Fast Food Restaurants That Straight Up Cheat Customers
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- When we order from a fast food restaurant, our expectations are fairly low, as we really just want a cheap, quick meal that does the job. That seems like a simple and fair request, right? Sadly, there are times when fast food places can’t manage to meet even the lowest of expectations. Perhaps it was our fault for trusting a fast food joint in the first place, but it seems silly to consider fair business practices as a lofty ideal. From Burger King’s Croissan’wich swindle to Chipotle’s shady calorie counting, join us as we warn you what fast food restaurants straight up cheat their customers.
#FastFood #Restaurants #Cheat
Burger King's Croissan'wich | 0:00
McDonald's Extra Value Meals | 1:04
Chipotle's calories | 1:48
Dunkin' Donuts' imposter ingredients | 2:41
Jimmy Johns' sprout fiasco | 3:44
McDonald's fry cheat | 4:23
Subway's great "footlong" debate | 4:48
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Do you feel like you're getting hosed at fast food restaurants sometimes?
Mashed thank you!
I stopped eating fast food in 2005. It's not healthy and contributes to the nations obesity crisis. I can make it cheaper and would rather contribute to locally owned businesses that really use locally grown items. If more people did this the fast food chains would serve better food.
Once I got a 20 pack McNuggets at McDonald's, and there was only 17 McNuggets in the box XD
It was still worth the money tho LOL
I'm with you 100 % voteGreen.
At a Popeyes I was charged an extra 2 dollars that didn't show on my receipt but showed in my bank statement...I contacted everyone from the Popeyes Headquarters down to the managers of the store and they were all a waste of time...nobody cared... Popeyes suck!!!!! They're probably doing it to A LOT of ppl..shady mofos😤
I worked at a McDonald's 20 years ago. I was a cashier, but one day I was at the fries station and was giving fresh, hot fries. I FILLED UP the boxes, customers were happy... until the supervisor saw me and asked me NOT to completely fill them up!! They were half filled up! I also did the same thing with Sundays, McFluries, shakes, etc. My customers were satisfied, but I got in trouble.
**sundae!! Sorry, autocorrect 😲
Antonia Calderon WHAT THE?! EVEN IN CHIMKEN NUGGETS?
Marsonlord Gaming: No, not with the box (es) of nuggets. The managers that (usually) worked in my shift, and the kitchen crew were fast, clean and didn't cheat with the food. It was only a few times that the supervisor went to the store and told us to do some things in certain ways.
Marsonlord Gaming: When I said supervisor, I meant the zone or regional supervisor. Our store managers were different. In the evening shift, there were 3 guys that made a great team, and were able to handle the kitchen just them 3, even if the restaurant was full of customers... well, that was like 20 years ago...
You're a real trooper.
IM GOING TO THE CHUM BUCKET WHERE THEY APPRECIATE THEY CUSTOMERS
Lol. Yeh I'm not going to Chumbucket. If its Spongebob its the Krusty Krabs your going to.
Ya please do, krabs is just cheap.
HAHAHA
daniel226 lol same
berleezy
I worked at McDonald’s when I was 18 and we were trained to squeeze the fry box so it would hold fewer fries...so yeah...they lied. There’s no real difference between a medium and a large fry 🤷🏾♀️
Actually in a lot of places they dont do it It only happened when I was in the US In Europe it never happened
Even if they don’t squeeze the boxes some fries will be missing from the. We go out and have no choice to eat McDonald’s some and my dad always notices the small fries is always larger than the medium and large fries.
I feel so used 🥺
I f*ckin' knew it! 😠
People who work at mcdonalds don’t care enough to fill it half way 🤣 it’s not like they’re paying for the fry stock
AKA, why you should go grocery shopping 101.
Yea $3/30 minutes. Grilled marinated chicken breast, roasted garlic mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus for two.
john doe 3 dollars for all of that...?
@@johndoe-wv3nu chicken breast: at least $5 a pound (and typically chicken is packaged at 1lb or more, ive never seen less than .75lbs in preweighed chicken)
Potatoes, garlic, butter, milk: a cheap side overall, but each of those things is about $3 at the supermarket. (Because you have to buy them in larger quantities)
Asparagus: one of the more expensive veggies, can be anywhere from $1-4 a bunch, depending on sales going on.
I do agree a homecooked meal is better in a lot of ways, and if you do it right, cheaper. But you have to watch sales.
Overall, your comment is misleading and inaccurate.
@@johndoe-wv3nu Oh, and i forgot to add in marinade ingredients, which adds even more to how much it costs...
For someone who has none of the ingredients, i dont see them spending less than $20.
*also, shopping at the supermarket takes time as well, so 30min cooking time turns to an hour, plus driving time.
Chicken breast (boneless, skinless) is about $1.89/lb. Where I live. I keep my pantry stocked with the basics. I can usually feed my family for under $1/meal. I know prices. I stock up when items are on sale. I also cook from scratch as much as possible. I make breads, soup stock etc. Tonight we had lo mein, fried rice and chicken fingers. Probably cost $4 to make and made about 8 meals.
I was fired from McDonalds as a teenager because I refused to cheat customers fries. It was direction from my manger to pinch the carton.
CaptainBerz it was the same for me too but I didn't get fired, I wasn't put on fries after tht
I work at McDonald's long time ago, never was told to pinch fries but that was over 20 year's ago.
Do u mean u put to many fries in the containers. Crazy that a business wants to make money?
Ive noticed that if you order fries through the drive through you always get half of what you ordered.. but if you want full fries you have to go in and order. Ive always noticed it and it honestly pisses me off, not being a lil tub tub about it but if i order a large i shouldn't get a medium in a large container. You know if thats an actual thing? Cause it happens everytime and not just at one location
Same here. I worked for Mc Donalds between '16 and '18, and I was told to do that.. I didn't, unless the person who was ordering was being a jackass about whatever. I loaded as much as I could into them, because 1.72 for a small, 2.91 for a medium and 3.23 for a large is ridiculous.. I also did with shakes, sundaes, smoothies and frappes if the customer was at least not terrible, and they had ordered it. But if they wanted to change it from a medium to a large while I was making it (they wanted a large but didn't want to pay the 3.23-4.99 depending on what drink they got) then well you got less because that's that's jackass move and you're just trying to get the employee in trouble because you're selfish.
