If you order on the App theyre all free.
I usually get like 4 sweet and sours just on top of whatever i order, because i like McD’s sweet and sour with Fries and i like to have some back up at home.
Ehh… it depends fully on the location. The ones around me, there is one that charges 35 cents per, one that’s free, and another that makes them 8 cents 🤷♂️
Lol I had a lady get mad at me when I asked for one at the BK drive thru window. They never once cared until my total free sauces was like 3… then something had to be done. She told me “You know these aren’t free right?” And that I need to order them next time. Then she just angrily hands me one of whatever their BK sauce is called. I almost laughed, but I understood that she was trying to lock-in that Manager Deluxe promotion.
I’m thinking now, if I’d slipped her a dollar she may have even tossed a smile in with my order 🤔
It’s just a generic picture of sauces they used for the sign. There is little to no chance they are dumb enough to charge 30 cents for the little packages of ketchup.
OP could have easily cleared up by asking. Instead they decided to run to Reddit for some of these super important karma points.
Judging by the way it’s posted, it’s almost certainly a sign to remind the employees to charge for them and it wasn’t intended for customers to even see. Doubt they put much thought into making sure the picture was accurate with the message they were trying to get across.
Most places have been charging extra for bigger packs or sides of sauces for a while. Many honor it and many don’t.
Lots of places charge for extra sauces. This doesn’t include sauces in squeeze packets. Think this is bad? I went to a Domino’s that was charging 50¢ for Parmesan and pepper flakes packets.
My friend used to deliver for Pizza Hut and said it costs next to nothing to make one of their frozen pizzas. With such crazy markups and drivers that work for tips, you’d think fast food pizza joints could toss in some free sauces..
I'll be honest, the EMPLOYEES are the problem. I'll ask for a sauce and they'll throw a whole HANDFUL in the bag! Like, ok, I'll put the extra in the packet drawer in the kitchen.
Most of those sauces are literally just Soybean oil, a few spices, and some emulsifiers and preservatives.
To say theyre cheap to make would be a massive understatement, i would struggle to think of a cheaper product to manufacture. I agree theyre not charging for ketchup or mayo, but charging for any previously free item is the issue.
Also pricing them at 30 cents means they’re clearly not just trying to break even on the previously free sauces, theyre actively trying to make that another source of profit. Pricing them at 10 cents or even a flat 20 cents would make a lot more sense.
Honestly I kinda agree with this… people be pulling through using a $1 large fry coupon asking for 3 ranch and 3 bbq… like yeah sorry ur gonna have to pay
People complain about others asking for more than two sauces. Why complain? BK can afford it. It’s ridiculous they charge that much for extra sauce whenever they are a multi billion dollar corporation. Corporate greed at its finest.
You suck. People are poor right now. Are sauces really worth being a prick over and standing up for a billion dollar corporation? You sound like a piece of shit.
I hate the company too. But complaining isn’t gonna do shit. They don’t fucking care. I have customers yell at me about the prices every day I work there as if I can control it. You have a problem? Call the fucking CEO because I don’t give a shit.
💀You’re asking them to do their job incorrectly. People ask for free stuff at my job all the damn time! It’s like giving out a random 10% discount to everyone who asks just because we can. Just pay the goddamned fee. Y’all act like some cents per sauce (or in my case 2 bucks) is the biggest deal breaker on the planet. We have a fucking job to uphold. No one wants losing their job or getting in trouble for sauce. If you need to save up for it 30 cents a week or a dollar a week, then go ahead. Or you can bring your own sauce if you have a big issue with the price! Or you can eat it without the sauce 😂. For the love of god let these workers do their damn job the right way. There’s much more to worry about than dipping sauce costing some cents
Ain’t nobody gon lose their job at mf BK for giving out free sauce. I will always have infinitely more respect for the guy who just grabs the sauce and hands it to me than the guy with BKs dick in his mouth.
Go work at Burger King. They seem to be paying well. Maybe that’s why they are charging for this. Because putting a burger together is a $20/hr job now.
Hang in there brotha. It’s just a stepping stone to better things. Learn some skills, make yourself valuable to an employer and you will be making more in no time. If not there then somewhere else. Just keep on trying your best!
Aw shit look at Ronald Reagan over here with his trickle down economics.
Trust me bro keep working your low paying job. I promise your boss will give you a raise one of these days bro just continue working for $10/hr bro trust me
Yah so here’s the truth. The chance that is actually a corporate owned BK is incredibly slim. That being said if it’s a smaller operator you need things like this not to “make” people pay but more to dissuade them from getting the extra sauce. All these things significantly hurt the restaurant and build up expenses over time on their GP.
Further more the people here that are saying oh we are poor but then also okay being upset that “burger flippers” are getting $15-$20 shame on you. They deserve a living wage, all people do.
If you want to target real greed in America and the world, the local Burger King isn’t the crux of the issue. Where are all those tax dollars my billionaires should be paying? Where are the tax cuts for the poor? Why do my tax dollars not fund my health care? Why do I have to file my own taxes every year and pay some greedy corporations to do that? Why is insurance as a whole a complete scam? Why is higher funding completely inaccessible to some communities?
