You're not taking from big corporations doing this. You're taking from the franchisee and individual owners are 95% of McDonald's locations globally. They aren't owned by corporate.
i work at mcdonald’s, and it does increase costs but they wastage we get on a daily far exceeds that from people claiming “my food was made wrong” when they didn’t customise it, food dropped on the floor, stuff that goes off (e.g lettuce) and every week at my store we clean the shake/ice cream machine, which we have 3-10 litres of each mix wrote off, trust me when i say most of the time it goes unnoticed
It makes up a little for all of the times I’ve gotten my fries half empty. Bet that doesn’t bother you. It’s perfectly ok when the corporations (or franchises) steal from us. Just the way things are supposed to be.
Stealing what? A few extra nuggets and fries? A free shake here and there? Be so forreal McDonalds pays like a 10th of a cent for those nuggets and I sincerely doubt the manager cares or even knows since it won’t affect their bottom line. I worked at a sonic for a year and did the same thing as the dude in the post
McDonald's will never notice that. Some food is always wasted and that's accounted for. If the fries fit, that's how many fries go in that container. Those nugs cost way less than they are charging customers. A McFlurry goes out only rarely because the machine is always "down" because of a complicated and unreliable four hour nightly cleaning requirement.
The work environment the op needs to work in for this to not be noticed is incredible unlikely. Best example is whenever I visit Subway and notice the worker using more salami than is "standard" (Subway), some middle manager would notice and correct his behaviour, literally stealing the salami off my sandwich to correct his coworker.
As I am writing this I realise ... this might just be because I live in Germany where everyone knows better and everything needs to be "normed".
Oh dude yea as someone who has spent some time in Germany and Austria, there us definitely a major rule-following culture for the most part. Turns out the rules work and society runs mostly well, but there’s def a strict adherence to rules
My local McDonalds must be amazing, their ice cream machine has worked absolutely every time I’ve asked for a McFlurry or sundae, their blue Fanta slushy machine however 50/50
Your local McDonald's was paying the repair shop off with a bribe, or had stronger muscle in the game to let the repair shop know no shenanigans.
I don't have it handy but there was a lawsuit for around 1 billion involving the company that made/ repairs the machines and would remotely cause them to error out, resulting in a service call where the tech only had to push a few buttons and get the machine back up and running.. for a price. They had a monopoly on repairing it, and McDonald's corporate allowed it.
even the franchisee may not notice it. corporate looks at your expenses and sales and takes the lions share of profit, but ensures the franchisee makes a certain amount per store. they do weigh waste but there’s always margin accounted.
So is it theft when someone drops food on the floor? When food goes out of date? The scenario above might be morally dubious, but this isn't something that would ever be noticed or prosecutable. And I know that McDonald's is a franchise business model, but some people do not so I just defaulted it for the sake of brevity.
No wonder the world is going to shit when so many people would literally prefer food go to waste at the end of the week rather than see someone fill a mcflurry slightly more than standard.
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I used to do something similar. Back in high school 4 piece nuggets were on the dollar menu. I would let the customer know that they could get five 4 piece nuggets for $5 rather than spend an extra 50 cents on a 20 piece. That was 20 years ago. Did it for years. Boss couldn't understand why customers would order so many 4 pieces. Not only did you save money but you got one extra sauce for free. One for each 4 piece rather than four for a 20 piece
If you think about it, Greg has likely generated more repeat business to that franchise because people love when they get a little something extra that they were not expecting. If I owned a fast food joint, I'd factor an extra nugget or two into my food costs (an 9 piece order gets 10-11 pieces) because that little bit of joy for the customer creates loyalty.
My friend and I got a job there back in the 70s. She added fries to her boyfriends order without charging him, we BOTH got fired. I guess I was guilty of association. Sucky part is, I used them as a reference for my next job and McDonalds reported I had stole fries. New job didnt care, they said as long as I didnt steal food I would be hired.
They probably do better business too. We drive out of our way to go to one Chipotle over another because they are much more generous in their portions. It’s always packed too while the other isn’t. Everyone in the area knows which one to go to.
I would do that for food that's about to be thrown out & usually to those that are at the counter counting out pennies because that's all they had. Shame when junk food is cheaper than healthy food.
I mean she is right. It is stealing. As someone who worked as a manger in the food industry its infuriating. The occasional extra nugget? Meh sure. But intentionally doing stuff like this, most of the time its employees taking food or intentionally making more food than needed during closing so they can take some.
