Short review: bought the meal for $7.50. Got a sloppily assembled burger in a box along with soggy fries and small iced Milo.
The rather dry buns featured an eyesore of a giant piece of lettuce stuck in between which had to be promptly evacuated, while the so-called sweet chili sauce was a miserable application-swore I slapped more suntan lotion on my gf's ass than this pathetic drizzle.
TBH the fish tasted all right and batter was reasonably crispy, but for crying out loud the damn thing was abnormally small!!!!!! Finished the dwarfish chunk in 5 bites.
Verdict: The real deal looked nothing like what was showcased in the poster, and you will feel terribly underwhelmed in the aftermath. A double filet-O fish meal for the same price would probably do more justice to your wallet.
It ain't called fast food for nothing. Fast and lousy.
An online *confession* (source unknown)
For easy reading, I'll put all of the food-related secrets in one big list:
-Employees really do spit in the food. Be very, very nice to the person taking your order. Especially if you're in the drive thru. Why people are stupid enough to be rude to the people who make their food is beyond me, but consider yourself warned.
-Spit isn't the worst thing people do to the food at McDonald's. Food is thrown on the ground, stomped on, and a few other things I won't mention. Use your imagination.
-The owner of one franchise I worked at threatened to fire me once. My offense? Refusing to use a case of lettuce that had expired TEN DAYS AGO. The lettuce was brown and just plain nasty. I threw it away anyway. I knew that legally, she couldn't fire me for that- and if she did, I would have reported her the second I received my termination notice.
-Demanding that you are served "fresh food right off the grill" will not really get you fresh food. It'll get you a dried up hamburger patty dunked in grease so that it looks fresh. It's insulting to ask for fresh food at a store where the food is actually fresh.
-There's nothing McDonald's employees hate more than customers who come in and ask for fries with no salt or insist that their fries are cold even though they were just removed from the fryer. When you do this, it's the same as asking for a fresh hamburger- you'll get old fries dunked in the oil for 15 seconds. Enjoy!
-Burgers and sandwiches are made to order. They do not just sit in a heating tray. Stop acting like you know what goes on behind the scenes. Some customers order burgers without ketchup or with extra pickles just so they don't get "one of those burgers that are already made". None of the burgers are already made, okay? You're wasting your time with the special requests. Unless you truly want no ketchup.
-McDonald's french fries are not vegan or vegetarian. They contain natural beef flavor. Seriously. Look it up on the official McDonald's website.
-Your food isn't extra sanitary just because the grill workers wear gloves. Those same employees take out trash and even go to the bathroom without removing their gloves. I've also seen them scratch a few special places on their body while wearing gloves.
-McRibs aren't always McRibs. McRibs take forever to cook, and orders have to be filled quickly (more on that later). In a pinch, employees throw hamburger patties in the McRib container and drench them with sauce. I never saw a customer return one, so I guess nobody notices.
-Everybody wants to know what's in the Big Mac sauce. It's basically just thousand island dressing, pickles, and onions. -Never order breakfast at 10:29a.m. unless you want them to dig your food out of the waste trays. At the end of breakfast (and throughout the morning), all of the extra food is thrown in a special Trash can that is used only for expired products. A crew person or manager counts the waste at the end of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Unless they're shorthanded. Then they count it at the end of the day or just make up numbers.
-Never say, "and you idiots better not mess it up this time like you always do" after placing your order. Just trust me on this one.
-It takes 38 seconds to cook one hamburger patty, and you can cook 8 or 9 at a time.
-Each order must be assembled in a certain amount of time. I know that the entire order-taking process for drive thru orders, from start to finish, is 90 seconds or less. I can't remember how long the grill team has to make each order, but I think it's around 25-35 seconds. I'll doublecheck with some friends who still work at McDonald's and update this article soon.
Thanks for the heads up. Will give the shitty chili fish burger a miss then. The Prosperity burger looked like shit but at least it tasted okay and the beef patty served was of a decent proportion.
Long John Silver's should sue McDonald's for copying their shit.