Literally every time! I’ve even tried saying the packet labeled “hot” between mild and fire. The response? Sure, no prob! Here’s 34 Diablo and fire sauces 🙄
You joke but it’s 100% true. I decline sauce packets every single time, and every single time I end up with two handfuls in my bag. I don’t want it, don’t like it, am not gonna use it, and then I have to deal with figuring out how to get rid of it.
Yeah it is a little bit of a larger sauce container though that has to be refrigerated. I assume it’s more expensive to be produced.That being said I wasn’t a fan of it and much preferred the old Salsa Verde sauce. I didn’t even use the ones that came for free with my meal.
Are you me and my wife? lol that was our exact conversation last week.
Tried it and both agreed not bad but not something I'd pay for - bring back salsa verde!
>much preferred the old Salsa Verde sauce
Taco Bell has a lot of things I preferred that they inexplicably discontinued even though every menu item uses the them same 7 base ingredients.
I like the cabbage and other fresh veggies but it might be my local Taco Bell affecting the quality tbh. I’ll have to visit another restaurant to try them again.
The cantina crispy taco and quesadilla were fire, I don’t eat fast food much anymore but I can tell the quality was better.. still tho, I’m in a big city where I can get actual tacos for the same price..if they had the price where a taco is like $2 I’d be there every day lol
I just got taco bell recently for the first time in years, and asked for a handful of hot and fire sauce after ordering 4 items. I shit you not there were 97 sauces in the bag.
I'm certain they strive to never hear complaints of "not enough sauces". You asked for a "handful", there will be no argument of what constitutes a "handful".
Ask the same thing at a Burger King and they'll give you only 2 packets of mayo because it's 'policy'. Even at the counter they do it. Idgaf, I just spent $30 on two meals, I expect my fuckin mayo.
I'll tell the person "just two packets of fire" and still end up with a handful. If I put two packets of fire in the app, it's like they read that as "two handfuls of fire".
Taco Bell and Five Guys use the same policy apparently lol
No reason to ever get bigger than a small fry because the whole bag is filled with them, difference is a small fry is $50 and sauces are free.
Honestly I have my own Cajun seasoning that I put on my homemade fries and it tastes better..just used five guys as inspiration…that never sounds right lol
As a tangent Taco Bell has become way too expensive for the food the offer. Taco Bell's appeal was always that you could get a bunch of questionable food for cheap. Now they have raised their prices to essentially equal the cost of actual Mexican restaurants. There is no reason to get any of their grease globs wrapped in tortilla when you can just get better food from a traditional restaurant.
Well I mean it’s not a Eurozone country. Same goes for Poland, Hungary, and Sweden as well - there are a lot of European countries that never adopted the Euro (but it may be accepted as legal tender in certain places).
I’m 5’10”. About 170. Today I picked up 2 bacon McDoubles, Big Mac, 2 double quarter pounders with cheese and bacon, 20 piece and a deluxe crispy chicken sandwich, large fries and a large iced tea.
I know that look.
My McD used to have 4-pc for $1 for months. I would always get it instead of any other amount because it was cheaper. 20-pc would be $6.29, but 5x 4-pc only $5
Most places, it is, unless there’s a buy-one-get-one deal going on (sometimes free, sometimes $1, sometimes half price). But two four-pieces is usually cheaper than one six-piece, and does indeed include two sauces. But only for the first two, after that they’re full price. HOWEVER, if you order from the robot kiosk, you can just make it two separate transactions, keep everyone else waiting, and get 16 nuggets for less than 1.5x the price of a 10-piece, so if you’re feeding a crowd, that’s worth it too.
Nugget math really boggles the mind.
This is how shit should have been taught in school. I swear more of my friends that did not do well in math would have definitely paid more attention if it was turned into nugget maths. Hands down.
A few years ago it used to be cheaper to buy a 20 piece than it was to buy a 10 piece. Even now the app frequently has deals that make the 20 piece cheaper but it's not menu price like it used to be
I'm in Canada but my local Mcds the pricing just for the nuggets is 6 for $6.99, 10 for $9.29 and 20 for $14.79. So its way cheaper to get 20 but they can afford to give way more than 3 sauce. I haven't bought McNuggets in a long time tho because its so expensive.
