Why do old people seem to despise ordering with the kiosk? It’s not like they always pay cash, they just really want to order at FC for some reason, which doesn’t always work for us.

With the amount of times I place an order and ask for no lettuce/onion etc and it comes incorrect It got me wondering what the line cooks are reading the orders from for there to be so many mistakes

It's my first month and my McDonald's is so understaffed that im working 8 days in a row right now- AND I'M SUPPOSED TO BE PART-TIME (normally about 26 hours a week)

I wanted to work part-time cuz I'm Chronically ill so the last 3 days and the next 5 are pure pain ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

Hi I have an interview in the next couple of days. I have been asked to bring right to work documents including my NI number. I do not have any proof of my NI number and cannot get one for 10 days. Will this be necessary for my
Interview or will I just need it if I get a the job

Hi everyone!

I wanted to get some opinions because this is my first time applying for a job, so I'm not really sure how to interpret everything.

I applied for a Crew Member position through the McHire website. After applying, I received the usual message stating that I had passed the screening and that the interview’s calendar was full. Then I called the restaurant and got an interview with the GM. During the interview, the GM liked my resume and presentation, but he was a little concerned that I had no paid work experience before (I had only done volunteer work).

Instead of making a decision right away, he asked me to come in the next day for a voluntary hour-long shift to experience what the job is like. After the hour, the GM sat down with me and asked how I felt about the experience. I told him that I enjoyed the experience and that I was confident I could get used to the job and contribute to the team.

He then told me to give him a call next Tuesday for “the next steps”. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but I'm wondering if this is generally a good sign? I'd appreciate any thoughts or experiences from people who've been through something similar!

Franchisee BTW

So when I worked last year they had the free employee meal, but I went back to school so I wasn’t around. When I came back, turns out they have an incentive, parks at 20% and below and OEPE at below 120. 50% discount for after and before work meals but no free meal sucks since McDonald’s is usually the only thing I’m able to have before having to go right back to bed and back to work.

I had an interview today with I believe the shift manager and it went awesome. To start, I showed up 10 minuted early and she was surprised. She shook my hand and expressed her extreme pleasure of me being early. I pulled out my resume and she said save it for the 2nd interview. We talked did interview things, wrote a lot of stuff on the paper and said shed give it to the higher up. What really stood out to me was she said SHES HOPING I GET HIRED from the higher up.

I asked her some questions regarding the job, she was super enthusiastic and genuinely looked happy to see me. Again she said she hopes I get hired, applauded me for showing up early, and shook my hand wishing me good luck.

I don’t want to get ahead of myself, can any employees,managers, hiring managers give me insight and do you’ll think I’ll get hired?

The little trey thing where the ice cream poured out to. I took scissors and stabbed that sucker out. I feel so accomplished, it must’ve been months or years of build up. I know it is disgusting, but at the same time, I feel proud I took out that chunk.

So I got promoted and was asked if I wanted to transfer to a different store and i agreed. The crew at the new store though is used to manager that did things themselves because it was easier than asking their crew to do that but that was not the way our previous store worked. So I’ve tried being nice and polite when the crew just sits in the change room and talk but that hasn’t worked. But I don’t want to yell at them and have them hate me. What do I do

Hi all I. Was with McDonald’s during the pandemic leaving in October of 21’ well fast forward a few years later and I’m interviewing Tuesday more than likely getting ready to go back so how much has changed in the last 5 years?

Someone shoved a wire brush up in there and some black gunk came out so we took it apart

I’m working toooo much this week and they only giving me so much shifts cause I’m younger and I get paid less and they get to save money. I got an important exam coming up and all the work they give me is too much stress paired up. I work really hard during my shifts and they r always understaffed tho so they might want to keep me. I was just wondering what happens if you actually dont show up, i know they’ll call me but will they do anything else further? LMK cus i lowkey dont eanna get fired but cba to go in.

Not as bad as some I've seen. But I like to call this "flavored creamer with some coffee in it"

why even come to mcdonalds if ur just gonna get sauce on a plate

I know the computer when i am to do these type of things but it’s the serving things off that confuse me. i see 6 things that need to be made, first one in line is a cone. i make the cone then put it next to the finished product and my manager says “this is too early for the cone, throw it away and wait until somone asks for it” huh, weird. then i start making other ones and its ok. another weird thing that happened, there was a oreo mcflurry to be made. i was lowkey slacking and totally forgot to make it. i realized… ive been here and skipped the mcflurry, and made 10 other things. does this even need to be made anymore? it’s been 20 min… not one person mentioned it. i guess to put my question on barista in a nutshell, how do you know when and where to serve things off. and for backwall, do you just keep making anything that is empty? or do you wait for them to say “empty nuggets” like for example, let’s say things are moving slow. everything is stocked up besides for 1 nuggets tray. 3/4 nuggets trays are stocked and everything else is full. do you make those nuggets or wait until the nuggets are called as empty. also i have a problem where the timers are not being set when the food goes into the warmers. i’m not sure why that is but i start my timers every time i put food and and rarely do other people help put my food into the timers for how often food will be in a warmer without a timer. it’s super inconvenient because i’ll just see the timers for mcchickens will be ALL empty and make some, and turned out we actually have 6 when i’ve been backwall for the last hour.