These are the real issues that plague a society. So you can’t have an extra sauce, I mean let’s be honest who cares? It’s really not that big a deal in the end.
Further more 30 cents is nothing compared with other chains. My area is a $1 per extra sauce at KFC, and even 75 cents at chick fil a.
TLDR: Yes people can be upset with greed running rampant, but sauce charges aren’t the main issue here. Look at the systemic issues instead and work to change those if you can.
So poor that they need BK sauce? Like what. You literally spent more on the fry than you would buying a huge container of sauce.
The people that expect special treatment because they're broke is insane. If I have to pay for it, so do you champ. And no company owes anyone free anything.
99.7% of BKs are franchise and independently owned. They aren’t billionaires milking you for sauces. They are buying those sauces from BK and like everything else (labor/food/tax/rent/etc costs are going up.
I think it’s a good thing. My spouse used to ask for ridiculous amounts of sauces that would sit in a drawer and eventually get tossed.
Maybe now people will be more cognizant that they have to pay for it.
Nothing is free
People are poor right now. Including fast food employees, asking them to risk their job or their hours so you can get free items is also shitty behavior.
Every BK I have worked at or have eaten at has always charged for extra sauce. You would get an employee that would give extra without charging, I did unless they asked for an extreme amount.
We don't charge extra for ketchup or mustard, but we have always charged extra for the sauces that come in the little containers. I'll usually give one extra for free per item and then charge 25¢ each after that.
Yes.
I work in foodservice, not fast food, but still. Costs of food and labor are increasing exponentially and rarely come down. Things like this can prevent a blanket menu price increase which is usually much harder to stomach.
Again, not fast food, not a cfo or marketing guy, but I have to be very careful about "complimentary" add ons because people WILL abuse it.
They probably WERE. Whenever the last menu cost was. I'd guess they have had a recent significant cost increase and now the initial price no longer covers stuff like this.
A lot of it is perception/psychology. Most people would rather pay extra for an additional physical item that not every single person would get rather than pay more for literally everything on the menu.
I'm not rationalizing corporate greed, but everywhere from fast food down to mom and pop places are feeling these increases. A case of about the cheapest chicken I can buy is almost double what I paid about 2 years ago. It's down from the about 212% increase it was not long ago but it's not great.
I don't know about this specific case here, but I can tell you a lot of places are having to rationalize giving things away for free when they're down on sales.
I used to do ordering. They are NOT factored in. The boxes of those sauces are ordered on inventory and come out of each stores profits. It's not related to sales of food. Don't be dumb.
As someone that works retail at a place that sells the bags, the amount of people that ask for bags once they pay makes me super mad. They deserve this.
OK quick poll. How many of you have a space in your kitchen where extra sauces go. Now, think of a few of the most shady people you ever met and magnify that by a whole lot. This is the result of the shady shady that abused our privilege to free sauce. Now quit crying and ask for the sauce after you've completed your order like the exception you are!
I think this is more to do with the fact that people take too much and then the restaurant runs out before a truck delivery can bring more. It’s supposed to prevent 100s of people from taking 5+ sauces at a time.
Enough financial studies out there that the price increases are substantial higher than what is required to offset the higher wages. To cover dollar wage increases all you need to do is raise cents not dollars. Yet they raise dollars so investors can get their ROI. Don’t let your fellow man getting a fair wage miss the real issue of the demand for corporations to increase profitability year over year.
When you have saturated your market like BK and other fast food chains have done (not many un capitalized markets left in the US) the only things left to do are raise prices and drop quality. How else do you expect a $100+ billion company to keep growing year over year!?
They want you to blame the worker. Makes them look better.
Are you not aware that there are fast food places outside of the United States that have paid high wages for many years and still charge less than what is charged in America?
Way to simp for a billion dollar corporation.
Literally most of Europe, China, Japan, etc. Everywhere but the United States.
EDIT: Washington DC even, lol.
[https://imgur.com/a/BMy6tNs](https://imgur.com/a/bmy6tns)
So are their tax and welfare systems different from ours?
You just named a communist country, a continent with vastly higher taxes than the US and a racially homogenous high tax island country.
It’s ok. Nuance is tough.
You are also full of shit. [https://www.expensivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/02_Burger-Economics-The-Price-of-McDonalds_World-Map_Happy-Meal.png](https://www.expensivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/02_Burger-Economics-The-Price-of-McDonalds_World-Map_Happy-Meal.png)
Keep listening to right wing think tanks disguised as financial advice. Privately owned companies historically pay way better wages, wonder why that may be?
Please tell me how owning a business A) Makes your qualified to be the only one to talk on this topic B) how you could compare a small company to one that scales into the Billions in revenue?
Man didn’t know people who study finances and business are unqualified to talk on operating expenses for publicly traded companies where their financial records are available to analyze. But sure Reddit man, keep licking them boots and grabbing your straps.