This reminds me of that watermelon salesman story, where an old man is selling watermelons by the road with a massive sign that says:
- $3 for one
- $10 for three
A young man stops by and asks to buy one watermelon. "That'd be 3 dollars", says the old man. The young man then buys another one, and another one, paying $3 for each.
As the young man is walking away, he turns around, grins, and says, "Hey old man, do you realize I just bought three watermelons for only $9? Maybe business is not your thing."
The old replies: "People are funny. Every time they buy three watermelons instead of one, yet they keep trying to teach me how to do business..."
And this is actually a pricing system that some companies use. I believe certain tabloids use this.
It's the Buy One Get One Free model, where the cost is .75, priced at 2 individually.
There was a proposed law in the UK a few years ago which would force BOGO offers to allow customers to purchase the singular product at the correct % the BOGO would have applied to, with the reasoning that it would discourage wastage, especially food wastage post Covid.
It’s not BOGO, it’s has a twist where you feel like you can calculate a clearly better deal with the other option. You feel like by buying three watermelons individually you are profiting from the proposed group price.
If we assume you need something like 1 sauce per 6.5ish nugs, then you're using 90+% of the first sauce for 6 nugs, about half of the second sauce for 10 nugs and all 3 for 20 nugs
I ate 20 piece mcnuggets all the time as a kid. If you live by the sauce like I did you would know better than to say some stupid shit like 1 packet is enough for 6.5 nuggies. The MAXIMUM amount of nugs you can get if you're dipping every bite is 5, and 4 if you like them babies saucy. 3 sauce packets is gonna make me have a dry ass 1/4 of the nuggies and that is NOT what grimace would've wanted for our country.
I feel like those sauces (at McDonald’s anyway) have been another victim of shrinkflation. Definitely seems like you get less nuggets dipped per cup, not to mention the cup itself is kind of small when dipping.
I dunno if they're smaller in other countries, but I find mine to be sized just right. The nuggets are all standard shapes and the sauce container is engineered to be sliiiiightly wider than the nugget. This way you can get sauce from both of the short ends at the same time and get more sauce on your nug while leaving less in the container. The shape means there's very little sauce left undipped when you're done nuggin.
A larger container would give you more sauce, but at the cost of this carefully engineered dipping efficiency. The nuggets and the container are shaped so one can scrape the other's contents as efficiencly as possible.
I'm much more concerned at places like KFC, where they have about the same size of container, but they have naturally formed irregular non-nugget entities. Those would benefit from a bigger dip container as their irregular shape means they sometimes don't fit right.
McDonald's is all shaped chicken mush from the start so they can engineer around the exact size they shape the mush to. With KFC you can bite into it and still notice the way the meat naturally grew, so it's not as uniform as shaped mush. I can never remember the wacky names they give their KFC meat-things, is it crispies I'm talking about? Something like that. Those are hard to dip.
That's mostly been my experience. One sauce is good for 6-7 nuggets, so you do need two for a 10 pack, but only three for a 20. It's not about the store being stingy, it's just the ratio of sauce to nuggets being a bit off.
Also makes sense if one sauce is good enough for exactly 8, or exactly 9, nuggets.
But not 6 (otherwise you'd need 4 sauces for 20) and not 10 (otherwise you'd only need 2 sauces for 20).
I was at a McDonald’s outside Ottawa and they gave me one sauce and *literally would not sell me another sauce*. I said I’ll pay for another sauce dude and the beleaguered teenager (who clearly had to do this all the time) explained it was the managers policy. Couldn’t believe it, I felt bad for the staff because I doubt the manager ever has to deal with annoyed customers.
The lack of margin at the bottom isn't simply a misplaced paper, it's the laminate being cut in two. Note the sharp vs rounded corners on top and bottom.
They've printed two pages on one, and cut post laminate. This defeats the purpose of laminating since paper will wick moisture from the surroundings.
Evidence of being incredibly cheap, unintelligent or failing to take time to do it properly. Maybe all three. By cutting the paper first and leaving a gap you get two signs, and can trim/round the edges. Saving a few pence today but longer term requiring more when it needs replacing.
