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Dec
30

10 Things that the Fast Food industry doesnt want you to know…..

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McDonald’s Grew During The Recession
McDonald’s had higher sales growth in 2008 than in 2006 or 2007, opening nearly 600 stores that year, according to Slate. The chain was able to take advantage of Americans’ recession tastes: Cheap, convenient food.

They Handle Food That Isn’t Really Food
One Reddit user claiming to be an ex-McDonald’s worker said he once left a bag of chicken nuggets out on the counter for too long and “they melted. Into a pool of liquid.” That didn’t stop him from loving the nuggets, “still delicious,” he wrote.

More than 60 percent of low-wage workers are employed by big corporations, according to a July analysis by the National Employment Law Project. And more than 90 percent of those companies were profitable last year

Fast food workers in New York City make an average of $9 per hour, according to the Village Voice. That comes to about $18,500 per year for full-time workers.

For 40 percent of private sector workers, taking a sick day and still getting paid isn’t an option, according to the Baltimore Sun. Fast food workers are especially likely to be part of that 40
percent.

Many fast food workers saw their health benefits put at risk this year, if they even had them at all. Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter said he would likely reduce some of his workers hours so that he wouldn’t have to cover them in response to Obamacare. Jimmy John’s founder, Jimmy John Liautaud told Fox News in October that he would “have to” cut workers’ hours so that he wasn’t forced to cover them under Obamacare.

The average hourly pay at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King and Taco Bell is less than $8 an hour, according to salary data cited by CNBC.

As more workers fight for limited jobs, many older employees are gravitating towards the fast food industry. The median age of a fast food worker is 28, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data cited by the Atlantic. For women, who make up two-thirds of the industry’s employees, that age is 32.

Fast food worker’s went on strike in late November in New York City, showcasing a rare effort to organize the industry’s workers. Labor leaders often don’t make an effort to organize these workers because the high turnover makes the challenge daunting.

For all their work, fast food workers get very little dough. The lowest paid job category in New York City is “Combined Food Service and Preparation Workers, Including Fast Food,” according to Bureau of Labor Department Statistics cited by Salon.

Source. Huffingtonpost.com

Nov
21

By IHWIR Admin

New map calculates Americas 16 most popular burger chains in order

Category: Burger King, Food Retail, Interesting Facts, McDonlads, Retail Articles Tags: Burger King, Fast Food, Interesting, Mcdonalds Leave a Comment

Land of the freedom fry: Map that calculates America’s 16 most popular burger chains in order … but which one won?

List was topped by Hardee’s, Culver’s and Whataburger
Developed using over 20 million FourSquare check-ins
McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s came in last on a technicality

Ever wanted to figure out which burger restaurant chain constitutes as the most popular in the U.S. or your home state?

Lettuce tell you all about it.

A new map has documented how many people eat what type of burger and where.

Food, drink and travel website Thrillist went through over 20 million check-ins on Foursquare, a location-based application that people use to register their whereabouts and leave tips for others.

The winner? Hardee’s, home of the Mile High Burgers.

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Burger bonanza: Food, drink and travel website Thrillist went through over 20 million check-ins on Foursquare – a location-based application that people use to register their whereabouts and leave tips for others – to map out America’s most popular burger restaurants. They are ranked in most popular to least in the key above

Winner: The most popular burger joint in the U.S., according to users of FourSquare, is Hardee’s, home of the Mile High Burgers

Burger King: A surprisingly low number for the home of the Whopper, which proved most popular in upstate New York and Nebraska

Culver’s: Most famous in its native Wisconsis, alot of other Americans are now fans of the famous ButterBurger

Checkers: Just as Carl’s Jr reigned supreme in the west, these double drive-thru restaurants get eaten up in the west, particularly Florida and Pennsylvania

Carl’s Jr: A major divide, this charbroiled burger chain fared increasingly popular in the west, but no love east of Texas and Oklahoma

Dairy Queen: While not specifically popular in one area. Dairy Queen did fairly well across the board, although surprisingly low in Florida and Texas

The restaurant took the most amount of states – especially Montana, North Dakota, the Carolinas and West Virginia – but was also spread fairly well across the country.

Surprisingly the dominant franchises – McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s – registered the lowest in popularity.

However Thrillist contends these old favorites still are favorable.

They just didn’t show up on the FourSquare data because customers would be less-likely to check-in at one of the restaurants.

The resultant map, while limited to just users of the app, is a good guide to seeing what burger is most-popular in each state by scanning through each.

Last quarter McDonald’s saw its U.S. sales fall 3 percent as profits tumbled 30 percent, according to The Intercept.

It was the 12th straight month of falling sales at the fast food giant.

