I hate to say so, but I hope only the intended ingredients go in their food. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif After hearing so many stories in the news, my mom wouldn't eat at a fast food restaurant for the longest time. Her personal favorite is Subway because she can see them make it.

Ghetto soldier?? LOLLLL!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Unfortunately, YES, folks need to be trained to use the shake machine.
I guess all jokes aside it is not as simple as it looks. A good restaurant would clean the machive everyday because milk not only has an oder but who would want a shake that has been sitting in the machine for a day. Where I used to work, they turned everything but the main refigerator off. That means the cashiers registers, the grill, the microwaves, the drink machine and the shake machine. When the store opens again, you must turn all of these things on. Shakes left in the machine that have sat in warm, steel cases have potential to attract bacteria and other food concerns of that nature. That being the case, someone must be able to clean the shake machine and fill it back up each day. This person usually works in the morning and starts fixing the shakes at least 30 mins. before lunch is suppose to be served because when children who are home sick for the day come in (which I think in any restaurant is a lot because it is a priviledge to be able to stay home when you are sick :-)), they usually want the kids meal with a shake. Then you have those who skip school and older people and customers of that nature.


I'm mad this is along post about how to fix shakes but this is how it is done. I can't speak for all restaurants but that is how the one I used to work at does it. It is acutually against health code violations in many states for the shake machine not be clean and or for serving shakes that have sat in the machine for longer than a day.

112

I was thinking the same thing. It doesn't look so imposing from in front of the counter. Maybe there are a lot of parts. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif Hmmmmm....now that I know, I just might mess wit 'em next time that happens. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Anyway, I am soooo upset because now I have to eat my words. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif I moved to the VI years ago and have had similar experiences at McDonalds, KFC, Wendy's, and Burger King (when we had one here). I am always talking mess about how this type of stuff doesn't happen on the mainland. Damn, I stand corrected... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/redface.gif

Anyway, I can not tell you how many times I got "ugly" at KFC because they didn't have chicken, biscuits, coleslaw or something else. The McDonalds here does not have Happy Meals several times a month. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/eek.gif Let's not even talk about the service. ATTITUDE! I am notorius for having words with the drive thru cashier. They are usually the WORST. I don't feel any way about driving away without getting or paying for my order. The food ain't THAT good. Shoot....Save the attitude cuz I am not the one. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

I avoid McDonalds before work because they have that attitude like since they are already at their job they don't care if you're late. If they moved any slower they would be mimicking a scene from the "Matrix". http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

Oh, and forget about the specialty "limited time" sandwiches that come out on the mainland. We get the same "crap" (basic menu) year round. Once in a blue moon they make up their own specials like a double filet-o-fish or something like that. Wendy's is pretty good about having the same things as state-siders, but not McDonalds, KFC, Dominoes, or Pizza Hut. (All the fast food chains here. Slim pickings, huh?)

I could go on and on, but the bottom line is: on certain Friday nights when I don't feel like cooking and I'm craving something greasy, fried, and slathered in ketchup, you can find me bitching and complaining, rolling my eyes at a KFC or McDonalds. I don't know why I put myself through the aggravation... http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif

While we are on this talk about bad fast food, I feel compelled to share to you a bad fast food movie, entitled "Hamburger: The Motion Picture". This flick was HORRIBLE!

It basically was about a college student (Leigh McCloskey) who kept getting kicked out of colleges for lewd conduct, and had to graduate from a university to get a family inheritance. He finds one school that would accept him: BUSTERBURGER UNIVERSITY! Yes, a fast food trade school for those who wanted to be managers of Busterburger franchises. Of course, there were the usual assortment of student weirdos, including one who participated in a university experiment and for half the movie was clucking like a chicken, and a black student who looked like a 80's Rick James wannabe, Jerry Curl, gold, and all who wore handcuffs all through the picture (they were taken off at commencement). This movie degraded blacks, Latinos, overweight people, women, cops, etc.

I gotta share this one scene with you to emphazise my point:

It was about 3/4 through the flick. Everyone passed their final exam, now they must do a simulation of a day at a Busterburger franchise. Drill Sgt. Drootin (Dick Butkus) wanted them to fail so badly, so he kept framing everyone. Well, a black motorcycle cop came through the drive-thru, where you speak into a 6-foot green pickle to place your order. Drootin somehow intercepts the drive thru radio with a CB radio in his car (which literally looked like Sheriff Buford T's in Smokey & the Bandit--no top, no doors, etc.)

Drootin: What's it gonna be? *cop places his order*
Drootin: Hey, pig. We don't serve afro-turf toilet plungers here.
Cop: What the h--l did you say?
Drootin: We don't serve freeway smokey donut chokers here.
Cop: I wanna see the ***dam* manager NOW!
Drootin: You're talking to the manager, Petercheese (what's that?) http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/confused.gif , so merge.
Cop: (getting off his bike) I don't havta take this kinda crap from a ***dam* green pickle.
Drootin: Hey, rotate, Kunta Kinte, you're check is ready at the welfare office.
Cop (getting back on bike) You ain't see the last of me yet!