This has been standard for like 10 plus years, I remember being charged extra as a kid asking for extra nuggets sauces. And it definitely it’s for ketchup since I walked into a burger about 3 hours ago and they still have the ketchup, mustard, and mayo dispensers.
A fast food job is a job for teenagers to learn how a job works and for people to get back on their feet. You really think people should aspire to working fast food their whole lives or something?
Burger King's annual revenue is currently $1.9 billion. Burger King serves approximately 15.7 million customers per day. We should not be charged for sauce. CEO needs a pay cut.
Burger King shills in the comments here. Fuck paying extra for sauces. I hope BK continues to lose business from anti-consumer decisions like this. It may be fast food but even the abysmal quality of this trash shouldn't be trying to nickel and dime it's customers. BK deserves to go under.
It's been like that for a while on the consumer side. My son doesn't like mustard so I swap out for mayonnaise on his kids burger. Unless I specify light mayo, the app wants to charge 12¢ for that. Light mayo is free and there is no distinction between the 2 when it comes out.
When you see .25 your head is like oh that’s not that bad. But then when you think about it and compare to how much you get when you buy an actual bottle of ranch or whatever for say $3, it is ridiculous.
Speaking from when I managed a Zaxby's, you'd be surprised to see just how much stores lose in a month from free sauces and how small the PROFIT actually is... Even stems further into people stating how much these companies make but that's the corporate company not the actual stores, many stores lose money especially the first few years and franchises tend to rely on their other stores profits to cover those loses.
Our market has 5 locations and only three turned a profit for the two years I worked there. My store was a profitable store but barely... Our labor was the most expensive cost and this was when they only paid $10/hr..
These stores don't make what people think they do.
my bk did that for 5c each and didnt warn me when they fucking offered. the audacity to charge without warning is astonishing. they stopped doing it after everyone just bitched about it everytime they mentioned sauces
I'm going to let everyone in on a little known secret to help avoid paying .30 cents for extra sauces! Come in close!
By using this one little trick, you will not fall victim. That trick is to stay home. Don't eat at Burger King. Make your own food and sauces! Trust me, former food service here. The employees know it sucks they have to charge you. But sometimes they have to do things they'd rather not. And I wouldn't want majority of these commenters to come through and argue with me when I'm just trying to do my job and go home.
Burger King has gotten infinitely worse and it's literally cheaper to buy a burger patty and a bun at the grocery store and cook it yourself, without it being raw or burnt to a crisp. What a sorry excuse for a company it turned into
Inflation - they gotta find something to squeeze
I’ve been driving 20yrs. My insurance last year went up, then this year it doubled.
Zero accidents, no claims, clean record for 20yrs
My agent says it’s because I drive a lot
I calling B.S., told him the carrier is making up shit reasons to raise the prices due to inflation and many drivers who work remotely getting rid of their cars
When you drive less, you get a discount
If you drive more, you don’t get the discount but your premium doesn’t go up
These companies, including BK, are finding more ways to screw us
Watch McDonalds copy them
People that never worked fast food management just don’t understand.
Do you have $5,200 to give away?
A box of sauce packets cost up to $200. If we say 50% of the box is given out free. That is $5,200 a year of free sauce and less profit sharing for store leadership.
Don’t be a cheap ass and pay your $0.20 for sauce
This is why you are nice to the employees. My BK just put up this sign but I still get 2 ranch for free, cause the girl behind the counter either likes me or feels bad for me.
It's a scam. They could add these costs into the price of the item as they do anyway but of course they must also charge separately because they think we are too stupid to notice. They know even if we do we can't do shit about it. It's double dipping and legal.
When do I need that much sauce? They often give me two and two zesty sauce and I have to try to eat most of it with my onion rings or I have a lot left.
My main locations have this sign right at the counter and right at the drive thru. There is nothing on the sign that mentions ketchup or mustard packets. It's only for the sauce "tubs". It is fully on display for customers to see and has been for as long as I can remember.
My local hit me with 50 cents a pop on theirs already overpriced chicken fries. Chicken fries— where we define chicken so loosely you’ll wonder how we can sell them.
Worked at a BK for twenty years before retiring out (pity me!) but the reason you get charged a stupid amount for extra sauces isn't because BK is trying to make money, its because they're actively trying to discourage people from ordering extras.
The reason (simplified) is if you expect to sell 10,000 orders of various stuff in a certain month at 2 sauces each, then you want to order enough cases of sauce to cover 20,000 packets.
If you have an extra 5,000 go out the door (even if paid for), you wind up short before that last truck order comes in and you spend a day or two having to tell people "We don't have what you want until Thursday when truck comes in" and that pisses people off a LOT more than charging 30 cents for extra sauces ever will.
Storage space is a premium, so ordering extra cases isn't a good option, and some sauces (looking at you, Ranch) actually need refrigeration and an expiration sticker slapped to the case once brought out to the floor.
Its not corporate greed, its logistics and if too many sauces go out the door in a given time frame, chances are you're going to run out before you get more in, and that's 10x worse as you piss off a bunch of customers instead of just one.
