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Want to really save money at McDonald's? Don't mind what employees might think? Be us a large-ish family ordering 5 hamburgers and 2 Chicken Crips (a chicken b

Want to really save money at McDonald's? Don't mind what employees might think? Be us a large-ish family ordering 5 hamburgers and 2 Chicken Crips (a chicken burger). Wife gets a full meal set because she is loved. Total cost of about 1500yen, or 12usd. For an extra 70yen you can supersize the fries. But by bit I up the number of hamburgers. I think my record is 8. I am waiting for the day they refuse my order. An individual hamburger is quick to make, but order enough and you could exhaust the stock of cooked patties. If I remember right it's ten patties per tray. With two trays in rotation. Thus a single order of 20 hamburgers could cripple the production line for 5+ minutes.

seanmcdirmid 4y ago
It doesn’t take that long to cook more meat as long as the grills haven’t been taken down for cleaning. During rush hour they are doing way more volume than that, it’s just the staging cabinets are in between someone who is cooking meat and someone who is assembling product. Chicken nuggets and chicken paddies are much slower to cook, 4 minutes or so rather than 30 seconds it takes to cook a run of 10 to 1 meat.
sergers 4y ago
that is really cheap compared to here(canada). just for 2 chicken burgers, + 1 hamburger, its about 12USD i have to always ask for my food made "fresh", otherwise you run risk of getting "old" food. the one closest to my house is always slow, wait 5+ minutes for old food... or wait 10-12 minutes for "fresh" (quarter of the time we still have to complain about it being old/dry). i know plenty of people who do this always, so i guess always backing up the line. really i dont think it backs up much anything as most mcdonalds appear to be overly staffed with people doing nothing at times standing around.
throwaway09223 4y ago
In the 90s McDonald's had a 29 cent hamburger promotion on Wednesdays - most stores had a 20 burger cap per order. My friends and I would all go with about $7 and each order 20 hamburgers. There might be five of us, each ordering 20 burgers, for 100 burgers total. They happily filled the orders. It didn't take that long at all. We would do this just about every week.
gruez 4y ago
What's the money saving trick here? Ordering plain hamburgers rather than getting any of the fancy burgers (eg. big mac) or fries/drinks?

seanmcdirmid 4y ago

It doesn’t take that long to cook more meat as long as the grills haven’t been taken down for cleaning. During rush hour they are doing way more volume than that, it’s just the staging cabinets are in between someone who is cooking meat and someone who is assembling product. Chicken nuggets and chicken paddies are much slower to cook, 4 minutes or so rather than 30 seconds it takes to cook a run of 10 to 1 meat.

sergers 4y ago

that is really cheap compared to here(canada). just for 2 chicken burgers, + 1 hamburger, its about 12USD i have to always ask for my food made "fresh", otherwise you run risk of getting "old" food. the one closest to my house is always slow, wait 5+ minutes for old food... or wait 10-12 minutes for "fresh" (quarter of the time we still have to complain about it being old/dry). i know plenty of people who do this always, so i guess always backing up the line. really i dont think it backs up much anything as most mcdonalds appear to be overly staffed with people doing nothing at times standing around.

throwaway09223 4y ago

In the 90s McDonald's had a 29 cent hamburger promotion on Wednesdays - most stores had a 20 burger cap per order. My friends and I would all go with about $7 and each order 20 hamburgers. There might be five of us, each ordering 20 burgers, for 100 burgers total. They happily filled the orders. It didn't take that long at all. We would do this just about every week.

gruez 4y ago

What's the money saving trick here? Ordering plain hamburgers rather than getting any of the fancy burgers (eg. big mac) or fries/drinks?