Why Is Fast Food So Bad Now?
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Its not even cheap anymore. One meal is like 10 to 15 bucks. Which is around the same price i would pay getting takeout from a local restaurant.
This. All of this.
i remember when a meal at jack in the box used to be like 4$, now the burger itself is 6$ and a large combo with cold sub par fries, and a coke that doesnt taste like coke costs 12$. i saw an ad for a family meal combo (i forget the chain) but basically a meal for 3~ costs 50$.
The best part is that the quality is shit in comparison. They want to justify raising price due to increased food prices while they are at record profits
right like why go spend 16 bucks at taco bell for a couple tacos and a drink when i can just go to an actual local mexican spot and get way more food thats way better quality for the same cost or only slightly more
I wonder if progressive inflation is just inevitable. Will we eventually live in a world in which minimum wage is still $7.25 but a Big Mac is $30?
"You would go to McDonald's to celebrate, now you go to McDonald's because you can't celebrate." Bruh, incredibly accurate, but frightening.
The feeling of using a gift certificate to buy an m&m frosty
I have pictures when I was a child, that I had a birthday party at McDonald. Freaking Ronald was there and everything. Sad that isn’t the case anymore
McDonald's celebration????
@@narutofan4545 dude it was real in the 90s. You could book McDonald to host your B-day. It was nuts.
@@sethfranklin2482 also in the 80s. I remember going to a birthday party in a McD's, and it was a lot of fun.
The allure of fast food when I was little was that it was a fun outing with the family, we got to sit in a cool restaurant and eat burgers and some of them had arcade machines and claw games. Almost every single chain lost sight of what made going out to eat fun and replaced it with utility and the illusion of value. I used to like the food because it was a change of scenery from my mom's cooking. Now I'd kill just to have one more meal prepared by her.
Time ta learn ya relatives' recipes. That way you have a way of rememberng them not only by sight or sound but also by the taste of food they made ya during all those yeers
Holy cow, JonSudano is here
Here , here
People just don't want to do money-saving cooking anymore. Sure, people want to put on a chef hat and experiment following gourmet CZcams recipes claim they 'like to cook', but so few people now are actually doing economic cooking to save money.... i.e. big casserole, stuff that freezes, leftovers etc. I know several people that go to the grocery store everyday and make a new dinner every night. That's not how our parents or grandparents did it. People on food stamps would be appalled at having to eat leftovers nowadays, here they get expensive shit from the deli.
This is the way I feel too. I miss my nana and mums cooking so much, I’d do anything just to eat one more home cooked meal.
Parents used to tell me getting KFC for dinner was big deal only reserved for special occasions like winning a little league game and now you couldn't pay me to eat there .
I can attest to this. 20 25 years ago KFC was amazing. We'd get it about once a month and it was always an event for me and my brother.
Then it went straight to shit.
Same here. It got so bad that they closed down in my town. Even grocery stores make better fried chicken.
How is their chicken so bad now I feel like even a couple years ago it was good but now it doesn't even seem like real chicken
the chicken is always like, slimy? KFC chicken used to be crispy, now it has this weird wet over greasy consistency and the quality control has gone down compared to the early 2000's which was a great period for KFC.
I used to go there every Friday on my lunch break when I worked in my home town. I'd get the 3 piece tendies combo and those potato wedges and honestly It was pretty damn good. Now they don't have those potato wedges anymore and their new fries are shit. Haven't had KFC in like 5+ years.
the big problem is back in the 90's, these companies were seperate entities competing with eachother, but now they're all owned by like 3 corporations. and all these corporations do is look for ways to cut costs to make more profit. they turn every single fast food company into complete garbage
Sadly, the same is happening with funeral homes. Look it up if you don't believe me.
@@Toonces_TheDrivingCatwhat?
@daylightsavior6745 big corporations buy up independent funeral homes and essentially leave little choice and use predatory tactics at a time when people are most vulnerable.
@@Toonces_TheDrivingCat those greedy pigs they just wanna stuff there mouths tell theres not nothing left but a waste land . .😂
They'll eventually have us eating soilent green and paying for it. Just so we can stay alive.
My biggest issue is the price. It is really hard to justify spending over $10 per meal on very low quality food.
It's time to start cookin' 🗿
Minimum wage went up.
@@KNByamIt was that way before minimum wage went up.
Try living in the UK - it's even more. Everything (fast food) has doubled or more in the past 3 years. A Big Tasty + fries was basically a religious tradition for me every Friday for so many years but I just can't justify the price anymore. For that same money I could get 3 days worth of food from a supermarket. Used to be that a McDonalds for one person would cost maybe £1 more than it would cost for you to buy those ingredients and make the same meal yourself at home. Now, for that same money, I could make a burger and fries for like 6 people or more.
@@Aethelhald Well,... That is kind of what happens when the import and transportation infrastructures gets screwed, then you have an epidemic where both are scaled down further as a cost cutting measure and then you have an increase of costs for said infrastructure due to a rise in oil prices thanks to a war.
In Washington state in 2007 a 2 liter of mountain dew was 99¢, and so was a full size Snickers bar, mcchicken, two tacos, and jr bacon cheese burger. Minimum wage was 7.01 in 2007. In 2021, minimum wage in oregon is twice that, but those items are triple that.
Printing 100 years of currency in the last three years to pay for all these progressive ideals has it's effects.
I have said the exact same! Wages Doubled. Prices TRIPLED! FFS!!!!!
People seem to think that increasing the minimum wage will ever solve anything. They never consider that it only matters relative to how much it costs to live, and raising the minimum wage always inevitably raises prices for everything else, which defeats the whole purpose of the massive increases to the minimum wage, as it makes an area less competitive for low skilled labor relative to other markets.
I am fast food manager and here is my hot take about phones during work. I work two different shifts, morning and overnight. During work hours, crew aren't allowed to have phones due to mostly them being on it instead of working. Personally I don't care if you have your phone on you as long you don't use it and are working. But if I do see you using more then working I will give a warning and if they continue to use it, then I'll ask them to leave it in their bag in the crew room. Thankful I have workers who won't have issue with not using their phone during work hours. I did have a few who are upset and told me what if I have an emergency. I know I sound like an asshole saying this but they can call the store if it is an emergency. When at work, your focus is on your job. Especially since the location I work at is always understaff due to the owners wanted a lot of labor being cut, I need everyone to focus on their task. Luckily like I said I have staff that don't mind putting their phones away and are very hard workers. This is just my hot take and I know people will disagree with me but in the end of the day if you use your phone more than working at a job that requires your focus then you shouldn't be working at that job in the first place.
I am in a manager role at a small manufacturing company and have 2 employees working below me. I told them right out the gate- “I don’t care if you have your phone out once in awhile.. I don’t care if you take small breaks whenever… just DO NOT ABUSE IT. Make sure your work is getting done.”
Asmongold reacting to ReviewBrah while passionately talking about fast food, is the most american thing I've ever watched lol
Amen brother
Lmao the level of empathy Asmon displayed watching this man complain about his fast food meal was IMMENSE
I consider both authorities on the subject at hand
Me reading your comment about Asmon reacting to Review about fast food while at work not working feels pretty American too.
True and real
My mother-in-law worked at Taco Bell in the 70's/80s and she was genuinely shocked when she found out that today they don't make all the ingredients in-house. None of us are surprised growing up with it, but it really used to be so different in her generation. Imagine kids today growing up not realizing Fast Food used to taste good and be affordable.
If fast food could mostly be defined as "something you can pick up at a drive-thru window" then there are certainly some amazing fast food joints still out there. They just don't have the cultural influence that the biggest chains have.
@@omgvagueit also strongly depends on where you live
thank people being ok whit lower standards if you lower you standards you get worse produce just look at gaming this is something most people are unwilling to admit to this includes Azmo as they will have to admit they are a part of the problem
I had my first fast food in the late 70s/early 80s. It really wasn’t any better back then. Maybe food was better in the 60s, back when industrial cattle farms were not quite as inhumane as they are today. I wouldn’t know.
@@omgvaguesome local joints might still have the good stuff
i have a cumulative 10 years experience in fast food. i managed a restaurant for 8 years. in that time i aged from my 20s to my 30s. i worked with over 200 people in that time. the amount of people i considered good workers, those who were pleasant to work with both in personality and responding to critical feedback: i counted just 5 people... and this is something i really thought hard about. by the end of that career, i had known for years that trying hard, caring that i could serve good food that was both exactly what you asked for and consistent as it could ever be, was all for naught, since i was being judged by the average performance of everyone around me. there were times where i could kill it solo, there were times when there was absolutely nothing i could do. it was soul-crushing. there were plenty of times where i was in the store completely by myself, doing three times the work, because nobody showed up.
a job is either made or broken by who you have to work with.
regularly i was looking around and realizing i hated every single employee in my presence. they could not respond to criticism, they could not follow directions, they could not offer consistency or even accuracy. they would not try to ever improve. they didn't even have good personalities. it's not even about their wages. money is not the issue, it's their attitudes and beliefs. you cannot find people who are willing to work, fulfill a task to a satisfactory completion, and aren't worried about money. they are blank husks that only care about themselves and do the bear minimum to just check the box. it is 100% a socioeconomic issue.
Nah bro I disagree. You can have employees like that, which is arguably every fast food work ever how you are describing it and STILL - if the ingredients and the food are good enough, they will still serve you a decent meal. Now a days it does NOT matter because those same employees are working with absolute trash due to budget cuts and whatever tactics they are using. It is 1000 percent not the same food it use to be and you cannot just blame it on the employees. Im sure they play a big part but I really strongly feel its the quality of the food itself, long before they even lay eyes on it. I could be wrong, but I really dont think I am.