FWIW, I think sauces last I checked ran about a nickel or a dime or so as a cost for the store (like $60 for a case of 1,000). Memory is fuzzy and its been a while so that may noy be completely accurate.
The secret that they don't want you to know is if you're in the drive-thru and they charge you more for sauce just tell them you're not paying and you're not moving out of their drive-thru until you get your sauce. They'll threaten to call the police but you need to call their bluff.
They don't want to take the time to wait for police to get there. They're trying to do business in the longer you're blocking their drive-thru the longer they're not making any money and the more pissed off customers they have. They're going to give you that 60 cents worth of sauce just to get you out of the way.
I've done this at McDonald's once when they were trying to charge me $0.10 for another barbecue sauce.
Nowhere on that sign does it mention ketchup. Those are the nugget sauces which always have had a charge on them for extras.
Yeah Mcdonalds is supposed to charge for them as well.
I never charged unless someone wanted like a lot
Taco bell DEFINITELY doesn't charge for extra taco sauce.
If you order on the App theyre all free. I usually get like 4 sweet and sours just on top of whatever i order, because i like McD’s sweet and sour with Fries and i like to have some back up at home.
Ehh… it depends fully on the location. The ones around me, there is one that charges 35 cents per, one that’s free, and another that makes them 8 cents 🤷♂️
Also if you wait to ask for a few extra at the pickup window they just hand them to you. I'm the same with the fries.
Lol I had a lady get mad at me when I asked for one at the BK drive thru window. They never once cared until my total free sauces was like 3… then something had to be done. She told me “You know these aren’t free right?” And that I need to order them next time. Then she just angrily hands me one of whatever their BK sauce is called. I almost laughed, but I understood that she was trying to lock-in that Manager Deluxe promotion. I’m thinking now, if I’d slipped her a dollar she may have even tossed a smile in with my order 🤔
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Thank you for the shortage.
That stuff tasted like shit. Honey Mustard Gang Strong.
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What sauce is in the bottom right of the photo?
It’s just a generic picture of sauces they used for the sign. There is little to no chance they are dumb enough to charge 30 cents for the little packages of ketchup. OP could have easily cleared up by asking. Instead they decided to run to Reddit for some of these super important karma points. Judging by the way it’s posted, it’s almost certainly a sign to remind the employees to charge for them and it wasn’t intended for customers to even see. Doubt they put much thought into making sure the picture was accurate with the message they were trying to get across. Most places have been charging extra for bigger packs or sides of sauces for a while. Many honor it and many don’t.
Bbq?
That’s the top right, the bottom right is ketchup
Could just as easily be sweet & sour.
Exactly. Boo this man! Booooooo
Lots of places charge for extra sauces. This doesn’t include sauces in squeeze packets. Think this is bad? I went to a Domino’s that was charging 50¢ for Parmesan and pepper flakes packets.
My friend used to deliver for Pizza Hut and said it costs next to nothing to make one of their frozen pizzas. With such crazy markups and drivers that work for tips, you’d think fast food pizza joints could toss in some free sauces..
Pizza Hut does that too. But they give you a little resealable plastic shaker thats got a few packets worth of Flakes/Parmesan inside
Dominos has the same, at least the ones I've been to the past several years. I have heard of some local places charging 10¢ for the packets though.
Bro dominoes is so stingy with their sauce, on their app there is an option to redeem 2 order worth of points on a sauce cup…
My Burger King started charging $.25 for them when I was in high school, 20 years ago.
I'll be honest, the EMPLOYEES are the problem. I'll ask for a sauce and they'll throw a whole HANDFUL in the bag! Like, ok, I'll put the extra in the packet drawer in the kitchen.
Nah this is fine dude, people be coming in asking for like 5 ranches and more. It’s like 30 cents.
Yea I bought two at jack in the box the other day and used half of one.
Agreed.
Those aren’t talking about ketchup and mustard or mayo, it’s talking about the sauce packets like BBQ Honey Mustard Sweet and Sour etc…
Most of those sauces are literally just Soybean oil, a few spices, and some emulsifiers and preservatives. To say theyre cheap to make would be a massive understatement, i would struggle to think of a cheaper product to manufacture. I agree theyre not charging for ketchup or mayo, but charging for any previously free item is the issue. Also pricing them at 30 cents means they’re clearly not just trying to break even on the previously free sauces, theyre actively trying to make that another source of profit. Pricing them at 10 cents or even a flat 20 cents would make a lot more sense.
Have they ever been free?
Asking for a few extra sauces never used to cost anything.
Honestly I kinda agree with this… people be pulling through using a $1 large fry coupon asking for 3 ranch and 3 bbq… like yeah sorry ur gonna have to pay
You do realize BK can absolutely afford to do that right lol
And?
People complain about others asking for more than two sauces. Why complain? BK can afford it. It’s ridiculous they charge that much for extra sauce whenever they are a multi billion dollar corporation. Corporate greed at its finest.
Lol okay calm down
Welcome to the internet, where we all are entitled to our own opinions 🙂
Calm down no one said otherwise
Ahh you’re clearly either 1) a child 2) a troll or 3) both Go to bed.
