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Funny this topic should come up .... I ripped McDonalds a nasty email today after getting yet another nasty looking burger.

I used to work at McDonalds... in 1993 - 1994. A GREAT McDonalds. If you were working the grill, and you were making messy burgers, you didn't get to work the grill anymore. The sandwiches had to be NEAT. APPEALING. And above all, they got microwaved for about 10 seconds to melt the cheese before the customer got them. Not making neat burgers with melted cheese would get you FIRED.

Now look at the mess..... I'm sick of ordering a burger, getting back to my office, and having to put the damned thing together. Is it really that much trouble to make sure that the meat is ON the bun... and that the cheese is ON the meat... and that there isn't ketchup smeared all over the top of the bun and squirting out every time you pick up the thing????!!!

Back when I worked at McD's, I learned that if you asked for a burger with extra cheese, they would make you a new one... because since the cheese on burgers was melted, they couldn't just take the bun off and slap a cold slice on. I got in the habit of asking for extra cheese. Last week I ordered a quarter-pounder with extra cheese.. as usual. When I unwrapped the burger, they had put a stack of ** 6 slices ** of cold cheese on top of the cold burger. I just couldn't eat it after seeing that..... it went into the "round file" and I spent the afternoon munching on a salad from my company's cafeteria.

WTF is wrong with these mouth-breathers that they are hiring today!!??

I used to work at McDonalds... in 1993 - 1994. A GREAT McDonalds.

I wondered when they stopped actually using the grill. I worked in a McD's down Silver Spring way in 1974 (the paperhat era), and the folks that worked the grill were the top of the "food chain" so to speak. I never got to the point of being able to work grill during the lunch rush, but you're right... the appearance of the food was important. We tried to make what we called "Movie Macs" or burgers that looked as good as the ones on the commercials.

Cleanliness was more important too...we usually had a person dedicated to cleaning the "lobby" at all times. We would have contests to see who could sweep, mop, clean all tables, and empty the trashcans the fastest.