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- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -4/+367I don't know if anyone cares but here are a few tidbits from working at McDonalds:
- Any breakfasts with round-eggs are actually eggs. They are cracked into a circular cookie-cutter platter.
- Any breakfasts with folded-eggs are "egg product". Not saying it's not real egg but it comes from a carton, not a shell
- Chicken McGrills and Crispy Chicken are NEVER ordered - insist they make you a fresh one. This is a common request and you'll be told it might take 5 minutes (crispy) to 7 minutes (mcgrill)
- 1/4 pound meat is rarely ordered outside of lunch hour, ask for it fresh if you are going in at odd hours
- Bacon sits out forever if it's not at breakfast, order it fresh.
- If you are on the go and HATE ketchup packets (like me), request a sunday lid (essentially a little cup) and a medium drink top. Fill the lid with ketchup, turn the drink top upside down and it forms a perfect seal.
- Speaking of sunday lids, request some mac sauce or mayo in them as well. Very common requests.
- Ask for fries with no salt if you prefer. They will make a new batch for you and give them to you unsalted.
- I have no idea why but many people order "big mac cheese burgers". I've never tried it, looks disgusting but by all means if you are high and want to be creative...
- If you see a cashier run into the back quickly, ask if they were helping with the food. It's unbelievable the amount of cashiers (mostly the cross-trained ones) who will handle the dirtiest money on the planet and then run in back to help finish up a few burgers during a rush. That's sick. Request a new one.
If I think of more I'll add. - MackDiesel2010, on 10/12/2007, -2/+189The Burger King sits on a throne of lies
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+158The workers in the back don't care enough to spit in your food. I worked there twice for over a year total and there was never a single incident of sabotage. In fact, I'm happy to say that at both McDonalds I worked for there is a very anal approach to food quality. If it hits the floor, it's thrown out, you wash your hands before doing anything with food, etc. If you forget you get bitched at by like 3 different people (co-workers included).
Fact is, you work 8 hours doing the same repetitive tasks and you take an assembly-line approach to work: You do what you do and you turn your brain off. You hear "make a new *this*" and there is no "why?" there is just "okay" and you do it to get it off your plate and move on.
Everything I said are VERY common requests. It really helps that the people in the front RARELY talk to the people in the back. The people in the back don't care about the customers because we don't deal with them, the people in the front don't care about the food because they are too busy dealing with the customers. It works REALLY well at keeping everyone in a constant state of "turn your brain off and do the job". - mccrusc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+134See, that's why I like chinese restaurants. They always have pictures of their actual food on the menu. It may look gross, but at least it's the real thing.
- thedobber, on 10/12/2007, -8/+135Funny thing is, they almost all look the same exiting my system.
- krets, on 10/12/2007, -16/+122I liked this quote at the bottom:
"This is an ongoing Pulitzer-caliber project. Check back for updates!"
ORLY? - lava, on 10/12/2007, -4/+96Food photography by an amateur always looks unappetizing. As they say in the business, if you can shoot food, you can shoot anything.
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -4/+84There was a show a while ago called "secrets revealed" (before the "how was it made" or "how did they do that" trend).
They showed a photo shoot for a burger and a turkey dinner. The turkey was 100% raw to hold it's shape, painted with a wood stain to get the color, and hand-iron steamed in 1 pre-made slice so that when they open it up on the commercial it looks cooked and the right, juice color.
For the burger they hand-crafted it, had perfectly shaped lettuce, used squeeze bottles to apply the condiments that spilled out at JUST the right places, sprayed the lettuce with a mister to look crisp, held together by about 1000 toothpicks so nothing moved, etc...
After that show I never looked at food ads the same. - Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+83@logicbomb:
I'm no expert on McDonalds, but some of those pointers seem like invitations for their less moral employees to spit on your food. I don't think some of those underpaid workers enjoy cooking up new batches of everything. - thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+76Gee, lets think about this....
Carefully selected ingredients, artful placement, great lighting, highly paid professionals.... = Ad campaign
Quickly assembled by a minimum-wage 15yr old, with authority issues, and that thinks of how to get laid constantly = Fast Food output
Why does this suprise anyone? - MCMookie, on 10/12/2007, -31/+100I unno, that big mac looks pretty good.
