can i tell you a secret have you ever wondered what really goes on behind the doors of your
favorite fast food restaurants well fast food companies are like every other corporation
they've all got skeletons in their closets here are 10 huge secrets fast food restaurants try
to hide from you hey what's that where'd you get that motto why it's called soft serve well i was
gonna say get some ice cream but okay i like ice cream have you ever noticed that at every fast
food chain you go to they never have ice cream it doesn't matter which brand it is wendy's
dairy queen mcdonald's it's always soft serve what gives the reason is actually pretty simple
there are a lot of regulations for what can and cannot be classified as ice cream
according to fda regulations a product has to contain at least 10 percent milk fat also known as
butter fat in order to be named an ice cream for example the product that dairy queen uses in its
cones blizzards and sundays only has five percent milk fat therefore it's not technically ice cream
technically it's reduced fat but for some reason the brand isn't marketing it that way
mcdonald's is in the same boat with their product at one point in time they even called it ice milk
invoking imagery akin to a brutal winter landscape yeah soft serve definitely sounds
a lot more appetizing so who wants an ice milk where's the beef or show me the money
i think you owe me a little money anyway everyone knows the iconic where's the beef commercial that
wendy's put out more than 30 years ago in it a sweet old lady by the name of clara peller sacely
demands of wendy's competitors where's the beef the commercial was a huge win for wendy's and it
even made clara peller into a bit of a celebrity but despite the fact that her catchphrase earned
tons of fame for the fast food company wendy's apparently paid peller close to nothing i'm going
to miss being able to afford food she reportedly earned only 317 dollars a day for her first
commercial and not much more for her second one wendy's claimed that she earned close to half a
million but she denied making that much because she wasn't paid much by wendy's she accepted a
deal with prego meat sauce in which she claimed i found it and guess what wendy's fired her for it
wendy's claims it's because the commercial she was featured in infers that clara found the beef
somewhere other than in wendy's restaurants pretty rich coming from a company that pushes wholesome
family values maybe if they had compensated her for her participation in one of their most
quotable commercials she wouldn't have had to take work elsewhere oh well you live and
you learn the mcdonald brothers were run out of business by a mcdonald's contracts are like hearts
they're made to be broken ray kroc is the supposed founder of the mcdonald's franchise but behind the
scenes he was a petty tycoon he joined up with the mcdonald brothers after they'd already franchised
six locations and after he joined he immediately began plotting mcdonald's can be the new american
church because the brothers were technically his bosses he had to get their approval for
every change he wanted to make and he despised not having that control he offered to buy the
company and the brothers asked for 2.7 million dollars plus point five percent of future company
royalties croc eventually caved and paid the brothers but he immediately went back on his offer
and cut them out of the royalties which could have made them hundreds of millions of dollars
after they sold the company the brothers went back to running their original restaurant
under a new name big m kroc allegedly hated this so he opened a mcdonald's nearby in order to run
them out of business it actually worked big m was forced to shut down and croc was free to do
whatever he wanted with the company he'd scammed his way into pay attention everyone you're about
to see the best in the business taco bell's mascot is stolen you insulted my pride that means death
gidget also known as the taco bell chihuahua was taco bell's mascot from 1997 to 2000.
this adorable chihuahua was voiced by carlos alasriki and became a great addition to the brand
viva gorditas so whatever happened to this lovable canine well how about becoming the
subject of a massive lawsuit the creators of the ad campaign were joseph shields and thomas rinks
the pair claims that they came up with the idea for a psycho chihuahua and pitched advertising
ideas and commercials to taco bell the company allegedly then broke off the contract with rinks
and shields but still went on to use the character fortunately the pair won the lawsuit and it only
took the jury a few hours to decide taco bell was ordered to pay the pair 30 million dollars
but they weren't done taco bell hit the duo with a counter claim saying that it was all the ad
agency's fault not theirs this plan backfired and the company was ordered to pay an additional
12 million dollars in interest on the judgment but whatever happened to the dog well in 2002
gidget furthered her career by appearing in a geico commercial she also had a part in legally
blonde 2 red white and blonde as bruiser's mom sadly in 2009 at the ripe age of 15 years old
gidget was put down after suffering a stroke when they heard about this taco bell expressed
their deepest sympathies to the owner and fans alike hurt me the issue with mcdonald's machines
hi excuse me can i just get a large eye can you not see him on the phone have you ever
noticed that mcdonald's soft-serve machines go down like all the time it's a common thing
that happens just about everywhere and people have been tweeting about it since the beginning of well
twitter in 2017 the wall street journal decided to get to the bottom of it and what they found was
worrisome not only did they discover the machines require a four-hour long cleaning cycle to get
rid of bacteria that builds up in the system they also found out that getting the machine ready for
said cycle takes a time-consuming 11 steps so do they actually get cleaned as often as they should
you can probably assume that the answer is no and you'd be right a worker in louisiana was
actually fired after posting a photo of a moldy drip tray from the machine and though the company
claims that it never comes into contact with your food do you really want to take the risk
oh call the number on my bracelet mcdonald's fries still aren't vegetarian the fries what about them
they're five percent too crisp despite numerous complaints and lawsuits the company refuses to
cater to the vegetarian and vegan demographic the thing is in many other countries they already have
for example mcdonald's in india don't use lard for their fries they don't use any animal products at
