5 surprising things yous didn't know nigh Wendy's

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At that place's a lot y'all don't know well-nigh the fast food concatenation.
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I have a special identify in my centre for fast food workers, because I was one for five years. My get-go chore was equally a coiffure member at Wendy's, and in my time there I learned a lot almost what goes on behind the scenes in the construction of your Junior Bacon Cheeseburger and much more.

To my pleasant surprise, I never witnessed anything disgusting or cringe-worthy while working there, and I nonetheless find it to be one of the only fast food restaurants I'g comfortable eating at. And so, here's what you demand to know, fifty-fifty if you didn't work at Wendy's.

While I tin can merely speak to what I saw at my Wendy'south location while I was working there, INSIDER has also reached out to Wendy's for comment.

The meat is really fresh, never frozen.

The slogan is (partially) truthful.
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Well, the beef is. Where I worked, the chicken (grilled, homestyle, spicy, nugs) was delivered to the restaurant frozen, simply the burger patties remained refrigerated at all times. So, the respond to the infamous question, "Where's the beefiness?" is definitely "in the cooler."

They reduce nutrient waste product as much as possible.

It's really pretty absurd.
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When you think well-nigh the food waste that goes on in fast food , you lot have to appreciate this point. When burger patties are grilled, they're just servable for a certain amount of time — around 30 minutes — so when that time is up, it was my shop's policy that the patties would go into a container where they are footing and stored to be used for Wendy's famous chili the post-obit day.

Another fun food waste fact: the Frosty machine (the goblet that holds the magic chocolate deliciousness that is just 99 cents per small-scale cup) at the Wendy's where I worked was emptied out and cleaned at the finish of each night. We would identify the backlog Frosty mixture into a saucepan and store information technology in the freezer overnight, but to exist returned to the frosty car the post-obit morning time. I know, the bucket thing sounds unsanitary and weird, merely I tin can assure y'all it's all completely hygienic and conservative.

At that place's nada "fresh-squeezed" about their natural lemonade.

Not everything is super fresh.
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Yes, there are sliced lemons in that display pitcher, but where I worked, they were but for show. I hate to break it to you, merely the lemonade nosotros would make at my shop was just near equally "fresh" as the powder you mix with water at dwelling. And it calls for a ton of white sugar — like, a ton. So retrieve nearly that the side by side time you go for a large.

Their salads are actually fresh.

These are real veggies.
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I am personally invested in the freshness of Wendy'due south salads considering I spent likewise many mornings washing and chopping dozens of lettuce varieties and produce, and hand-prepping the batches needed for the 24-hour interval — Apple Pecan, Spicy Craven Caesar, y'all name it — I can however recite the number of tomatoes that were to be placed in the bottom right mitt corner of each. It was work, let me tell you. And, if there were e'er whatsoever left over from the previous twenty-four hour period, the Wendy's where I worked would throw them away.

The employees are e'er listening.

Yes, even in the bulldoze thru lane.
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This really goes for any fast food joint, and information technology's something anyone who has worked in fast food volition tell you lot. When you pull upwards to the speaker in a bulldoze thru lane, your car sets off a sensor that turns on the microphone. As long as your car is triggering that sensor, the external microphone stays on. So aye, they can hear you talking to your mom on the phone, or complaining about the line in front end of you. So be nice.

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