In my experience in workplaces in general one bad apple can ruin the entire work environment which makes it very important whoever is doing the the hiring is very careful and I know you didn’t have many good options applying since it was fast food
And these are the same people screaming that they want $20 an hour.
@@TSyoyoyoure right, there is no quality, the food is full of grease and perservatives and other chemicals. Not only that, but its high calorie food, like one entree is the ammount of calories a normal person eats in pretty much a whole day, no wonder theres so many struggling with obesity
Nah dude. My dad is a chef and he’s worked in numerous toxic environments and they still manage to create good food at the same price as McDonalds is charging now. I’m sure worker “morale” isn’t helping, but making food at McDonald’s is easy and streamlined. It’s pretty hard for worker involvement to have any meaningful impact on the food they’re creating. It’s basically a factory assembly line for food.
It’s not remotely surprising that McDonald’s workers are unpleasant to work with either. Do you really believe that everyone who applies to McDonald’s do it because they WANT to or even because they can get away with a lot there? No. They have to work that crappy job to make crappy pay all while working with other people who don’t want to be there. It’s been like that forever except it’s probably a lot more miserable with the state of the economy rn.
The food quality comes down to corporate with companies that large. Even if somehow all the food across ALL the main fast food chains was decreasing in quality due to worker incompetence, it doesn’t excuse the insane pricing for said low quality food or the infamously awful worker conditions.
It's wild, in Canada, by the time I leave A&W or Wendy's, I've spent $30+ for greasy, low quality food for two. Even McDonalds, which was always the cheap option, is close to $30 every time I go for a couple meals. On top of that, EVERY SINGLE TIME, they mess up the order and I have to go in and talk to them about it. A DQ blizzard is like $9 now for a medium. Shit's getting ridiculous.
You used to have birthday parties at McDonald's. It was a treat. Now it's depression food, unironically. You go there on the way to somewhere else because there's nowhere else to eat.
exactly that
Great depression quality food at clinical depression causing prices.
Depression food? McDonalds has never been a standard for what is considered 'good" food.
Maybe because you was a kid
Cuz you're an adult now, we didnt know any better as kids lol
I’m a store manager for a fast food establishment and this is 150% true.
The reason at least for us that everything is just a nightmare is because of all the mobile ordering. We have Doordash, Uber eats, our company mobile order system, drive thru and in-house orders that we are expected to get out from the same two food lines we had pre-pandemic. During peak times we could have a screen full of 20 to 30+ orders from all different services.
My company still pays pretty much the same they always did meanwhile raising prices and their big thing for us was that they now allow customers to tip.. real cool..
Most of the time we are 100ft underwater with orders and there is just no way out. The only way we could possible handle the volume we receive is if we expanded the size of our building and added at least two more service lines which will never happen.
It’s to the point where I almost feel bad for hiring new people into it because you are just instantly burned out from the straight volume.
Well said!
Adding to this, investment into reparation of certain stuffs have become harder for the company to do. Is the band in which you toast bread getting holes and your bread block it for 1 minute? nah keep using it until there is no more toaster.
@@stevestrangelove4970 Yeah, same and after it breaks it takes weeks or months or never to get it replaced. Your now just stuck using the one janky one that’s left… and asked why times have slowed down even more.
they are not paying you enough because they dont respect your job and consider you their slaves, simple as
I thought fast food workers all got raises since the pandemic which is one of the reasons why the prices went up. If I wasn’t making at least $20 an hour dealing with that kinda stress, I’d go work at one of the millions of take 5 car wash places and get paid $16 an hour for just standing there
You're so right about location. I lived in an area in Va about 10-12 miles from the closest interstate entrance and our taco bell has always been popping. I'm sure if i went home it'd be the same experience you'd get in 2009. Now I'm living in FL and it's so rare to walk away with any warm fuzzy feelings leaving a drive thru
Where in Va? I’m from Norfolk! Much love !
It's just quality assurance, every franchise varies location to location except chic fil a which is consistent everywhere
I worked at a fast-food restaurant, and they changed our egg-wash (which we wash our chicken with before crumbing them) from real eggs and milk to a premade egg-wash powder that we mix with water. Keep in mind that water and hot oil does not mix. Its small incremental changes like this that headquarters make seem like unsubstantial changes to make things "streamline" but that are really just to make a profit at the compromise of food quality. I'm a hard and passionate worker, changes like this only make it more difficult for us to remain passionate, and to train people who are often just beginning their work-life and professional careers, and show them appropriate work ethics. Its crazy man
Not fast food but our residential community switched from fresh to frozen soups. It costs more to do frozen I asked the executive director about it his response was corporate decision we need it so idiot proof that a chimp can do it because we're understaffed and won't give the hours or money to have a decent cook 😂😂😂😂😂welp at least he said sucks to be you and was honest about it.
I think that worker spit in his burger and cover it up with some cheese just to troll that poor thin lookin dude...
At some point the constant corporate cost cutting to save a buck in the immediate future will backfire and people will wake up and just stop buying garbage for rediculous prices. These companies prospered because they started operating on the concept of bringing cheap fast meals to the average people. Now the standard procedure is profit at all costs...
i noticed burger king and mcdonalds breakfast including pancakes really took a dive, the pancakes are damn near inedible and the syrup is like cocacola syrup from one of those machines but it forgot to use water.
It also tastes worse🥲
This isn't just about fast food. This is about EVERY INDUSTRY
THANK YOU I don't understand why ppl keep making excuses about this
It's because they haven't ended it. They haven't said sorry. They haven't admitted they were wrong and even promised to start making amends for the damage they did.
And they're paying for it. Hell, we're all paying for it.. they just won't stop the madness by saying they made a mistake. That they overreacted... and _massively_ overreached. And that they hurt us all as a society with their policies.
@@NearlyH3adlessNickwhy would they? People keep giving them money lol
Bidenomics
Capitalism is an economic system that incentivizes providing less while charging more. It's a game of Monopoly played in the real world. The people at the top keep getting richer, while the people at the bottom (and the percent in the 'bottom' continues to grow) keep getting poorer.
Why? Because the workers have no power, and the consumers have no power. Yes, theoretically the consumers can boycott a business, but there are so many people with so few options, the further along the game gets, the harder it becomes to successfully boycott. Everything is owned by wealthy individuals and corporations, and they sabotage and buy out any competition before it has a chance to grow.
The answer is general strikes and mass protesting. Regular people coming together to support each other during the strikes.
The answer is to force the government through said strikes to implement pro-worker and pro-consumer reforms. To break up the monopolies, major corporations, and big banks. To implement universal single-payer healthcare (preferably fully nationalized to remove the profit motive), universal basic income, and a high minimum wage. To implement electoral reforms such as STAR Voting (or at least Ranked Choice Voting) and proportional representation. And to implement education reform, including tuition-free education, cancelling all student loan debt, paying the teachers better, and increasing the standards for teachers and professors to keep them from ever becoming such a disgusting quagmire of dipshits ever again.
The answer is to work toward a system where we can properly keep up with the times and make changes to fit our needs, as opposed to the current system where only the rich, the powerful, and the corporations have a say in how things are run.
I realize this comment is a bit late, but the biggest reason quality of food has gone down is preservatives and fillers. Over the last 30 years, companies have been using substitutes in our foods more and more. Taco Bell for example: Through the 90s, they used mid-grade beef. Sometime around 2001-2003, they began putting more and more filler in their meat. First it was textured vegetable protein, then they transitioned to using oats. It's to the point now where Taco Bell's beef is about 80% oats. So much so that they legally cannot call it "beef" anymore, but rather "taco filling." And they only do this because the FDA allows it. Most other countries cannot get away with this stuff. It's why McDonald's tastes so much better in other countries.
There's also the issue of the stock market requiring companies to infinitely grow. Profits have to keep going up, but the prices cannot without out-pricing the consumer (which is the issue McDonald's is now facing as their CEO is being bombarded lately). If you cannot justify raising the price, you have to cut corners elsewhere. Eventually it becomes the food itself, thus we get the reduction in quality, more fillers, "new menu items" that are typically extremely cheap to make items that they market at a premium using "FOMO."
yes the infinite growth thing. Its not so much the stock market but the fault of our monetary system based on debt and interest which requires constantly expanding money supply, population, and debt to pay off the old debt. Its a system that will inevitably fail due to large numbers.
Companies right now are in a race to the bottom, and things like the taco bell meat is one of the ways its happening. I remember in the late 80's Taco Bell tacos were actually very good. Now they are mealy and the texture is sort of like sawdust in your mouth. Its really gross.
This is the crux. The gist of your comment needs to be broadcasted loudly. Its all cut product, worse than dodgy drug dealers cutting their drugs with cheap substitutes. Vegetable oil and fillers in everything. Go get a donut, it aint proper dough anymore. Have a look at ice cream - all it should be is Milk / cream / egg white / sugar / particular flavour. Go look at ther ingredients now - VEGETABLE OIL WTFFF, gums, maltodextrins, chemist shopping list. ITs aint food anymore, While ive used junk food as example, its in bread cheese, meats, EVERYTHING. The only way to eat proper food these days is to buy whole , real unprocessed ingredients and cook it yourself. REAL UNTOUCHED MEAT / FISH / EGGS / VEGES. If bread, it has to be gourmet / high end stuff. I had a drastic change over a year ago. Im shredded now (also started lifting weights), and have found a new love of food. The answer, making it myself. if its in a packet ? its F-NG JUNK CUT PRODUCT CRAP.
I live in a third world country and have been to the worst sh*holes you can imagine, but I have never received worst customer service than I consistently did during the time I spend in USA. Everybody look pissed off 24/7 and they work as if they were forced to, it's really annoying.