I'm going to sue Wendy's cause they put cucumbers on my burger and tell me they're pickles.
PsychoZulu hahaha hahaha
I'm suing all of the burger joints because I keep ordering ketchup, and they keep giving me sugary pureed tomatoes.
PsychoZulu world class problems
David Cornell umm do u realize that ketchup is supposed to be a little sweet
Elizabeth Jiang umm do u realize it was a joke?
My Footlong was a whole inch shorter than a foot. I will fire a law suit and 500 thousand dollars is not enough to repay me for this missing inch.
I'd be more concerned for the whopping 2 slices of meat you get.
DanThuhMan people will cry over everything these days. 500,000$ is way over kill.
Guys it’s a joke ;)
Their Bread is made by mohels .
@Brian The Explorer wow
Like the person in the story, I discovered I paid more for a McDonalds value meal instead of purchasing the same items individually. So I started ordering the items individually, but most of the time the cashier would ring it up as a value meal. So I started requesting the items to be rung up individually instead of as a value meal. Some cashiers were able to do it, but others were too lazy and would say they didn't know how. So I stopped going to McDonalds.
I worked at a Mcdonalds for quite some time and I was never told to pinch the box most of the time my managers told me to fill it up more even when i though it was enough, when watching my managers do it themselves I saw them fill it all the way up as much as they could.
Yet I have still seen other Mcdonalds do this so honestly it really depends on the store you go to
Eric probably more like when new fries are coming in. Sometimes it's just necessary to skimp a little on something depending on when the truck is coming, at least for locations that don't have another close by they can get things from. Nobody wants to hear there's no fries.
The location I worked at was busy all the time, it was number 1 in the whole city for smoothies sold. It really comes down to management, employees and supervisors.
Subway is definitely the worst, they advertise sandwiches stuffed with meat and you get a paper thin layer in reality and pay $12 for "double meat" to still get a very modest amount. That's a rip.
Tim M did you catch the new commercials for their wraps? They are claiming "double meat". But in tiny letters on the bottom, they say the "double meat" is compared to a 6 inch sub. So its actually the same amount of meat as in a footlong, which isnt alot.
B-rad - yeah another way to rip you off, I only go to local sandwiche shops pay $6 for something fresh and like a pound of meat lol
Subway is fuckin rank
Take ya asses ti the deli and buy soke meat and cheese haha , much better taste
Outside of California, Subway never displays sodium content of their foods, either. A big deal about "Nutrition information ", but no sodium count. "Doctors Associates" is the parent company. Uh huh.
I use to work for McDonalds and they scam customers more than all the other burger fast food especially with the fries. Knowing that they do that, every time I go to McDonald’s now I always tell them not to squeeze the fry container and make sure to fill the fries to the top lol. What’s annoying is how the workers and even manager gets upset when I tell them that and tells me that’s McDonald policy/rules.
Hello Mary
How are you doing today?
The McDonald's fry part is true. During my first day working there I was on fry duty. I'd prop open the little red carton with a plastic scooper filled with fries that fits inside and the fries slide down inside. My boss comes up behind me and says, "No no no. Like this." She empties out the fry container I had just filled and loosely fits the scooper in the carton so that a lot less fries fit. "See? We waste less."
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Because potato is expensive :P
And you want Skilled workers wages
I can vouche for the pinching the bottom of the fry bag. I used to work at A&W and I always used to open the fry bag and fill it. The supervisor directly told me to not open up the bottom so that less fries would fit in the bag. I continued to open up the bottoms.
Speed Grump Thank you!
Speed Grump you did gods work brother
Speed Grump good work
Speed Grump
God bless this man
bless you
I find it amusing how all the big food chains deny any wrongdoing but still make cash settlements available.
Kenazzle its because its easyer/cheaper to pay money upfront then to go to court and pay for court fees and lawyer and the time is consumed
Kenazzle that’s the fault of bean counters who tell them it’s cheaper to settle than to fight it. I’m not sure that’s the case in the long run though. It seems to me settling attracts others to file suit in hopes of a fat paycheck.
Just like how Trump had to do it. Most Corporations and richer folks know this sad truth. Lawyers are hated for a reason...
it's also a customer service thing. if a customer complains about something, you don't just say "I'm right you're wrong", especially if it's something stupid. you just replace it, or give them a coupon or something.
Most frivolous lawsuits are settled this way
Okay I'm not going to say where I work but the customers love when I'm there because I fill the fries all the way up. I'm sorry but it pisses me off when I go somewhere and they cheat me out my fries. I just can't do it to other people. My GM constantly does it. If she hands me a fry and it's not filled I'll go back over there and fill it up. When she hands me a drink a lot of times it's like just and inch above half way. So I have to go back to the soda machine and fill it all the way. I also put more ice cream in the shakes than what I'm supposed to. Boy the customers are going to miss me cause I'm leaving 2nd shift soon.
**Faith in humanity restored**
Thank you for not being a cheat. There's really no excuse for this type of corporate greed. Sickening.
We love you Gege💜💜💜💜
@@foobarmaximus3506 You're too skinny,eat more
Stopped at a fast food place for a small coke. After the server filled the glass he seemed to be having an issue. I asked what the problem was and he said he couldn't locate a lid for the cup. I asked if he had lids for the next sized cup. He said yes and poured my drink into the next sized cup that was about forty cents more. The drink almost filled that cup to the top and we both looked at it realizing the cup had been narrowed and was taller but held almost he same amount as the smaller cup. Stopped at a seafood fast food place and ordered a seafood meal that came with fries and onion rings. I got one onion ring and when I asked the server about it she said that's all they included so I pointed out that the menu said served with onion rings. She finally included one more. Really. This is how businesses fail. I stopped at a barbecue place and ordered a sliced beef sandwich and then drove for a half hour before pulling it out. One bite and I looked in the sandwich to find it filled with sliced fat. Most barbeque places now have gotten so cheap that you have to ask for lean brisket or risk getting the stuff they used to make chopped beef sandwiches out of. My most memorable was going to taco bell and ordering their spicey chicken burrito. First bite rice, second bite rice, ate the rest and no chicken that I could identify. I complained to the manager that there wasn't any chicken in my burrito. He said he had weighed the chicken for each burrito. I told him there wasn't any in my order and he asked what I expected for the sale price. I pointed to the large picture up over the counter that showed the chicken burrito with multiple slices of chicken hanging out of the end and said I expected it to at least resemble the ad.
