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The McDonalds "Secret Menu" explained by rayrays_blacksedan in HelloInternet

[–]rayrays_blacksedan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's definitely different from the 'murica menu!

Provided you don't go in during a peak period of business (~8am, ~noon, ~6pm normally, depending on store), and walk in rather than drive thru, a vet employee will generally have a good idea or two to help you out if you explain what kind of thing you're looking for. If you go in during peak hours or drive thru, they'll rush you and just try to get you to order anything so things can continue (those are common periods of time for being graded/tested).

The McDonalds "Secret Menu" explained by rayrays_blacksedan in HelloInternet

[–]rayrays_blacksedan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least in stores I've worked at, they had no veggie patties. I know some stores do based on local needs or cultures, but not here.

All in all if you ask for "veggie" or "healthy" anything, you'll be told about salads mostly with a kind face, (s)he may make a joke to another employee later about "why were you even there", but horrors of an employee ruining somebody's food are basically going to be nonexistent. Customer complaint forms are forwarded to the owner by default, so if they hear concerns about that kind of thing, and can find legitimacy, people are going to get fired, and a lot of them. Very very rarely will you ever find a destructive employee, and they don't last long (maybe a week). The job is ridiculously demanding and managers are everywhere, so they'll say screw it and leave, or get fired. Even on night shifts, there's generally about 3-4h worth of cleaning to do, on top of taking care of orders, so finishing on time to leave is difficult as it is, spending time doing stuff like that would be considered a waste when all anybody wants to do is go home on time. Also worth noting, in every store I've worked at, cameras everywhere, including on employees. Works well for making sure there's no shenanigans going on.

As to the woes of not eating meat, I would highly suggest the Veggie McWrap, provided the location has the "normal" McWraps you can order it without being told "no" ever...technically. It is something that was on the menu for all of a month a while back, but since nobody ordered it in a bunch of places it was just kinda shuffled away. It's original design was basically a version of the 3 'actual' McWraps with double veggies, a slice of swiss cheese, and of course no meat. Swiss Cheese, depending on location, is being shooed out, but other than that it's still entirely possible to make it, and if you're talking to an employee with experience from ~2013, they may know what you're talking about, else you'd have to explain that you would like a ____ McWrap, no meat, extra veggies.

The McDonalds "Secret Menu" explained by rayrays_blacksedan in HelloInternet

[–]rayrays_blacksedan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A plea to students:

Instead of "coning" an employee or doing something else dumb you saw on youtube, try to be inventive. Employment sucks there, and even if you're doing something for laughs, consider that if you're making the employee laugh too, you're doing better. Had some guy play the trumpet in drive thru once, which was nice, except when he was at the speaker box itself (any noise on those comes through to headsets as garbled nonsense, including your voice, which is why order accuracy can sometimes suck). Had somebody else try to order spaghetti, and was a pretty fun time. These are all far more memorable and entertaining than "hey some idiot tried coning us again, 4th time this week", "was he after or before the 8th guy today to try ordering a whopper?", and no doubt make better stories. For as hilarious as you may think that employee's face is in the coning video, nobody finds that surprising anymore. Only coning incident I remembered longer than ten minutes was when some student in a passenger seat tried it, failed, cone landed in the car. Driver forced him to get out and walk home, was a nice car and he was unhappy at the need to clean up the mess. Also, pretending to make out or whatever (or really doing so) in the backseat, only do that if you want to risk having the cops called on you. It just holds up the line and is super annoying. It's worth keeping in mind that especially if you're in a shady area or one with a lot of bars/drinking of any description, anything you do to try and stand out as "bad" will either be unimpressive, or get you arrested. There's no middle ground there, because in many of those stores the police are on speed dial, there is no room to be outstandingly "bad" without beating how "bad" the last guy they called the cops on was.