Our country is not as good as theyd like everyone to believe.
the best and most consistent service i ever had was in japan (lived there 10 years). and the food was good too.
first day back in the US, i was handed a half-gallon glass of water to hand down the table... WTF? it's not my job. do i get half the tip too?
Congrats, you’ve visited the culmination of the 3rd world supporting a few members of the first. That’s grand ol US of A.
People say this Review of the week guy is a dork etc. But I've been following him for probably 5 years now and he never misses. He is single handedly speaking for all of us.
@Combatdocumented doesn't make him any less right
He does come off as a huge dork to me and whats up with the suits when hes just reviewing fast food? i came across his videos a couple of times in the last year or so but I did still listen and liked what he had to say. Hes just such a dork and comes off so super serious about it all lol. But yes, he makes good points. Just not my favorite presentation style. But Asmongold comes off a but too dry and long winded in his video responses for my taste as well but I cant help but appreciate some of his videos too.
@@SaneMillennial because he thinks that dressing well is a good thing to do regardless of the context
@@CErra310 Indeed: dress like you are meeting the love of your life for the first time, and do not want to embarrass them due to the nature of your clothing.
When he dunks on a chain, about a week later you'll start seeing ads from that franchise trying to save face. 'My disappointment is immeasurable and my day has been ruined.': this wrecked Popeyes for quite some time.
As a fast food worker I can tell you that if you care about quality as an employee it's always an uphill battle. It's all about reaching a good avarage time on every order. So sometimes the product is crap and you want to fix it. But you can't cuz then u get shit from the boss people on the floor.
Yup. One of the reasons I swore off working in the food service industry. But the way things are going I might have to go back 😂
@@SolidSnake240 It's not like that in any repsectable kitchen. Find a nice small local place (preferably family owned) to work at and you will see a world of difference
@@danielstokker I am from Sweden. True in a resturant. But fast food way different, it's just filled with pissed off people at all times. It is what it is, but they do not want to wait more seconds than nessecary.
It's not so much about the guests tho. It's the main concept that everything needs to go fast, but fast = shit quality on the food. Still tho, gotta do it fast, fuck it. So you're constantly working against good quality on the fries and extra. We see a burnt burger and we be like, ok.... send it. Complain is like 50/50 it's all worth it cuz of that damn avarage time spent on each order. Cuz then our resturant look good in statistic.
@@SolidSnake240 Feel ya. Good luck! We just gotta fight a good fight I guess. Bring good quality on the food so people don't get sick. If boss wants to fire us for adding 2-5 seconds to make sure the food quality is great. Then so be it.
materials shortages and labor strain
This is why I respect companies like In N Out and Jollibee. Since they're privately owned, They don't cover the whole globe like McDs and KFC. But the trade off is consistently good quality food for a reasonable price. There's a reason they have dedicated customers and will be packed day in and day out.
In Asia or atleast in the Philippines, everyone can cook and are hardworking, secret-recipes are basically non-existent (maybe except Coke but is really not as popular anymore), it's true there's still some company buying when they get too big, like Mang Inasal being bought by Jollibee, but only in name, the secret recipe is not exactly a secret, how I know this? just try out different companies.
I'm not too sure but maybe it's because everyone can put up a mom-&-pop mini-franchises / mini-companies that there's so much competition.
There's no board of directors here that cut costs just for the sake of quarterly bonuses then, then resigns.
They tend to not be into cheese either.
I’m glad I’m not the only one noticing that fast food has just went to hell over the last 2 years. Half the time your order is wrong, or they don’t accept cash or something is broken or they have not enough employees I mean it’s always something
my new favorite is the person taking orders outside, but they are just standing at the speaker listening to music or on facetime. they gotta tell the person on the phone to hold on a sec because i just drove up, but only after a few more jokes. a few feet away is a homeless dude asking for people to order him food, after the 2nd window is another homeless guy asking people for food knowing that everyone that just left the window got something to eat. i look inside and i can see my bag of food waiting next to the window, and i also see all the employees inside having a twerk off. after about 30 seconds, someone walks over, picks up my food and hands it to me without saying a single word. ALMOST as if i, the paying customer, am an afterthought or an inconvenience over there at twerk central. i get home and my order is wrong. i had ordered an entirely plain sandwich and fries.
I try to avoid fast food for many reasons. Recently I ordered a chicken sandwich from dq. That mfer was 2 chicken strips I on a bun I shit you not. Well the excuse of a tomato and pile of throw up/phlegm/salad was on there as well. But they couldn't even be bothered to use a patty/breast. Lmao
Covid destroyed the restaurant industry. You can still see it's effects to this day
@BlueRaven28 not fast food, but if you have a publix supermarket near you go buy a Buffalo chicken tender footlong sub, it will be called a whole sub. It's about 8 bucks and is large and fucking delicious.
1. The orders always wrong because it's fast food being staffed by minimum wage employees who are apathetic, lazy, and incompetent. Don't gaslight yourself into thinking it was ever any different before covid.
2. They don't have enough employees because they are minimum wage employees who are apathetic, lazy, and incompetent and want to stay at home and get free COVID paychecks from Biden instead of getting back out into the workforce. A lot of places can't find a staff even offering $20 a hour.
A key factor in enjoying those kind of meals was the lack of burden on a tighter budget. Now McDonalds runs about $30+CAD for two meals on average so you feel the impact of eating at these places. You may as well go to a local restaurant at that price point and get a better quality meal.
? Fastfood has ALWAYS been more expensive than home cooking period. The entire point to getting fast food isn't the price, it's laziness.
@@refugeehugsforfree4151 read? they are comparing fast food to a local restaurant, not home cooking. If you order ahead to a local restaurant and go pick it up it's 100 times better quality for the same price, or less, than a fast food place and you can still be lazy. I've done it many nights when I really don't want to cook: I call a restaurant, place my to go order, then go get it in 20 minutes. The food is real food too not sodium filled chemical monstrosities you get at McDs or Taco Bell. Fast food is 100% pointless these days
@refugeehugsforfree4151 I've been eating fast food for 20 years and cooking at home was always cheaper until you said it wasn't. Am I missing something or are you new?
@@Jacko0_0 Asmond and most people think Fastfood is cheaper. I'm saying it isn't.
@@Zman1719 "A key factor in enjoying those kind of meals was the lack of burden on a tighter budget"
Fastfood was never cheaper than eating at home with your own home cooked food. The OP is saying those meals WAS good on a tighter budget. Not true at all.
I love how you active listen to the recordings like you're having a conversation with them lol. Enjoying the channel
Active listen? Bro its just called listening
@@enterpassword3313 No, there is a thing called active listening. It involves more vocalization, for instance sounds of agreement or repeating part of what the person just said.
It's not just fast food. I just took my gf out to a fancy restaurant, and her steak was chewy and fatty. Why should we take that chance again?
Its all cut product, worse than dodgy drug dealers cutting their drugs with cheap substitutes. Vegetable oil and fillers in everything. Go get a donut, it aint proper dough anymore. A donut from the 1950s was real. Not anymore. Have a look at ice cream - all it should be is Milk / cream / egg white / sugar / particular flavour. Go look at ther ingredients now - VEGETABLE OIL WTFFF, gums, maltodextrins, chemist shopping list. ITs aint food anymore, While ive used junk food as example, its in bread cheese, meats, EVERYTHING. The only way to eat proper food these days is to buy whole , real unprocessed ingredients and cook it yourself. REAL UNTOUCHED MEAT / FISH / EGGS / VEGES. If bread, it has to be gourmet / high end stuff. I had a drastic change over a year ago. Im shredded now (also started lifting weights), and have found a new love of food. The answer, making it myself. if its in a packet ? its F-NG JUNK CUT PRODUCT CRAP.
On eating?
The insane price increase of fast food paired with the considerable downgrade in quality these last few years has actually pushed me to start cooking more at home. I suppose you could say that's a positive. Any time I do get fast food I'm insanely disappointed and filled with buyer's remorse spending $12 on some nuggets, fries and a drink these days, and to that point I will say I've noticed an insane decrease in the quality of chicken nuggets, so much so that I actually can't stomach eating them anymore because more than half the time I bite into one, it has a bone, gristle or, from my experience only a couple days prior to this comment (trigger warning), a blood filled rancid artery that made me instantly puke up my entire meal. I'll never eat a fast food chicken nugget again after that experience and have actually began to learn how to bulk make my own home made, high quality chicken nuggets that I can just freeze and airfry when I want them. I have never in my life experienced this rapid of a decline in overall quality across the board at these restaurants, and the audacity to hike up their prices by 50% in the last year is utterly insane to me. How do people even afford to eat at these places anymore?
It is kinda funny that you can buy ingredients and make these things better yourself. For $12 you can buy a lot of ingredients. Only really need the soda.
It takes some work but it's worth it. My primary concern lately is the amount of shit that gets mixed into these processed foods for the sake of making it more cost effective. I don't give a shit what any regulatory agency says, I don't trust that stuff.
When I started cooking all my own food I lost a shitload of weight and stopped looking sickly. Then lately I've been working at a fast food place and snacking while I'm there has got me gaining fifteen pounds in a month, I can tell you for certain I haven't eaten 1,750 excess calories every day. Something in these processed foods is seriously bad stuff.
You have to use everyone’s stupid little app to get value now. So you let them you farm your data or you pay $12 for $3 of nutrition.
@@MkoivukaThere is nothing funny about it. It has always been cheaper and healthier to cook at home. Tasty is another thing. But if you learn a little about cooking and flavor you can make it tastier. Fast food is more about convenience now.
I just buy a giant bag of Kirkland nuggets. Solid quality and really not that bad of a price. They last a month.
