“Unlocking the Hidden World of Chain Restaurants: 18 Insider Secrets Revealed by Employees You Never Knew Existed!”
I work at mcdonalds: if you ever want to get fresh fries cooked hot for you order them with no salt. The normal fries can get old and if you order no salt then we have to make a new batch and not add salt. It will take 3 extra minutes but you will get freshass fries and you can salt them yourself.
I used to work for Chick-Fil-A back in high school. Practically everything but the waffle fries and maybe the chicken salad (someone else confirm this) were made in the store. We breaded the chicken, we assembled the cool wraps, and I would cut countless boxes of fresh lemons, squeeze them in a machine and add sugar every shift. There is not a thing on the menu that I would not eat. Moreover, the employees would get to take home the cool wraps if there were any at the end of the night.
Chili’s
The molten cake that everyone seems to love is frozen. The paradise pie is frozen. If you complain that your food isn’t hot enough, it just goes into the microwave. Oh, and people used to ask for the queso recipe all the time…it’s delivered to the restaurant in a bag. The cooks would just heat it up and dump it in a skillet.
When the dishes came out of wash, there would still be wet lettuce and food particles stuck on the plates and silverware, and we’d just wipe it off. Makes me want to use plastic ware at every restaurant now.
Most of these things probably aren’t secrets though.
I work at Panera bread. Although the dough comes Pre-made from another place. Everything there is “as advertised”. The leftovers get donated, and the managers are nice to the employees. As a company, Panera is probably one of the few that are honest.
Employees at Chuck E. Cheese use the same towels to clean the arcade games as they do tables. Also, the tubes that your children crawl in are usually only cleaned once a month, if that. Don’t take your kids to Chuck E. Cheese. (former employee).
When you complain that the coffee isn’t fresh, we take your cup, add hot water to it, and give it back to you. no one has ever been able to tell the difference and usually go on about how much better it tastes now.
Any employees from IHOP here? That place always seemed really shadey…
Once, I ordered a BLT and found a piece of banana under the sandwich. I’m guessing they really don’t clean their plates, either.
