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- From: kleink@dmapub.dma.org (Ken Klein)
- Subject: Re: McD's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.215425.24863@dmapub.dma.org>
- Summary: Response from a McD Employee
- Sender: Ken Klein
- Organization: Dayton Microcomputer Association: Dayton, Ohio
- References: <1993Jan25.064518.13788@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <C1FApw.155@mach1.wlu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:54:25 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- >> Burger King takes a patty outta that grease pit and puts
- >>it on a bun and then nukes it. Right? (or wrong????)
- >>
- >
- >Wrong.
- >Well, BK does use nukers and has for years, but it's getting hard to find
- >a McD's in this area which doesn't use them just as much.
- >
- >McDonald's has invented a euphemistic language to cover up the fact that
- >these are actually high-powered microwaves. They call them Q-ing ovens.
- >The Q, of course, stands for Quality, the Quality McDonald's no longer
- >cares about.
- >
- >--
- >Ken Breadner (brea9430@mach1.wlu.ca) Wilfrid Laurier University
- >lunatic (the BREADbox...) Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- >Disclaimer: my opinions are warped. Nobody shares them.
-
- Hi my name is Rachel Klein, I am a high school senior and I have worked at a
- privately owned McDonald's restaurant for two and a half years.
-
- I'd like to comment on the Q-ing ovens. It is true that several McDonald's
- have installed these ovens in their stores, ours however has not. The
- reasoning is to serve the food faster. Not so much for the regular menu
- items, but more for the special orders, or "grills". When customers come
- to McDonalds they expect their food to be ready immediately, it does not
- matter what they have ordered or if it is two minutes before we close.
-
- The Q-ing ovens are part of a new system that McDonald's has started, called
- holding cabinets. These holding cabinets are designed to keep each separate
- ingredient fresh, so that when a customer comes through drive-thru and
- expects their Quarter Pounder without onions, which takes 109 seconds to
- cook on a grill, to be ready thirty seconds later when they reach the second
- drive-thru window. It is impossible to have that special order ready 79
- seconds before the meat is done cooking, but try to explain that to a hungry
- customer.
-
- Also there are timers on all the holding cabinets which tell the employee
- to throw the product away after twenty minutes. (Believe me the product is
- good for about forty minutes.) This is McDonalds newest way of serving fresh
- food with the fastest service.
-
- Rachel
-
-