On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 10:42:04 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 07:41:42 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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I don't really think that is true. If anything they are making bigger
burgers for more money. Some places have a McDonalds making a mega mac
using 2 quarter pounder patties instead of the ~1.7 oz patty they use
for a regular burger. Maybe your appetite is just getting bigger ;-)
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I’m meaning the standard Big Mac has gone up in
Price but the standard burger seems to have had a shrinking beef patty over the years. I know they now offer “hand crafted� and other variants of the same thing. I be not seen a “mega Mac� even advertised. Like I said- in my area.

They swear the standard patties are the same as they always were 1.6
oz (I was wrong with 1.7)
Then there is the 4oz patty.
That is uncooked so if they start with a fattier burger to start with,
it will end up smaller and the longer they cook it the smaller it
gets.
I know at Wendy's where they fried burgers the grease was hauled away
by the bucket and sold along with the used fryer oil.
A little fast food gee whiz info.
Wendy keeps the burgers on the grill until they sell (so they can say
they are cooked fresh) and any that get too old on the grill go into
the chili. That is why Wendy sells chili. They make the chili on site
using the unsold burgers and a #10 can of instant chili sauce. It is
"cooked" right there in the steam table pan.

Another thing a lot of people don't know is the "shake" is just a
powdered drink that they dump into that freezer machine along with a
measured amount of water. It takes a couple hours for that to become a
"shake" so it is the first thing they do in the morning.

Since we had the register business at both of them, I spent a lot of
time behind the counter and as part of the BK contract. our people
were training the store managers. I ended up going to BK manager
school and got a subset of the whole program. (the actual business
end, not so much anything about the food prep or HR).
It is really a pretty interesting business.
When Wendy rolled out their new registers (a repackaged version of the
PC based system BK used) it happened in Naples and I got to meet
"Dave".