When Disney's Hercules released in theaters, McDonald's had a set of plastic plates with a different character from the movie on it. My family got every single plate and still have and use them to this day. Asmon's right, you used to go to McDonald's to celebrate, or enjoy the food and collectable plastic toys you can sell in 20 years.
same. but please dont eat off them, they have lead lol
Shit same with my mom when BK had the Pocahontas Cups.
Almost forgot that I have a cupboard full of pokemon toys that I got from Happy meal. I remember pestering my mom like a spoiled brat for these. Me and my brother in the back of the car chanting "McDonald! McDonald! McDonald!" every time our parents said they'll take us there.
Dman, never realize until today how both my niece and nephew never mentioned McDonald ever when I asked them what they wanna eat.
Happy Meal toys now (at least here where I am) are just cardboard now. Or something really crappy... I've seen notebooks and stickers as 'toys'
The glass micky mouse and Batman cups are staples in my household. Quality is so good I refuse to use another cup.
I remember McDonald's used to host kids birthday parties. They were truly the best of times lol.
i always walk in and order from the kiosk at micdicks. i rarely have problems.. its right next to the highway too.. it is stupid expensive now though.
"If you treat your employees like machines, don't be surprised when they treat you like an ATM" is such a good quote by Asmon. Summarising the situation so well.
Yet he argues against unions, smh
In some franchises (or warehouses), phones are not allowed to not photo and spread trade secrets. I'm pretty sure KFC doesn't want to see you the oil, especially when somebody forgets to change it and somebody tweets it ...
Asmon has never worked a real job in his life. The problem is you have an entitled generation of kids who don't want to work and think raising the minimum wage won't have consequences. So you vote Democrat and watch the cost of everything explode due to horrendous fiscal policies and lack of consumer confidence.
We need to change things to reduce the cost of living, kick out the illegals, and create an environment where young people actually have a chance to succeed if they work hard.
The American dream has been sold out by boomers and politicians. We aren't going to make things better by having government solve the issue.
@@ImAzraa fuck unions.
@@foxanardunless my sources are wrong, union dues are statistically less than the pay raise you'd receive.
i ordered a baconator through uber eats, and it arrives without bacon. i tell this story at every gathering, it truly changed me.
Lol
It happens much more often when you ask for only meat and cheese. Apparently bacon isn’t meat. I have learned that the best way is to tell them no sauce and they get it right 90% of the time. The other 10% they leave out the bacon or cheese. At this point I have learned to expect disappointment.
@@sed8181i used to load bacon burgers with bacon. Management eventually noticed and got onto me for it. I hope i made someones day 😂
lmao
That is very sad for you, but funny for us
Its a combination of things.
1. Corporations trying to squeeze the most profits out of their product. This leads to the lowering of Grade of Product over years.
2. The workers are treated as easily replaceable machines, rather than Human beings. They are far overworked and underpayed for their time and undervalued by higher ups. Because they are easily replaceable, moving up from within is almost non existent now. There's a type of Classism between Management and Workers.
3. Society has gotten far too entitled and forgotten manners. This works on both sides of the counter.
Service with a smile is gone, customer is always right has been taken advantage of so much that the workers don't agree with that sentiment anymore. Likewise, being courtious to your server or order taker is pretty much non existent.
When the Society you serve, as well as the ones doing the serving are so demoralized, everything goes downhill.
4. Society is idolizing people who are the epitome for the reasons our Society is like this. This just goes to reenforce Society to becoming Lazier, more entitled, and demoralized.
5. When immoral people run things, everyone else suffers while they prosper. Until Society is redefined as
The Ruling Class and the Pessant Class. Which then becomes a Serfdom.
Service workers are todays Serfs. But instead of Agriculture, they work in the Industrial Complex.
Culver’s has a dumb naming convention when it comes to adding or subtracting condiments. I don’t remember exactly what it is, but when you ring up say “extra pickles” or “no pickles” it comes up looking almost identical on the order. So employees seem to often get confused. Like I used to order my burgers with no onions and extra pickles and half the time I’d get extra onions and no pickles. So now I don’t even bother changing it.
The irony is that as quality drops the price rises even if you count in inflation. The size of the items is also decreasing not so subtly. So ultimately you pay more for lower quality and smaller portions. Learning to cook is really a budget saver. You can make way better food at home for a lot less than what you get at any restaurant fast or otherwise.
Well, atleast cooking for younger healthier audiences, if you cook for your average boomer, they'll go this has too much oil / fat / salt / etc I'll have a heartattack or any cry-bullying.
In this house no one wants to cook for the exact reasons.
@@MangaGamified If you know someone won't like what you are cooking for them then why are you cooking that for them?
@@skittlemenow ikr? it's complicated, you'll see it one day.
@@MangaGamifiedtell them they eat or don't get supper.
@@TheMythandLegend ikr? but the cry-bullying still continues.
I haven't noticed a quality decrease, but the price certainly has SPIKED. People used to order fast food because it was cheap. There's not much point nowadays. I can make my own food for a lot cheaper.
You sound REALLY young
When I worked McD's 14 years ago (for 5 years) they downgraded/shrunk the ingredients a couple times. Nuggets, McChickens, burgers....
The only burger joint I frequent is Whataburger. The quality has been consistent for a very long time. Recent inflation has driven prices up 60% in the last couple years but thankfully they haven't opted for shrinkflation.
That's the problem with deliveries. There are just so many parts of the process where things can go wrong. They get the order wrong,items missing, they get the prices wrong. The time it takes to get your order. The way its packaged. So many times when you just end up with bags of slops. Then if you want to complain who do you complain to. The restaurant, the delivery guy, the delivery company, the app... No one wants to take responsibility.
I worked fast food all throughout the pandemic and there was certainly a VERY noticeable difference in the quality of product almost right after it along with a price increase
Same here. I worked at a pizza joint. And the quality of things has NEVER recovered.
worked fast food pre-pandemic. quality of food has always been kinda shit LOL. prices have increased, but everything has increased in price. if you wanna buy fast food cheap, eat off the value money like always. all the new items and side upgrades end up fucking people over...yall just need to realize youre getting shit food and shop smartly.
@@mariawhite7337 It's not just fastfood, other items also experienced a loss in quality wheter it is food or nonfood
@@Plackomiot Thats 100% true, even gloves were downgraded. Hell they started using 1ply toilet paper lmao
@@SimpleDecay "society is decaying" people say that in every age throughout human history because humans like to whine. We're still here and fine. People like to look at the issues and act like everything is miserable instead of being appreciative of being alive in the age they're living in, being appreciative of what humans have achieved and what they can achieve (not the whiners obviously, the one's busy actually making things better)
Two years ago in 2021, Burger King had a deal for 2 original chicken sandwiches and 2 small fries for $6.99 (Canadian). That same "deal" in 2023 is now $11.99 CAD, for the exact same amount of food. Almost double the price in two fucking years.
Coupons are hardly coupons anymore, and paying full price is just out of the question nowadays. Fast food chains have seriously forgotten their place as being affordable takeout options
I swear your talking about the mix and Match not the same but similar. Or you talking about the one they had during valentine's those had 2 cokes/soft drinks aswell. But I'm pretty sure the coupon has the fries with it.
I think my dad just got a coupon and instead of what used to be small fries it's now medium. Perhaps a way to justify the price increase? lol
But yeah I remember when we would get 2 original chicken for 3$ USD and then it went 4..5..6 and well now i'm not sure since ive stopped counting. Only go if we got a coupon.
Some chains dont even take coupons anymore. I know the burger king by me wont take it, but I have to go a couple miles to another one that will.
'spend $50 dollars, get a free napkin.'
Its all cut product, worse than dodgy drug dealers cutting their drugs with cheap substitutes. Vegetable oil and fillers in everything. Go get a donut, it aint proper dough anymore. A donut from the 1950s was real. Not anymore. Have a look at ice cream - all it should be is Milk / cream / egg white / sugar / particular flavour. Go look at ther ingredients now - VEGETABLE OIL WTFFF, gums, maltodextrins, chemist shopping list. ITs aint food anymore, While ive used junk food as example, its in bread cheese, meats, EVERYTHING. The only way to eat proper food these days is to buy whole , real unprocessed ingredients and cook it yourself. REAL UNTOUCHED MEAT / FISH / EGGS / VEGES. If bread, it has to be gourmet / high end stuff. I had a drastic change over a year ago. Im shredded now (also started lifting weights), and have found a new love of food. The answer, making it myself. if its in a packet ? its F-NG JUNK CUT PRODUCT CRAP.
Dude..... the 'calling the manager to make change' bit you said..
SO TRUE.
I worked fast food in my early 20's and it as a great job to get me into a good work ethic (this was the 80's). I went through t he McD's drive thru 15 years ago, and bought a cheeseburger combo, which at the time came to a little under $6 with tax included.
I drove up to the window and gave the girl a $10 bill. She fiddled with the register a bit taking change and bills out a few times, then opened the window and told me she would be right back with her manager. The manager shows up, manually opens the register and proceeds to take out a calculator, and type in WAY too many numbers to be a single calculation. After 2-3 minutes of sitting at that window, the manager leans out and hands me $6.80 back as my change.
I didn't know what to say. I didn't believe what just happened..... For a $5.79ish meal, their best math told them I deserved $6.80 change from a $10 bill. That was one of the contributing factors to me losing faith in future generations.
Way back in 80's when I worked at Baskin' Robbins (my first job) they had us count the change back to the customer (we did not have a computer register to figure it out for us.) Nowadays I notice they just hand all the money back to you in one big handfull. I suppose its because they use a computer and expect everybody will realize and accept what they get back as being accurate because of this.
We recently got a culvers where I live and it's very nice compared to the normal fast food. They cost the same here and have clean tables and lobby, loads of people working and making sure everything is done right. I even told the guy up front that they have wendy's beat by a mile because of how much better it is. Of course, that's this location, it can vary from location to location with franchise owners, regional managers etc. But it by far is so much better than any of our wendy's, burger king, arbys etc here.