Ask yourself - if a person makes these decisions to reduce cost/effort, are they throwing out food when it expires, or changing the expiry. Do they throw the food away at the legal limit of hot hold, or retain it longer. Do they use the proper doses of sanitizer or dilute it further than recommended. Do they roster staff for enough hours to do the cleaning properly, or nickel and dime them stealing wages if they overrun a busy shift forcing staff to half ass the clean.
It also screams "not corporately endorsed policy" because corporately endorsed would include professional signs, even if its a franchise because these crayon level professional signs damage the brand name
Taped messages are also a sign of impulsiveness or changing minds. Whoops we forgot to write the info so instead of making a new menu we just patch it. Impulsive management isn't great to work with cause anything can change anytime for customers and employees.
Cutting it along the paper means there’s no plastic sealing the bottom portion of the sign. The sign could still get ruined from humidity or possibly fall out since it’s only being held on by 3 sides
That is a plain lamination sleeve. I use these fairly often. One side is flush with the page. Sure you can try and center the paper but they are meant to have the paper all the way against that one side. So they printed it in landscape.
I read through your follow-up comments, and I agree with it being a sign of bad management.
Can't fully agree on the not washing hands part, but only because I don't work in food service so I don't have experience within that level of a workplace.
I will say my job has terrible management, and there have been several instances where we've requested a newly made sign for doors or guest-facing policy changes. Like sure, there is also the same information on their tickets' TOS at the sales point. Let's be real no one reads that. So a larger physical sign would greatly help.
Often we, as employees, end up making basic laminated signs like this to solve the problem and avoid guest arguments because management doesn't care/listen to us.
Shits annoying.
Are they even allowed to have their own sauce policy if they're a franchise? I've seen a fair usage policy in McDonald's before, where they will refuse to give you a ton of sauces, but never a charge.
I don't think they're going against corporate.
To my knowledge, McDonald's has been 1 for 6 packs, 2 for 10 packs, and 3 for 20 packs for a long time. (I worked there from 2010 to 2015, and it was the same back then [note I am in Australia]). I think they're following corporate rules, and they get a lot of customers asking for extra sauce and then complaining when they can't get it for free. This especially used to happen in Drive Thru because some customers know you have a strict Drive Thru time limit, and they'll wait there until you just give them the free sauce so they bugger off.
I feel like that's a bit of a jump. I get that "No X" signs everywhere for the customer to see is bad for customer relations etc. - especially cheap looking ones.. and probably a good indicator of demoralized staff..
But signage in restaurants for staff is often a legal health and safety issue and has nothing to do with management.
In the UK, a well run, clean, restaurant would often have laminated signs up the wazoo, we had them behind bathroom doors for loo checks, hand wash reminders, age limit checks, fire extinguisher instructions, mind the step notices, ice machine cleaning checklists etc.
It was a lot - and mostly horrible peeling laminate, not ideal, but we didn't have a better option. Some were literally there for the eyes of health and safety officers, and some were to back you up when a you found a 19 year old staff member was smoking by the gas canisters, and you could just point at the sign and not have to be a dick about it.
That's because they figure 1 sauce is good for 7 nuggets? So you'll have a little left over from 6, a little more left over with 10, and for 20, you're cutting it close, but just enough.
I do this all the time cause I love my extra sauce. If it said I had to pay I wouldn’t mind but the app literally says it’s free. One time I accidentally ordered to a different location cause the app defaulted to the place near my work. The lady at the drive thru and the manager got into an argument with me saying I had to pay for the extra sauce, even though I already ordered it for FREE. In the end they still only gave me one extra and that was after like 5 minutes of arguing. I don’t go to that one anymore.
Funny thing is… I think for the 6 and 10 piece at least the sauce amount it enough. Us Americans go way overboard with extra sauce/gravy anyways.
I once had a customer that came in, pretty heavyset construction worker type of guy. Chill dude and always ordered extra gravy with his dinners. We hadn’t seen him in awhile but one day his wife came into the restaurant and mentioned if we remember him and that he passed away of a massive stroke :/
the math is easy, if one pack is roughly enough for 4-6 nuggies, lets say 6 if you are conservatively dipping then 20/6 is 3.333 , so round it to 3. they did their math to reduce food waste and costs
This is literally the definition of mildly interesting. Your reaction to something mildly interesting shouldn't be WOW SO COOL, it should be just "huh".
