Working at Japanese McDonald's is a Nightmare. 

thats a lot of undercooked food

@@Jono1982 Well, not exactly, it a lot of stale food... You cook up a lot of food at a time and just prep it when ordered. When big macs were on sale. We make like a hundred at time, and place them in warming bins.

@@TheBaldr i wish i could just buy em frozen and cook em at home

KFC has done similar unreasonable promotions for deliveries in my country. I think they just do that to fatten the tip of the delivery guy. People usually just feel awful when they can't make the advertised delivery time (you know that money is coming out of someone..). That was before delivery apps.

@@ShaferHart , in THEORY it makes sense as a promotion to get people on the door twice and make them feel like they got away with something in the process which in turn makes them feel good about themselves and that feeling will be related to the "restaurant" ... HOWEVER ... Whoever decided to implement said promo not only has never worked at McDonald's (not even as a manager) but probably has not eaten at one like a regular person because anyone who goes there knows it's not a good idea to force employees to such a strict timeline. That takes both a physical and an emotional toll. You are just stressed all the time cause your flight or fright instinct is ok all the time.

I respect his skills as well, but even more I feel like us filthy savages from the west brought him there and the world would be better without it.

*Raising my hand* I second the above comment!!😅🤣😅

To be fair, Japan still has sarcasm. It's just thought about differently.

How do people live without sarcasm?

@@juliamacedo2451 ik!! For a big chunk of my life, I've lived in a place where it's annoyingly overused, so I never thought of myself as a sarcastic guy. But without at least some of it, that seems to be limiting to humor.

The grave you dug yourself into, I felt that one as well

What a loser.

@@DevilDaRebel lmfao why you mad tho?

@@damien5601 Why you stupid though?

Lol

right. 😹

I came down to comment as soon as i heard that......lol, wdyk??? 1st comment!!!

This is too relatable 💀

lol 😂

relatable

Lmfao! Omg, my exact sentiments!!

Best answer! 😂

nailed it!

Lol🤣😅🤣

oh my god lmao

caraca tu ve os videos do Shun mano, nice

on point !! im working at mcdonalds in japan right now and that freaking teritama is alot more horrendous than the teriyaki

It didn't even occur to me how the Teriyaki Burger was such a pain to make. I'm sorry for anyone who works at McDonalds, but the Teriyaki Burger is just so goddamn tasty that it's my go-to burger when I eat at McDonalds

Young people dont get married and dont get a girl pregnant, make sure she takes the birth control pill daily in front of you and both wear protection. You will just condemn your new child to increasing poverty and these job trends worsen.

@@rejectionistmanifesto8836 what?

smile requests sounds odd tho

Smiling in food establishments is a must thing in Western world right? Mcdonalds is a western company, what else can employees do? 😅😅

@@ranjanbiswas3233 Before the pandemic most people I seen working fast food in America look mad at the world. And now with the masks they look even angrier. You can tell it in their eyes.

@@princesspikachu3915 Well doing job at US Mcdonalds means you are in student debt. In Japan, it means you are from a stable family who is preparing yourself for future. Poor kids work at either Family Mart or 7/eleven.

Yeah it's like how random guys on the street tell girls they should smile cause it's prettier, which is like uh?? Why should I smile for you?

simp

wait literally same! i thought no one noticed

Uh.. It's obvious the man maintain them. haha

Damn, can’t unsee

Me too

Oh yeah.

also helps people who are hard of hearing or deaf!

i wish i had subtitles when i work with new partners in construction, sometimes it's german people, some other times italians, everyone has a different accent and i need 1 or two weeks before i understand them without the need for them to repeat.

Some meals look more like a kit rather than the pictured product. So I thought, why not make family meal kits? "Fast burgers! Some assembly required."

Back 30 or 40 years ago, American McDonald's restaurants for a short period of time had second-hand clocks up on the... whatever you call those menu boards above and behind the cashiers. It was the same basic deal. That didn't last long.

As a former waiter and cashier, I encourage taking your time.

i might be like "ooo free hourglass too? thank you!" XD

Just take the hourglass and flip it sideways. Then card crush the hourglass to assert dominance.

He's admitted to looking androgynous in the past so..

