McDonald’s is one of the world’s most
popular fast food chain restaurants. The famous recognizable golden arches have
36,000 locations in more than 100 countries! From their popular Big Macs to their world-famous
crispy and salty fries, connoisseurs may think they know everything there is to know. But this corporation has their own dirty little
secrets. McDonald’s is constantly reacting to consumer
concerns and have since made changes to many of their products, but there are some things
you might want to know before you go pick up your next McMeal. So let’s uncover the top 10 McDonald’s
secrets. Faster fast food at the McDonald’s drive-thru McDonald’s gives priority to those in the
drive-thru lane. They will almost always have the dine-in guests
wait to get their food over those driving thru in their cars. So, if you were to walk into a McDonald’s
and place an order at the same time as the car that just pulled up you can bet they will
get their meals first. They do this with good reason: to avoid car
pile-ups and to prevent roads from getting blocked. As you can imagine the car lineups can get
pretty hectic especially during mealtime rushes. If you're thinking you can beat this system
by walking or biking through the drive-thru to get the same service, that won’t work! McDonald’s will refuse to serve anyone that
is not in a vehicle and will ask you to come inside instead. The drive-thru is focused on speed, to serve
as many customers as they can and avoid complaints. Drive-thru is the higher volume side of the
business and drives 60-70% of their revenue. A customer is more likely to complain if made
to wait in the drive-thru than someone making a dine-in order who will sit down and have
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and ring that bell to join our notification squad. Now let’s serve up more on Mickey D’s. The McRib isn’t really ribs… Are you tempted by the McRib? You might think you know what’s really going
on between the buns, saucy rack of ribs, pickles and onions. What you should know is that there are actually
no ribs in this sandwich! False advertising? We’d say! The fake ribs are a pork mixture that is pressed
into the rib-like shaped mold. The pork patty is made with 45 ingredients
including a mixture of pork tripe, heart, stomach, water, loads of salt and sugar. The sauce is made with 3 types of sugar including
high fructose corn syrup with a total of 18 ingredients and the bun is made with 17 ingredients. In total, it takes 80 ingredients to create
this sweet, salty and very fattening sandwich. The McRib is also one of the saltiest items
on the menu and this is because of the process to form the false ribs. They use a lot of salt to help extract proteins
that are then used to bind the meat trimmings into the rib-like shape. Needless to say, it takes a lot of salt to
pull that off and one of these sandwiches will provide you with 36% of your daily salt
intake. Guess Mickey D’s doesn’t agree with less
is more. Your McDonald’s drink may contain fecal
matter Surely getting an ice cold beverage with your
meal seems harmless. I mean other than the fact that we know sodas
are high in sugar, there’s no secrets… or are there? In 2017 the BBC consumer show watchdog performed
a series of random tests on 3 fast food chains all over the UK for fecal coliform. What they found wasn’t exactly what you
want to hear. 3 out of 10 McDonald’s drinks tested positive
for fecal contamination in their ice! This would mean about 30% of the ice in your
drink from McDonald’s could have elements of feces in it. What’s worse is Burger King and KFC tested
positive with even higher traces of fecal contamination found in their drinks! They found 6 of their samples from BK and
7 samples from KFC had fecal contamination. Yikes! Fecal coliform is found in human and animal
feces and can cause a number of diseases. You sure you still want to supersize your
drink? McDonald’s staff are underpaid and being
replaced McD’s employs over 1.8 million people! That’s the second highest amount of people
employed by a private employer after Walmart. Let’s be honest though, the staff are not
loving it, they are overworked and underpaid, barely able to make a living wage. Meaning that their wages can barely allow
them to pay for rent, food and have something left over. We know that most fast food chains pay workers
minimum wage but the staff at McDonald’s are constantly fighting for their wages to
be increased because the pay is notoriously low. The average employee would have to work about
7-10 months to make what the CEO makes in one hour! Not only that but with the rise in technology,
their jobs are starting to be replaced with touchscreens. You may have noticed these touch screens already
if you’ve been inside a Mickey D’s to order. Why? Well because they work for free! Before you know it, the number of McDonald’s
employees may drop drastically and you just might have a computerized machine asking you
if you would like fries with that. McDonald’s CEO commented that the plan is
to “make it easier for customers to order and pay for food digitally and to give people
the ability to customize their orders”, but will this make it easier on the economy? Next time you place your order on a touch
screen make sure to wash your hands before your food is ready. Even though these screens are said to be cleaned
often throughout the day, studies have found a number of different bacteria present on
these screens but most of them are harmless. At least we know there will be a position
available as a touchscreen cleaner. McDonald’s produces a lot of food waste Each day thousands of burgers are thrown out. About every 10 minutes hundreds of burgers
are thrown out. Also french fries have been flagged as a problematic
item due to excessive waste as well. McDonald’s French fries have a 7 minute
limit for how long they can sit before they get tossed and new ones are made. Even though this is good news for customers
knowing they get fresh fries, it is bad news when it comes to concerns regarding world
hunger. If they sell about 9 million pounds of fries
a day globally, you can only imagine how much gets wasted. Everything in the kitchen has a timer and
when the timer goes off that means the shelf life has expired and the food is thrown away. McDonald’s feeds about 1% of the world's
population on a daily basis but approximately 12% of the world’s population is suffering
from hunger at the same time. How many more people would they be able to
feed if there wasn’t so much food waste? The main McDonald’s ingredients are not
so tasty Who loves a side order of chemicals? McD’s food is fully loaded with chemicals
and additives. Thinking about getting scrambled eggs for
breakfast? Think again, they contain monosodium phosphate,
