Secrets McDonald's Employees Discovered While Working There

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May 16, 2021 8:00 AM EDT

This enlightening AskReddit thread has McDonald's employees revealing various secrets they learned while working at the infamous fast food restaurant. If anything, it's surprising that things aren't grosser. Also, that idea about throwing an apple pie in a plain McFlurry and blending the two together sounds like pure genius. 

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  • 01
    Rectangle - Neottika • 17h 4 Awards My old McDonald's had a basement. G Reply 1 10.1k 3 ...
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    Font - MisterFisk • 16h 3 1 Award Drop any unopened chicken nugget sauce on the ground once – you've got yourself a sauce grenade. G Reply 1 8.0k
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    Font - thomsomc • 15h 3 10 Awards Sauces for sandwiches have the craziest dispensers. Ketchup and mustard are in these really rudimentary plastic funnel things that have a paddle in the handle, when you squeeze it gravity pushes just the right amount of sauce through holes. Doesn't seem like it'd work well but it does if you apply the proper amount of jigglin. The Mac sauce, mayo, and tartar though, they're in basically caulk tubes that get loaded into basically caulk guns. You pull the trigger
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    Font - abbazabba_3000 • 16h 1 Award Worked there in high school. Found out that if you put the middle of a Mac bun in the fryer and then add soft serve and strawberry topping, it tastes just like a funnel cake. Custom creations were the best part of working there. Edit; I have thoroughly enjoyed hearing about all of your own custom creations. You have all made my work day much less boring, so thank you! G Reply 4 7.9k 3 ...
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    Font - HawkTheHawker · 23h 4 Awards Dehydrated onions, you put them in a metal thing and just add water The thing is they still taste great! But I was shocked and happy that I didn't have to go cut onions 6 Reply 1 26.1k ...
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    Font - Ambitious-Baseball84 · 17h 7 Awards I learned that if I have time to lean, I have time to clean. 6 Reply 4 11.4k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - TheGingernational · 17h I worked at McDonalds when they first introduced sweet tea and remember that it was brewed in a large bucket mixing hot water with a full bag of granulated sugar. It makes me sick to think about but I still sometimes crave that disgustingly sweet tasty garbage. G Reply 4 9.0k 3 ...
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    Handwriting - SonofRontgen • 16h Worked at McDonald's Australia. Back when we had the old cheeseburger buns, before McDonald's "got healthy" we used to scrunch up the buns and deep fry in the Fry vat. Covered them in sugar, and you end up with something tasting like doughnuts. G Reply 4 1.1k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - tardissomethingblue • 18h 2 Awards The official deodorizing spray they gave us is the most pleasant thing I've ever smelled in my entire life. Even now, I wish I could smell it again.
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    Font - Font - AmbivalentWaffle • 17h 15 Awards Former employee here. I found out that, when making 5 gallons of sweet tea, an entire 4-pound bag of sugar goes in. Sandwiches with round egg use real, cracked eggs. Folded and scrambled come from packaged goods in the freezer or fridge. I also had a manager that insisted more people purchase Filet O Fish when it's raining out because they subconsciously associate the watery weather with fish. Anyway, he did some research by poring through sales of
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    Font - Radthereptile • 17h 7 Awards For the one I worked at in high school. Burgers are kept in a warming area for no more than 15 minutes then thrown out and new ones are made. You get a free meal from anything except the salads. Meal is a sandwich, medium fries and a medium drink. At the end of the night all the cooked meat is thrown out. If you want you can use it to make burgers and take them home with you. Specific tools and grill section for cooking chicken vs beef to make sure they don't
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    Human body - Enticing-Window187 · 20h 1 Award My manager used to be on my back all of the time for 'giving out too much sauce'. He tried telling me the limit is one per meal.
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    Font - KannaKamuiFSN • 21h S 2 Awards Man, Reading These I am wondering why my McDonald's was so boring. We didn't spit on anything, the stuff that needed to be kept clean was kept clean (if it wasn't required it would be filthy). The ice cream machine worked fine, food wasn't undercooked (on occasion it was over cooked). Employing Highschool kids of course they are gonna make some mistakes, but nothing too bad. G Reply 4 8.8k 3 ...
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    Font - Hi_Vincent • 17h I started working at McDs when I was 15.. the secret is that it's probably one of the cleanest restaurants in your city. The standardizations and routine practices leave little room for employees to think for themselves. It was a way cleaner restaurant than the 30-50$ per person place I would work at later. G Reply 4 5.6k 3 ...
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    Rectangle - pastashirt • 16h 2 Awards not rlly a secret but when im on wrap (wrapping the food) ni get nuggets i might slip an extra 2-3 because i like the thought of someone getting hype over an extra nug or two. 6 Reply 1 1.3k 3 ...
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    Font - nmvh5 • 17h I worked McDonald's in high school for a couple of months before going to BK. McDonald's had more stuff to make things faster like the cool ketchup and mustard dispensers and fry dispenser. I liked working at both places though. Mostly kids my age. I had a blast making $5.15/hr G Reply 534 3 ...
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    Font - CrazyHorse_CFH • 17h 2 Awards The big mac is just a double cheese burger with 1000 island dressing, lettuce and a extra piece of bread. if you order a double add lettuce and big mac sauce, you get the same thing with less bread and cheaper price. G Reply 1 4.1k 3 ...
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    Font - thebluick · 17h I can never forget working breakfast. Those sandwiches need to be cheese, then meat, then egg. If the cheese is next to the egg it makes the egg slip out. G Reply 4 786 3 ...
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    Font - Asapgerg • 16h That you don't get grossed out by eating the food all the time, you just become addicted to it G Reply 1 185 3 ...
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    Rectangle - 4Schorr • 16h Order an apple pie and a cup of ice cream and run that SOB through the mcflurry mixer together. You can thank me later. 6 Reply 1 908 3 ...
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