Why is Mcdonalds so stingy with their sauce?

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Hammer

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Hammer
red, just shut up. unless you can produce an md, i dont think anything you say regarding this is anything more than a waste of time. people react different ways. you can't make judgements without knowing all the facts.

McHammer, you disagree that eating Mickey D's is bad for you?

Amanda, the only reason I bring it up is that I care for you and I'd hate to see you turn into some Moo Moo wearing Shut in.

Yeah right!

in moderation, no mickey d's isn't bad for you.

At least no worse than drugs in Moderation.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Amanda,those sauces are almost entirely mayo based,to the tune of like 400 calories of almost pure fat.
You could have a lot of other really good tasting things for those calories.

Not the chicken nuggest sauces. They are mostly corn syrup.

Anyway, those sauces are very expensive (relative to how much you might think that they cost). They cost $0.10 each. If you get 8 sauces like some people want, you start putting the profit on that sale to $0, and if they don't order a drink, they could even lose money.

As for the attitude, I'd imagine that the reason is McDonald's upper managment is pretty crappy. In our stores, you can't call in sick without a replacement or you're fired. Kids sick? Too bad. I once worked an 18 hour shift making food on the assembly line while I had strep throat and a stomach virus. I would literally throwup in a garbage can right next to the dressing table every 5 minutes or so, for 18 hours. You'd get 15 minute breaks on an 8 hour shift, and then have to pay for your food. Many times we got *no* breaks. You work 3 22 hour shifts in a row, and then tell me how nice you're going to be to a rude, old woman who says that she's going to spill coffee on herself and sue you because you only have toys that have girls as the main character, and playing with those will turn her son gay.

You also have to consider that many of the workers work there because they can't get jobs anywhere else. Heck, we had a guy who spoke no english, and had no schedule. He just came in whenever and worked. IIRC, they paid him very, very little money.

Just order what you want the first time, don't ask your kids when you get to the counter, or try to be cute and get them to order for you. You'll get your food as quickly as they can make it, and you'll get fairly friendly service most of the time. We always used to say "Even the smartest person turns into an idiot when they become a customer."

One last thing. However hard it is for *you* to hear the order taker at the speaker, it's 100 times harder for him to hear you.

 

[Red Dawn]

once worked an 18 hour shift making food on the assembly line while I had strep throat and a stomach virus. I would literally throwup in a garbage can right next to the dressing table every 5 minutes or so, for 18 hours

Ah the Secret Sauce!

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Hammer

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Hammer
red, just shut up. unless you can produce an md, i dont think anything you say regarding this is anything more than a waste of time. people react different ways. you can't make judgements without knowing all the facts.

McHammer, you disagree that eating Mickey D's is bad for you?

Amanda, the only reason I bring it up is that I care for you and I'd hate to see you turn into some Moo Moo wearing Shut in.

Yeah right!

in moderation, no mickey d's isn't bad for you.

At least no worse than drugs in Moderation.

Which has nothing to do with the thread. Fat is not the problem with Macdonalds but rather the terrible quality of food and the carbs.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Millennium

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Hammer

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Hammer
red, just shut up. unless you can produce an md, i dont think anything you say regarding this is anything more than a waste of time. people react different ways. you can't make judgements without knowing all the facts.

McHammer, you disagree that eating Mickey D's is bad for you?

Amanda, the only reason I bring it up is that I care for you and I'd hate to see you turn into some Moo Moo wearing Shut in.

Yeah right!

in moderation, no mickey d's isn't bad for you.

At least no worse than drugs in Moderation.

Which has nothing to do with the thread. Fat is not the problem with Macdonalds but rather the terrible quality of food and the carbs.

You think one of the McGrease Burgers isn''t loaded to the hilt with fat?

 

[ivwshane]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Amanda,those sauces are almost entirely mayo based,to the tune of like 400 calories of almost pure fat.
You could have a lot of other really good tasting things for those calories.

Not the chicken nuggest sauces. They are mostly corn syrup.

Anyway, those sauces are very expensive (relative to how much you might think that they cost). They cost $0.10 each. If you get 8 sauces like some people want, you start putting the profit on that sale to $0, and if they don't order a drink, they could even lose money.