Dude. Get a life. Jesus.
I agree and I've been around long enough to remember buying cokes for a nickle. Going to the movie theater matinee on saturdays. The ticket was 60 cents and drinks and popcorn were ten to fifteen cents each. You got to see a cartoon, a serial and two movies. I don't go to the movies anymore because I'm not going to spend what would amount to a days wages to get a couple of tickets plus refreshments. A couple of years back the toilet paper I use looked different. It was suddenly deeply embossed. Kind of fluffed up. I checked the package against one that was sitting on the shelf in the pantry. Fifty less sheets a roll. Now in that 12 pack they shorted me one roll of tissue for the same cost. I was making some from scratch brownies last night. I had bought a new package of baking chocolate and compared it to an older package on the shelf and noticed the package was a lot smaller yet you can bet I paid more for it. Back when I was a kid we bought one pound chocolate hershey bars. Now the bars aren't even half a pound and getting smaller each year. Remember when every product was advertised as new and improved. We need a law that companies must label all products when changes are made, such as now with less sheets or new smaller amounts in net weight. Lets see how manufactures deal with the blow back when they can no longer hide stealing from the consumer. Right now the internet is trending on pepper as mccormic has reduced the net weight in their cans of pepper while keeping the can the exact same except for the lesser weight of product. Companies no longer bother to claim settling of contents is why the packages are half empty. It's all simply to fool the consumer so they don't realize they're getting less all the time.
@@71160000 well, that just proves it...you bought sodas for a nickel but at the movies, they cost 10 to 15 cents....so even then they charged double or triple the cost....oh, and by the way....everything was cheaper then....including wages....
@ned kelly
Another way they are fooling customers is cereal boxes that on a grocery store shelf are the same height and width but the boxes are different depths....that is, a 12 ounce box from the front looks exactly like the 16 ounce box. Unfortunately, they are not the same price on a cost per ounce basis.
Another stunt food manufacturers are pulling is to package fewer cookies in bags/boxes that have not been shrunken in size. One of my favorite cookies used to come 36 cookies per package. It is currently down to 32, with the same size bag just bigger dividers between the rows of cookies. Candy bar manufacturers did the same thing when chocolate and sugar got more expensive. They kept the packages the same size but shrunk the candy.
Hahah, I’m rather entertained by these stories, it’s kind of adorable. And yeah, I do agree that these little things really annoy the crap out of you. Why can’t restaurants stop shortchanging their consumers? I won’t even mind if it’s halfway there, but some of them are absurd. I once got this prepackaged sandwiches, and realised that that the ham in the triangle cut sandwiches are 7cm in length and only 0.1cm in width. They really cut, arranged and packaged the ham in that way to make you think there’s a layer of ham inside, in reality you get 2 slices of 7x0.1cm ham
I’m gonna sue McDonald’s over they’ve never working ice cream machine. They owe me decades worth of McFlurrys
J Texas they just re molded one by my house and that shit still don't fuckin work I told the worker like WTF is that shit modern ass McDonald's with no ice cream😂
1,000% agreed, though I prefer the sundaes
J Texas As a worker there, the machines that make the flurries need to be cleaned out regularly and can't handle making products for long periods of time
Fuck? Right?!?
J Texas I hate to tell you but it isn't "ice cream"!
As a previous McDonald's employee they preached fluff don't stuff on fries. That policy DOES exist.
By franchisees. I guarantee you corporate McDonald's does not want that happening.
It depends on whoever runs the store, ive been told to fill fry cartons to the point where you camt see the yellow lines
Jopo1226 the McDonald's I worked at goes nuts if your on fries and you can see the yellow lines. Management would rather give full fries then deal with complaints
I work at McDonalds and what you are saying is false
John Fai I can give you the number to the owner's office and you can ask them yourself.
Finally! A channel with lists that doesn't spend 3 minutes on each number. I'm definitely subscribing.
Worked BK for years, the sandwich issue is because they've been on a '2 for $4' sale forever. If you only buy one, its $3.19 or so.
So she wasn't getting hosed, she was ordering a single sandwich - which is priced at $3.19 and shows as such on the menuboard.
I ask for no ice because they actually fill up the cup with soda/juice vs the ice taking up all of the space with less drink. Plus it's already cold
Seven Eleven We do that too. Besides the ice might be moldy ..
Small is the same as a large with ice in it
Talking from experience at other places ... no ice = water as substitute
Plus when the ice melts the drink is just watered down
Seven Eleven you are like me
Big corporations lie, shocking. Interesting topic though
I couldn't believe it either :-o
How’s it shocking? Lmao I thought this was a fact.
Iris Simmons for real...
Americans really love their lawsuits dont they
Tony Samson yeah *sometimes*. That doesnt include the cases where they literally sued a company becaude they themselves were too fucking stupid for their own good. (Coffe was hot and they spilled it on themselves => lawsuit!... Put cat in mucrowave to dry => lawsuit!...) these things can be easily avoided by having some fucking common sense lol
Toreole 2 true but I don’t like fast food, rarely eat it.
People who cite the coffee lawsuit as silly clearly have no idea what they are talking about. Educate yourself before you start spouting off your uniformed bullshit.
Because all of these were in the US... Or did you not watch the video?
People like to make fun of the 'coffee is hot, duh' lawsuit, but really the coffee was way more hot than necessary (180 degrees). Hot but drinkable coffee shouldn't cause you third degree burns. At that temp even if you managed to not spill it, you'd need to let it cool off for several minutes before it would be drinkable without burning your mouth.
Rarely eat any of this crap. Best value and food are always in mom and pop restaurants.
Word.
Mom & Pop restaurants don't have to pay for the 'brand name' sign on the doors and windows.
We have a local Mexican Food place called Nico's... named for the grandfather that founded the place. Huge portions, terrific food. Nearby is a Filoberto's. Absolute garbage.
Diners for breakfast and lunch! And the food tastes so much better.
Truth
Last week I ordered a large Big Mac meal and the fries only came up to the small carboard side of the container, so I told the girl that I had ordered large fries. She threw out my small fires and replaced them with the large fries she should have given me in the first place. This is not the first time this has happened, so I always check my orders to make sure they are not cheating me.
