks Roger.
I make my clam chowder the way God intended: raking the blasted hell-fire stones of a freezing Massachusetts beach for mercury infused bivalves, harvesting corn and onions from a neighbor's farm until they decide I'm excellent for target practice, and milking a cow who's soul has been purchased by the devils from the outer void. And some pepper.
plenty of pepper
I've worked the food industry for over 20 years. I promise you, this video only scratched at the surface. If you only knew or do know, if this video told all, it would be almost double the the length of The Stand.😂
We go to Applebees for their all you can eat shrimp, riblets and chicken nuggets drenched in sauce. Their shrimp breading is super easy to pull off which means that if you bug the server enough times and order dozens of plates you can stuff yourself with about 2 pounds of shrimp and feel like you got one over on them. Endless means endless and I want the shrimp and keep it coming.
😂
Chile. Just imagining that exhausted me. I’d feel like I literally had to fight for my food. You have fun. 😂
@@therealkoolaidandkale 😆
You could do a video on airports. The variety of convenience stores that are named after different TV Networks and are exactly the same. Selling $5 bottles containing the same water that you can get for free at the nearby water fountains. The variety of restaurants that are all owned and operated by the same franchisee at each airport. Airports are a monopoly orgy. Many of them offer only one brand of ATM's. If you aren't a customer of that bank, you still have to pay to use them, of course. Then there are the luggage carts at U.S. airports. Owned and operated by just one company in the entire country. In spite of the monopoly, they are allowed to charge way more to use them than any airports outside the U.S (who take care of their own carts).
Don't forget the ridiculous on property airport rental car fees
@@kyledavis4890 Most renters at airports are from out of town. The textbook definition of taxation without representation.
Any health inspection, the ice maker ALWAYS fails, no matter what restaurant. The bin of the ice maker is its own micro civilization. Believe it or not, the cleanest places that always pass are..... McDonald's! Not even joking.
I never get ice anyway simply because as it melts it waters down the soda. It also takes up most of the space in the cup so you don't get as much actual soda if you get ice.
Also free refills are still a thing everywhere however some places keep the soda machine behind the counter where no one wants to go to get a free refill because it requires waiting for another person to take your empty cup to fill it for you and you really don't want to interact with random strangers working behind the counter any more than you have to. So unless they have a self serve machine those free refills aren't happening.
I've worked in restaurants since 1992. That ice machine mold thing is real and soda machines are gross.
I worked in restaurants for 15 years. I've cleaned an ice machine twice and I keep a restaurant much cleaner than most did.
I’m fortunate enough to live in a place with plenty of non franchise options. Although sometimes they’re a bit sketchy too, but it’s usually easier to spot
Its true about the ice machines. The owner of my local subway makes it a point to get on a ladder and scrub his weekly. They get customers just because the ice is so clean. I am sure he is an outlier considering the work involved.
Waited tables at two applebees twice. Every side waas microwaved i think. Ive dropped "grilled" vegetables in the deep fryer, microwaved burgers and slid both across the grill to look grilled.
As a culinary arts student, this ad hits home.
I like how he mentions just get an air fryer and make these at home. Wanna know who makes all these products in the freezer isle?.....STILL TGIF!
Yes. No need to get ice at any of these places. The stuff comes out cold and you get more without ice. Oh and I dont think I need to talk about the lettuce. Give them a chance to add water to anything and they will. Except to clean things.
Thanks!
I bartended for a chain and appreciated the bar manager who made the margarita machine mix before I got in. Turns out he was putting the liquor in his car rather than the mix.
Microwaved soup - just like I made in my dorm!
Geez. This is so absolutely true. I worked in the sevice as a kid. It is insane the money they charge for the stuff we just pulled out of a freezer cardboard box and bagged it up. You could absolutely make better items at home for 1/10th the price. Even the soup was just some shipped in a plastic bag that you cold soaked in the refrigerator. Total scam. Won' name the joint, but worked at two large chains.
