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A tale from when I worked at McDonalds (approx. 15 years ago). This particular McDonalds, was directly across the road from one of the most popular beaches in Sydney, and exactly halfway between 2 massive pubs, so I am sure you can imagine what most Friday and Saturday night shifts were like (I worked in the kitchen).
At the time, McDonalds had a “limited time only” 3 battered shrimp for $3.00. This SC has clearly come straight from one of the pubs, and you could smell the alcohol a mile away, and he could not even stand upright (even when holding onto the counter). He gets the shrimp as part of a meal, and next thing we know, he is screaming at the poor girl on the service counter that the shrimp are flat and that we had clearly hit them with a hammer before serving them to him (all the shrimp came like that – frozen and battered, ready to be thrown in the deep fryer).
He kept yelling about how he was getting ripped off because the shrimp were so flat, and after a couple of minutes of ignoring the yelling, the manager finally got off her butt and came out of the manager’s office, and he shoved the box with the shrimp under her nose and screamed at her to get him shrimp that had not been hit with a hammer first.
So the other guy in the back and I go through the shrimp already cooked and being held in the warmer and tried to pick out 3 shrimp that did seem to be so flat, and gave them to the manager. She gave them to the customer and he yelled that they were even flatter than the last lot, and he wants new shrimp that we have not hit with a hammer.
Me and the other guy from the kitchen took one of the bags of frozen shrimp out to him, to prove that this is how they arrived to us- already processed and he yelled at us that we had already hit them with a hammer, and he wanted fresh battered shrimp that we had not hammered yet.
The SC and his shrimp ended up getting escorted out by the security guard (this McDonalds had a security guard on Friday and Saturday nights).
At the time, McDonalds had a “limited time only” 3 battered shrimp for $3.00. This SC has clearly come straight from one of the pubs, and you could smell the alcohol a mile away, and he could not even stand upright (even when holding onto the counter). He gets the shrimp as part of a meal, and next thing we know, he is screaming at the poor girl on the service counter that the shrimp are flat and that we had clearly hit them with a hammer before serving them to him (all the shrimp came like that – frozen and battered, ready to be thrown in the deep fryer).
He kept yelling about how he was getting ripped off because the shrimp were so flat, and after a couple of minutes of ignoring the yelling, the manager finally got off her butt and came out of the manager’s office, and he shoved the box with the shrimp under her nose and screamed at her to get him shrimp that had not been hit with a hammer first.
So the other guy in the back and I go through the shrimp already cooked and being held in the warmer and tried to pick out 3 shrimp that did seem to be so flat, and gave them to the manager. She gave them to the customer and he yelled that they were even flatter than the last lot, and he wants new shrimp that we have not hit with a hammer.
Me and the other guy from the kitchen took one of the bags of frozen shrimp out to him, to prove that this is how they arrived to us- already processed and he yelled at us that we had already hit them with a hammer, and he wanted fresh battered shrimp that we had not hammered yet.
The SC and his shrimp ended up getting escorted out by the security guard (this McDonalds had a security guard on Friday and Saturday nights).
Good grief; it's gonna taste the same no matter the shape! First world problem, much?
I would probably try it but I don't think I'd like it .
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