Davman its fast food. We have to be fast. People make mistakes. It happens. Its not like we intentionally give you a small sized fry
Elespada, Wrong, most likely someone that order the small fries got the large ones if you watched when they are busy all the food is put in the same area and then bagged allowing for the small/large mistake to happen easily if they just look at fries on the order and not pay attention to the size
ba sillah - wrong , fries are not usually made to order , a certain number of each portion size fries are kept on a rack in the fry station and then replaced as they get taken . granted , occasional mistakes do happen but you'd have to be pretty incompetent to keep making that same mistake .
i can confirm i have been repeatedly told not to fill the fry boxes up by shift managers . i also was told on many occasions not to squeeze the fry boxes out fully so they are thinner than intended and take less fries .
additionally if you walk into a mcdonald's and it's not busy , keep an eye on the fry station because workers will scrape the old fries off the rack that have been sat there for hours if they don't have quite enough to fill a box . i've even seen managers do it a few times .
edit - by the way , that's why you get the occasional super crispy fries in the box . they've either been stuck in the fry basket and re-fried about 10 times , or been sat in the fry rack for hours . don't eat them !
aside from that , generally mcdonald's employees are respectful and hygenic . you can't believe all the horror stories you hear on the internet . i no longer work at mcdonalds but please be nice to the employees , they're exhausted and want to go home but they will try and give you the best service they can . most of the time .
ba sillah you don't understand. That's not cheating, unless they were planning on making it small. People make mistakes. Plus it's fast food and food is supposed to be delivered really fast, sometimes mixing things up
Davman 6 oz of fries not a full container!!!! They brought a scale to our store once. 6 oz barely hits the front opening.
An inch makes a difference people! Ask your girlfriends!
Abdul if I had that inch I'd prob have a gf
Then they'd complain about a bruised cervix.
Haram
Or boyfriends ! You're just being homophobic
except they no longer have gf to ask ^_-
McDonald's is the best deal cause they throw in the fruit flies free .
Marc Dant Tasty for people whose names begin with M.
Really
Marc Duke hahaha shut up🤣🤣🤣
Extra protein
it adds a bit of texture and spice
Great video. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.
This is why I prefer to make my own food at home. I seldom eat out.
0IIIIII ???
0IIIIII believe it or not in most countries, like my own, most of our meals are home-cooked. This applies to all classes - the rich and the poor.
It's only the US where I've seen there's a culture of buying every meal. Obviously not everyone but it sure seems a lot more popular than it is anywhere else.
Whats for dinner and what time should I be there? ; )
Very sensible. Makes sense. You can have great healthy food at home without losing all your 💰.
Soham Bhattacharya it’s not just the us, every non poor country does it
Burger King burgers are thinner than they used to be and the buns on the Whopper seem to be way too big. The sandwich is 90% bread. Not as good as it used to be.
They used to make an awesome double cheeseburger until people started pushing them to match McDonald's dollar price so they cheapened it to the point it's not worth ordering now.
That reminds me BK, KFC, Wendy's are similar as they always seem to be empty most of the time compared to McDees. Me love some good ole Wendy's and occasional bk whopper. They certainly are more bread than anything, still delicious time to time.
What about when u go to the store and get a bag of chips, u get a little over a half of bag, that's cheating, I get the party bag, not the family size, cuz my son loves chips, I pay 3.48 at Walmart and u don't even get a 3/4. That's cheap, u pay more for less of the product these days.
You pay less for the ingredients to make 6 whoppers yourself than you would ordering them at BK and getting those inferior sloppy piles of shit.
I miss the double stacker.
A 10 piece at Burger King is $1 but a 20 piece is $4.99. facts
So...buy two 10 pieces for $2 ! Next...
Lmao when you file a lawsuit for your food costing fifty cents extra 😂 😂
😂plus it is the only like 5$
I stopped eating at Subway years ago. They are so stingy with their meat. One time a worker put a piece of chicken back into the tray when it was already on my sandwich! They don't deserve anybody's money.
Subway is stingy as fuck. But really no other options for a cheap "Fresh" meal for most people on lunch breaks who don't want to eat shitty fastfood. Double meat use to be 1 dollar more for a footlong back in the day and was DOUBLE MEAT............ today "extra" meat is 1.50 for 50% more meat. Such a scam.
I would blam produce costs. If they were not stingy, it would be like giving money away...But on a sandwich. I can agree though. What person fucks up the formula count for spicy Italian?
Lol how stupid.
You know they do that if they hear your order is wrong.
There is common sense involved
Subway says the proper amount of black olives on a foot long is 6.
All three subways in our town aren't very stingy, hell they usually stuff the bread pretty well with all the ingredients
I wish I had the free time to sue Burger King like the lady in the first section.
Same tbh
Same... same
+Paula Johnson
Idiotic statement. In order to make that statement with any degree of accuracy you would have had to have worked in thousands of different Burger King locations.
if they sloshed around chlorine bleach the whole restaurant would smell like a pool
That's called anecdotal evidence. It is useless in determining anything.
I'll be honest, yes a lot of places don't fully fill the fry boxes. I currently work at McDonald's just as a part time job and my Supervisors will ask me to fill up the fries all the way. It all depends on the owners of the store, but keep this in mind.
Ugh the narrator is one of those annoying people who pronounce “coupon” as “keeyoo-pon”.
Cringe whenever I hear that.
Should hear her say culinary
It's called an accent. That's like getting upset over someone saying wooder rather than water
kewpon
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Who has the time to sue over $0.48
A lawyer, well get .48 he'll get 1M. Most of us won't follow up for the .48 so he gets paid to basically leave them alone
Americans
Welfare frauds
idiot lawyers only get 30%
A lawyer i think they have a case over 1cent extra tax its illegal and yes its worth it for a lawyer
I worked at two Dunkin Donuts and it's true. If you order a bagel, croissant or biscuit with "butter on it", you are actually getting margarine. You only get real butter if you request it on the side. Both locations I worked for went through dozens of tubs of margarine per week.
Michael Vape had a relative that worked at a margarine factory. They made all the brands of the same line just changed the container.
Michael Vape I thought margarine was better then butter anyway
Teddy Dreams It isn't. Butter is best. Butter butter butter always.🐮🐄
I worked there in the 90s. “Fluff don’t stuff” was what the saying was when I worked there along with squeezing the box.