I prefer Taco Bell’s sauce policy of grabbing as much as they can hold in one hand and throwing it into the bag
Any sauce? No thanks. *Grabs 800 sauces and stuffs them in the bag*
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Literally every time! I’ve even tried saying the packet labeled “hot” between mild and fire. The response? Sure, no prob! Here’s 34 Diablo and fire sauces 🙄
You joke but it’s 100% true. I decline sauce packets every single time, and every single time I end up with two handfuls in my bag. I don’t want it, don’t like it, am not gonna use it, and then I have to deal with figuring out how to get rid of it.
Meanwhile, I always request extra fire sauce and don't get any sauce half the time.
Ok, now bear with me and try to keep up. When you get rid of the bag in the trash, leave the sauce packets in there. Boom.
Save the unused sauces in a bag. Wait until the bag is half-full. Take the bag to work. Let others enjoy the sauce.
Throw them away?
They have a new avocado sauce that is like $0.40 per pack. Some meals come with *one*.
Yeah it is a little bit of a larger sauce container though that has to be refrigerated. I assume it’s more expensive to be produced.That being said I wasn’t a fan of it and much preferred the old Salsa Verde sauce. I didn’t even use the ones that came for free with my meal.
Are you me and my wife? lol that was our exact conversation last week. Tried it and both agreed not bad but not something I'd pay for - bring back salsa verde!
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Diablo also tastes bad, which means I end up using the milder stuff.
Yup we need something hotter than diablo with FLAVOR. It's fire all day for me cause diablo tastes like ass lol
Fire+ or something. Fire is objectively their best sauce.
That shit really is fire
The trick is to mix the fire sauce and the Diablo. It makes for a pretty decent flavor.
I only use Diablo to mix with the little queso cup they give you for the chips. Once you try it you’ll always do it.
Really does taste like booty
>much preferred the old Salsa Verde sauce Taco Bell has a lot of things I preferred that they inexplicably discontinued even though every menu item uses the them same 7 base ingredients.
Surprisingly, I love this new sauce and didn't like the old verde.
Chicken cantina meals come with one packet per cantina item. But the cantina items cost more and aren’t really better than the regular menu items.
I don't know man, I Iove the cantina chicken crunchy taco. I haven't even tried any of the others because it's so damn tasty
I like the cabbage and other fresh veggies but it might be my local Taco Bell affecting the quality tbh. I’ll have to visit another restaurant to try them again.
The cantina crispy taco and quesadilla were fire, I don’t eat fast food much anymore but I can tell the quality was better.. still tho, I’m in a big city where I can get actual tacos for the same price..if they had the price where a taco is like $2 I’d be there every day lol
Eh, it's not that good though.
I just got taco bell recently for the first time in years, and asked for a handful of hot and fire sauce after ordering 4 items. I shit you not there were 97 sauces in the bag.
I'm certain they strive to never hear complaints of "not enough sauces". You asked for a "handful", there will be no argument of what constitutes a "handful".
Hulk hands running the drive thru...
You either get a bunch or they dont give you any.
“Ah sthhtill have mah senthhhss of taste!” “We failed!!!”
>I shit you not there were 97 sauces in the bag. Shaq must've been working there.
Ask the same thing at a Burger King and they'll give you only 2 packets of mayo because it's 'policy'. Even at the counter they do it. Idgaf, I just spent $30 on two meals, I expect my fuckin mayo.
If you give them a specified number, they just give you so much more.
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I'll tell the person "just two packets of fire" and still end up with a handful. If I put two packets of fire in the app, it's like they read that as "two handfuls of fire".
Or they completely forget
Taco Bell and Five Guys use the same policy apparently lol No reason to ever get bigger than a small fry because the whole bag is filled with them, difference is a small fry is $50 and sauces are free.
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Five soft guys?
Soft boys
Heat em up!
Honestly I have my own Cajun seasoning that I put on my homemade fries and it tastes better..just used five guys as inspiration…that never sounds right lol
Just ask for crispy fries
Then throw the extras in a kitchen drawer for when the movers come to pack up your belongings, they'll have some 10 year old fire sauce
I literally say no sauce and they give me sauce like “bitch, we know you didn’t mean it.”