As for the attitude, I'd imagine that the reason is McDonald's upper managment is pretty crappy. In our stores, you can't call in sick without a replacement or you're fired. Kids sick? Too bad. I once worked an 18 hour shift making food on the assembly line while I had strep throat and a stomach virus. I would literally throwup in a garbage can right next to the dressing table every 5 minutes or so, for 18 hours. You'd get 15 minute breaks on an 8 hour shift, and then have to pay for your food. Many times we got *no* breaks. You work 3 22 hour shifts in a row, and then tell me how nice you're going to be to a rude, old woman who says that she's going to spill coffee on herself and sue you because you only have toys that have girls as the main character, and playing with those will turn her son gay.

You also have to consider that many of the workers work there because they can't get jobs anywhere else. Heck, we had a guy who spoke no english, and had no schedule. He just came in whenever and worked. IIRC, they paid him very, very little money.

Just order what you want the first time, don't ask your kids when you get to the counter, or try to be cute and get them to order for you. You'll get your food as quickly as they can make it, and you'll get fairly friendly service most of the time. We always used to say "Even the smartest person turns into an idiot when they become a customer."

One last thing. However hard it is for *you* to hear the order taker at the speaker, it's 100 times harder for him to hear you.

Wow 10 cents! That is expensive, I was thinkg more like under 5 cents.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: ivwshane

Wow 10 cents! That is expensive, I was thinkg more like under 5 cents.

Well, a 6 piece nugget where I worked was 1.49. The chicken nuggets cost about $.75 for that. Then you figure the cost of storing them, cooking them (you've got to buy oil), and paying the crew to make them (it takes 4 minutes to cook, at $6.50/hr, that's about $0.40 of labor, so now you're at $1.15 plus the storage, utils, and oil.

So let's say it comes out to about $1.25. That's $.24 profit. You're allowed 1 sauce, which cuts the profit to $.14. Want another? That cuts the profit to $.04. Want a third....?

So, I can't defend much at McDonalds, but the cost for the sauce for the nuggets seriously is one thing that they drilled into us.

 

[ivwshane]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: ivwshane

Wow 10 cents! That is expensive, I was thinkg more like under 5 cents.

Well, a 6 piece nugget where I worked was 1.49. The chicken nuggets cost about $.75 for that. Then you figure the cost of storing them, cooking them (you've got to buy oil), and paying the crew to make them (it takes 4 minutes to cook, at $6.50/hr, that's about $0.40 of labor, so now you're at $1.15 plus the storage, utils, and oil.

So let's say it comes out to about $1.25. That's $.24 profit. You're allowed 1 sauce, which cuts the profit to $.14. Want another? That cuts the profit to $.04. Want a third....?

So, I can't defend much at McDonalds, but the cost for the sauce for the nuggets seriously is one thing that they drilled into us.

True but you have to remember that MD is a business of speed where the faster they serve the more profit they make and rarely are they only serving one customer at a time.

 

[ElFenix]

mcdonald's sucks.

 

[Tom]

It's because the sauces are imported from France.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ivwshane
Can anyone tell me why Mcdonalds is so stingy when it comes to their sauces? I really want to know why and I'm hoping someone that works there can tell me.
If you've got a 20 piece chicken mcnugget meal and ask for sauce they give you one, if you try and ask for more they say they will charge you. But they give you a sh!tload of ketchup though. If you are lucky you will get the kid who doesn't give a crap and will give you as much as you want.

And while we are on the subject, what the hell is up with the single napkin dispenser? Next thing you know they will have them behind the counter and you will have to ask them for one, more than one will cost extra.

And another thing, could they possibly have people with the sh!ttiest attitude behind the counter? Everyonce in a while I'll get someone who is nice but it's usually because it's their second day.

Quite honestly I don't know how Mcdonalds does so well when everything they do is crap. Mcdonalds has to be the least customer service oriented fast food company I know and I don't understand how they are so big.


Anyone with some insight please elaborate for me.


I think from now on I'm going to do myself and my body a favor and just bring my own lunch.





****end rant

What kind of idiot rants about the amount of sauce they get from MCDonalds?

I do when the sole reason that I get Chicken Nuggets from KFC or McDonalds is for the BBQ sauce...mmmm..BBQ sauce...
too bad my KFC and McDonalds around here suck...TWO FRIGGEN BBQ SAUCE PACKET THINGYS...I need at LEAST seven. And yes, I polish off every last bit with seven containers

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: ohtwell
I always order a Big Mac with extra sauce and they never give me extra sauce. In fact, I get less when I ask for extra then I do when I don't ask for it.

Meanies!

: ) Amanda

Liar!!!

You don't eat at Mcdonalds, you can't and still look as good as you do! 😀 😛 😉 🙂

*hug*

What's up kiddo, haven't talked to ya in awhile...