A double cheeseburger is a McDouble with two slices of cheese, a medium fry is a small fry and half a small fry, the number 9 (2 cheeseburger meal) is the same price as if you got a double cheese burger medium fry and drink separately. It’s cheaper to get a cheeseburger than a hamburger. Managers get mad if we fill the fry container all the way. We also get chewed out for giving more sauces than they paid for. You still have to pay for a large water because you’re not paying for the drink itself you’re paying for the cup. If you want a buttermilk crispy sandwich but don’t wanna pay 5 bucks get the biscuit and sub it for a bun. We are told specifically not to fill your ice cream Sunday all they way and don’t think asking for no ice for your mccafe drink will get you more coffee. The machine only puts the same amount for every size.
All restaurants cut corners somewhere that’s just fact.
Joseppe Vilchis
Good that they get caught then, cheating is cheating it is a crime.
Better to just eat at home, the food is better and high quality anyway and you care about making your food safe to eat.
Fagot Reich
Cut enough corners and you'll soon have no customers, which means...you'll be out of business.
you really think they wouldnt cheat customers without taxes HAHA what a moron!
they would just make more profit that would be the only difference LOL
true. but that’s acceptable????
3:47 -- "I was denied alfalfa sprouts that were contaminated with deadly bacteria, so I'm suing."
Kevin Byrne - I wonder why they didn’t just make or store the sprouts in a sanitary fashion. I’m a slob, and even I can grow and store alfalfa sprouts that won’t kill me.
@@jwoolman3425
lol? stores don't grow their own produce dude... they buy it...
That's why whenever there is an E-coli outbreak its nation wide that effects your grocery stores, and fast food... they all buy from the same suppliers..
i worked at mcdonalds in high school for two years; we were trained to give less fries and shown how to shake the fries so less were needed to make the packages look full. also to fill the drink cups full of ice before adding any liquid(yrs 1984/1985).
I'm not one to complain even when they short me money or forget my food .life is to short to get upset about anything stay happy ☺ and you'll almost never have a bad day
The McDonald's thing is 100% true. They always told you to squish the box to limit the amount of fries customers got. To this day when I go there you typically receive the fry box looking like about 1/5 to 1/4 of the fries are missing.
I get the Apple slices instead of fries.
Former McDonald's employee here. I just filled the fry boxes up any which way. Always very generous with the smalls and kid sizes. Everyone else was too stingy with those. I'm constantly frying new fries. There's no reason not to fill the box up properly unless the manager is being a micromanager.
I never gave any extra nuggets, though. You get exactly what you paid for.
I love, love my Subway! I have special dietary needs and they always work with me! Midwest Subways rock!
Been to Chipotle, Panera Bread, Hardees, Taco Bell, Dairy Queen in last year. All had mediocre food, smaller portions than 2 years ago, all cost almost twice what they did 2 years ago. Now give my business to locals and 1 local chain for reasons above.
Oh god are people really complaining about calories at fast food places???
Really, that's like eating pecan pie every night then complaining about the blubber it brings.
Yeah...if it's fast food (it was Chipotle, actually) then that means that you don't need accurate information.
You know....just because.
Abolish the Dept. Of Education.
Mazara Italiana
That analogy made zero sense at all. Wanting correct information is like complaining about the results of your actions?
O.....ka....yyyyyyy......
Yeah. Probably the same dumb fat asses that won't drink water but think any soft drink that's "diet" is healthy enough.
CR7NEYMAR They were right to complain. It's literally false information if something says, for example, it has 350 calories but the reality is that it actually has 1600 calories. Yes, overall fast food places aren't going to be healthy but it doesn't mean you want to eat something with the highest calorie count.
“The Dunks”
Wow. Never say that again😎👍🏻
in time
the dunks
Won't see any of this at chikfila
how the hell do you know kap? huh do you know something everyone else doesn't. you moron
Chick-fil-A cheat u on the large fry vs the medium but that's about it
True💜💜💜💜
Or Jollibee
@@SuperWilljoe Why are you so bitter?
*BURGER KING FOOT LETTUCE*
Leave now
THE LAST THING YOU'D WANT IN YOUR BURGER KING BURGER, IS SOMEBODYS FOOT FUNGUS
BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, THAT MIGHT BE WHAT YOU GET
I work at Jimmy Johns and buying 6 cookies separately rather than a cookie box (6 cookies in pack), is around 75 cents cheaper.
Never went there. Food good?
Mazara Italiana Yeah. I think so. Way better than Subway
No mention of Starbucks?? They are the biggest cheaters out there. I get half a cup of coffee every time I go there. That is why I stick to QuikTrip. Maybe not quite as good, but at least I'm not getting cheated.
Starbuck's coffee blows.
So you fill your coffee all the way to the top? Half full is how most people do it.
Doublex 0mega wait why's that? If thats the case why not make smaller cups that just seems wasteful
ChicToast yeah, I don’t even do it all the way, I only do 3 quarters
Doublex 0mega you are in idiot si you like paying for the cup lmfao
I've worked for companies that cut corners. Customers get mad and suddenly it was just my building doing the practice and it's nothing official... but everyone everywhere else seemed to do the same thing.
I work at Dunkin Donuts. It's true about the margarine. We used to use some margarine spread, but now only use butter cups. Many stores won't put it on anymore.
0:18 *foot lettuce*
The last thing you'd want in your Burger King burger is someone's foot fungus. But as it turns out, that might be what you get. A 4channer uploaded a photo anonymously to the site showcasing his feet in a plastic bin of lettuce. With the statement: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." Admittedly, he had shoes on.
But that's even worse.
The post went live at 11:38 PM on July 16, and a mere 20 minutes later, the Burger King in question was alerted to the rogue employee. At least, I hope he's rogue. How did it happen? Well, the BK employee hadn't removed the Exif data from the uploaded photo, which suggested the culprit was somewhere in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. This was at 11:47. Three minutes later at 11:50, the Burger King branch address was posted with wishes of happy unemployment. 5 minutes later, the news station was contacted by another 4channer. And three minutes later, at 11:58, a link was posted: BK's "Tell us about us" online forum. The foot photo, otherwise known as exhibit A, was attached. Cleveland Scene Magazine contacted the BK in question the next day. When questioned, the breakfast shift manager said "Oh, I know who that is. He's getting fired." Mystery solved, by 4chan. Now we can all go back to eating our fast food in peace.
im bored nerd
Number 15.