Well, among other things that day, an overweight eating club eats all the inventory, and after the gang laces their shakes with laxatives, they all have a fartfest that would put Cletus Klump to shame (one fart literally blew a hole in a bathroom wall). A motorcycle gang trashes the place after finding out there's no food. The black cop returns with more black cops and they help trash the place and the initial black cop yelled "HOLD IT! The place is a wreck, so let's split" and walks out the door with his arm around a biker chick. So now everyone is gone and Drootin decides to play chicken by having a chicken truck crash into the restaurant driven by, yes, Mexicans.

Well, at the end despite it all, the gang graduates, Drootin is demoted to permanent paper picker, and the Rick James wannabe sings at graduation a funky version of the Busterburger jingle with two black women as backup.

I had to share this movie with yall. This was BAD!!! Put this one on the back burner.

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112Soul, thanks for the education. I was originally thinking about the use of the machine, ie filling a cup, instead of the maintenance such as cleaning and refilling. I worked at a KFC in HS so I can relate to the nighlty cleaning of the equipment! Thanks http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif




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Let's see my personal stories- 1. The KFC running out of chicken on a Friday night, EVERY Friday night. (it has been here my whole loife almost and they still cannot figure out how much chicken to stock to feed this middle class Black neighborhood on a Friday? That is redamndiculous!)

2. Calling the pizza hut to be told (this is not a joke or an exaggereration) "We are out of large pizzas...we are out of medium pizzas... we are out of all thin and crispy crusts...we are out of CHEESE!" Cheese! Cheese, I say. Now, you could have told me THAT first. What the hell am I going to do with a pizza with no chesse?

I worked at a Little Caesars during high school and we used to run out of cheese & dough at least once a week. Every now and then when he felt like closing up early, the manager would have us lie and say we ran out of sauce or something like that just so we wouldn't have to help anyone. So that's my theory, workers at the fastfood restaraunts just don't feel like helping anyone so they say they "ran out" of something totally necessary to make any order.
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ttt-little known trivia fact
 

I posted this 4 years ago and am TTTing it b/c I realized a little trivia fact from this horrible flick.

The stereotypical black brother in the movie that I highlighted in the above post was Chip McAllister, 1/2 of the winning duo on the Amazing Race. I will post a screengrab of him in the movie if I get some time.

And why is this still happening with the shake machine & ice cream - 4 yrs later??!! The last time I remember trying was before I had my baby. I was having a serious Mickey D ice cream cone craving. AND THEY WERE OUT OF ICE CREAM. :mad:

ET correct *"craving"

I know, jus read it anyway.
 

Hello, my name is prospeKt and I'm addicted to Mcflurries. :(

I am also nocturnal so I tend to get late night cravings. Unfortunately for me, as of late (last month or so), at 2:am when I decide I want a tasty Oreo McFlurry (wuteva happend to butterfinger or did they jus abolish it in da boot and da Lonestar?) and $1 fry off da trusty dollar menu I am often disappointed when da lil rude, usually highschool girl says "we not runnin' da icecream machine no mo' tonite." or "We outta icecream."
So here I am distraught wit a stale face thinkin': "But ya'll 24hrs." :eek:

But how in 94 degree hell on earf does Popeye's run out of biscuits? I am aware that the faktory was recently destroyed by Katrina but this incident of which I speak happen beaukoo earlier than hurricane season had even come. :confused:

This one had me outdone tho.
I pull up to Taco Bell and the window clerk...girl...person.... wuteva :rolleyes: asks if I would like to try the steak...suntin. I say no but lemme get two beef takos... She cuts me off sayin, "We ain' got no mo' beef." So I say lemme get da steak... She kut me off again sayin' "We outta steak too. All we got is chicken." :mad: steak/beef....steak/beef :confused:

Too thru:
for diskretion purposes: A town that I am in all too often and depend on for those OH SO DELICIOUS Krispy Kreme donuts banned the fan favorite. :(

This thread is too funny! It reminds me of when I worked at the Olive Garden as a server and we ran out of bread. One of the things the Olive Garden is known for is the bread. When I told this to some of my tables they just got up and left. We have also run out of salad dressing, which is the true secret of the salad and that didn't go over well either. But the kicker was when we ran out of like 4 different types of pasta for about an hour during one of the heaviest rush times. We are an Italian restaurant...I don't know how you run out of pasta. It was nuts! We've also run out of alfredo sauce and marinara sauce at certain points. I had to have worked at the worst Olive Garden on the face of the planet.

LMAO!!!!

uhm, sosinceredst, are you sure yall was even open that day? lol

I'm always suspect of ordering out of any fast food restaurant within 30 minutes of its closing time. Cause you know ain't NOTHING been made fresh in the last hour.

OMG! My husband and I went to KFC on Saturday night. Since the staff is notorious for not giving you all the strips you paid for, my husband checked the order before we drove home.

When I opened my food, I asked him, "Did you p*** off one of the staff members?" He asked me why. I held up my biscuit, which was missing a piece. Since the remnants were not in my box, I can only presume that (a) the person who filled the order accidentally broke it with the tongs while handling it or (b) someone took a bite out of it (and yes, the missing piece looked like a bite!). So I obviously didn't eat the biscuit.

This same KFC has ended up serving burned-up corn on the cob and shortchanging me out of a chicken wing (I had ordered a 3 pc. and my husband didn't notice).