It was the same when I worked at Baskin Robbins as a kid. The owner was too cheap to empty the soft serve machine every night and waste product. So we served nasty soft serve.
Nothing new. I worked FF as a kid in late 60’s and early 70’s, and it was the same then. The stuff won’t kill you..............
This ought to get the McD exec’s on the stick to better inspect ALL sites and improve conditions.
I have noticed improvements in more populated areas, but smaller town stores still need attention.
Completely believable ,, I had to embarrass a manager at a fast food I visited almost daily about 5 years ago about green mold on the outside of an ice machine above the soda fountain...I’m sure the inside was pretty gross.
In 1969 I worked at a snack shack (a large one) at a Summer Retreat. One of my jobs was running the milk shake machine.
The first day of Summer the Sealtest man came in and showed me how to disassemble, clean, sterilize and lubricate the machine with special grease. This was done before going to my dorm each night.
Maybe 26 years later I was in the place and spoke to the guy who ran the machine. I asked him if they still took it apart every night. It was still the same machine btw.
He replied that it had not been cleaned all Summer.
I call BS. Instead of addressing a problem through proper channels, he shared it. In every job from roofer to ice cream maker to pharmacist has error and room for improvement. Employers don’t hire people to air dirty laundry, they hire them to clean it.
That is not just McDonalds, I came to that conclusion after working with 82nd Airborne when some things did not work because of lax oversight.
I have been trying to teach my wife that point as she is the CEO of the business, but it usually takes me (the CFO) doing an inspection and pissing off everyone by showing issues.
Is it an indictment of an “American Icon” that they fire the messenger, as the make excuses for lack of adequate maintenance of something that is supposed to deliver a “wholesome” food product. There is something basic missing from “free market businesses” today, and that is that profits are a byproduct of rendering a service, not that rendering a service can’t get in the way of profitability no matter what. And it isn’t just McDonalds, I just don’t know why anyone would buy their $hit food! There isn’t anything wholesome about their “products!”
Steve Martin was right!
I have a theory about McDonald’s, that is, everything they make is all one thing, and in the back they have this big vat full of this stuff, these little molds combining, like SPLURT ‘Hamburger!’ SPLURT ‘Malt!’ SPLURT ‘Paper box!’ SPLURT ‘Here’s your change!’
if it was his job to clean the machine... gone.
Ray Kroc must be turning in his grave.
People who have experiences actual employment for a long period of time would understand this "kid" is being a punk.
Why didn’t the kid just clean the dman machine? Why’d he have to go and post pictures?
He deserved to be fired.
“Kids” don’t know how to work anymore! He should have said something internally. As far as I can tell, it’s spillage and not, to say the least, edible. Nonetheless, the kid should have asked someone about it and/or taken the initiative to clean it or learn how to clean it.
I know he’s 18 y/o, but you would think this fellow would have a family member advising him on the virtues of diplomacy. You don’t publicly shame your employer without respectfully giving them a chance to improve the situation.
If things remain dirty and poorly managed, then quit that job, use a good reference to get another, and then talk, maybe. There are probably anonymous ways to communicate with the public health department. Use that route.
This show another example of oversharing online.
Those photos were beyond sickening. So clean it, then talk you the manager.
Need to fire the manager.
The job is to fix it, not just take a picture of it. If he won’t let you fix it go above his head. Regional manager is usually in every couple of days and they will not be happy about a store manager letting that happen.
Eighteen-year-old Nick was an employee of a McDonald's in LaPlace, Louisiana, for five months. He was a general crew member, which meant he was tasked with a little bit of every operational duty at the restaurant.I'm betting one of his "tasks" was to clean the ice cream machine...which by evidence of his own picture he failed to do.
Sliiiiiiime in the ice cream machine!
H/t to the late great Marvin Zindler.
A little bit of knowledge can get you trouble, a total lack of knowledge, like this little SJW who probably has an axe to grind, makes him look like a fool.
But then there is so much hate for McD's that a certain class of gullible will believe anything. Kind of like democrats and Trump.