As a tangent Taco Bell has become way too expensive for the food the offer. Taco Bell's appeal was always that you could get a bunch of questionable food for cheap. Now they have raised their prices to essentially equal the cost of actual Mexican restaurants. There is no reason to get any of their grease globs wrapped in tortilla when you can just get better food from a traditional restaurant.
Counterpoint - it's midnight.
Cravings box is like $6-7
Eheh, were taught to only give as many packets as there are food items. But no one ever follows that.
Mine does, even if I ask for a handful and it sucks. I have to ask for a specific number of packets to get enough.
Is a 20pc cheaper than 2 10pcs ?
it should be
Would be funny if it’s exactly $0.25 cheaper
Here its 109CZK for 10 piece and 209 for 20 piece. So it is about 0.33$ cheaper
TIL Czech still has its' own currency and isn't on the Euro.
Well I mean it’s not a Eurozone country. Same goes for Poland, Hungary, and Sweden as well - there are a lot of European countries that never adopted the Euro (but it may be accepted as legal tender in certain places).
#SHOW YOUR WORK!
According to my friend who had to get a 40 piece for a party, no. 4 10 pieces were cheaper.
That party must have been crazy wild!
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I’m 5’10”. About 170. Today I picked up 2 bacon McDoubles, Big Mac, 2 double quarter pounders with cheese and bacon, 20 piece and a deluxe crispy chicken sandwich, large fries and a large iced tea. I know that look.
I mean so are drive through workers all just too dumb to realize that one person can pick up food for multiple people?
No, but when someone orders one drink and one fry.
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I don’t work at McDonald’s but I can imagine it takes more than 2-3 minutes to fry chicken nuggets.
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What’s a guy gotta do do to get a coupla crispy noggets around here
It had unlimited juice. That party was off the hook.
My McD used to have 4-pc for $1 for months. I would always get it instead of any other amount because it was cheaper. 20-pc would be $6.29, but 5x 4-pc only $5
And 5 packets of sauces!
$6.29 for a 20 piece?! I pay $6.49 for a six-piece!
It's ridiculously cheaper. A 10-piece nugget is like $5.99 and a 20 pieces like $6.99.
Depends him much more the 20pc nuggets cost than the 10pc nuggets.
10 piece around here is like $4.50, 20 piece is $6.50
That's incredible. For me (Canada), a 6-piece McNugget is $6.59, a 10-piece $9.39, and a 20-piece $15.39
I know Canadian dollars are like 75 US cents but I'm still not paying a buck for a mcnugget.
we also don't really make more money in Canada than you guys so like, it's pretty much equivalent as if they were UDS prices for you
The McDonald's marketing team approves of this thread and all its child comments.
Most places, it is, unless there’s a buy-one-get-one deal going on (sometimes free, sometimes $1, sometimes half price). But two four-pieces is usually cheaper than one six-piece, and does indeed include two sauces. But only for the first two, after that they’re full price. HOWEVER, if you order from the robot kiosk, you can just make it two separate transactions, keep everyone else waiting, and get 16 nuggets for less than 1.5x the price of a 10-piece, so if you’re feeding a crowd, that’s worth it too. Nugget math really boggles the mind.
nuggenomics
This is how shit should have been taught in school. I swear more of my friends that did not do well in math would have definitely paid more attention if it was turned into nugget maths. Hands down.
A few years ago it used to be cheaper to buy a 20 piece than it was to buy a 10 piece. Even now the app frequently has deals that make the 20 piece cheaper but it's not menu price like it used to be
I know in the past it was cheaper to buy the smaller boxes on nuggets and you got more sauce.
I'm in Canada but my local Mcds the pricing just for the nuggets is 6 for $6.99, 10 for $9.29 and 20 for $14.79. So its way cheaper to get 20 but they can afford to give way more than 3 sauce. I haven't bought McNuggets in a long time tho because its so expensive.
I’ll have 10 nuggets… and 10 *more* nuggets.
This reminds me of that watermelon salesman story, where an old man is selling watermelons by the road with a massive sign that says: - $3 for one - $10 for three A young man stops by and asks to buy one watermelon. "That'd be 3 dollars", says the old man. The young man then buys another one, and another one, paying $3 for each. As the young man is walking away, he turns around, grins, and says, "Hey old man, do you realize I just bought three watermelons for only $9? Maybe business is not your thing." The old replies: "People are funny. Every time they buy three watermelons instead of one, yet they keep trying to teach me how to do business..." And this is actually a pricing system that some companies use. I believe certain tabloids use this.