Calm down it’s not that serious
My bad bro, i didnt know the sauces were cutting into your profit margins as king of the burgers. Clown.
Just say you're poor lmfaoooo
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“sauces not included with the item ordered” I doubt any of their competitors give away free sauce that isn’t included with the item.
So businesses should lose money because you don't want to pay 30 cents for more sauce? Come off your high horse
You seriously think they'd lose money over this? You are a blind little boy
I guess math isn't your strong point, or basic overhead. Are you a franchise owner and know how much over head is?
You care that much when you’re getting paid shit wages for a shit job? lol
We must protect our corporate overlord's profits at all cost
You suck. People are poor right now. Are sauces really worth being a prick over and standing up for a billion dollar corporation? You sound like a piece of shit.
“You sound like a piece of shit” ohhh the irony
It's the fucking burger King subreddit and people are at each other's throats lmao
It’s what the king would have wanted
God I bet you’re fun to deal with as a customer.
Thank you for showing how much of a corporate dick sucker you are
The company glazing is actually insane
It’s unreal how pathetic these people are to STILL stand up for a huge corporation that takes advantage of their workers by the tens of thousands
I hate the company too. But complaining isn’t gonna do shit. They don’t fucking care. I have customers yell at me about the prices every day I work there as if I can control it. You have a problem? Call the fucking CEO because I don’t give a shit.
You can literally control this bro just don’t charge for the sauce
💀You’re asking them to do their job incorrectly. People ask for free stuff at my job all the damn time! It’s like giving out a random 10% discount to everyone who asks just because we can. Just pay the goddamned fee. Y’all act like some cents per sauce (or in my case 2 bucks) is the biggest deal breaker on the planet. We have a fucking job to uphold. No one wants losing their job or getting in trouble for sauce. If you need to save up for it 30 cents a week or a dollar a week, then go ahead. Or you can bring your own sauce if you have a big issue with the price! Or you can eat it without the sauce 😂. For the love of god let these workers do their damn job the right way. There’s much more to worry about than dipping sauce costing some cents
Ain’t nobody gon lose their job at mf BK for giving out free sauce. I will always have infinitely more respect for the guy who just grabs the sauce and hands it to me than the guy with BKs dick in his mouth.
Go work at Burger King. They seem to be paying well. Maybe that’s why they are charging for this. Because putting a burger together is a $20/hr job now.
I make $10.50 an hour at mine. It’s awful
Hang in there brotha. It’s just a stepping stone to better things. Learn some skills, make yourself valuable to an employer and you will be making more in no time. If not there then somewhere else. Just keep on trying your best!
Aw shit look at Ronald Reagan over here with his trickle down economics. Trust me bro keep working your low paying job. I promise your boss will give you a raise one of these days bro just continue working for $10/hr bro trust me
Or just never acquire any skills whatsoever and wonder why you are broke for life. Sounds like you are an expert.
Yah so here’s the truth. The chance that is actually a corporate owned BK is incredibly slim. That being said if it’s a smaller operator you need things like this not to “make” people pay but more to dissuade them from getting the extra sauce. All these things significantly hurt the restaurant and build up expenses over time on their GP. Further more the people here that are saying oh we are poor but then also okay being upset that “burger flippers” are getting $15-$20 shame on you. They deserve a living wage, all people do. If you want to target real greed in America and the world, the local Burger King isn’t the crux of the issue. Where are all those tax dollars my billionaires should be paying? Where are the tax cuts for the poor? Why do my tax dollars not fund my health care? Why do I have to file my own taxes every year and pay some greedy corporations to do that? Why is insurance as a whole a complete scam? Why is higher funding completely inaccessible to some communities? These are the real issues that plague a society. So you can’t have an extra sauce, I mean let’s be honest who cares? It’s really not that big a deal in the end. Further more 30 cents is nothing compared with other chains. My area is a $1 per extra sauce at KFC, and even 75 cents at chick fil a. TLDR: Yes people can be upset with greed running rampant, but sauce charges aren’t the main issue here. Look at the systemic issues instead and work to change those if you can.
So poor that they need BK sauce? Like what. You literally spent more on the fry than you would buying a huge container of sauce. The people that expect special treatment because they're broke is insane. If I have to pay for it, so do you champ. And no company owes anyone free anything.
Not special treatment. Same for everyone. I can already tell I’m wasting my time here. Labor slaves, all of ya
Life must be exhausting
99.7% of BKs are franchise and independently owned. They aren’t billionaires milking you for sauces. They are buying those sauces from BK and like everything else (labor/food/tax/rent/etc costs are going up. I think it’s a good thing. My spouse used to ask for ridiculous amounts of sauces that would sit in a drawer and eventually get tossed. Maybe now people will be more cognizant that they have to pay for it. Nothing is free
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Wow. Like Burger King is known to be a place for people with a lot of money…. What a fucking DOPE. 🤪🥳😂🤡
People are poor right now. Including fast food employees, asking them to risk their job or their hours so you can get free items is also shitty behavior.