Number 15
*BURGER KING FOOT LETTUCE*
The foot lettuce thing happened a few years ago, why is the story suddenly becoming popular again?
These companies have to pull a profit, and I honestly have no complaints considering how cheap fast food is. You get what you pay for. If you want a steak go to a steakhouse. If you want a cheap meal go to a fast food joint.
Your either a manager of one of them or a idiot or probably both, the problem is these people are not getting what they paid for so quit with the " you get what you paid for " bullshit
Depending on the Subway you go to Managers often hate 5-6 dollar footlong promotions. So they find more ways to skim off the top such as cutting subs a certain way and giving you 6" inch meat portions, replacing lettuce with cabbage, giving barely any of the other veggies, stretching the sauces, and claiming to be out of breads/veggies when they're not.
😂😂 Judge threw out the Subway lawsuit. Over 25yrs ago when I had my first job at McDonald's my manager emptied out a fry I had prepared and said, that's a pound of potatoes! He then taught me the proper way to fill the fries by pinching the carton before applying the fries.
This is why I have trust issues
it's not trust issues, it's common sense :) so congrats on having that ;P
I'm on, don't let the jerks of this world change your good character.
Here’s a tip for when you visit subway. Instead of asking for a 6 inch sub, ask for a whole sub and then split it. I’ve noticed they put more “toppings” on the 12 inch sub than the 6 inch one.
Cold like a sprite soda why did you put quotes around toppings?
That's the dumbest idea ever!
Uh I’ll have what you’re having , the portions are exactly the same . How lame!
its cheaper to order a 12 inch rather than two 6 inch
sure, but then you get fat.
When I worked at McDonald’s there was a 2 year promotion of the sausage egg McMuffin for a dollar. When a customer bought the value meal they paid almost 50 cents for than each item separate. I heard this every day!
All of these places love to load up your cup to the brim with ice so you get very little of the beverage you actually want
All these fast food chains suck anyways. Local businesses are always better support local restaurants.
Danny Well.. if I've learned anything from watching Gordon Ramsey is that what you said isn't always true. I've gone to my fair share of amazing local restaurants, but there are also those which aren't as good. I don't really enjoy fast food, but the entire premise of it is the cheap cost and quick delivery, which doesn't happen all the time at a local restaurant.
I don’t got a hour and fourth five minutes to get something to eat, that is if I eat out at all
Not all of us have that monetary luxury.
Danny not in Maine. Maine’s actually like 5x - 6x the price and doesn’t have any of the quality. That’s right. I said the fast food place has more quality than Maine goods.
"Just think about that before u stick your foot long into your mouth" lol
Bob Dank no gagging 😉
Bob Dank 😂
Bob Dank glad I’m not the only one who caught that
Bob Dank I was gonna make a dirty comment but ill leave it alone lol
yeah of course my gay ass would notice that bit lmfao
Worked at Jimmy John's from 2017-2018 and we had to cancel sprouts because some sprout farm in the country had a salmonella problem. We put white tape over every mention of "sprouts" on the menu I believe and also let every customer know vocally that they weren't getting sprouts and the reason why.
I worked at a McDonald’s for 4 years. Promoted to 2nd assistant. Always told “fluff, don’t stuff” when it came to fries.
Because of that law suit for the subs, we don't get a good deal at Subway. We had it better at Subway pre-law suit because you have to pay $10 for a sandwich now that would otherwise be half that.
Gamsu Hawk when I worked at Subway(Canada) a chicken bacon ranch was much less than 10$ now it's 11.20
Bjorn Benoit FeelsBadMan Subway used to put the Chicken Bacon Ranch as a $5 pre-law suit.
Daaaaaamn, around here is 7.99 for a normal footlong and 8.50 for a chicken bacon range. Not sure what happened where y'all live but my god that has to suck.
That explains it... I didn't go there for several years and while I expected some increase it was more than I would have thought.
All Fast Food joints are rip offs.
Buy your food from the grocery store and make it at home, you SAVE!!!! MONEY!!!
Nianbo Zhang the time it takes you travel and wait in line/drive-thru to order and receive your fast food is time it takes to cook the same foods at home.
Assuming everyone has time to make their own food, some people have kids, wives, family, lives, and careers to assume, no wonder why fast food joints are so popular. Ignorant.
vh9network Tell that to lazy obese Americans or anyone else who actually have the TIME (keyword) but can't bother to buy and cook fresh ingredients at home-- unlike busy/working individuals
That is your directed audience, right? Or are just incredibly fucking ignorant?
Eternal Truth The Light That Never Dies -- You seem to be the only ignorant one, calling Americans lazy n fat. People seem to forget about Mexico, Britain, etc. Every country has obese people. Every country has thin people. Some more than others. But the point is, every country has thin n fat. You only pinpointing one country is ignorant.
As long as I have the ingredients ready to go at home, the time it takes me to make a Whopper myself is about the same amount of time it would take me to drive to BK, order one, and get home with a pathetic soggy mess. If you don't know how to cook, learn. If you made it yourself and it tastes like shit, then learn to make it NOT taste like shit.
LEARN.
For some reason, it’s easier for these companies to pay a law suit and admit no wrongdoing doing after they cheat, than to admit that they were wrong after being caught!
If you do the research, most fast food restaurants who use chicken uses 99% real chicken plus added ingredients. But subway shockingly uses 50% chicken
Lol I'd love to see a link to that claim.. every fast food chain uses less than 50% chicken 😂
McDonalds: claims to sells food.
Cold like a sprite soda haha LOL
You must be one of those superficial internet zombies that lacks cognitive abilities and comprehensive processing abilities.
Lol. Im dead
McDonalds: the ice cream machine - there’s nothing else to say .
Oh look, yet another superficial internet zombie.