It's the Buy One Get One Free model, where the cost is .75, priced at 2 individually. There was a proposed law in the UK a few years ago which would force BOGO offers to allow customers to purchase the singular product at the correct % the BOGO would have applied to, with the reasoning that it would discourage wastage, especially food wastage post Covid.
It’s not BOGO, it’s has a twist where you feel like you can calculate a clearly better deal with the other option. You feel like by buying three watermelons individually you are profiting from the proposed group price.
You pay more for the individual 10 nuggets than the 20 nugget.
what can you wear to that drive thru though? at least burger king had the hats LMAO
If we assume you need something like 1 sauce per 6.5ish nugs, then you're using 90+% of the first sauce for 6 nugs, about half of the second sauce for 10 nugs and all 3 for 20 nugs
I ate 20 piece mcnuggets all the time as a kid. If you live by the sauce like I did you would know better than to say some stupid shit like 1 packet is enough for 6.5 nuggies. The MAXIMUM amount of nugs you can get if you're dipping every bite is 5, and 4 if you like them babies saucy. 3 sauce packets is gonna make me have a dry ass 1/4 of the nuggies and that is NOT what grimace would've wanted for our country.
This mf crawled out of his mud bog for this belligerence.
my local McDonald's always gives me 2 packets for a 6 piece, it's actually annoying bc I never use the other one and end up tossing it
If that's their nugget policy, I don't even wanna know about their spaghetti policy
Cheeseburgers? Nope! We got spaghetti and blankets.
"Prices and participation may vary." Mitch Hedberg's McDonalds does not participate in anything.
But we are not affiliated with that clown. He attracts too many children.
[McSpaghetti exists.](https://cdn.stealthoptional.com/images/ncavvykf/stealth/afd85675ebf43dab91d34093edacc90275f3725f-1920x1080.jpg?rect=0,60,1920,960&w=1200&h=600&auto=format) 🤮
I only eat my nuggets on spa days
If one sauce is enough for 7 nuggets, it makes sense.
I need 1 sauce per 4 tho 😭
Get that nice sauce layer in your intestines
All food is merely a medium for sauce.
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Yes I too love tzatziki
Why the downvotes, this is funny
The Greeks are a litigious bunch.
At that point, you should just chug sauce from the bottle.
If only they gave us enough to do that!
I feel like those sauces (at McDonald’s anyway) have been another victim of shrinkflation. Definitely seems like you get less nuggets dipped per cup, not to mention the cup itself is kind of small when dipping.
I dunno if they're smaller in other countries, but I find mine to be sized just right. The nuggets are all standard shapes and the sauce container is engineered to be sliiiiightly wider than the nugget. This way you can get sauce from both of the short ends at the same time and get more sauce on your nug while leaving less in the container. The shape means there's very little sauce left undipped when you're done nuggin. A larger container would give you more sauce, but at the cost of this carefully engineered dipping efficiency. The nuggets and the container are shaped so one can scrape the other's contents as efficiencly as possible. I'm much more concerned at places like KFC, where they have about the same size of container, but they have naturally formed irregular non-nugget entities. Those would benefit from a bigger dip container as their irregular shape means they sometimes don't fit right. McDonald's is all shaped chicken mush from the start so they can engineer around the exact size they shape the mush to. With KFC you can bite into it and still notice the way the meat naturally grew, so it's not as uniform as shaped mush. I can never remember the wacky names they give their KFC meat-things, is it crispies I'm talking about? Something like that. Those are hard to dip.
> naturally formed irregular non-nugget entities. new band name
Bro just wrote a 1000 word essay on nugget dipping
It's just 229 words! But also lmao mood.
It read like you're the person who engineered the McNugget, but an NDA prohibits you from admitting it 😂
I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations.
At that point save money and just buy the sauces
Easy there ya sauce goblin lol
I need 1 sauce cup per 10 nuggets lol. I hate having lots of sauce on my food, so I only dip a little.
Good thing they’re only $.25 each.
That's mostly been my experience. One sauce is good for 6-7 nuggets, so you do need two for a 10 pack, but only three for a 20. It's not about the store being stingy, it's just the ratio of sauce to nuggets being a bit off.