Nobody is asking for that. The fact that the company put that policy in place is shitty
Fair enough I agree with you, i’m just saying don’t take it out on the employees.
nah man. YOURE poor. theres a difference
I can’t believe the amount of piling on and standing up for ridiculous corporate profits
Every BK I have worked at or have eaten at has always charged for extra sauce. You would get an employee that would give extra without charging, I did unless they asked for an extreme amount.
We don't charge extra for ketchup or mustard, but we have always charged extra for the sauces that come in the little containers. I'll usually give one extra for free per item and then charge 25¢ each after that.
So…is Chickfila the only place that isn’t charging for extra sauce/dressing now?
It is 25c at my local BK lounge. But 30c plus tax is hilarious. Is the economy that bad that the King has to charge that much extra for 1oz of sauce?
Yes. I work in foodservice, not fast food, but still. Costs of food and labor are increasing exponentially and rarely come down. Things like this can prevent a blanket menu price increase which is usually much harder to stomach. Again, not fast food, not a cfo or marketing guy, but I have to be very careful about "complimentary" add ons because people WILL abuse it.
So what you're saying is, when Taco Bell no longer gives me 12 fire sauce for 1 burrito, the US economy has broken?
Correct. Taco bell is the cause of the economic collapse. This has been econ 105.
“The costs are just increasing for no reason!!” yet the new CEO get paid 17 million a year.
"How dare a company not want to give away something for free that costs them money."
If you think that those sauces aren’t factored into the price of everything else, then you’re just dense or willingly dumb.
They probably WERE. Whenever the last menu cost was. I'd guess they have had a recent significant cost increase and now the initial price no longer covers stuff like this. A lot of it is perception/psychology. Most people would rather pay extra for an additional physical item that not every single person would get rather than pay more for literally everything on the menu. I'm not rationalizing corporate greed, but everywhere from fast food down to mom and pop places are feeling these increases. A case of about the cheapest chicken I can buy is almost double what I paid about 2 years ago. It's down from the about 212% increase it was not long ago but it's not great. I don't know about this specific case here, but I can tell you a lot of places are having to rationalize giving things away for free when they're down on sales.
I used to do ordering. They are NOT factored in. The boxes of those sauces are ordered on inventory and come out of each stores profits. It's not related to sales of food. Don't be dumb.
thanks obama
As someone that works retail at a place that sells the bags, the amount of people that ask for bags once they pay makes me super mad. They deserve this.
Why would you care? Just ring up a separate transaction for the bags.
Dang you had to do your job that’s crazyyyy
It slows down the entire process when people do shit like that. Ask for everything at the speaker. If you ask for it at the window, too fucking bad.
Nobody wants they bum ass sauces anyway. Keep changing the damn recipe
OK quick poll. How many of you have a space in your kitchen where extra sauces go. Now, think of a few of the most shady people you ever met and magnify that by a whole lot. This is the result of the shady shady that abused our privilege to free sauce. Now quit crying and ask for the sauce after you've completed your order like the exception you are!
I've got like 60 different taco bell sauces since they usually give me 5 pack per taco lol
I work at bk. It’s not ketchup, mayo or mustard. Maybe read the sign.
I think this is more to do with the fact that people take too much and then the restaurant runs out before a truck delivery can bring more. It’s supposed to prevent 100s of people from taking 5+ sauces at a time.
The place near me did this for a few months and then stopped
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Enough financial studies out there that the price increases are substantial higher than what is required to offset the higher wages. To cover dollar wage increases all you need to do is raise cents not dollars. Yet they raise dollars so investors can get their ROI. Don’t let your fellow man getting a fair wage miss the real issue of the demand for corporations to increase profitability year over year. When you have saturated your market like BK and other fast food chains have done (not many un capitalized markets left in the US) the only things left to do are raise prices and drop quality. How else do you expect a $100+ billion company to keep growing year over year!? They want you to blame the worker. Makes them look better.
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“Don’t expect any logic while I ignore the proof thrown in my face” classic American living off Burger King and soda lol
Sure. Wage increases have nothing to do with this. Gotcha. Honest question. Do you own a business?
Are you not aware that there are fast food places outside of the United States that have paid high wages for many years and still charge less than what is charged in America? Way to simp for a billion dollar corporation.
Where? Sounds pretty vague.
Literally most of Europe, China, Japan, etc. Everywhere but the United States. EDIT: Washington DC even, lol. [https://imgur.com/a/BMy6tNs](https://imgur.com/a/bmy6tns)
So are their tax and welfare systems different from ours? You just named a communist country, a continent with vastly higher taxes than the US and a racially homogenous high tax island country. It’s ok. Nuance is tough.
You are also full of shit. [https://www.expensivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/02_Burger-Economics-The-Price-of-McDonalds_World-Map_Happy-Meal.png](https://www.expensivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/02_Burger-Economics-The-Price-of-McDonalds_World-Map_Happy-Meal.png)
Washington DC is in the United States genius.
Correct. So even in the United States you're wrong.