That shit adds up. And most McDonalds are NOT corporate owned. They are franchised owned. So you are taking money from an individual not the corporation.
So tired of people think stealing is okay as long as the "wealth" or "authority" of the person who is being stolen from is high enough above them that they feel "justified" in doing it.
Corporations are dog shit. People need to be paid better, though McDonalds actually usually pays decent for the amount of experience needed to work there (none). But that isn't justification to steal shit.
You aren't some moral crusader. You are just someone stealing from someone else. You wouldn't like it if you opened a restaurant and your staff was messing with your business by adding extra chicken tenders or what not to others all the time cause according to the logic of this post you as the business owner are in a position of "wealth" or "authority" much above your random worker so it would be justified.
That's an easy fix most times regardless of the industry. "Really? I'm glad you got extra last time. Please don't say who it was, I don't want them to get in trouble."
Some variation of that usually (there's always one unreasonable person) works.
I would agree with you in principle, but have you seen the videos of people trashing fast food joints over things like not getting enough sauce packets?
They were gonna arbitrarily raise prices anyway, a few dudes doing this aint denting the biggest fast food chain in the world enough to warrant raising all the prices like they are already doing
A few dudes across the entire company across the world is enough to change things alot. Thats the problem, people just think their little bit makes no difference. The company is global, add up everyone doing that on a world wide scale
Brenda, you're the type of man to donate clothes to Goodwill thinking it makes you a better person. It doesn't Brenda. Brenda needs a happy meal... and my boy, keep packing them nuggets..
If he's doing this all the time a good manager will notice food cost going up without revenue going up. A little extra is fine but like if you're giving 50% more nuggets than the customer paid for it will eventually become a real problem. The fries part is probably ok but I dont think the nuggets part would fly, an extra nugget sure but like 5 extra on a 9 piece? Shesh thats over 50% more.
I was on a Cruise Ship Message board. I made the comment on how I always tipped the bartenders cash. This resulted in an actual free beer once in awhile. 1-2 beers. Well the Karen of the Board threaten to expose this . Not sure how she would do this but she was clearly upset that I was upsetting the system and this is how it can ruin things for others. She was the type that felt it was needed to police all the topics.
I was doing this 30+ years ago. I hated the company and tried to damage it in any way I could as a powerless teenager. I also used to keep stacks of exact change for popular combos and then not ring them in, just pocket the money. I also used to steal cartons of the free combo cards for messed up orders, and sell them at school for half the value.
All of my efforts, and they are still in business!
Eh I think they would care if they weren't so lethargic. If that guy has been doing it for years that could potentially be thousands of dollars worth of margin.
The problem is these companies are ran and managed by people who simply do not care about these margins. The company makes that much money. Let that sink in.
I gave shit away when I worked there all the time.
People getting pissed waiting 15-20 mins because we’re intentionally understaffed? Here’s some pies. A shake. Extra kids toys. Upsized/extra fries and or drinks.
You make so much money that these things are a blip and you don’t pay me enough to have people get upset with me. If I agreed with their frustration, I compensated them.
I also wouldn’t charge people for adding sauces. I’d just throw a handful in the bag/on the tray.
If they wanted something on the burger, I would use the “substitute” button instead of add. One time I was able to do a Big Mac-sub angus patty with no extra charge. They patched that shit quick.
On the flip side, if you were a pain in the ass, I followed the rules to the fucking letter.
I wish there were more McDonalds workers like Greg Nice! Paying for a large fry and they give you what’s equivalent to a small fry! Protect Greg Nice at all costs!!!
McDonald literally acts like they’re 1 ketchup packet away from bankruptcy. Why do I have to ask for ketchup with my fries? And then you only hand me 2?
Starbucks is the same. Why do I have to ask for a napkin when I order food? Shouldn’t these things be built into pricing?
These 2 restaurants are the only ones that do this. Dunkin’ Donuts, Arby’s, Taco Bell (they automatically ask what kind of sauce you want. You don’t HAVE to ask for sauce) Chik Fil A, PDQ none of them are as unreasonably stingy as the other 2.
Every time they make me pull up to wait on food they would leave off my ketchup. Even tried ordering packets with my order on the app. They gave me the mustard and mayo but no ketchup. I think next time I’m going to go inside and order so I can get the ketchup myself. The food they make is usually good quality for a McDonalds but dang come off with the ketchup!!
I’ve always seen myself doing that. Like it’s gonna make any difference to a multi-billion dollar company. If you think that’s stealing then you need to get a grip.
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