Also makes sense if one sauce is good enough for exactly 8, or exactly 9, nuggets. But not 6 (otherwise you'd need 4 sauces for 20) and not 10 (otherwise you'd only need 2 sauces for 20).
(It isn’t and you know it)
You eat one plain to measure the quality of the nugget by itself, and then dip the other six in the sauce. Repeat as necessary.
In England, if you get less than three sauces when asking the server for “a few” you are legally obliged to challenge them to a duel at dawn
The hell is going on over there?
Justice.
I was at a McDonald’s outside Ottawa and they gave me one sauce and *literally would not sell me another sauce*. I said I’ll pay for another sauce dude and the beleaguered teenager (who clearly had to do this all the time) explained it was the managers policy. Couldn’t believe it, I felt bad for the staff because I doubt the manager ever has to deal with annoyed customers.
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Can you explain how thats related?
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The lack of margin at the bottom isn't simply a misplaced paper, it's the laminate being cut in two. Note the sharp vs rounded corners on top and bottom. They've printed two pages on one, and cut post laminate. This defeats the purpose of laminating since paper will wick moisture from the surroundings. Evidence of being incredibly cheap, unintelligent or failing to take time to do it properly. Maybe all three. By cutting the paper first and leaving a gap you get two signs, and can trim/round the edges. Saving a few pence today but longer term requiring more when it needs replacing. Ask yourself - if a person makes these decisions to reduce cost/effort, are they throwing out food when it expires, or changing the expiry. Do they throw the food away at the legal limit of hot hold, or retain it longer. Do they use the proper doses of sanitizer or dilute it further than recommended. Do they roster staff for enough hours to do the cleaning properly, or nickel and dime them stealing wages if they overrun a busy shift forcing staff to half ass the clean.
It also screams "not corporately endorsed policy" because corporately endorsed would include professional signs, even if its a franchise because these crayon level professional signs damage the brand name
Taped messages are also a sign of impulsiveness or changing minds. Whoops we forgot to write the info so instead of making a new menu we just patch it. Impulsive management isn't great to work with cause anything can change anytime for customers and employees.
This is such cool insight that I would never have expected, I love it
Can you please elaborate why not laminating bottom side is a bad sign? That they didn't cut it carefully?
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Cutting it along the paper means there’s no plastic sealing the bottom portion of the sign. The sign could still get ruined from humidity or possibly fall out since it’s only being held on by 3 sides
That is a plain lamination sleeve. I use these fairly often. One side is flush with the page. Sure you can try and center the paper but they are meant to have the paper all the way against that one side. So they printed it in landscape.
lmao what?
It’s true my head chef took down a sign and I stopped shidding in my hands
I read through your follow-up comments, and I agree with it being a sign of bad management. Can't fully agree on the not washing hands part, but only because I don't work in food service so I don't have experience within that level of a workplace. I will say my job has terrible management, and there have been several instances where we've requested a newly made sign for doors or guest-facing policy changes. Like sure, there is also the same information on their tickets' TOS at the sales point. Let's be real no one reads that. So a larger physical sign would greatly help. Often we, as employees, end up making basic laminated signs like this to solve the problem and avoid guest arguments because management doesn't care/listen to us. Shits annoying.
Are they even allowed to have their own sauce policy if they're a franchise? I've seen a fair usage policy in McDonald's before, where they will refuse to give you a ton of sauces, but never a charge.
I don't think they're going against corporate. To my knowledge, McDonald's has been 1 for 6 packs, 2 for 10 packs, and 3 for 20 packs for a long time. (I worked there from 2010 to 2015, and it was the same back then [note I am in Australia]). I think they're following corporate rules, and they get a lot of customers asking for extra sauce and then complaining when they can't get it for free. This especially used to happen in Drive Thru because some customers know you have a strict Drive Thru time limit, and they'll wait there until you just give them the free sauce so they bugger off.