I once got a burger from mcdonalds that literally didn't have a burger in it. I got the bag and it felt light and i opened it up and it was just fries and an empty box.
It's not just the service. The quality of fast food has decreased noticeably over the years. Many people can't seem to detect the changes when they occur but I've always noticed when something changed about a particular food item. It's always been about using lower quality food to cut costs until now what they serve can barely be called food anymore. In order to cut costs they lower the quality a little here, a little there, until it's what we have now. I remember when I was a kid back in the 70s and going to a fast food place was always great. Back then it almost felt like a special event. Both the service and the food was great. Now it's awful on both counts.
Boomers really had it better. Better economy better housing market , better jobs, better quality of food. 😂
@@alejandroc7357 While technically I am a boomer I don't really see myself as one. I always related more to gen Xers than boomers. I was born at the end of the boomer generation. I think maybe they changed how they defined generations at some point because when I was a kid I could have sworn that my birth fell within what was considered gen x at the time.
They most certainly changed it I used to be Gen X now I'm millennial, no frigging way I'm no millennial lol I refuse I denounce my generation
I've always been a big nutella fan. Until they changed the recipe, that is. The current nutella has a lot more sugar and milk in it and less cacao. Yuk, never again.
What did you expect? We're becoming a third world country in so many ways. We went from having the world's safest airlines to having the world's most dangerous airlines. We went from being a net food exporter to being a net food importer. The quality of the very few things which are still made in this country is more expensive and worse quality than that made in other third world countries. We have a shrinking middle class and an increasingly two-tiered system where most of us are lower middle class or worse, and a very small few are extremely rich. We should be glad that what they feed us is actual food. It may someday be that they feed us for real soilent green.
Nailed it with the "used to go to celebrate". If you was 10 years older you would have seen powered playground rides. A playland on a mini them park level. The Banana Shakes and collectable cups/glasses.
Dude, do you remember the McDonalds with the N64? That was awesome.
@@NerdilyDoneoh man that was my first time introduced to games. They had them in the play room and kids either hit the play pin to play in the balls or hopped on the sticker playing Spyro. Aha good times
@@NerdilyDonewith diddy kong racing?!??!! YESSSSSSSSS!!!
Oh yeah, it used to be like that, literally. I live in south america, over here back in the 90's, if you went to a mcdonalds (or any other fast food establishment) it was because you really were celebrating something, and usually you would go with the whole family, it was a special occasion.
Yep as a kid everyone wanted their birthday at Mcdonalds.
I’m in a poor neck of the woods in West Virginia and the wages and food are horrible most of the time. From nasty old, dry burgers that were probably sitting there for a while to really nasty old fries and one of the most disgusting is the no flavor sprite I usually get from different locations.
Coming from someone with over four decades in the full service restaurant industry, I can sum it up in one word: GREED! Too many corporate execs don't understand that every reaction has its limits, despite what theoretically should happen on paper. They refuse and in the ever increasing push of MORE PROFIT, they cut corners with cheap ingredients and their products suffer. Restaurants as a whole were much better in the 80s and 90s when food was made from scratch, but now everything is frozen!
nah you really didn't sum it up. this is fast food not the restaurant business. almost all the food is frozen at fast food places and its been like that probably forever. that isn't the problem. the problem like asmon said is bad training/pay, which leads to careless employees. why should I care about providing the best service at my job when they don't care about me? if I get fired I can just go get the same level of job at a different place. theres no reason to work hard at a fast food place. there are some employees that do care but its very far and few in between. I don't blame them, honestly I'm more against the ones that do care and try their hardest because those people are the reason that there is no change. The quality of ingredients is usually fine at most locations. Its just whether or not the workers want to put in the effort to put together the food at high quality levels and listen to the customers requests.
The real problem is that during the pandemic the FDA began allowing food companies to swap out ingredients without notifying anyone to 'remedy stock shortages'.
Companies immediately began swapping out higher priced ingredients and now we don't know what's in the food either.
The problem always lies with the government.
I had no idea about this
Yep, that's the flaw of regulation. The rich and corporations can just buy their way into Congress in order to bypass any sort of regulation while using it to drown competition.
The only way to get these companies to change is to simply boycott them. The only problem is that consumers don't care.
Or who is in charge of the government. When you elect a clown, expect a circus. Chtting regulations helps no one but the people trying to cut everything to make money
@@tesladrew2608 No one votes for the people at the FDA. You have no meaningful way to impact their appointments or decision making as a citizen, especially when considering the revolving door the FDA is famous for. It is naïve to think you can vote your way out of every situation. Especially when the problem is systemic and both parties are in support of it.
The problem lies with big business which has an unreasonable influence on government, mostly via the Republicans.
As someone who is very fulfilled from my position at Taco Bell as a shift lead, there’s other factors at play as well. The metrics used to measure performance don’t necessarily care for quality. As long as our drive thru times are fast and we have few bad surveys there’s no problem from higher ups. Everybody focuses only on being as fast as possible and quality goes out the door. It breaks my heart seeing all these workers who don’t care at all about the product they serve
Now that we have you here, what dishes should we stay away from at taco bell 😅
Allot of the sourcing decision are made by horirbly run corporations. Allot of the incentive is around proving yourself to franchise owners rather than to the customer (and I'm sorry but these are frankly bad business models). If a company's NOI in $50-$100k a year how do you meaningfully raise wages when u need at minimum 5-6 employees?
Asmond was right about the food quality varying between locations.
My baseline was a Beefy 5-layer burrito. I went to a poor area, and all you could taste was re-fried beans. Then out in areas where average income is $87k, I’m getting more beef and cheese.
completely agree with the metrics... the mcdonalds by me has gone to shit lately. they are understaffed, which has led to them constantly completely and clearing out orders before they are finished... orders are constantly messed up or forgotten all together. the people bagging the food have to yell out to the people making the food what the orders are. also with drive-thru, if your food isn't ready the second you pull up to the window, they have you pull up (I know this is normal for large orders or when there is a wait for an item - but they are doing it for nearly all orders)... which will leave a clusterfuck of cars waiting... and someone will have to run that food out, taking away from doing something else. several times I have seen people come inside, and say they have waited close to 15 minutes for a small basic order. each time they use the same excuse, they must have gave to someone else. and this is at non-peak hours... I stopped going. any place that cares more about metrics than service, is not for me. every time I have seen people walk out rather than wait, or ask for a refund.
@@ryrydag no response take that as everything
Man idk what it is about you. I’ve been online since 1997 and was an early adopted of all tech. I’ve been on almost all social media from their inception. We’re talking MySpace lol. I had a cell phone in the 90s and had smart phones before iPhone was a thing. I’ve spent literally 10,000s hours online and especially CZcams since 2007.
All of this to give you context and perspective - you are truly a gem and one of a kind person: you’re emotionally bright, express yourself well, are just a delightful human to listen to and I love your perspectives. They are often common sense but also very human.
I hope you get everything you deserve in life. I hope you get to be a dad (don’t think you are? But correct me if I’m wrong), because you would be a great one. And mostly, I hope you know how much you are needed on here and how much you are appreciated.
I’ll go back to binging your videos when I have free time, because I always feel better and like I learned something when I do.
Best wishes from a small town in the northeast US (NYC escapee) ❤
I work at a Neighborhood Market Walmart and we use our phone for practically everything. Clocking in, topstocking, checking our schedule, requesting time off (though we still have to talk to HR if we are going to use PTO instead of PPTO), checking prices or locating items for customers/ourselves etc. For when cell services go out we use old school methods for clocking in, so I mean it does have its pro's and con's, but phones are useful in the hands of responsible individuals. You just have to get onto the highschool kids about being on them for non-work related things lol.
Anyways, I don't really eat fastfood often because the quality has been bad for several years and it just keeps getting worse. Even Boomerang's has gone down hill and thats not a fast food chain. Everything sucks now. I eat mostly stuff I can make at home anymore, or like Walmart (cause I work @ a grocer's Walmart) deli, because at least you can't f up a rotisserie chicken without getting fired for it + I know all the workers in that department haha.
The management thing is real, I worked at starbucks for 6 years: the first 3 were miserable because of the mix of bad managers, bratty employees and the shit I had to put at with for the shitty wage I had, I didn't care about it at all, just wanted to languish away at home playing WoW and I did my minimum 12 hours/w.
At my third year, area management changed and a new manager came to my shop who was a cool, older dude. He cleared all the brats (median age of the employees went up like 5-10 years) and things got so much better it changed my perspective on it, I started to work more than 30 hours a week voluntarily, made more money, paid my studies and now I work in IT.
And to be true, if for some reason I win the lottery and could retire, if I could get the minimum 8 hours/week, just couple of half shifts a week in the same conditions I left, I would take it to have something to do. The last 3 years made me appreciate this job just because an adult guy with realistic and honest perspective in life for him and his employees came around the time I was about to give up.
What area of IT do you work in?
@@complexrapper1340 Mainframe, I'm in L1 ops and training to L2 ops and z/TPF. I could also apply for batch scheduling if I wanted since I work with the 3 main batch schedulers in z/OS and I know how to make a batch, I had to plan some small ones for one of the clients I work with. It's a very interesting job.
Use to be a supervisor in a KFC in the UK and the biggest change that screwed things up there was the start of deliveries, They changed the fries to a thicker cut that was hated universally but was done because they held heat better during travel, having to deal with 3 different delivery companies along with a drive thru and front counter would overhelm the place on busy days causing massive delays on food as the fryers couldn't keep up with the volume of stuff being sold.
why not raise the prices in such a scenario?
