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- From: covert@cactus.org (Richard Covert)
- Subject: Re: McD's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.143545.1131@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1993Jan25.064518.13788@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <C1FApw.155@mach1.wlu.ca> <1993Jan26.215425.24863@dmapub.dma.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:35:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.215425.24863@dmapub.dma.org> kleink@dmapub.dma.org (Ken Klein) writes:
- >>> Burger King takes a patty outta that grease pit and puts
- >>>it on a bun and then nukes it. Right? (or wrong????)
- >>>
- >>
- >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
- >
-
- Rachel,
- it is funny that your example was of a sandwich w/o onions, as that has
- always been my biggest complaint about McDees. I do have one question for
- you:
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- 1) Why can't the onions just not be added at the last step? Why does ordering
- a Quarter Pounder w/o onions mean that McDees has to fry up a NEW
- burger instead of just not putting the onions on a just about completed
- Quarter Pounder?
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