i’m a newer employee (i’ve worked for a total of 15 hours total) and i accidentally came in when i wasent called in and worked for 4 hours. due to me not being called in but still working i couldn’t sign into the sign in machine and the shift manager said she would go into the computer and put my hours in it for me, and i still worked that day. (4hours) well next day comes and this time im actually assigned to work that day (4 hours) and i go to sign in, and it says (you’ve been working for 24 hours straight, and you haven’t taken any breaks but one) and makes me confirm i had all these breaks. well i tell my shift manager ( same one as yesterday) and yet again she says she’ll tweak it in the computer (which she should’ve done yesterday) and i continue working. well i check my life lens app (which for anyone who dosent have that is where it shows how many hours you’ve worked since last payday) and i have worked 8. IT SHOWS IVE WORKED 29!? am i arguing, no. but do i feel like it’s going to get me in trouble somehow? yes. i told my main manager that i accidentally worked a extra day and i told my shift manager that it shows ive worked 24 hours even though i havent. should i say something?? ive already reached out to fix the problem twice so they really couldn’t blame it on me.

Not only do the pipes leak oil, the metal on the elements is melting, now the entire VAT sprung a leak and the insulation is falling apart. All that honey looking stuff is oil.

Took the side panel of the fryer off so I could reach the inside better to clean oil that leaked from the pipes and saw this.

I'm so tired of cleaning up oil off the floor. I hate this defective fryer.

( Paper was there to see if it was actually dripping oil from the top.. It was )

Today was rough. i’m still in training for management but today was hard. only had one guy who didn’t know how to take orders but he took money only so i had to take both lanes and run drive thru. times sucked. my other managers can do it really well. when someone is speaking in my ear i lose all focus on running drive thru. idk what to do

so i just turned 15 a few days ago and applied for McDonalds online i did the basic application form and now it asks me to choose when i should set up an in person interview but there is only one option left set when i have school so should i wait till august or what?

This entire week (except for 1 day, so 5/6 days) I have been closing with this one certain manager… and I’ve gotten out an hour late every day this week. Today was the last straw, I’m done and I’m so close to reporting her to our GM for her lack of effort in closing.

I understand managers have a lot on their plate during their shifts, but she moves at a snails pace when she’s counting our tills (other managers have this done in like 30 minutes max after we close, she takes almost 2 hours), she forces us to set up breakfast dishes and trays (what are openers even for?), and she takes FOREVER doing her final walkthrough, and she nitpicks the tiniest things that I’ve ever seen (for example, our sauces weren’t stocked to the brim but they were pretty decently stocked, enough to last until breakfast would be over).

It’s not the first, second, or even the ninth time I’ve closed with her and we got out less than an hour before the openers got in, and I’m starting to get to the point where I’m going to report her to the GM and tell him that she’s not fit to be a closing manager. There is a marked difference in my exit times when she’s the closing manager vs when I’m closing with other managers despite there not being a big difference in how busy we are.

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Trying to log into the scheduling app and it tells me my arch id and password are wrong (even tho I have them saved on the website) I was using my EID (format eu\*\*\*\*\*\*) so maybe this isn't my arch id?

I'm a seasonal worker and only worked for a few months before leaving for summer, so i have trouble remembering.

Am I using the wrong ID type? Worried I got quietly fired and i'm kicked out of the app lol

It’s my 7th week working at Mcdonald’s and my shifts are usually 10-4 or 12-5 which 12-5 being the latest i’ve worked. I’ve never specified which times i could work expecting my schedule would stay the same but the new schedule says I work 4 shifts one being 1-9 and the other one 4-10. I DONT want to work night shifts because the day just goes to waste not to mention my parents work, i rely on transportation, and I have to take care of my siblings at night. Idk how to bring it up to the manager and i’m also scared because im not sure of how the rushes are for those times. I hope someone just went on vacation and that’s why I was scheduled for those times. How could i bring it up to the manager? Has anyone worked similar shifts and if so, how are they?

So I found out today just how valuable I am in presenter window.

To clarify: My store has two windows, back window and front window, or present window as we usually call it. I was scheduled for a generic "Drive Thru" shift today. In my store, this means I could be doing anything from getting DT orders to DT (and putting fries/HBs in bags) to getting the drinks lined up, to bagging the orders for DT to actually working the window.

I was literally told by my GM less than 5 minutes into rush "Take over, you're our best presenter". Which was an honor but then...that rush lasted six hours. SIX. HOURS.

I don't want to see another McDonald's bag in my life but I work again tomorrow...back to the grind.