@ganapatikamesh

11 months ago

My favorite breakfast items are the sausage burrito and the sausage mcgriddle. Many years ago I worked as a crew trainer at McDonald’s and the franchise owners gave employees free food for their breaks (and provided the uniforms, all we were required to get was the slip resistant shoes). I worked mornings (usually 4am-11pm) and so my break was usually during breakfast. I’ve literally tried everything on the menu when I worked there so I could honestly make recommendations to customers when asked based on the kinds of things they said they liked (for example I don’t like coffee, but I do like the frappés and specifically prefer the caramel frappé over the mocha one because I like sweet things and so when I asked by customers I could recommend it for those who prefer sweet things and don’t care for coffee) and after having worked at McDonald’s often try new items when they’re introduced now, too. I will admit, however, to no longer being a big fan of pancakes. That’s because there was a charitable dinner for a local nonprofit. Myself and the assistant manager had to pre-prepare several thousand of McDonald’s pancake platters for it and then the “dinner” was from 9am to noon and we were soooooooooooo busy in the lobby with all the people there for the pancakes plus we still were busy with our regulars for breakfast and lunch in the drive-thru. I was training a new person in back drive-thru taking orders (the McDonald’s had the double drive-thru order area) and customers’ payments and because the freezer where all the pancake platters was stored was nearest to me I kept having to leave my trainee to get more cases of the pancake platters so the folks in the kitchen could heat them up and get them to the front counter. It was madness!!! I’m just happy the nonprofit raised a lot of money. The organization provides adult trikes for mentally handicapped persons who work part time (we had two who worked with us as prep people). The trikes grant them mobility and the organization raises money to purchase the trikes and donates them to the folks eligible to have them. So a very worthwhile organization, but wow did it make me look at pancakes differently! LOL. I did work with a nice lady who immigrated here from El Salvador and she often made her own homestyle versions of McDonald’s foods. At the time I worked there I was taking a class at the CareerTech center in town and so was her son. He mentioned that his mom would work on trying to get as close to replicating McDonald’s foods at home even before she started working there because she was trying to help the family save money. So unlike my parents who whenever my sister and I would ask to go to McDonald’s and we’d get told something like “we have food at home,” his mom would instead say “I can make that at home.” LOL. She was one of my favorite people to work with and a lot of fun to hangout with when we had breaks together. Fun video! I guess I never thought McDonald’s breakfast would be too different elsewhere. Like I know there’s variations. My local McD’s has biscuits and gravy on the menu, but I know it’s not on every McDonald’s menu as I’ve eaten at McD’s throughout a lot of the US and Mexico (traveling to visit family and friends, to events, etc). In terms of fast food breakfast burritos I think McDonald’s makes the best one, but if you can make them at home yourself I think they’re better in my personal opinion. Also most people don’t seem to know this, but you can get McGriddles with those big breakfast meals. Just ask to substitute the biscuit for a McGriddle. It’s in the system that the biscuit can be substituted for a muffin or McGriddle. Some franchises even let you substitute a tortilla for the biscuit, but you have to ask. Likewise with any of the sandwiches you can order one and substitute a difference. When I worked there we had a regular customer who’d order the bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit but substitute Canadian bacon for the bacon and round egg instead of the folded egg. I kept trying to tell her that she could just order the egg McMuffin and substitute a biscuit for the muffin and it’d save her some money (because technically she was paying for bacon she wasn’t getting). She told me it’d wrong to do it that way, but I literally asked the franchise owners one day while they were there helping us out and both said that I was correct that she should order it that way if the only thing she wanted changed was the biscuit instead of the muffin. They said the biscuits and muffins were the same price for them to order. But the entire time I worked there she ordered it that way. She wasn’t the only customer like that either. In fact I had plenty of regulars whose orders I had memorized and whenever they’d hear my voice they knew I knew so they’d just say “the usual please” and because I recognized their voice I’d ring it up usually…unless I was training then I’d say something like “Oh I’m training someone today could you say your order so they can practice finding the items” and they always happily did so and were super supportive of the trainee (be they a new employee or an employee learning a new area).

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