all and they seem to do just fine however in america when the company decided to switch
out the oil for a veggie based one instead their customers complained about the lack of flavor the
company's solution was to add natural beef flavor to the spuds during the production cycle you may
be familiar with the class action lawsuit that hit this famous company in 2000. the lawsuit was held
by multiple hindu customers who felt they'd been duped into unwittingly consuming animal products
something which is against their religion their cries were joined by vegetarians and vegans alike
pointing out that the company was misleading their customers while the fries were now being cooked in
vegetable oil the company had to admit that the spuds were being coated in beef flavoring and
so mcdonald's settled for 10 million dollars with over half of it going to vegetarian organizations
and while their customers are visibly upset about this lack of vegetarian options the company has
no plans to change a representative said that while their fries are prepared differently in
other countries they were going to continue with the way they are prepared in the u.s
in other words vegetarians consider yourself warned you're a vegetarian uh it's recent oh is it
colonel sanders opinion of kfc howdy internet it's me colonel sanders we're just going to rip
off the band-aid immediately colonel sanders hated what kfc did to his recipe okay let's start at the
beginning colonel sanders was a real person who was born in 1890. he worked for decades
perfecting his fried chicken recipe and getting people on board with his fried chicken vision in
1964 he sold kentucky fried chicken and while he stayed on as the spokesman he didn't always
agree with what the company did with his food for example in 1970 there was the great gravy dispute
colonel sanders gravy was indisputably delicious but corporate complained that you had to be a
scholar to cook it it was costly time consuming and too complicated to make for some 16 year old
kid working a part-time job good weird style that wasn't my style that was a uniform kfc
when they changed the recipe mr sanders spoke out saying that it wasn't even fit for his dogs to eat
corporate wasn't pleased that the kfc spokesman was speaking out against the brand and in 1978
they sued him for a libel after he allegedly called the gravy wallpaper paste luckily for
colonel sanders the lawsuit was thrown out because the remarks weren't about one particular location
but the damage was already done we have no doubt that if he were still alive today colonel sanders
would refuse to eat the chicken he spent decades perfecting i ordered boneless wings from kfc
hang on to that thought hayley chipotle vs fair wage for workers fair trade blend with soy milk
i'm sorry but that's pathetic in 2006 chipotle was approached by the coalition of immokalee workers
and were asked to join their fair food program they're a worker-based company whose goal is to
help protect floridian farm workers pushing to secure fair wages and good working conditions
for them it shouldn't be a big deal to say yes right chipotle is the food with integrity company
so protecting workers rights shouldn't be that big of a deal well apparently it was too big of an ask
for this company according to certain sources it took chipotle a full six years to sign it
and only after members of the clergy and other organizations protested at their headquarters
chipotle claims that their mission aligned with the vision of the ciw but they didn't like some
of the rules that they would be agreeing to hey a rule is a rule and let's face it without rules
there's chaos one of these said rules stipulated that the chain had to ask for permission from the
ciw in order to source tomato growers outside of their network at the time chipotle promised to do
their best to only buy from ciw-supported farmers but they made no guarantees it leaves us wondering
why it took them so long to make things official rosa two specials chipotle is starbucks actually
fair trade i better manifest some coffee being fair trade friendly is a huge part of starbucks
identity they brag about how they love supporting the farmers who are growing our morning cup of joe
but in 2006 the company had a huge falling out with oxfam oxfam went as far as to claim that
starbucks had blocked farmers attempts to trademark their coffee beans this is a big
deal when it comes to selling their beans a good trademark can give you the leverage you need to
get a good deal out of buyers and suppliers the director of oxfam had nothing nice to say about
starbucks claiming that they're tying the hands of ethiopian farmers who produce world-famous coffee
preventing them from taking full advantage of this to help work themselves out of poverty eventually
starbucks went on to recognize the legitimacy of the names they'd tried to squander and they were
thankfully trademarked however the dispute was a huge blow to starbucks and it made them look
very very hypocritical you know what i'm out of here wait are you still going to starbucks
the truth about domino's pizza tracker forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late pizza
in theory the pizza tracker is a great idea you know exactly the stage of creation your
pizza is in and then once it's out the door you know exactly when your pie is going to show up
according to one former pizza deliverer the pizza tracker doesn't so much reflect the truce but what
the company wants to be true dominos knows how long it should take one of their employees to
make a pizza after it's been ordered but we all know that things don't always work like clockwork
i know to you parker a promise means nothing but to me it's serious not only is the app
lying to the customer it also puts pressure on employees the app doesn't take into account the
store's delivery range or the popularity of the store corporate says that a driver should only
be making two to three stops per delivery but for certain locations that's just not possible
and some drivers are forced to make four to eight stops each time however because of the
timer employees have a huge amount of pressure put on them the app sends the stats of the store
back to corporate and they analyze the numbers to see if a particular location needs more or
less supervision aka people breathing down the manager's backs how do they cope well employees
have found a way to fudge the stats if your pizza tracker claims your pizza has been delivered but
it's not yet on your table no that it's probably due to some poor overworked employees trying to
make their numbers look good where's the pizza we've got more just tap that screen
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