Hopper

 

[Evadman]

<--- ex Wendy's worker

Packets of catsup cost the store just under 3 cents per packet (2.7 iirc, but don't hold me to that). The little packets of sauce for nuggets were 11 cents. This is what the store paid to get them from the destributor. This was back in '96 so I am sure they are more now.

 

[Ender]

The guys who make the sauce in the back have to stop and rest their right hand sometimes, can't be overdoing it on the sauce.

 

[dethman]

if i recall correctly, their policy was


6 piece = 1 sauce
9 piece = 2 sauces
20 piece = 4 sauces

any more was ten cents extra.


now they have all these weird ones like 4 and 10 and 50 piece so i don't know what they do with those.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: DanFungus

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: ivwshane
Can anyone tell me why Mcdonalds is so stingy when it comes to their sauces? I really want to know why and I'm hoping someone that works there can tell me.
If you've got a 20 piece chicken mcnugget meal and ask for sauce they give you one, if you try and ask for more they say they will charge you. But they give you a sh!tload of ketchup though. If you are lucky you will get the kid who doesn't give a crap and will give you as much as you want.

And while we are on the subject, what the hell is up with the single napkin dispenser? Next thing you know they will have them behind the counter and you will have to ask them for one, more than one will cost extra.

And another thing, could they possibly have people with the sh!ttiest attitude behind the counter? Everyonce in a while I'll get someone who is nice but it's usually because it's their second day.

Quite honestly I don't know how Mcdonalds does so well when everything they do is crap. Mcdonalds has to be the least customer service oriented fast food company I know and I don't understand how they are so big.


Anyone with some insight please elaborate for me.


I think from now on I'm going to do myself and my body a favor and just bring my own lunch.





****end rant

What kind of idiot rants about the amount of sauce they get from MCDonalds?

I do when the sole reason that I get Chicken Nuggets from KFC or McDonalds is for the BBQ sauce...mmmm..BBQ sauce...
too bad my KFC and McDonalds around here suck...TWO FRIGGEN BBQ SAUCE PACKET THINGYS...I need at LEAST seven. And yes, I polish off every last bit with seven containers

Thats why i go to Wendy's....my usual meal of 20 nuggets go good with the 4 barbecue sauce packets I ask for

 

[BatmanNate]

Don't eat there. Problem solved.

 

[ivwshane]

What was the problem?

 

[Sacotool]

I never got over the "chicken head found in McNugget" story from a couple years back. The few times I've had McNuggets since then it's always in the back of my mind how I could be eating a head, or a chicken wang, or who knows what else. Never mind the fact that they use some low quality chicken to begin with.

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: Grasshopper27

Originally posted by: ohtwell
I always order a Big Mac with extra sauce and they never give me extra sauce. In fact, I get less when I ask for extra then I do when I don't ask for it.

Meanies!

: ) Amanda

Liar!!!

You don't eat at Mcdonalds, you can't and still look as good as you do! 😀 😛 😉 🙂

*hug*

What's up kiddo, haven't talked to ya in awhile...

Hopper

Hehehehe! I eat there every now and then. Not a lot. 😀


: ) Amanda

 

[FelixDeCat]

McDonalds is nowhere damn stingy as Wendys. They are absolutely anal.

 

[Xionide]

mcdonalds sucks, there chicken nuggets are alright sometimes when you dont get the batch of tire rubber or a chicken head. my brother got a receipt instead of cheese one time, shoulda sued. and the only really good thing their to eat was the cajun mkchicken now its just the mcchicken, so fvck them. i go to burger king😀

 

[clicknext]

McDonalds tastes terrible. People say that I'm just biased against them because they have a bad reputation and their service sucks, but they really do taste horrible. I hadn't had Micky D's in a few years and just a few weeks ago I decided to try it once when my friends and I were at the mall. Boy, was that terrible...

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: dethman
if i recall correctly, their policy was

6 piece = 1 sauce
9 piece = 2 sauces
20 piece = 4 sauces

any more was ten cents extra.

now they have all these weird ones like 4 and 10 and 50 piece so i don't know what they do with those.

A 50 piece! :Q I gotta find a McDonald's that has these in my area 😀

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: dethman
if i recall correctly, their policy was

6 piece = 1 sauce
9 piece = 2 sauces
20 piece = 4 sauces

any more was ten cents extra.

now they have all these weird ones like 4 and 10 and 50 piece so i don't know what they do with those.

A 50 piece! :Q I gotta find a McDonald's that has these in my area 😀

I think that 50 pc was a Super Bowl Special 50 pc for $5.99 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman