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Eating out again is one of those post-Covid perks that we don’t want to ever go away, and sometimes this means dining at fast food establishments such as McDonald’s. Whether you’re venturing out to eat in the dining room again, or going through the drive-through or grabbing contactless pick-up (so many options!), there are certain food items that employees warn you should avoid at all costs.
Whether they’re not likely to be served fresh or are may contain mold (ick!), these food orders have been called out by anonymous workers of the Illinois-based food chain on Reddit “Ask Me Anything” threads. This time, we have a warning about their ketchup dispensers straight from the source (sort of). Here’s everything you need to know:
Ketchup Dispensers
“I would recommend not eating the ketchup from the ketchup dispensers,” Sandra Blair, CEO of CoffeeShan, tells us.
“A friend of mine has worked in McDonald‘s for 6 months and she told me that the ketchup in the dispensers is not changed as frequently as it should be,” she warns. Yikes!
“The employees do clean the dispenser by taking the ketchup out but they put the old ketchup back in after cleaning, she reveals.
This means that the new ketchup only gets put in after the old one gets used up. “This is extremely unhygienic, and I believe it applies to most food chain restaurants, too.”
