I worked in McDonald’s – here’s the secret we always keep from customers and pray they don’t notice
AN ex-McDonald’s crew member has revealed one of the biggest secrets that staff kept from customers while he worked there.
The employee, who worked at a branch in Glasgow, will likely turn a few heads with his revelations about how people were ‘tricked.’
Though it’s nothing serious, the white lies came when there were ingredient shortages.
The former worker said: “This isn’t really a big secret as it happens in almost every industry in the county.
“But the majority off the time if we ran out of stock in specific types of onions or lettuce, we would just compromise and hope the customer didn’t notice.
“For example, using dehydrated onions instead of fresh ones and shredded lettuce instead of iceberg.”
The same McDonald’s insider previously revealed the best times that hungry customers could land themselves free food.
The only issue is that you’ll have to get up really early – or rather stay up very late – to experience the perks for yourself.
He said: “The best time to try and bag yourself extra food is at 4am when we are getting ready to change over for breakfast.
“We would usually throw in extra fries and nuggets.
“The easiest way to get a free meal is to be a police officer.
“Most of the time they will get it discounted or for free and you would often see them a couple of times a night.
“I used to feel sorry for the taxi drivers coming round with rowdy passengers.
“A lot of the time so did our managers so they would sometimes get a free coffee here and there.”