I worked at a chain restaurant in 2021. The place was filthy, the equipment was worn out or broken, we were perpetually understaffed, and the GM treated everyone like shit. The OSHA Mandated charts detailing labor laws were hidden in the back hallway where only the managers and dishwashers would see it. The stock room floor was always sticky from the leaking fountain drinks. There was mold on the walls in the walk-in refrigerator, half the eggs arrived broken and would leak onto the floor. Behind the grill was a nightmarish wasteland of fossilized French fries, lard, grease, and egg shells. The handle on the meat cutter blade guard was broken, and if you weren't careful, you'd shred your fingers on it. The mixer was always splattered with dry batter, which very few people ever cleaned up. Everything there was made out of powder or came out of a can or plastic bag. When we got fruit or vegetables in, whoever unloaded the deliveries had to go through and take all the moldy or rotten stuff out and throw it away. One night, when we power washed behind the grill, my work shoes got so coated with gunk, it was actually more hygienic to remove my shoes and socks and walk out to my car barefoot. Anyone who is wondering why the Health Department never shut the place down, health inspections are a complete farce. We always passed.
I've been told that a lot of this has been improved under new management. I don't know.
The ice machine though, he’s spot on with that one
Some say it's like sex with your mouth...
[dudes at table with very distant stares...]
I don''t know who said eating is like sex - either I am completely tasteless, or the people making that comparison settle for starfish sex and call it great.
I worked a nation restaurant chain in the 80s. (Not gonna name it.) One day while setting up the salad bar for lunch I noticed that the container of pineapple chunks was bubbling. Why? Because they were FERMENTING. I mentioned it to the assistant manager who said she would check it. She didn't. I quit a few weeks later to work in logging, and I didn't eat at another one of their franchises until 2012.
Why not name and shame?
@@Mcspazz731 The place I worked was particularly bad. They can't ALL be bad. We had a really good manager, but he moved on to a better location. He was replaced by a slug. Everyone hated him, and it showed in the quality of service, maintenance, and cleanliness. On my final night I quit loudly and ambiguously. It was several years before I ever ate again at any of their franchises.
In fact, these crustaceans were fed to prisoners, apprentices and slaves. Lobster actually became one of the most popular canned products on the ...
1:22 to skip the ad 😊
It's nice when truth and hilarious humor coincide, txs!
The ice thing is crazy true 😊
Covid lockdowns had some positive side effects. One of them was getting me out of the bad habit of going out to eat. It’s expensive junk food. I much prefer cooking at home and I have taken to inviting my friends for small dinner parties. We can tailor the day, time and I make sure to cook a variety of foods so everyone has a choice. And, they bring wine or dessert. It’s a win win!
That artichoke dip be bussin tho
Like you're really getting better food from Factor compared to Flinger's and Chotchkie's
The _irony_
A co-worker had looked into Factor and it's almost $18 a meal.
@@danwhitaker9168for food that isn't quite as good as a Lean Cuisine
"Chains are the anonymous Tinder hookup of food. A real pump and dump....
...approximately 8 hours later!" 🤣
I eat out often-on my porch watching the sunset. I tip myself well, too.
If the calorie count doesn't scare you away, the sodium count should. Good thing no one has eyesight that good to read them. 😎
Talking about the profit margins got me thinking about how theater's are making bank on popcorn... then one of the recommended videos was 'if theaters were honest' at the end of this one :D
As a teen, I worked at Burger King for 6 months moving up to supervisor. I was taught how to clean the nozzles for the soda machines. They were all moldy and no one knew the last time they were cleaned 🤢 I made it my job to disassemble them daily. Doubt anyone cleaned them after I left
My 1st encounter with Roger. Sometimes...on VERY rare occurrences, I'll hear a song and upon the very 1st listen, be completely taken by it. This video is that song!!! Roger is in a class by himself, classy and full of class (add wit snd charm). Instant fan her from Buffalo, NY. To Roger, hip hop hooray!
I never saw the mold on the soda machine, but the nozzles were so sticky and hard to remove that I I only recall seeing it done 3 times in the year that I worked in a restaurant. Mind you, we aced the health inspector and the place was micromanage spotless, so I can only imagine what big chain store would be like.
As someone who works at Wcdonalds, I can confirm there's mold in all of your drinks.
And what the heck was that anime-themed sauce campaign about?? I mean, it's not l-like I know about a-anime or anything, B-Baka! I...I just come in trying to order the WcMILF Employee Meal, okay??
The shit youd only find at McRonalds.@@markh.6687
It's true about the ice machines. They never get cleaned at chain restaurants.
🤢
Sorry but this gross thing was mentioned in the video. Years ago during summer break from college I worked at a distributor for Taylor soft serve and shake machines. My job was to pick them up from fast food places frequently McDonald's and bring them to the shop for service. When back at the shop I opened the panels and steam cleaned them with a sprayer then the techs would work on them. About a third of the time when I took of the panels hundreds of roaches would spill on the floor. The lines would have tiny leaks at the connections and the shake mix would slowly leak on to the internal equipment. The roaches loved it. To be fair I never saw them in the containers where the mix was but the parts were coated with them. Needless to say I only order shakes where they are handmade.