@@mencibenci stop trying to use logic. They're probably not allowed to raise prices in high demand times by law. free market forces are banned in this economy. it's the source of our troubles
Yeah prices were set and not something we could change on a whim. Place would try to run with minimal staff as well to keep their budget on wages down which would just make things worse.
I was the manager of a Wendy’s and the demands are just beyond reason and the higher up the ladder you go the less they want you to work but inversely they expect more of the people under you. On a whim the manager of operations would fire a whole crew for no reason more than they spoke back. Then he’d demean the managers for their speed of service. All while he made 6 figures for screwing over the people under him. Even tried to deny my final check. Even an automatic robot wouldn’t be able to keep up with the demand.
When I went to visit a friend in Nebraska, I saw that he lived right next to a Culver’s. I had always heard they where a more top tier fast food restaurant. After trying it out, I was disappointed the food didn’t taste that great.
I was genuinely talking to my friends the other day about this. Its not even worth going to fast food anymore. But its made me cook more at the house now. So i guess its not all bad.
Its all cut product, worse than dodgy drug dealers cutting their drugs with cheap substitutes. Vegetable oil and fillers in everything. Go get a donut, it aint proper dough anymore. A donut from the 1950s was real. Not anymore. Have a look at ice cream - all it should be is Milk / cream / egg white / sugar / particular flavour. Go look at ther ingredients now - VEGETABLE OIL WTFFF, gums, maltodextrins, chemist shopping list. It aint food anymore, While ive used junk food as example, its in bread, cheese, meats, EVERYTHING. The only way to eat proper food these days is to buy whole , real unprocessed ingredients and cook it yourself. REAL UNTOUCHED MEAT / FISH / EGGS / VEGES. If bread, it has to be gourmet / high end stuff. I had a drastic change over a year ago. Im shredded now (also started lifting weights), and have found a new love of food. The answer, making it myself. if its in a packet ? its F-NG JUNK CUT PRODUCT CRAP. Everything, bar a few gourmet ultra priced niche stuff. I heard some report suggesting that a 1/3 of calories consumed by average american now is VEGETABLE OIL. its not good, dont be fooled by the 'vegetable' name
Asmon is wrong about the flippy thing.
The issue is not with the "cooking" - that's all already automatic in fast food.
Nobody stands over the burger timing it, it's a press with set timings for each type of product. There are 0 cooking skills in a fast food kitchen already.
The issues with fast food are cleanliness, food standing around too long, construction of the items, and quality of ingredients falling.
I think it's less about skill, and more about the costs and hassle involved in employing humans that Flippy replaces. "Flippy" is just a generalisation, there's many different ways robotics could potentially be useful in the fastfood industry if we want it to be cost effective. I mean... that's my own take anyway. I can't see inside Asmon's head :)
No. At least at culvers where I worked not a single thing is automatic. You need to be watching the burger and if you don't flip it in the correct 5-10 second range you are going to dry it out and will have a shitty burger. You also have to properly season the burger. When you're pressing 20-24 burgers at a time constantly you cannot just set an effing timer. You also as a cook have to pay attention to the temperature of the grill because after pressing so many patties in the same spot the grill cools down and the food takes longer to cook. You also have to make sure you scrape the grill clean after every flip otherwise the next set you press will stick to the grill and mutilate the patty. At culvers we also cook the grilled chicken, corned beef, Chopped steak dinner, and bacon on the grill so you also have to pay attention to them which all have very different cook times. You are thinking about McDonalds where nothing is fresh, Culvers isn't even in the same world as Mcdonalds and speaking from experience you and 95% percent of people wouldn't even be able to keep up in a Culver's kitchen because my store was busy all the time. In the 3 out of 4 years I worked in the kitchen there was a total of 3 people that could keep up with a lunch rush on grill which was my boss, my co manager, and myself because so many parents are failing their kids so most young people don't know how to work anymore.
@@Webb8991Culver's in Wi is far superior to other states as well, it seems. I've never had a bad meal at Culver's, so I'm guessing the quality may be lacking when you leave the Midwest.
@@dendo20p yea just that it costs premium for trash these days...
@@Webb8991while I agree with what you’re saying, even that job can be automated with enough ingenuity and dedication.
Working as a field service instruments and controls technician I get to see in real time people losing their jobs to machines that I go and calibrate for the companies. The capabilities of these machines in much more demanding processes than a kitchen is astounding.
Once things hit the tipping point, I’d be willing to bet money the deployment of this tech will be so fast people will get whiplash as they’re kicked out the door.
Around here, they seem to be remodeling/upgrading the fast food restaurants. New electronic menus, new bathrooms and lobbies, etc. Probably why the food prices went up
As a fast-food worker, for whatever reason, the people above us are putting a strong priority on the timer and I gotta be honest, sometimes I see the food I make and I think to myself, "fuck it" and give it out, and guess what? Usually there is no complaints. No complaints means no replacements, no replacements mean no monetarily loss, no monetarily loss means the company doesn't give af. And want to know another thing? Most people give less of a fuck than I do. At least I try to have something passable while there are so many people who don't give af. When I know I really fucked up, timer be damned, I remake that shit but others? Nah, give that food to the customer. And guess what? Still no complaints. The reality is that while there are a lot of vocal customers on the internet, most customers get their piece of garbage food and they are just like "damn" basically treating fast-food as a gacha and don't care enough. In their mind, they "got the bad burger" and keep going because 70% of time, it's passable and 1% is it actually amazing while the rest is garbage.
Pro tip: while ordering ask them if they have a survey on the receipt and then ask the worker's name. You will never see someone work so hard to get your order right.
@@ignskeletons nah, it doesn't matter. In our restaurant we would collect the receipts that people don't want so that we could do the survey ourselves to artificially inflate the ratings. Even if you left a horrible review, you'll be the 1% of genuine customers who do the surveys. It won't matter as much as you think it would, but hey, if it works for you then it works for you.
The silver lining here, at least, is that the drop in fast food quality has encouraged a lot of people (myself included) to learn how to cook. I feel a lot better these days now that I'm getting groceries instead.
Well once you learn to make your own steaks (better than some of these steakhouses) it makes you never want go out. Ive made some bomb ass mashed potatoes, tacos, chicken, desserts, ice cream you name it. Also gas stoves 💯 all the way 😂
Yeah, I haven't eaten Taco Bell for over a decade after making my own tacos. I make them with more and better ingredients at larger quantity for less price. For instance I always like adding sour cream, refried beans, slice of avocado, lettuce, taco flavored meat with minced habenaro, fresh onions, glacier lettuce, habenaro salsa, etc. I get a taco craving couple times a year and eat 24 of these in 4 days.
@@Yggdrasill8 i ate taco bell late one night. Had 0 sleep and was on the toilet every 30 minutes. Since then ive sworn it off 😂
A different silver lining is that local restaurants are seeing far more business now that fast-food prices are going out of control. I could buy a Double Whopper Meal (double whopper, fries, and drink) for $14.95 and feed myself for a few hours or I could spend $17.99 on an Everything Omelet and drink from Coffee Cup that is so large that I can't even finish it in a single sitting. I only spent an extra 3 dollars at this restaurant and yet it satisfies me 3x as much than buying at burger king.
Yes, and I encourage people to start gardening too, even if it's in a few small pots in your window. Eating your food closer to when it's perfect for picking and not using pesticides or other crap on it will increase your overall health immensely. It's time we take our power back and stop depending on these shitty outside centralized systems for our sustenance.
Not only are they getting more expensive but they're making things smaller y'know? The grande sausage burrito used to be my go to at Jack in the Box for years. It was like $4.25 and HEFTY. Fast forward like 2 years to present day after not having gotten fast food like at all due to budgeting reasons, this burrito now costs $6.50 and I kid you not, is like 60% the original size. This shit is crazy.
Shrinkflation
@@musclenugget92yup shrinkflation even happening in tx, it sucks
I noticed that too with the Grill Stuffed Burrito at Taco Bell.
10 years ago I used to eat half of it and save the other half for later. $2.50 for a big ass burrito with guac and all the trimmings.
Then they pulled it from their menu. Then they reintroduced it back in short order as a "different" burrito, sometimes doing a gimmick like making it a "Frito burrito" or the now "grilled cheese". It's half the size now, with far fewer different ingredients inside, and $6-$9, depending on if you want beef, chicken, or "steak"; all weighted differently so the cost is the same to them, but extra for you.
Absolute Madness.
CarlsJr/Hardees did the same thing with their Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders, they used to be twice as long as they are now
@@LootceptionThey even downgraded to "everything is average sized in texas"
I use to love fast food. Now I won't touch it with a 10 foot pole unless I'm on the road, exhausted, in a hurry, and have literally no other option. It became the same price as real food too which is absolutely mind boggling. I'll just go to a real restaurant instead.
I live in the upper peninsula. Not a ton of big cities. I have to drive an hour if I want fast food so it’s like a special treat whenever I go to the soo to get groceries or whatever. Every time I get fast food up here it’s amazing. Good service, good food, some of the hottest food I’ve had at a fast food joint. Coming from Miami where it’s always hit or miss that was the first thing me and my folks noticed.
Remember when you could book a McDonald's for children's birthday parties?
Man I love Reviewbrah. The guy seems so sincere, as if he puts his everything into anything he does. Dunno if it's a character he's playing but I love watching him regardless
it cant be a character because eventually you will slip up, i have never seen it happen to him.
you still can?
That’s true. The birthday party thing.
I can’t imagine doing that now.
@@wababiba4181I don't think they have those birthday rooms anymore
@@ethanwasme4307They used to have giant play places with N64's on little TV's and people dressed as Hamburgler and Grimmace would show up.
It’s a combination of things. A robot won’t change it that’s just throwing a bandaid onto the problem.