- Walker2323, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67Could the photographer possibly try to focus the camera?
- Daniel001, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59What! You mean these companies use professional shots to advertise their food? This is a scandal.
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+57@ryan - Firstly, I was one of 3 employees who did our ***** jobs. I didn't stand there with a dumb look on my face when there were more orders than screen space to show them. I did the ***** job and I did it well.
Secondly, unless things have changed, you take what's sitting on the tray, cut it up and throw it ontop of the salad. Maybe it is used more often now but I still guarantee it's not used quickly during off-peak hours. If you sold 1 salad every half hour during off-peak hours, that's still a piece of meat sitting on a tray for 30 minutes. It sits there because it's used on very few menu items.
Oh, and bacon is not used on a single main-menu item (In Canada, where I live anyway). You know those items with the numbers next to them? The standard "give me a 3 with coke" items? None of them have bacon unless you request it.
And lastly, who ***** CARES about how easy it is on the employees? I'm always 100% polite to every person I speak to but you better believe I'll ask for fresh meat to be cooked if I suspect its been sitting there for a while. I want hot food prepared the way I want it and you'll do your ***** job and supply it to me with a smile. - VeryBoredNow, on 10/12/2007, -6/+55Well at least it's good for you.
- 60effects, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52Wendy's wins this round with the Southwest Taco salad. The Filet O'Fish comes close -- no amount of pro photography is gonna make that thing look good anyway.
- AJH16, on 10/12/2007, -10/+56Personally, I didn't think that most of them looked that bad. A few of them only didn't look like their pictures because of shoddy lighting and photography.
- Ouze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46@h00p - Agreed - the filet of fish does look the closest to the same. Both are presented as a highly processed brick of quasi-meat of dubious origin and species, smeared with a thick white paste suitable for removing rust from farm machinery, on a bun manufactured in a way that is an gross insult to wheat, packaged together, not meant for feeding to dogs in fourth world countries... and they do so equally.
- Hillsfar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41There's a whole science and art behind dressing up food for the camera.
When you see what appear to be droplets of water on lettuce leaves, or glistening meat, they're actually using glycerin, which reflects light well, holds shape better, and don't evaporate as easily under hot lights. The meat is often hand-formed from larger patties than they use in the restaurants.
The unmelted cheese can be made of plastic or rubber. - qwertydvorak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38@smuikas: "It still saddens me to see a bigger crowd in the mcdonalds than in the family owned souvlaki diner across the street."
does the souvlaki diner have a $1 menu ? i think your answer may lie somewhere in that. - orientis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Every cheeseburger I bought from McDonald's in Tokyo looked exactly like the picture.
- greatkingrat85, on 10/12/2007, -12/+45All that done is made me hungry.
It's also how celebrities work.
Which has made me realise that a hamburger gets treated better than I do. =( - thinkart, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36too bad photos can't quite capture the frozen center of the Burger King croissandwich
- Smuikas, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36The pictures are a little bit out of focus. The food, though, is still smooshed, overly melted, and generally doesn't have that "fresh" look to it.
I used to eat fast food twice a day. Hardees (greasy southern burger chain, nearly identical to Carl's Jr), Cookout (southern charbroil drive thru place - great barbeque), Wendy's, typically. Occasionally subway. That was in North Carolina.
Moved to NYC and haven't eaten typical fast food in months. Deli fresh sandwiches, delivery sushi/greek/italian/pizza/burgers/pretty-much-anything-else-you-would-ever-want, and good food from local owners. It still saddens me to see a bigger crowd in the mcdonalds than in the family owned souvlaki diner across the street. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27A friend of mine in college went to Burger King and got an ugly whopper.
He called up their 800 number (I think it was something like 800-yes-800 or some gimmicky number like that) and complained that it didn't look like the picture, just trying to be a smart ass. They sent him a booklet of coupons for free whoppers and chicken sandwiches. - thinkart, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27including the time it took you to comment
- wush, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Oh gnoes. The components of my $2 burger are not properly aligned. Alert the internet!