As someone who has been on both sides of this, and now actually gets it, here's the deal: Fries are sold as per weight, so an amount. 4oz to like 8oz or something. Yes, your box may not look overflowingly full, but the employee is not supposed to overstuff the box, as it crushes other fries, and usually it means you aren't getting as fresh of fries as you would probably like and deserve. Fresh, hot, crisp fries should fill out a box easily and loosely and be the correct weight you're paying for. Old, floppy fries will usually be stuffed together to make it look fuller and less soggy! A good indication of knowing whether your fries are fresh, is to just look at a McDonald's fry fryer. If there isn't a fry basket down, and things are flashing on the fryer screen, that's a countdown timer to when you're supposed to toss them. If there are no countdown timers, and the screens are solid, you probably just got old fries. Best to check before you order, and just ask for fresh fries. Never know how your local place runs things, and some (like mine) actually use a smaller range of time to ensure good quality. Conversely, if you just want more fries, don't ask for fresh ones, lol. I've rarely seen fries stay up more then ten minutes at my store, so the turnover of them is pretty fast at busy locations.
Some people will get trained in crappy ways, and not be told the actual reason for the way we do things, because they are paired with people who were never taught the proper procedure (and that sucks, but that's also real life at a chain restaurant). I'm the kind of person who wants to know, and be fair to customers. So, I get out a fuckin' frybox weighing scale when people are over or underfilling fries to show them how much there should be. At the same time, you aren't paying for a container, and other people are watching calories, like me. A certain weight of fries will have that amount of calories, so overfilling and stuffing makes calorie counts go out the window. There's a lot of reasons for why we do this stuff.
Danse Macabre that's actually really interesting. Thank you for your opinion. That makes so much more sense. I'd prefer fewer nicer fries than more sucky and soggy fries. Then again I don't eat fried maybe that's just be.
Danse Macabre I never knew a fry apologist.
At least you know it is by weight. It seems that most don't
The thing about the subway issue is another problem because I worked at one for two years and I know that subs are priced by the meat (unless it’s a veggie) so whether the sub is 12inches or 11 the price will always be the same because the amount of meat you get is the same. That’s why whether you get no veggies or all the veggies the prices stays the same. Also, that bread was really under baked and wasn’t stretched before being put in the proofer (it’s because some employee got lazy) which resulted in a shorter sub and being under baked.
The reason is to save money and time if they put to many in they will run out of stock faster as well..
You got feed bullshit and you ate it up then told other people to eat some as well lol.
Lol @ the subway case getting thrown out. It was stupid! Who keeps fighting a case over missing 1inch of a sub?! 😩😂
@0.54 no kidding! They do that in shops too concerning clothing and appliances etc. (make you think you
are getting a deal) with "specials" or sales.
I remember the subway lawsuit, all the company did was toss the old bread forms for new bread forms an inch longer, still getting the same amount of bread though, just makes the sub much harder to close now
I agree Subway may not be the best food choice, but I think it's one of the best fast food joints around, worked there and ate the food for 4 years straight and never got sick. Can't begin to tell you how many people I know and me too have gotten food poisoning from lousy McDonald cheese burgers.
Paula don't forget at one point Subway had Azodiacarbonamide as an ingredient in their bread. A chemical substance used to make yoga mats and shoe rubber.
Preparing and making the bread is such a sensitive process. If not made perfect, you end up with not a foot long lol
Carlos Cook till this day, my stomach still gets a bit uncomfortable after eating subway. Their flatbread and wraps are decent tho.
If it was actually a foot long people wouldn’t eat that extra inch
The best thing is to never eat at fast food restaurants
I caught Chipotle cheating on the amount they gave and had the nerve to argue. I said forget it and left. I also caught Subway cheating on amount given on a sandwich and heard this is what we put on all the sandwiches. I walked out and went to Publix to get my sub. I no longer give my business to any chains or any place that has gone way up, cheated with quality or quantity anymore. Now, when I pass by these places they dont have the business they did a year ago. Let them close down.
I was at Long John Silver and bought chips that cost $1.20 & got 5 pieces. Told the supervisor & he told off the server don’t underserved. Always check & let them know if they short changed your food. Always.
That’s why I only eat at Good Burger
Love it!!
Good.
TJ Sneakers312 why so low?
Welcome to good burger, home of the good burger, can I take your order?☺
Popeyes ....more breading than meat and a "thigh" is really a thigh cut in half.
vanscoyoc still better than kfc
I got sick last time I went to KFC so....you're right. I go to neither.
what Popeyes you eat at? Popeyes is the best here in New Orleans!
Alexandria VA on S Pickett St, check out their atrocious reviews on Yelp
vanscoyoc o I live near there and I’ve seen the reviews... .-.
I used to manage a McDonald's location. We were instructed by corporate to pinch the bottom of the fry boxes and continue to keep the pinch on them until they made it to the rack that was tight enough to basically continue the pinch so it would visually appear to be full from the customers sight lines. I would get in trouble for not pinching the boxes and actually filling them up.
The thing able pinching the fry box is true, it's not a written policy but a verbal policy from higher up.
You pinch the box so you won't be able to fit as much fries in box ( this was back in 2005 when I experienced this fry shrinkflation ).
I don't know if they still practice this or not, I will have to order some fries and pay close attention to the fry box next time I order one and give you an update on the practice.
you are cheating yourself eating this crap
don't get me wrong I eat from time to time but there are alot of better options...then again I live in a area where there are alot of markets and even cheap restaraunts available
There's always "better" options to someone. Doesn't mean anyone is cheating themselves, most people who go to fast food know what they are getting. I love fast food and am rarely disappointed as long as my order is correct.
I would be fired on the spot if I sweezed the bottom of the fry box to fill it with less fries. My managers don’t put up with that. They like keeping their McDonalds the best in the county
Well said. I think most people are skeptical of claims from disgruntled employees on the internet. Your confirmation McDonalds teaches quality control and consistency is an important response to the conspiracy theorists.
Trainer Grim yeah the McDonald's I used to work at they would get on to you if you didn't fill to the point fries were spilling out.
To be honest, the locations here also give you way more than the thing can hold. But I'm sure other people are wondering where to find these locations...
Well, not every location has the philosophy. A lot of franchisees are penny pinching bastards. Case in point. The McD where I live in Brooklyn has a running battle with people who come in, use a computer and plug into their outlets. I've seen the Manager come and scream at people who use them. But the McD in my hometown in Vermont will come out as offer lend you extension cords to run between where you're sitting to their outlets if they see you're using a computer.