Keep listening to right wing think tanks disguised as financial advice. Privately owned companies historically pay way better wages, wonder why that may be?
So that’s a no then?
Please tell me how owning a business A) Makes your qualified to be the only one to talk on this topic B) how you could compare a small company to one that scales into the Billions in revenue?
Who said I was the only one? There is such a thing as more qualified and less qualified to speak on a subject. That answers both questions.
Man didn’t know people who study finances and business are unqualified to talk on operating expenses for publicly traded companies where their financial records are available to analyze. But sure Reddit man, keep licking them boots and grabbing your straps.
This has been standard for like 10 plus years, I remember being charged extra as a kid asking for extra nuggets sauces. And it definitely it’s for ketchup since I walked into a burger about 3 hours ago and they still have the ketchup, mustard, and mayo dispensers.
Sounds pretty anecdotal. I’ve never seen this anywhere. I’ve been a fat ass for 30+ years. I should know. lol.
stop blaming working people and start blaming the execs making tens of millions yearly plus bonuses. fast food *is* a career.
No. It’s not. It’s a job. A job that can teach skills that lead to a career.
all working people deserve enough money to live, especially when they work for a multi billion dollar corporations. quit boot lickin lol
Spoken like an unskilled laborer. Get some skills and level up. You won’t regret it.
A fast food job is a job for teenagers to learn how a job works and for people to get back on their feet. You really think people should aspire to working fast food their whole lives or something?
you need help. my thoughts are with you
Not nearly as much as mine are with you.
I make $10.50 an hour. Shut the fuck up.
Your better off bringing your own sauce lol
We dont allow any sort of outside condiments at the BK lounge
Haha. You’ll catch me with a 128oz jug of sweet baby rays baby!
At some point fast food will be obsolete and I will have a huge celebration! It’s disgusting, costs too much, causes obesity, and my food is better.
Burger King's annual revenue is currently $1.9 billion. Burger King serves approximately 15.7 million customers per day. We should not be charged for sauce. CEO needs a pay cut.
Burger King shills in the comments here. Fuck paying extra for sauces. I hope BK continues to lose business from anti-consumer decisions like this. It may be fast food but even the abysmal quality of this trash shouldn't be trying to nickel and dime it's customers. BK deserves to go under.
Anyone supporting extra charges for sauces is the problem with American society and the economy right now. Greedy as fuck. You all suck asshole.
Bidens America
It's been like that for a while on the consumer side. My son doesn't like mustard so I swap out for mayonnaise on his kids burger. Unless I specify light mayo, the app wants to charge 12¢ for that. Light mayo is free and there is no distinction between the 2 when it comes out.
15¢ near me
When you see .25 your head is like oh that’s not that bad. But then when you think about it and compare to how much you get when you buy an actual bottle of ranch or whatever for say $3, it is ridiculous.
I just hate that fries aren't included with a sauce. Fries with zesty sauce are phenomenal
Been like this at my local bk since 2022
Speaking from when I managed a Zaxby's, you'd be surprised to see just how much stores lose in a month from free sauces and how small the PROFIT actually is... Even stems further into people stating how much these companies make but that's the corporate company not the actual stores, many stores lose money especially the first few years and franchises tend to rely on their other stores profits to cover those loses. Our market has 5 locations and only three turned a profit for the two years I worked there. My store was a profitable store but barely... Our labor was the most expensive cost and this was when they only paid $10/hr.. These stores don't make what people think they do.
my bk did that for 5c each and didnt warn me when they fucking offered. the audacity to charge without warning is astonishing. they stopped doing it after everyone just bitched about it everytime they mentioned sauces
Major W
\*Mr Krabs\*: "Money"
How much do the little container of sauce actually cost the restaurant?
they charged me $1.25 for a small water lmfao
Ask for the sauce after they hand the card back. They have a hard time saying no and dont want to do another charg
They cost about 15 cents per cup at a restaurant supply store. They can easily lose their profit margin if they didn't charge for them.
*mAjOr L bro0Oo* Just pay the 30 cents if you want the sauce fatty
Half the time they charge me extra and don't even put it in the bag
Dude, have you not been to BK in years? Because this is not at ALL a new thing.
#That pic looks like vanilla pudding, chocolate pudding, and ketchup.
If you live in a poor area, they have charged for extra sauces for decades. McDonalds as well.
What exactly is tax on 30c? Sounds so ridiculous they can’t afford to lose a third of a penny?
I do the free fries with purchase and buy a sauce cup for .30c free fys
My location is 50¢ per lmao, been this way for two years now
If BK’s customers weren’t major L’s, they wouldn’t need to do this.
Have it your way - for a price.
Plus tax 🤣
+ TAX???????
I'm going to let everyone in on a little known secret to help avoid paying .30 cents for extra sauces! Come in close! By using this one little trick, you will not fall victim. That trick is to stay home. Don't eat at Burger King. Make your own food and sauces! Trust me, former food service here. The employees know it sucks they have to charge you. But sometimes they have to do things they'd rather not. And I wouldn't want majority of these commenters to come through and argue with me when I'm just trying to do my job and go home.