Five Guys Burgers and Fries: This ever-increasing chain has moved out of Washington DC and up into the Eastern Seaboard

In-N-Out Burger: Perhaps most famous California, In-N-Out is actually most popular in Nevada

Krystal: Although concentrated in one area, Krystal dominated in the southwest, especially Tennessee, where it’s from

Sonic: Famous for their shakes, Sonic turned up interestingly small numbers in Oklahoma, its birthplace

Steak ‘n Shake: Home of the Frisco Melt, this old favorite hits its prime in central Illinois

Wendy’s: Even the bacon pretzel cheeseburger didn’t get more people into Wendy’s, however Thrillist contends that FourSquare users would be less likely to check-in to this popular chain

Whataburger: Texans have a firm hold of their triple meat hamburgers and aren’t letting it

White Castle: New Jersey, Kentucky, Chicago and St. Louis – and Harold and Kumar – love White Castle

McDonald’s: As with Burger King and Wendy’s, McDonald’s did not register well on FourSquare, mostly because people wouldn’t likely check-in at the Golden Arches

Sourced from: .dailymail.co.uk

Nov
16

By IHWIR Admin

21 Confessions Of A Former Fast Food Worker

Category: Burger King, KFC, McDonlads, Pizza Hut, retail lists, Subway Tags: burgerking, confessions, Fast Food, Mcdonalds, server Leave a Comment

I can’t tell you which chain I worked at, but you know it. You’ve been to it probably more than once. It’s not the biggest, but it’s in the top 5. And my experience is not the exception to the rule.

1. If you are a girl working the drive-thru window (like I was many times) you will definitely get hit on in really obvious and offensive ways. And the manager won’t do anything about it.

2. That picture that went around the internet of a big woman sitting on a chair in the line at a fast food restaurant: That is not unusual. In fact, usually customers who do that are much, much bigger than her and they will drag a chair around with them everywhere they go.

3. Almost any time you try and engage in any kind of polite conversation with the customers, they will either completely ignore you or respond to you in an even more aggravated way. “How are you today?” is just met with their food order.

4. A lot of customers are so big and look so physically unhealthy that you almost feel like a bartender who should be cutting them off. They’ll order family packs and three value meals and you can’t do anything about it, even though you know it’s killing them.

5. A good percentage of the customers are regulars, some multiple times a day.

6. The ice machine is by far the grossest place in the whole restaurant. It gets cleaned out sometimes, but not as often as it should, because it’s a job no one wants to do and everyone thinks “Oh, it’s frozen, it can’t be that bad.”

7. The managers were always on the verge of quitting, or brand new, so the cleaning never got done the way it should. Everyone just wanted to go home at the end of the day so the rule became “If you can’t see dirt, it’s clean.”

8. Never look under the grill in a fast food restaurant. Just, don’t do it.

9. Pretty much everything comes in frozen, and the stuff that doesn’t, you almost wish it did.

10. If you are ordering something that isn’t very popular on the menu, ALWAYS order it fresh and wait the extra five minutes. I’ve seen things stay under the heating lamps for an entire shift because no one orders it. If you get it at the end of that, it will taste and feel like cardboard.

11. One time I found a bug in the french fries while I was scooping them out and my boss just told me to throw it away and keep scooping.

12. The soft serve machines never get cleaned out. In my year and a half at this location, I never once saw anyone give it a thorough internal cleaning.

13. The most depressing thing you see by far is morbidly obese toddlers and children who are already eating one or more grown-up value meals with extra large sodas.

14. The safest orders on a menu are: the most popular sandwich, chicken nuggets, and french fries. The turnover on them is so high that there’s very little chance anything bad has happened to them.

15. I’ve never seen anyone spit in someone’s food (though I know it happens), but I’ve definitely seen multiple things dropped on the floor and then wrapped up and served. The five second rule is more like the thirty second rule.

16. Most employees are not allowed to take lunch breaks during shifts so we are STARVING through the whole afternoon.

17. Pretty much every employee is talking shit about the customers at all times, but I think that even normal people become absolutely insane and so rude when they order fast food. They act like we’re their slaves and they don’t have to have manners. And then there are the people who are so socially untrained they basically can’t eat anywhere else.

18. The worst customers are the homeless people who yell at you and the teenagers who sit in the corner for hours, make a mess, and try to sneak alcohol in their cups. It’s impossible to tell which is worse of the two.

19. Almost none of the employees at my location were teenagers. Most were working parents who were supporting themselves with multiple jobs, or people like me who were college students.

20. Even if the calories are marked a certain amount on the website, the products are all way more fattening than that because of how much grease is used on the grill.

21. Even if something says it’s vegetarian, chances are it’s probably not. If you’re trying to stick to any special diet, my advice is to not go to a fast food restaurant. It’s just not for you.

Sourced from thoughtcatalog.com