Here in Australia, we have a chicken shop called "Red Rooster". I went once time ordering - Half a Chicken with Chips. When my son & I got home, I opened it to find the Half a Chicken with Chips.....All seven of them! Yes, a meal that was meant for two people had SEVEN CHIPS. I took a photo, jumped back in the car & went right back (5 minute drive), asked to speak with the Manager. I said what I ordered & pushed the box over to him & said "this is what I got". He could tell I wasn't happy & I got a full refund & a new meal with plenty of chips. Dinner tasted even better as the whole thing was FREE!
Your voice really suits the fast food video 😂
Sorta like a food
the fact that no one tried measuring a Subway 12in sub until just recently is more worrying than all of this. people should be much more concerned about not questioning what's around them or what they're told more than anything.
That makes for paranoia tho.
Baddie WoW 1 foot= 12 inches
Baddie WoW No. A foot is an imperial measuring unit.
My height is 5 foot 11 inches, for example. If I was 1 inch taller, I would be 6 foot tall.
If I only was 11 inches tall, and I grew an inch, I would be 1 foot tall, or 12 inches.
Sources: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units
Baddie WoW common sense, something you lack.
wikiPika what about common sense?
So, the lady who sued Jimmy John's... I can't...
crimsonblad5 how do people have the time or patience 😫
The real question is, why did she go there in the first place. Have you seen their menu? I have a bigger variety in my fridge.
SPROUTS ARE IMPORTANT, OK!?
some people are just ridiculous. it seems some people have issues with fast food restaurants, despite eating their food regularly. i guess in their mind, fast food owners are rich, and can afford to have a pay out. lack of respect and reflection of one's self is the problem in these individuals. shame, but this is one reason society is shitty at times. no sense of accountability/responsibility :(
John Lee Exactly! It's so mind boggling how change of these complainers seems inevitable due to laziness.
A lawsuit over bean sprouts? I am not surprised a lawyer took this case, but I am surprised that a court actually took it serious. I was always under the impression that if you don’t like something, don’t purchase it again. If you don’t like something, don’t buy it. If you don’t like the way it is being served to you, or of the restaurant that is serving at, don’t go back. Chances are you’re not the only one and the problem will resolve itself.
When I worked at McDicks I would literally do the opposite and pinch the boxes open wider to be able to stuff more fries in. Same with ice cream and shit. Managers would tell me not to do it and I'd just be like "oh okay sorry my bad" and then just keep doing it because most of the time they weren't looking 😂😂
As one lawsuit indicated, it's not about getting a tiny bit of less food or charged a buck or two more...It's the principle! I love when consumers challenge large corporations. Although it's primarily lawyers that benefit, it forces corporations to stay on their toes.
That said, I have some important questions for everyone:
1. Hands up if you've ever taken extra condiment packets, salt&P, napkins,etc. from a fast food place?
2. Hands up if you've ever asked for extra dipping sauces...and always got them.
3. Hands up if you've ever complained about a product.. and always got a replacement...no questions asked.
4. Hands up if you've asked for a little more topping on a sub, burrito, taco etc...and always got it.
I see a lot of hands in the air. Including mine. It's hard to be too critical of the fast food business when most of us are guilty of 'bending' the rules and/or taking advantage of their great customer service.
I view it as decreasing the amount of funds available for dumb advertising. Why am I having to pay for singing and dancing to tell me your breakfast sandwich is now available 24/7/365? Just have someone read the ad. It costs less.
Bob bobbyy...As I said, I agree the restaurants have no right to swindle. And we'll have to disagree that "every time" we buy food from these places its low quality. I'm a big fan of the consistent-quality of major fast food chains. They follow quality-control rules that customers count on. For example, a Big Mac basically tastes the same everywhere.
Of course, there can be exceptions. But all a person has to do is make a valid complaint on the quality of a product. They'll give you a free replacement.
The key point I'm making isn't about quality of food. It's about how people should grab some perspective before complaining about a few less fries (etc).
In japan the big-mac is made with much better sauce, beef, and veggies. In the UK its the same, as with most of the EU. The US gets the short end of the stick because our laws are for the CEO and not the people buying the food.
hugh jorgan: Most of the time I get my order WRONG at the McDonald's near my house. Even when I WRITE THE LIST of the items I want!!! 😲 Last time, I bought food and a toy for my daughter (not the actual happy meal), and when I got home, there WAS NO TOY and no sauce for the nuggets... that's why I check the bags before I leave the restaurant, but that day I trusted them... no toy, no sauces...
Some of these are definitely local issues.
No cheatin me,....i haven't bought toilet paper in 3 years,....thankyou,....Mcdonalds, Burger King, Chipotle, KFC, Wendy's etc.😂😂
Tip for y’all: if you go through the drive through, when you get your food check it at the window, don’t move away and double check it with your receipt. Been cheated a lot by realizing I missed food
Lots of people looking to get rich quick.
yeah, $1.50 richer xD
crystal sparks i liked that one about subway where because 1 guy wouldnt settle for 525,000 dollars for a 11inch sub the judge threw the case out the window and all them idiots dont get a cent. The judge is pretty smart
crystal sparks I think of two young people getting married so early.. dam gold digger want tax breaks play house and know dam well they ain’t doing it right.. rich quick.. hahahaha trying to bone their way to happiness .. 🤣
Whoever likes Dunkin' Doughnuts has never tasted A Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Krispy Kreme is great when the hot fresh donut sign is lit. When they get cold forget it. KK's crueller is a huge fraud compared to DD's crueller. DD has a much better plain cake donut than KK.
I actually don't care for Krispy Kreme. Too much glaze.
My state doesn’t have Krispy Kreme in any town or city. All we have is Dunkin or Starbucks. I prefer Starbucks though because I love the coffee and specialty drinks. I had Krispy Kreme once, and I’d sell my soul to have it again.
Spunky Dunkers out in the Chicago area is where it's at, so much better than both of them
Krispy kreme doughnuts are way too sweet with hardly any actual doughnut
I work at Burger King and I STUFF the fry containers. I put more than one or two napkins in the bag, especially if they've got a sandwich with extra mayo or something like that. We're only supposed to give one sauce for an eight piece nugget, but I give two. When making Oreo shakes, I put two or even three pumps of Oreo crumbs in the cup even though we're only supposed to put one.
I've been told off at one point or another for all of this but I don't care, we're supposed to give the people what they paid for!