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Everyone loves McDonald's for their delicious fast food menu and affordable prices. But employees say that the chain is notorious for ripping customers off when it comes time to order. In fact, they revealed that the biggest rip-off is their fries, as customers always complain that the chain is stingy with their servings.
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In a recent Reddit AMA thread, fast food employees were asked, "What did you job want you to hide from customers." Many Mickey D's employees revealed that the staff is taught to give customers fewer fries.
"I worked at McDonald's and they taught me how to pinch the fry carton just right while putting the fries into them so that it looked full, but actually wasn't," Reddit user ExperiMENTALbunny said. "I only had 1 customer call me out on it. He shook the fries out into his bag and poured them back into the fry carton himself and it only filled up half way, so I had to give him more fries. I was impressed and embarrassed. It's been 7 years and I can still see his face."
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Another employee confirmed that the "secret fry trick" is true and said, "I f---ing hated that practice and basically refused to do it. Never got fired, but managed to have a few customers ask me when my shifts were the next week so they could have me filling their fries."
Now that we know it's true, we need to know why this is happening in the first place! One employee tried to break down the reasoning behind this sneaky fry scam in the thread, referring to how much it costs McDonald's to make the fries.
"The fries were dirt cheap too!" the employee said. "Case held 6 bags, each bag made 8 or 12 baskets, and each basket made 4-5 large fries filled my way. They only cost $20 a case, so if they just filled them like I would they would net $288 with all conservative numbers ($8, 4, 1.5) and assuming they were all sold in meals. This is coming from management side because I was shipping manager so I had to know all this s--t."
The Reddit thread as gone viral, resulting in McDonald's to issue a statement. "The notion of a secret trick is absolutely false," McDonald's spokesperson Terri Hickey told Huffington Post. "There are strict procedures in place to ensure that fry boxes and bags are appropriately filled so our customers can enjoy our World Famous Fries to the fullest."
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