Issues:
•Hard to get replacement parts for kitchen items
•Mobile take out (Uber eats etc.) has added more orders that has to be gotten out asap
•New workers not getting proper training (seen it a few times)
•Underpaid workers
•Understaffed
•Food price increase
• And probably many more but these just from what I’ve seen and heard it’s going downhill fast
The other issue is quality has gone down dramatically and prices have doubled if not tripped lmao I mean I'm 5 bucks off of going to a sit down restaurant at this point
Bro took me back to the good old day fr in this one.. I truly remember the McDonald's birthday parties.. the beenie baby craze.. remember the Monopoly game? Talk about a different time.
As a food worker during covid, after that our entire team left the job basically and quality has taken a big hit. I watched people get bonuses for unemployment while I had to work reduced hours and get called essential.
@user-bq5np8zb2r you have a point but it's not their fault it's the fucking government
The quality has been the exact same since before covid. This isn't a covid thing. Lmao
I got to take 4 months off work and getting paid $1700 every 2 weeks from unemployment 😂 my poor friend I worked with was slaving away at our job while I’m over here making double what he was getting lol
@@alexsynthesis ''i'm over making double lmaooooo ezpz'' - and i bet you can't fathom why inflation is soaring out of control.
Congratulations, you're the problem. ''lmaoooooooo''.
And seeing as you want to brag. you makle $850 a week? adorable, i make 5k a day, on average. and i spend 30 seconds a day working. Now THAT'S a LMAOOOOO.
@@danielseaburg9763 Lol dude, touch grass
Fast food like McDonalds or Burger King has always been bad, but the former benefit of it being affordable (or even cheap) no longer applies. Also, those companies treat and pay their employees like trash, so they don't put in any significant effort either, which is understandable.
Most burger chains started good actually.
I think this is an American thing, in Taiwan Mcdonald's is really tasty, they use angus beef from Australia, they have al of the expected burgers and then also a menu of really nice burgers like Parmesan beef, mushroom beef burger, bbq beef burger whish tastes amazing. Chips and chicken nuggets always arrive hot and crispy even if it's ordered from home
Some fast food locations use lower quality ingredients to save money, for example if your burger patty taste extra like pepper, you know it’s a lower quality mean and the pepper is there to cover the bad taste
Asmon is spot on with low income areas producing even worse food than it already would’ve been. Live in a pretty low income area in RI and I went to mcdicks to get a Big Mac. Meal was around 15 bucks, they didn’t give me my drink and the Big Mac was quite literally just the meat on buns and nothing else. This has been about on par with just about every experience at this place. Pan handlers in the drive through asking for change, around a 30 minute wait time on what already is a small McDonald’s. Hard to tell weather it’s poor management, poor workers, or what but I just stopped going there. No longer spend my money at chain restaurants like that, would rather pay the same amount at a mom and pop place than keep doing that
I'm also overwhelmed by the 3 strips of lettuce on a mcdiccks burger, wouldn't want corporate to break the bank on a 4th slice of lettuce...
"This has been about on par with just about every experience at this place." And yet you repeatedly kept going, again and again and again...
Bad consumers are the enablers, and thus the root of the problem.
My cousin went to a McDonald's in an urban area, but in a wealthy area. She asked for no onions so they gave her onions, as usual. She brought it to the counter, told her issue, and gave it to the lady, who took it from her and walked away. My cousin waited 15 minutes and asked about the sandwich and the lady says "oh, I didn't know you wanted a new one". I think one would usually understand that, or offer a refund. I quit fast-food years ago, but everyone says it's so bad these days.
Are there really no mom and pop food stalls in USA? We call them karinderya here but when I google translate them it's called cafeteria or food stalls. It's probably unfeasible in USA cause of the number of karens, cry-bullies and law suits are free if they're the "victim" there.
Kindly google image karinderya so I can know what they're called there.
@@chronometer9931 I don't even ask for the lettuce, I ask for them to remove it because I know they use rotten lettuce and stuff that has been sitting out and looks nasty as hell. All the veggies there are nasty, I ask for them to be removed.
Friendly reminder that Reggie Fils-Aime turned the Pizza Hut chain around in the 90s so drastically he saved the chain from extinction with the one two punch of PS1 demo disks and the debut of Stuffed Crust Pizza
ya pizza huts quality has went way down v.v @@forx88
And now Pizza Hut is an f tier pizza joint
@@forx88 I mean on the one hand, it's still around 😆
On the other hand, it's likely had six or more folks in charge since then and Reggie's already like four careers down the road
@@Mike_Dubayou A lot of that is because PepsiCo is legendarily trash tier
Man I used to go there with my dad when I was 7-10 years old on Saturdays and the pizza was amazing. Now I don’t even consider Pizza Hut or any other pizza chains when thinking about ordering some.
Here in Utah it's faster and cheaper to get hot food at Maverick (it's a gas station chain we have) which is surprisingly pretty good
In the south in the US I haven't been somewhere that uses seasoning. I have to drive 1000miles to get a burger or chicken tender with salt and pepper on it. It's gonna be great when my living situation gets better and I don't have to eat fast food so often.
Everything that was explained here is exactly why i stopped getting my mcdonalds breakfast every saturday morning. It was a tradition of mine for 10 years and i stopped when i noticed a borrito meal was $10 when just a few years ago it was only $5. I made my own breakfast burrito and it tasted better, plus i had ingredients to make more if i wanted.
Theres a culture in fast food thats slowly dying. Asmon said it best himself, we used to go out to mcdonalds because it was good quality for cheap, now its cheap quality at a high cost and its turning people off.
bro the burrito price hike kills me. They used to be on the 1$ menu for TWO.
And the restaurants look more lifeless and sterile than ever before.
@@spacejunk2186 i know bro. i went to the one in my home town and it feels like i walked in on a funeral.
@@soulflame99 whats worse is the steak egg and cheese bagel. that was my real go too and they canceled it during covid. they brought it back but its significant lower quality. its not even a bagel its a glorified potato roll. wtf.
@@Gunnumn ah dude, i LOVED the steak egg and cheese bagel even though it messed up my stomach every time. the butter sauce and grilled onions with the steak seasoning was great, definitely got way worse after covid. the steak when from tender and almost the same consistency as the folded egg to tough and chewy and fatty.
The issue is for the longest time the food you got was usually at least cooked within the last 20 minutes but now it's cooked hours beforehand and then placed in a plastic bin that keeps it lukewarm. They don't even reheat it, you're lucky to even have the cheese be the same temperature as the burger let alone it even beginning too melt.
Yup i used to work in fast food for 1 month. All of this is done to push out food faster and keep up with the lunch/dinner rush. They didnt want anyone waiting longer than 2 minutes. So people come in order a bunch of burgers and we push them all out in fast time. However the rush leaves us empty of burgers. Now we gotta wait 5 minutes for the ones on the grill to finish. You can only fit so many burgers on the grill. Basically by the time they finish cooking they are all gone in 3 minutes. Then we have to throw another round of burgers on the grill. Management doesnt like this because it makes the customer wait longer and we have a quota to meet.
On the flip side if we have our bins fully loaded ready for a rush at night time, which sometimes happens sometimes doesnt. We end up throwing away around 15 patties plus some other food. This also pissed management off. For a while they allowed us to just take the food home for closing shift free of charge. But then that changed too and they wanted us to start paying for it. That job fking sucked and having to stand on your feet all day wearing barely cushioned shoes. Caused my bog toenail to start bleeding underneath. FUCK fast food. If i ever go i never get mad at the employees because i know what its like
The last time I went to Burger King they gave me ice cold rock hard onion rings. I checked it as soon as I left the Drive-thru. I parked my car and went in fuming about it. I wanted a refund for the entire meal but they just offered me more of their slop so I threw the onion rings at them and left. Most pissed I've ever been at a Fast Food joint.
@@Mattblaze1477 Yeah seems like a reasonable response from a well-adjusted individual.
@@minimower Hey man look. I live in Hamilton Ontario, I work at the Stelco plant out here. I've been married for 13 years and I have 3 kids. Never been in trouble in my life. But this incident here was just 1 in a long line of me being ripped off by Fast Food restaurants and I finally had it. Enough is enough when you bring 50 bucks worth of fast food home to you're family and barely any of it gets eaten because its so disgusting. My kids use to get excited for fast food, Those days are gone.
I really want to believe crap like door dash Uber eats etc are to blame before they only had to prepare for walk in and drive through but now there's another 300 orders on door dash and it's too much
Its been years since ive gotten fresh fries at McDonalds, always cold and soggy.
1 mile radius off the highway, that explains why the Wendy's off of 35E and Maryland Ave in St. Paul, MN always ended up nasty af, like a bunch of hair in my bacon cheese fries, or burger actually smelled like poop.
I absolutely LOVE Reviewbrah, I don't know what it is about him but I just love hearing him talk about food, same as I love Asmon talking about just about anything and so on.
I think it's how articulate his delivery is and how passionate and intelligent his takes are on the subject.
@@modestgrower2017 Couldn't have put it better myself, that's certainly a possibility for sure, I do enjoy listening to people who are knowledgeable and passionate talk about their respective subjects so maybe that's it 👍
He's one of the legends of YT.
legends never die
Just due to the prices alone, I have made 95% of my food from the grocery store and only go out for food once or twice a month. At least you can walk away with a good value at the grocery store if you know where to look
I can prepare 5 or 6 meals from buying ingredients at the grocery for the same price as one meal at a fast food or decent restaurant.
what are some things you get that last a long time , i’m a new adult and i need ideass
@@jazmynhenderson6948 batch cooking works well for me, that way you can store some of it in the fridge and some in the freezer. Once you've got a few weeks behind you you've got a stock of nutritious fresh home cooked meals ready for whenever you don't have time/energy to cook from fresh. It's economical on budget and time and energy. There's lots of batch cooking videos here on CZcams for advice and to cater to whatever diet and foods you prefer 🙌🏼
@@jazmynhenderson6948 meat and chicken can hold in the freezer for about 2 weeks before I start to notice it getting freezer burn. As long as you use it up before then. But make sure you defrost your meat by leaving it out or put it in the fridge for the next day, don't defrost it in the microwave. Veggies work the same way. Rice and pasta have long shelf life so you can stock pile it.