sodium acid pyrophosphate, citric acid and nisin preparation. You sure you want to break your fast with
that? The salads are dusted with propylene glycol
to keep them crisp and fresh - this is also used in their sauces, glazes and hotcakes. Propylene glycol is a less toxic version of
ethylene glycol which is found in antifreeze - sound appetizing? A common additive used in their food is calcium
silicate, which is a white powder primarily used to prevent cement and roof tiles from
caking. And what about the chicken nuggets? At one time they have hardly any chicken in
them but lots of other ingredients we could barely pronounce. Less than half of a chicken nugget was actually
chicken and the rest was a combination of preservatives like TBHQ. This is a chemical they use in the nuggets
to unnaturally preserve them and make them taste fresh. Imagine Gordon Ramsay making these discoveries
in a Mickey D’s kitchen? It would be entertaining to watch but we can
only imagine the boiling point of his rage. TBHQ has been proven to be unsafe for consumption
with side effects like loss of vision and liver failure so try not to eat too many of
them. Let’s take look at one more, azodicarbonamide,
an odourless synthetic chemical used in McDonald’s buns as a flour bleaching agent. Not only is it hard to pronounce but it is
usually used in the production of foamed plastics. Now we want to ask you, would you like fries
with that?! The McDonald’s food does not decompose If it doesn’t decompose is it even real
food? With the use of many chemicals, high levels
of preservatives, and fats, your meal is likely to look the same for years to come, that is
if you chose to save it. Many tests have been conducted with McDonald’s
meals to see if they decompose or grow mold. The tests proved that the food from the golden
arches restaurants does not get moldy. Everyone is asking: why?! Well, for starters the food is very McFatty
and high fat means low moisture so with little to no moisture, mold cannot grow. So when the chicken nuggets, burgers or fries
are left out, they completely dry out. Within a few days of being left out, all of
the remaining moisture in your burger has evaporated, leaving you with some kind of…
weird jerky burger. Dried meat makes sense, but it’s been a
mystery as to why the buns do not get moldy. This is a little bit concerning when we think
about putting this food in our bodies. The “healthy” McD’s menu isn’t really
healthy Looking for a healthy option? You are better off making yourself a salad
at home! Want to watch your calories, sugar, and salt
intake when eating at McDonald’s? Then take it from us and go for the burger. The burgers have less fat and calories than
the salads! And when we talk fats at McDonald’s, we
don’t mean good fats like avocados and nuts, we mean the bad fats like saturated and trans
fats. These bad fats are linked to increasing bad
cholesterol, high blood pressure and more. The bacon ranch salad with crispy chicken
has almost 500 calories and 28 grams of fat with 51% of calories being from fat. Compare that to a double cheeseburger that
has 430 calories and 21 grams of fat. Why are the salads so McFatty? It comes down to the salad dressings, the
croutons, and crispy high fat meats. But let’s not forget that the veggies are
coated in chemicals too - does that sound healthy to you? Fast food and healthy food are two different
categories. McDonald’s does not make their food healthy
because it would cost them a lot more and they would make less, so the return would
be low. Over the years we have become more health
conscious as a society and McDonald’s has tried to adapt by offering these healthy-but-actually-not-so-healthy
options. What about the yogurt parfait? That’s sounds like it’s got to be healthy,
but it’s the opposite. If you want to drive your system thru a sugar
rush then this item on the menu will do it. It has 22 grams of sugar and is basically
a calcium filled sugar mine. A McCafe shake is a questionable sugar bomb The jokes about the milkshake and ice cream
machines always being out of service isn’t far off. McDonald’s employees have confirmed that
the reliability of these machines is questionable. Not only do they break down all the time but
the repairs put the machine out of commission sometimes for a day or more. We wonder if this has something to do with
how infrequently the machines are cleaned. Employees also have admitted that the machines
are only cleaned about once a week! Let us also mention that a Mickey D’s McCafe
shake is a blend of vanilla ice cream and shake syrup (the main ingredient being high
fructose corn syrup) then topped with whipped cream and a sugary maraschino cherry. A small 12oz vanilla McCafe shake has, drumroll
please, 59 grams of sugars! And if you were to grab a large 22oz you’re
looking at 99 GRAMS OF SUGAR. But wait, if you like the strawberry flavored
shake, a large has even more sugar than the vanilla with 115 grams! The strawberry milkshake contains something
like 50 chemicals that are used to imitate the flavors of strawberries. With all this information we think you should
shake this one off! McDonald’s is the LARGEST toy distributor
in the world When you think about the toy distributors
do you automatically think Amazon, Walmart or Toys R Us before their financial troubles? Most people do but the largest toy distributor
in the world is none other than McDonald’s! All the little toys included in happy meals
add up. On average about 20% of McDonald’s sales
are happy meals which feature some kind of toy. With 68 million meals sold on a daily basis,
that’s a lot of toys - about 13.6 million toys a day. No other toy distributor even comes close
to that! Did you know that this is a powerful tool
McDonald’s uses to market the fast food chain to children? And McDonald’s has been serving happy meals
since 1979! They have surely got a lot of children hooked
over that many years. Most children under 8 years old do not have
the cognitive skills and developmental maturity to understand the persuasive intent of marketing
and advertising of these happy meals. Researchers say fast food chains do this to
develop reliance and trust at an early age, and toys are a way of advertising directly
to children. There have been several lawsuits in the United
States and Canada against them for advertising to children, especially because they tie them
to popular kids movies. By creating an emotional bond with children,
they find the key to keep them coming back and associating happy meals with good memories
from their childhood. Smart and evil if you think about it, considering
how unhealthy and filled with additives a happy meal is. The only thing happy about it is the toy. Help yourself to seconds by staying right
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