Honest Homest videos:
Instead of going to the Olive Applecake Office restaurant, buy TV dinners by mail and enjoy mediocre high preservative filled salted crisco food at home.
These restaurants are outgrowth of college dining, where the students didn't know how to cook or didn't have a kitchen...
Then they graduated to two income marriages where neither wanted to cook or cook and entertain friends.
Hey now, the restauraunt I worked at didn't microwave everything. Only the 'rotisserie chicken' (rotating in the microwave is what makes it rotisserie amirite?), ribs, spinach dip (puts the spin in it), and anything that wasn't moved from the freezer to the fridge by the opening staff. Believe it or not, veggies cook faster in the dirty, basically black deep friers, than they do in the microwave!
As an HVAC tech, I know that unless a company pays to have that machine deep cleaned, it is not clean. I have seen fur and mold grow where water is supposed to be. CLEAN YOUR ICE MACHINES!!!!!! Ice is food!!!
The way Roger looked at him when he told him he was missing the point 😂😂😂
“Sloppy Up Toppies”!!! Omg 😅😅
😏
And now I can’t have ice. Thanks Roger 😔🤮
Y'all gotta do "if Black Friday" was honest...
Already did it.
Idk about the rest of it but he on point with the ice machine, every restaurant I ever worked at, I had to fight with the manager to let me clean the ice machine. The manager's worst nightmare is to come in one day and there's no ice, they don't care if there's a dead rat in there as long as there's ice in there as well. People will go absolutely ape s*** if they're told that there's no ice for their drinks and they will take it out on the manager. The only time I got to clean the ice machine is when the manager knew that we were going to be closed the next day and there's plenty of time for the ice to build back up.
It's so true about the ice machines, and dishwashers too.
Learning to cook / the costs of ingredients really turned me off of these kinds of places. I always get there and think "man i could make this myself for 1/3 the cost." I usually only eat at places making something that requires actual skill, time, etc. like sushi or BBQ. I also never drink when out. For the cost of 2 drinks you can get 750ml of alcohol and make 15 drinks.
Yesss!
Michael Swaim, the legend himself.
Loyal fan since the early Cracked days here ❤
Great video! Honest Ads is in my cultural time capsule. Wherever I might go, it'll be relevant.
If tipping was honest
It's hard to find some one who hasn't worked at one of these places at some time. Yet we still go. It's like a LOT of over-priced places, we are somehow convinced that we are paying for the convenience. So let us continue to believe that Gordon Ramsay is back in the well hidden kitchen throwing what we don't get in the faces of traumatized trainee chefs.
to be fair blooming onions r a mess and u have to toss the oil if ur not making more. i ask some frie trucks and they say its not worth making. they cant use the same cooker they use for the fries
Lobsters are arthropods. So are spiders. Enjoy your sea spiders everybody! #zoologistsruineverything
Tasty sea spiders. Can't forget the tasty part. Also aren't shrimp related to insects?
Cooking is my forte. I learned to cook just so I didn't have to pay anyone else to eat something delicious. My favorite thing, I've found, is smoking meats. I'm a helluva pitmaster.
Next episode: "If pre-packaged food subscription services were honest"
The Cracker Barrel at Sturbridge, MA has a real working fireplace which is nice certain times of the year. For a different ambiance there's Applebee's and Uno across the street.
The grossest thing in any restaurant is usually going to be the soda fountain nozzles on the soda machines. Have you ever gotten a soda and it tastes "off"? It's probably bc there is mildew on the spouts. It's an easy AF fix too. You just need to soak the nozzles in carbonated water for a few hours and run them through the dishwasher.
God please do chain coffee shops next 🤣
As someone who worked multiple positions at multiple TGI Friday's locations, they never had lobster. I never saw moldy veggies. Those are the only defenses I have.
This is really excellent. Worked at a place called Barnaby’s Pizza in the midwest and loved it taste-wise. But the behind-scenes knowlege left much to be desired.
A real pump and dump 😂
TFI Cheesecake and not TFI Hortons? If it's not Hortons-branded, how do I know that it's even Roger?!
Imagine a kitchen nightmares reboot where they visit chain restaurants
Gordon Ramsay or Curtis stone could host it
Heck yeah we still want it! 👍
“Umm, that sounds gross.” Well, gross is relative! 😂