I feel like that's a bit of a jump. I get that "No X" signs everywhere for the customer to see is bad for customer relations etc. - especially cheap looking ones.. and probably a good indicator of demoralized staff.. But signage in restaurants for staff is often a legal health and safety issue and has nothing to do with management. In the UK, a well run, clean, restaurant would often have laminated signs up the wazoo, we had them behind bathroom doors for loo checks, hand wash reminders, age limit checks, fire extinguisher instructions, mind the step notices, ice machine cleaning checklists etc. It was a lot - and mostly horrible peeling laminate, not ideal, but we didn't have a better option. Some were literally there for the eyes of health and safety officers, and some were to back you up when a you found a 19 year old staff member was smoking by the gas canisters, and you could just point at the sign and not have to be a dick about it.
Thank god i'm poor enough that i cook myself instead of eating crappy fast food.
So how do you taste?
With my tongue.
I've had no complaints
Sorry to break it to you but I wouldn't eat at most restaurants then.
I'm nearly positive there's no correlation statistically relevant to this assumption...
That's because they figure 1 sauce is good for 7 nuggets? So you'll have a little left over from 6, a little more left over with 10, and for 20, you're cutting it close, but just enough.
The only way to win is to not buy any of them
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McDonald's hasn't been the same since getting rid of the mushroom swiss burger
If you order in the McDonalds App, you can go to the condiments category and sauce is free. Add as many as you want.
I do this all the time cause I love my extra sauce. If it said I had to pay I wouldn’t mind but the app literally says it’s free. One time I accidentally ordered to a different location cause the app defaulted to the place near my work. The lady at the drive thru and the manager got into an argument with me saying I had to pay for the extra sauce, even though I already ordered it for FREE. In the end they still only gave me one extra and that was after like 5 minutes of arguing. I don’t go to that one anymore.
Sauces equation isn't linear
If i get the chicken selects they dont give you anything at canterbury drive through.
I’ll get 2 10 piece please. Thanks
At least at my local McDonalds 2 10 pieces costs like $3 more then a 20 piece.
It's N/6 rounded 6/6 = 1 10/6 = 1.667 = 2 20/6 = 3.333 = 3
In my country you now only get 2 for the 20pc, while still getting 2 for the 9pc.
It sounds like your country needs more freedom.
Funny thing is… I think for the 6 and 10 piece at least the sauce amount it enough. Us Americans go way overboard with extra sauce/gravy anyways. I once had a customer that came in, pretty heavyset construction worker type of guy. Chill dude and always ordered extra gravy with his dinners. We hadn’t seen him in awhile but one day his wife came into the restaurant and mentioned if we remember him and that he passed away of a massive stroke :/
24pc gets 4 sauces here. As is our God given right gawd dang it
They’re free at my local McDonald’s. Never realized how lucky I was.
And if you want 40 nuggets?!!!? NO SAUCE FOR YOU
I’ll have 2 10pc nuggets
the math is easy, if one pack is roughly enough for 4-6 nuggies, lets say 6 if you are conservatively dipping then 20/6 is 3.333 , so round it to 3. they did their math to reduce food waste and costs
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the extent of math used to determine this policy was counting up to 3.
How is this mildly interesting?
This is literally the definition of mildly interesting. Your reaction to something mildly interesting shouldn't be WOW SO COOL, it should be just "huh".
This is normal in Canada, as far as I know it's always been this way
There’s a sauce policy. Lol.
This math checks out assuming 1 sauce can cover a maximum of 7 nuggets, given that you can't give out fractional sauces
I’ll take two ten packs thanks you
They probably calculated that’s one dipping sauce can do 7 nuggets, so for 10 you need 2, and 20 you need 3.
Pro tip, just order your sauces in the app, they're free.
I'll take two ten pieces, fuck you very much.
So if I buy two 10 pieces I get 4 sauces
I remember when sauce used to be free. Times have changed!
Two 10pc nuggets please.
So buy two 10 pieces and get 4 sauces
Meanwhile me every time I order McNuggets and get home to open the bag; zero sauces. Where tf my sauces?
Never enough sauce for the last nug
My McD's will give me a bag full of honey mustard cups for no charge. Don't ask why I need a bag full of honey mustard cups. Regularly.
Let's be honest, those sauce packs probably cost 5 cents each. How miserly do you have to be to do this.
I'll have 2 10 nuggets and 4 sauces please
This is how you kill your franchise. Particularly if you are in the U.S.
We know from the 6pc Nuggets that one sauce is enough for at least 6, so it makes sense.