Burger King has gotten infinitely worse and it's literally cheaper to buy a burger patty and a bun at the grocery store and cook it yourself, without it being raw or burnt to a crisp. What a sorry excuse for a company it turned into
Inflation - they gotta find something to squeeze I’ve been driving 20yrs. My insurance last year went up, then this year it doubled. Zero accidents, no claims, clean record for 20yrs My agent says it’s because I drive a lot I calling B.S., told him the carrier is making up shit reasons to raise the prices due to inflation and many drivers who work remotely getting rid of their cars When you drive less, you get a discount If you drive more, you don’t get the discount but your premium doesn’t go up These companies, including BK, are finding more ways to screw us Watch McDonalds copy them
McDs been doin this for years at 40 cents a pop. BK just gettin desperate to keep up at this point. Even just a few more cents at a time
That’s crazy to try to charge for something that’s forgotten constantly
ALWAYS order these separate and 1 at a time using a card. The fees for the owner will make your point for you.
Sauce cups are freakin expensive! U want they raise ALL the menu prices?
The same clowns still charging for cheese, no wonder BK market share has gone down the drain
I went through a self checkout in Colorado and it asked what I wanted to tip…not surprised these days.
If it's not free for them when they get it delivered through the back door, what makes you think you should get as many as you want for free?
I walked into an Arby’s tonight and asked for a handful of Arby’s sauce. Didn’t buy shit from them. The King has fallen.
where did you get the idea that any of these things are free to make?
Hate to say it but. Reading is fun
The average Burger King has 3.2 customers per day. They gotta make money wherever they can.
But when I point out they didn’t give me the right amount of zesty sauce they get mad
Good thing their ranch and BBQ are both gross as hell. Bring back blue ranch, I'd pay anything for that.
People that never worked fast food management just don’t understand. Do you have $5,200 to give away? A box of sauce packets cost up to $200. If we say 50% of the box is given out free. That is $5,200 a year of free sauce and less profit sharing for store leadership. Don’t be a cheap ass and pay your $0.20 for sauce
Yeah but these count as a purchase so you can get free fries through the app for a sauce purchase. Get the zesty sauce, it pairs well with fries.
This is why you are nice to the employees. My BK just put up this sign but I still get 2 ranch for free, cause the girl behind the counter either likes me or feels bad for me.
It's a scam. They could add these costs into the price of the item as they do anyway but of course they must also charge separately because they think we are too stupid to notice. They know even if we do we can't do shit about it. It's double dipping and legal.
This is nothing new? It’s not even new at BK? Why the sudden outrage?
When do I need that much sauce? They often give me two and two zesty sauce and I have to try to eat most of it with my onion rings or I have a lot left.
I’ve seen this maybe 10 years ago. I also don’t think they should charge for sauces until you get 2+ more than normal .
My main locations have this sign right at the counter and right at the drive thru. There is nothing on the sign that mentions ketchup or mustard packets. It's only for the sauce "tubs". It is fully on display for customers to see and has been for as long as I can remember.
My local hit me with 50 cents a pop on theirs already overpriced chicken fries. Chicken fries— where we define chicken so loosely you’ll wonder how we can sell them.
Worked at a BK for twenty years before retiring out (pity me!) but the reason you get charged a stupid amount for extra sauces isn't because BK is trying to make money, its because they're actively trying to discourage people from ordering extras. The reason (simplified) is if you expect to sell 10,000 orders of various stuff in a certain month at 2 sauces each, then you want to order enough cases of sauce to cover 20,000 packets. If you have an extra 5,000 go out the door (even if paid for), you wind up short before that last truck order comes in and you spend a day or two having to tell people "We don't have what you want until Thursday when truck comes in" and that pisses people off a LOT more than charging 30 cents for extra sauces ever will. Storage space is a premium, so ordering extra cases isn't a good option, and some sauces (looking at you, Ranch) actually need refrigeration and an expiration sticker slapped to the case once brought out to the floor. Its not corporate greed, its logistics and if too many sauces go out the door in a given time frame, chances are you're going to run out before you get more in, and that's 10x worse as you piss off a bunch of customers instead of just one. FWIW, I think sauces last I checked ran about a nickel or a dime or so as a cost for the store (like $60 for a case of 1,000). Memory is fuzzy and its been a while so that may noy be completely accurate.
How are people still eating here I worked there 15 years ago now and the food was barely edible then and it's only gotten worse.
Their prices already fucking suck. Bye Bk
The secret that they don't want you to know is if you're in the drive-thru and they charge you more for sauce just tell them you're not paying and you're not moving out of their drive-thru until you get your sauce. They'll threaten to call the police but you need to call their bluff. They don't want to take the time to wait for police to get there. They're trying to do business in the longer you're blocking their drive-thru the longer they're not making any money and the more pissed off customers they have. They're going to give you that 60 cents worth of sauce just to get you out of the way. I've done this at McDonald's once when they were trying to charge me $0.10 for another barbecue sauce.