McDonald’s general discussion

[Maundie]

Had a Chicken Mac meal and a Biscoff McFlurry this lunchtime, really nice and much better than the last KFC I had

 

[Moley]

Nothing gets past your eyes.

I see what you did there.

 

[Maundie]

Well I thought it might be useful for someone with actual experience using/maintaining one of these machines to post how they actually work and what the problems with them are.

They literally are money printing machines, particularly on days like today.

Certainly good to know as most people just throw the line "They can't have been arsed to clean the machine" line out

 

[ivrytwr3]

Well I thought it might be useful for someone with actual experience using/maintaining one of these machines to post how they actually work and what the problems with them are.

They literally are money printing machines, particularly on days like today.

You obvs missed my awesome dad joke.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

You obvs missed my awesome dad joke.

I clearly did… whooosh

 

[robfosters]

Certainly good to know as most people just throw the line "They can't have been arsed to clean the machine" line out

No such thing as can’t be arsed in Maccies. The vast majority are super strict on cleaning routines. I’ve never in 43 years been sick after a Maccies.

 

[cheesefest]

Well I thought it might be useful for someone with actual experience using/maintaining one of these machines to post how they actually work and what the problems with them are.

They literally are money printing machines, particularly on days like today.

Yes its a massive loss if the milkshake/McFlurry machine packs up.

On a similar line to at work, on very hot days, some of the freezers and chillers pack up and guess which freezers go first - yes, the ice cream/lollies. We need the same chillers and freezers that mainland Europe use as they would be packing up every day. What we do now, is to take out stuff that probably won't sell - frozen pies and put the ice cream and lollies in there.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Had a Chicken Mac meal and a Biscoff McFlurry this lunchtime, really nice and much better than the last KFC I had

Do you know what mate, 10 years I would have said KFC was my go to of that kind of thing McDs, bk etc

I don't have these things all that often but over the last few years I had KFC a few times and it's really gone downhill.

To the point I'd probably walk into McDonald's over KFC now.

 

[cheesefest]

I have no idea wth KFC have done with their fries. Have a curry powder taste with a weird aftertaste

 

[Kenai]

I have no idea wth KFC have done with their fries. Have a curry powder taste with a weird aftertaste

They've added 'original recipe style' seasoning

WHAT FLAVOUR IS THE NEW FRIES SEASONING?​

The seasoning is a blend of savoury herbs & spices including black pepper, white pepper, paprika, sage, rosemary and bay which perfectly seasons our skin-on potato fries.

 

[Bubo]

Having worked at McDs and have extensive experience dealing with one of those machines, that’s not quite the case.

The machine has to do a pasteurisation cycle daily and it’s always run at the end of the night shift, or for a 24/7 store, at the crack of dawn when they are switching to breakfast. If you don’t, it locks out. This is usually on a timer and you can’t ignore it, the machines pretty clear when it wants you to put it into its pasteurisation cycle.

The pasteurisation cycle only takes a few hours so if it does error out, you can usually get it going again before breakfast ends.

It needs a full strip down once per week where you’d fully sterilise and clean all the parts and tanks.

Older non-computerised heat treat machines needed a full strip down daily, I doubt there are any of these left in operation mind.

The issue is the machines are utter garbage and very unreliable. They’d regularly throw cryptic error codes and unless you are super experienced with one of them or a authorised technician, you’ll have zero idea what any of it means.

The machines are full of hundreds of tiny parts and o-rings which are prone to getting lost or broken during the strip down process.

Someone’s your right, it is just an error with the cleaning or strip down process and doing it again fixes it. Other times not so much and if it throws a code, it locks out until it’s cleared.

The maintenance and repair is locked down do you can only use their authorised techs which cost £££ and the parts cost £££. We keep spares of all the small/moving parts which are touched in the strip down process but they often develop a lot of electronic faults which we couldn’t do anything with.

Even just stupid stuff like these things are in a hot kitchen, in the summer they sell a lot of milkshake and the machines working hard, the compressor overheats and shuts down.

The older manual non-computerised machines were much easier to deal with and generally more reliable - we used to have racks of parts for those ready to go if needed.

Trust me, the last thing a franchise owner wants if for this machine to be out of action, they are literally money printing machines when they are operating correctly.

After reading this and seeing how labour intensive this is and how much maintenance and effort and full on dedication is required to keep the machines going, it's no wonder it costs so ****ing much.

 

[imtoooldforthis]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1cq7jjz/is_this_a_new_round_of_shrinkflation_or_has/

I don't think anyone expects good patties from Mcdonalds but this is the most miserable-looking patty I've seen in a while.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Yikes, someone’s cremated that, looks like they cooked it twice. I can’t see how else it would end up looking like that.

It should be a 10th of a pound for a standard patty, that ain’t it.