Other people can chime in too.
@@gubb73485 That's typically what I do. Keep a rotation of meat getting defrosted and cooked. Keep some things like noodles, rice, potatoes, bread, veggies, and keep a variety of sauces.
I've been buying curry mixes lately. I'll cut up some chicken, veggies and potatoes, mix them with some rice and curry. So good!
I have the opening shift at taco bell and since I get everything done without being told, my manager just lets me be on my phone and doesn't say anything if I'm on it. She also knows I'm wise enough to put it away whenever corporate shows up or if we just get busy.
There was, where I live, a Stake and Shake, which, over the decade-and-half of it operating, was able to fill my food order 10% of the time. I would go through the drive through and no one would answer. I would walk in, wait 20-30 minutes ultimately to be told their register or equipment was faulty and they couldn't serve me. This happened nine-times-out-of-ten when I went there. I always thought that was the case for the whole chain, apparently not.
It's inevitable that any product over time will eventually be stripped down to the least it can be in the name of maximizing profits. If they could get away with serving garbage they would.
Shoutout to Arbys
How is it inevitable quality will decrease, it doesn't maximize profits to have less customers.
The issue is simple, when I was young almost everyone working at fast food chains were also young, and they were balling with their shite wage. Now a large number of fast-food employees are mostly poor people often immigrants just getting by on their crap wage. The old @ss people that work in these places are dead inside.
@@sterlinga8307 It depends on the product as well as the position of the brand. A brand who emphasises quality will most likely not be affected. A brand who emphasises low prices is actively seeking ways to reduce its prices - sometimes taking shortcuts. A company strategically places itself in either - sometimes in between those.
Maybe people shouldn't eat garbage then? Cheaper to cook at home. Stop being lazy.
@@sterlinga8307statistics show that it's inevitable. The company becomes big, the quality goes down because profit becomes the main goal after you create your place in the industry that you are active in
In Brazil, big name fast food hasn't been "cheap" food for a long time now so the quality isn't too bad (five star dining compared to the US lol), but it has been rapidly increasing in price while portions are noticeably smaller over time, unashamedly so. Luckily local restaurants and delivery places are insanely cheap alternatives so we still have quality and affordable fast food
I've noticed that. Outside of the US, US fast food chains are prohibitively expensive for locals, and it's been that way for at least 15 years, maybe more.
It's the same here in Australia. In the town I live in, we have McDonalds, Hungry Jacks (Burger King), Red Rooster, and KFC. We have abandoned all of them because their products verge on inedible. Instead we frequent the local hamburger shop. Their burgers may cost a couple of dollars more, but they are made from real beef, the salad is fresh, and are half as big again than what you get from the chain stores, and cost only a couple of dollars more.
If you want quality you have to be prepared to pay for it.
I got a Big Mac a few weeks ago. The burger patty was LITERALLY half the width of the French fries. For 2 children and 1 adult the cost was > $35.00...It used to be a treat to go the McDonald's and now it's not even that.
As someone who works for McDonald's (as a cook) Asmond hits the nail on the head with a scary accuracy, even more so for the people who cook/assemble we get treated like shit and any time theres a problem the order of blame goes cook, assembly table, then front (people who take orders/work windows) and then they make Cook or table fetch *everything* even though they tend to have double to triple the number of people of cooks and table combined then add on top of that we get no respect or thanks because the only people who get told good job after a large rush or times for getting food out the only people who get praise is the front and then managers wonder why the people in the cook/table area have a huge turnover rate or get pissed with them before turning around and do it all over again
Dafuck in what world, i used to help a friend of mine out for 6 months at a burgerking. They needed someone that speaks German fluently and properly for the drive. The only people that got yelled at were the people on the front. And me having nothing to lose i told them to fuck off then if they can't show some respect.
what do you "cook" at mcdonald's?
I've always heard the kitchen workers and the staff that are doing the cooking and assembling have it hardest so when I started working at my most recent job I just try and do what I can to help them out
@@sk8legendz know that they most definitely appreciate it
I do think cooks and back of house should get more recognition but try to remember that the people taking orders/front of house also get talked to terribly all day every day by customers and have to be the ones actually dealing with them and relaying information. Nobody wins
This duo works so good. We need this to be a thing
Nah Asmon doesn’t really understand the brah’s style of humor, pausing his vids 100 times takes away a lot of what makes him funny and interesting. Not good react content.
@@emiachhe is the worst at pausing
Ronald is proud of his son's already. No need to over do it. The pale red headed one looks especially recognisable.
I 100% agree, but ask yourself these questions: Why is it worse now when the pay is infinitely better than it used to be (in plenty of states, minimum wage is approaching $20 an hour)? Why was the food better back when the workers who staffed FF places were all teenagers or very young adults? If the pay is better now and more "adults" work these jobs, shouldn't the food be BETTER? The difference is symptomatic of the breakdown of our society in general. Individuals have no standard of excellence or personal accountability. How sad is that teenage workers from the previous century are better than the "adults" of today?
I've been a manager/GM in four different Fast Food chains (Arby's, KFC, Wendy's, and Taco Bell). I left that industry a couple years before COVID. One of the biggest difference is who owns each franchise location. Some franchise owner companies are TERRIBLE, so they can only keep terrible managers and staff. It's also incredibly hard to find good help, I can only imagine now after the newest inflation wave. Also, KFC improved because the brand was purchased by the same brand that owns other brands like Taco Bell. After that purchase, things started changing for the better for KFC.
I'd pay to watch reviewbrah play wow
XD
I’d buy him a beer
I'd pay to watch asmongold do mukbang
@@whyVevo You can see him eat in every stream. Believe me, you don't want to watch and listen to him eating.
What class and play would he play? I feel male night elf druid.
There's a lot of people now who basically live off of frozen/microwaveable food and fast food, they dont really care about the quality of the food they eat they just care about the convenience. I think that's a big part of why like Asmon was saying if you go to richer neighborhoods you get better quality/service.
With a life expectancy between 40-50
Depends on the town and team as well, our Arbys in northfield MN is one of the best, at least for out district!
People eat out now because the convenience fee local grocery stores have on their food items is way higher than fast food meal. Trying to get a single meal for a family of four at a local grocery store in my many experiences is about 60$. For something that’s not horrible but also not super healthy. When you can go to McDonalds and get food for the family for only 40-50 bucks.
Man, I don't watch streamers. But, asmongold has been popping up in my YT feed more, ever since his based take on Spanish. Gotta say, I did not expect Asmongold to be such a down to earth based guy. Feels like the type of dude that can just be cool with everyone, no drama. I'm happy he is seeing success in the stream.
what was his based take on spanish?
There's been an increase in food I've ordered being so disgusting I literally threw it out. Even the smell was off. The worst part is how expensive it is for the crap you get now, $15-$20. Fast food used to be a treat, now I always eat at home, not just because it's cheaper but I'm also intentionally avoiding yet another bad fast food experience. I'm feeling better and losing weight now because of it too. It's far better to order takeout from an actual restaurant now, much better quality food that makes you feel good, and you'll probably pay around the same price anyway. The only place I can consistently recommend for fast food now is QuikTrip, it's like a "gas station plus". Yeah, it's typical gas station food: hot dogs and pizza, etc. But at least it hasn't gotten any worse over the years, or gotten more expensive. 2 hot dogs or 2 slices of pepperoni still comes in at well under $5. The only thing that beats it is Costco.
Does QT still have those awesome taquitos and the slushies? I moved to a state that doesn't have QT a long time ago, and man I miss those lol.
terrible take about the phones. theres fecal matter on phones and they should be kept out of the food area.
If you live in New England Market Basket has a food shop area that sells things for very reasonable prices, you can get a quality cheeseburger + fries for $3 and a whole steak and cheese sub for $6, idk about you but it beats everything else around.
I thought it was just met, a few weeks ago I got 2 cheeseburgers and a basket of fries. I started gagging halfway through my first cheeseburger so I stopped eating and threw it out. What is going on with fast food?
Stewart's is our equivalent here.
Better ice cream than most of the shit you can buy in supermarkets.
Dude, the Chipotle thing, you're 100% on. Carnitas is the same - sometimes it's 80% fat. I've gotten double meat before where I paid extra $$$ for braised pork fat and gristle. It was so bad that I had to take pics and send it in. Bowl with extra meat is $20, almost enough for a passable New York Strip at Longhorn. Their customer service sent me 3 cards in the mail for free guac. Snail mail. Lol. I didn't want anything else. I haven't been back in over two years. The fix would be to... you know.... FIX it.
Also, when I was 17 thru 18 (over 20y ago), I worked at Burger King. I crushed that job. I made every sandwich something that I would eat myself. You're already there, might as well do a good job. They were clean, made us sanitize our hands every time the bell rung, pulled someone off the line every 30m to clean the dining area and check bathrooms, and cleaned EVERYTHING in the kitchen until 1am every single night. The location I worked at is still open to this day. I made $4.15/hr and had 6 roommates (one who had a water bed in the living room, lol), but it was awesome.
Fast food worker here (whataburger) fast food restaurants or atleast my specific whataburger will make Mobile order as the order is sent in, so if you order ahead and pick it up 20 minutes later, you’re food will be sitting under a hotbox in the bag for 20 minutes