- Xadrian79, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24@logicbomb: "...very anal approach to food..."
I generally prefer approaching food with my other end first. - mxpx5678, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Nice Blurry photos. And actually I think most of these come pretty close, and i would hope the cheese would melt on most of these since you would want the food to be hot.
- dvddesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16That's why they use plastic resin to make fake food. Jeez, haven't any of you ever been to Japan?
We make it in the US as well.
http://www.fake-foods.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?
For anything involving liquids, they almost always use a substitute that won't spoil, spoil the food, or cause it to ruin, since so many takes need to be done to get it to look right. That photo of a bowl of Milk and Cereal on your box of Cap'n Crunch is Glue and cereal bits. - arbulus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Everytime you eat a Whopper, Jared melts a kitten.
- oddmanout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15they say photographing food is the hardest type of photography there is. You have to work fast, and if the lighting is just a little bit off, the food looks gross
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13But at least you won't get herpes from a Filet-O-Fish...
- videokrazy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I don't really eat fast food anymore but... the other day I stopped by Checkers and ordered the double beef western burger(or something like that). When I got the burger it looked so close to the picture that I held it up to see the difference. I found out that when a burger looks like the picture it's really hard to get into your mouth so I squished it anyway. So I guess those guys are helping us out after all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15ouze: What do you have against a square brick of pressed cod and/or haddock?
- ChronicColonic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11...but hopefully your wife will believe you when you tell her your venereal disease came from fast food.
- ChronicColonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Sometimes you take the 'wrapper' off a date, and you're not to pleased about the way she looks, but you eat her anyway.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I always love those advertisements (print and TV) that show cream and custard type stuff.
They actually use house paint as it just looks so much better than the actual stuff.
Not recommended for consumption though I guess. - TheUngod, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I spoke to a guy who was a food photographer...he did a billboard for some hot dog brand. He said he had to use a torch on the dog, slit it, dye it a few colors, and basically make it completely non-edible before actually shooting it. He wasted loads of packages of dogs before getting one looking good enough to eat...ironically, it was unedible.
- mesmeriffic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Thats the most awesome thing I've heard in the 30 minutes I've been awake.
Do they have these numbers just available to call in a burger king? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I dunno. Those Wendys/Taco Bell 'meals' look like they've already been eaten by someone!
However, most pizzas also look this way. - sneeka2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9In Japan (and possibly other countries) these types of pictures are often accompanied by the words "This picture is just an image." (loosely translated; or sometimes literally so on English copies)
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10and now we know why you don't have a girlfriend.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I remember seeing some TV special in the 80s or 90s about how they do food advertisements. It was quite disturbing.
i.e.
Ice Cream is shortening scooped out with an ice cream scoop (it won't melt under the lights)
Juicy turkeys being carved are raw turkeys, painted with wood stain, and a small section is cooked with a hair dryer, then cut into when the camera is rolling. - badave, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Where's Jack in the Box?
- SteveRogers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Isn't this a little obvious? No food ever looks like it does when advertised. I've actually worked at one of these ad shoots. It was for a Friendly's ice cream ad. Every time they put a layer of topping on, they applied it perfectly then they used hairspray so it would hold long enough for the photos. I don't know about you, but when I get an ice cream Sunday I'd prefer if it didn't have hairspray on it.
- salpairodice, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15I for one am shocked - SHOCKED - I tells ya.
Does this mean that the things I see on the teevee aren't actually representative of real-life?
The ladies don't really like the aqua-velva?
/sob... - itschadwhitaker, on 11/05/2009, -3/+9http://www.duggmirror.com
- MindStalker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8mt066: Actually I think legally these pictures are pretty good. Because they provide you with a visual image of what exactly is in the food.
In each and every picture you can look at the professional version and pick out virtually and and every ingredient that went into it.. The Whopper is a good example of that, the picture clearly shows that there is meat pickels onions tomatoes lettuce mayo in there by default. Can you tell that from the actual picture? Not really - ShawnC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Where is your god now?"
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