Lmao a humble brag hahaha

@@ShaferHart what does that have to do with anything 🤣

@@ShaferHart He doesn’t look androgynous, just baby faced

Subtle. Flex.

sank you desu!

Only if you piss us off.

Of course there are worse things that could be done to mashed potato!

*laughs at the checkers video with someone doing that*

@@kenhollis6197 how do customers piss off the cooks? Curious cause I didn't think there were any direct interaction between them and the customer.

Gives it terroir

LOL

I'm from Chicago, can confirm :P

@@d00d3 Omg. 🤣 They probably ran out of ketchup for the lobby, but he could have at least given you a cup from the kitchen when you specifically asked.

Osaka has about as many people as Chicago but in 1/3 of the space. So they get a lot of traffic. I knew one girl who ate at Japanese McDonald's every day. (She was an English teacher.) She came to Japan as this cute latina girl and within 1 year ballooned out. You can't eat that stuff more than once a week at absolute max, and even that is really quite dangerous...

I'm surprised that there are ketchup dispensers. Where I'm from we get small packages of ketchup and they cost 50 cents.

I was a diligent and polite worker, but we used to have this lady who came in who was suuuuuch a lazy cow. She would always demand you brought her things (like napkins etc) and I'm like.... you walked passed the self service area to get to your seat. You literally had to pass it. I would still bring her things with a smile etc, but she was so ungrateful and rude all of the time.

Arigathanks Gozaimuch

It also sounds like they're saying "It's 39" all the time. (Sankyuu=39 in Japanese, and is a common pun.) There's a famous vitamin drink in Japan called Match, pronounced ma-chi. They sometimes have a berry flavor, or berry ma-chi. I think you can see where this is going. A friend helped me when I was sick, and she brought me Match to help get me back to health. After I recovered, I scoured the internet and local kombinience stores and finally put together 39 of the berry variety, leading to: san kyuu berry machi ......

@@dogchaser520 wouldn’t it be sanjyukyu natively? Or do they omit the jyu sometimes?

@@BallBagDonnie Think about the way we say numbers in English and that will give a hint. For years like 1996, we break it into 19 and 96. Or a phone number, where usually we give single digits but sometimes connect them into two-number pairs. You can do the same thing in Japanese. If you say "san" "kyuu" to a Japanese speaker, they'll still see 3 9 in their head. It doesn't work perfectly, because you're right, you do need juu for the tens position, but for a pun/joke, it doesn't matter so much. Good enough, in other words. There was a restaurant near my house that went by 3 9, so I think it's fairly popular

@@BallBagDonnie sankyuu is "three nine", sanjyuukyuu is "thirty-nine".

The kitchen would look like a blood bath 😩😂

Sadism

is there no mercy in your heart? (with a side of shrimp patty though)

@@IvorySiren More like a sauce bath. Imagine, teriyaki sauce everywhere and there's this one employee in a fetal position, rocking back and forth mumbling, "No more...so much sauce..."

. lmaoo - that’s sounds cool^

omg i dont speak japanese that much too but i passed the interview and will start this month and i feel like i will do the same as what you did 😂

Is your last name Ufarabia? :)

So cool that you worked there in 1978! You should make a video about the vintage McDonald's experience!

From Detroit, and can confirm 8000 McDonalds. And they are all really lousy. Forget ordering a smile, forget even eye contact, hell, most of the time the employees don't even FACE you anymore. I'm not joking, they will loudly talk shit with their fellow employees while sticking their arm out behind them to take your money or give you your cold, wrong food order. Sometimes they won't even do THAT, if it's late and slow they sometimes just act like they're closed and not take any orders.

My dad worked at a McDonald's in the 80s when I was a kid. He said his manager was trying to force him to use rotten onions on the quarter pounders and my dad refused so they were arguing about it, and the owner just happened to stop by at that time and asked him why they were bickering. My dad explained and said he would not serve rotten food and possibly make someone sick, and the owner gave the manager a mean face and took a few bucks out of the register and handed it to my dad and told him to go to the grocery store across the street and buy some onions. This was totally against McDonald's policy, since they have specific suppliers they're under contract to use. They're supposed to just tell customers they are out of something. But he was the owner of that franchise and many others in the area, so I guess he made his o n decision about it. Anyway, dad bought the onions and cut them up and then manager got a very stern lecture about why you shouldn't serve rotten food. No idea why he wasn't fired.

@@tarabooartarmy3654 Much respect to your dad

10/10

Me too!

me too, nearly choked on me lunch

If everything is perfect, the 60 seconds thing is actually feasible. Back in the day I was able to make a big mac in 15 seconds. Wrapping it took longer for me tbh. I always was bad at wrapping quickly. But once your screen started filling up and you start pending orders (you have more orders than there is room on the screen for), then you're screwed.

Me too! The funniest shit I've heard for a while!

Oh wait a minute...

I was laughing my ass off too when I got that part. 🤣🤣

didn't know that😅

@@SHUNchanjp you should watch the Chic Fil a video from RDCWorld

@@SHUNchanjp Yeah, it literally just makes them seem like robots and way less personable. I think a casual "Hey! How's it going?" when greeting is way better or like "Yeah, no problem!" after they say thank you (if they do)

@@justinmorgan961 No problem supposedly implies it would be a problem to do... which no one thinks.

Bro I hate that. I work for a bank and their headquarters is in ATL Georgia. Upper management wanted us to start saying “my pleasure” to our customers. Like... no?

We have that in the US??? I’ve lived here 26 years and didn’t know that.

It doesn’t happen in California that’s for sure

Work in general has changed over the past 40 years as the country (well the west in general) shifted from a manufacturing economy to a service economy. You used to go work at a factory when you got out of school and slowly work your way up to management if you could and often retire from the same factory you started at, and almost certainly in the same industry even if you ended up switching companies. And that mindset existed in the service industry as well quite a bit, though not necessarily as strongly (you could easily work at say, Sears for 20 or 30 years if you wanted back in the day). But as automation slowly took over factories at home and globalization pushed factory jobs that couldn't be automated out to cheaper labor markets elsewhere, we ended up with a massive glut of people looking for jobs and a rapidly growing service industry that was happy to employ them. But then somebody realized "hey, this job could be done by a kid in high school for 1/2 the wages.. lets just hire them.. on Mr. Family Man needs a job? Here's the new wage floor set by that kid who only needs enough money to buy some baseball cards and maybe save up for a new bike over the course of 6 months". And now basically all unskilled labor jobs pay crap and are considered crap. Even though there's still a continuously-growing number of unskilled labor jobs out there (barring major recessions of course..) there's also a continuously-growing number of "unskilled" workers as more and more jobs get replaced by robots (globalization isn't really a major cause of job loss anymore no matter what Republicans tell you - most things that could be exported to cheaper labor markets have already done so two decades ago back when Republicans were the ones telling us that we all needed to embrace globalization for the sake of those poor multinationals' bottom lines).

That was when it was still good. Now it's just full of angry teens/Adults who hate their jobs and overly processed food.

I was like, "chad?" CC is always good for a good chuckle

_tents fingers_ Time is money.

as a business major you should know the answer to this: convenience = $

Sankyou desu

'my pleasure' 🤣🤣🤣 #chickfila

I was in a German-food restaurant and was served by one of my former college students. Like all the other waitresses, she was wearing a ridiculous dirndl. I pretended not to recognize her, and she did the same.

For real bro. Us South Africans wear our hearts on our sleeves. So even if they told them to, they wouldn't be able to😅😂

Working in McDonald’s in Australia and from one McDonald’s worker to another... N’kosisikelele

one large scowl with frown, please

^we got a Florida Karen in the comments

It's 90seconds from order (payment finished) to present (pick up food) at the moment and it's very hard to achieve without tricking. it doesn't work with large orders.

@@WaruChibiKyo How should that even work during lunch time in non Corona times? There are probably 10 (computer) order stations plus two people at the register taking requests.

@@Leenapanther It doesn't really work even at busy hours we can't make the 90sec. so you delete the orders during quiet hours to achieve 90sec average in the end of the day.

Oh yeah? I never experienced that and i'm living my entire Life here in Germany. When was that Promotion Thing? 🤔

@@TomSir79 It's intern. i work at mc Donald's and we get an email every freaking time we are over the 90seconds. the guests normally don't know that you have to be that quick

🙅🏻‍♂️

Ah A Shun-connoisseur... Loved the comment. Sankyu Desu! =)

@@SHUNchanjp 😂😂😂😂😂

This comment is so underrated 🤣🤣

@@SHUNchanjp , is that your mom? 😂

I think it’s just to appeal to a broader audience

@@G-ReX Oh yeah that makes sense. He got a laugh out of this US citizen lol

@@charlespadilla2571 I can confirm this is a thing in germany as well. If the ice machine is broken at a McDonald's (which will happen quite often), it will usually stay broken for usually weeks or even months.

@@Compufreak Bro are you serious?? I don’t usually get ice cream here in the US but it’s such a common occurrence. I’m convinced they don’t want to sell ice cream anymore 😂

@@charlespadilla2571 I'm serious - I have multiple theories myself. (A) They have one vendor for all ice cream machines which has issues delivering spare parts (B) The revenue for ice cream is really low so the company policy is to keep those machines out of order as long as possible (C) The employees have issues with using the machine (cleaning too annoying??) and just tell it is broken. Not sure which one it is, usually I thought it's (a), but if it's a global issue it might be (b) or (c) as well.

eXcUsE mE iTs NoT tHe RiGhT tOy I wAnT a ReFuNd

@@danji9485 I'd be upfront about which three we'd have as soon as I knew that's what they were there for. On Fridays, we'd get new stock for the weekend. The dining area all day would be like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Any staff seen lugging a box would get a swarm of people to the counter. I began just getting condiments for restocking out in the back room on a tray just so I could work in peace. I know Japan doesn't do tipping, but my job made me appreciate food workers and delivery drivers. I give at least 15 percent tip because I also waitressed at a local donut shop. One of my mottos is Always be kind to the people who handle your food, and your meds. This covers doctors and nurses because they deserve it too (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤

Same, I was a worker during the beanie babies, they had me working cashier, I'm normally the grill cook. It was crowded, but the customers weren't that pushy at my location.

I collect Beanie Babies from secondhand stores and I have tons of McDonald’s mini Beanie Babies

I worked there during the Beanie Babies as well. And I work at McDonald’s now, people are way more crazy and rude nowadays.

Can You tell us non-American what this is about?

@@96LinkinPark08 chad is a name we give to ignorant millennial boys

@@96LinkinPark08 It's a name incels (involuntary celibates/involuntary virgins) call guys that are successful with women. Often, it's now used now to call something manly or cool or something like that.

My name is literally Chad in RL. He was talking to just me.

Another marketing major here. I cannot see how this could be positive. Cool, more people might come in curious to see how fast it is or to get coupons. But you're risking handing out undercooked food. Ok, what if you prepare more stuff to be ready to serve? You might end up serving customers food that's been sitting somewhere for a long time and risk food poisoning at worst and a bad experience to the customer at best. Also what if an inspector comes in to the restaurant and finds food that's been sitting there for a couple of hours? Or do you just throw it all away in set intervals? On top of it all you're giving your employees a LOT of pressure and stress, which will worsen the company's image as an employer. Awesome campaign, I like it.

That would be very pressuring for me. Keeping up with the people serving you: if they are panting you should pant too... That stress would make me not want to go to McDonald's again. (Not that I go, anyway.)

I was at a ryokan in Japan for the 2nd time and they must’ve been overbooked because the wait staff was very prompt with their dinner service. The staff wore traditional Japanese uniforms so you can easily hear the staff rushing when going back and forth to bring me my food. It was totally unnecessary as I felt everyone seemed stressed. I would’ve been fine if they slowed down because Japanese customer service is so good I don’t need it to also be so quick. My first ryokan experience was at a smaller inn and the staff definitely took their time but was very polite all the same.

That is not really anything like his critique here. CFA employees don't say that to each other no matter what, which is what he was complaining about. They have to say it to the customer (guest in their terminology). I guess it can be forced, but CFA (in my experience) is one of the only fast-food restaurants where the employee's response to a thank you might ever seem genuine.

What if I drop a coke and spill it all over the floor and said "I'm sorry"?

She worked there so you wouldn't have to, lol.

She doesn't want you to experience that pain.

Word.

they're also mostly underage lol

Un-word

@@PRicanGeek 😂🤣