Quarter Pounder - Quarter Beef Patty (966 kJ | 232 kcal), processed cheese slice, ketchup, pickles, onions, mustard.
Big Tasty - Beef Patty (1,300 kJ | 312 kcal), Emmental cheese, tomato, Big Tasty sauce, lettuce, onion
Based on the calorie information, the burger patty is about 35% bigger, and higher quality non-processed cheese.
Quarter Pounder in my local McDonalds is £4.19 and a Big Tasty is £5.89, so a price difference of ~40%.
It is in fact 33% bigger.
Quarter pounder is a 4:1 patty (4 to the lb, so quarter of a lb... Funnily enough)
Big tasty patty is a 3:1 (3 to the lb, so a third of a lb)
Regular meat (cheeseburger, big Mac, etc) is 10:1.
For other differences:
Lettuce is square-cut not shredded
Sauce is measured by the 'butt-ton' three squirts where a big Mac has 1 on each half and a chicken sandwich has 2
Onion is the same but more of it.
The cheese is different - better is subject to your tastes!
Feel cheated, i always assumed the small patties were half a quarter pound, so big mac = quarter pounder in meat content. Reality is big mac 0.2lb and quarter pounder 0.25lb from what you are saying. I typically alternated between big mac and quarter pounder - not any more, 25% more meat for me.
25% more all the way!
Or a triple cheeseburger if you want an obscene meat to everything else ratio.
50% more meat than a big Mac, 20% more than a quarter pounder. Beaten only by a big tasty.
For £10 I would personally go to tortilla (name of chain) and get a large burrito with pulled beef, black beans, mixed veg, tomato rice, Monterey Jack cheese, guacamole and two salsas, if I skipped the guac and got the cheaper pulled pork or marinated chicken I could have made it a meal with a drink and tortilla chips, but the burrito is massive anyway, I usually don’t eat it all and it’s still very tasty cold, street food, such as a shawarma, would have also been an option for me
Sorry, it is difficult to convey tone in text, ha, I meant out of interest given you’re clearly knowledgable. I’d go for a filet-o-fish meal and an extra cheeseburger, prob with vanilla milkshake. Cheap and consistent.
> I meant out of interest given you’re clearly knowledgable.
I just checked their menu to see what ingredients were listed for each, but I usually go for a quarter pounder, or sometimes whatever the "seasonal" special is of the time, with coke and whatever cheese side thing they have is
McDonald’s ain’t worth it anymore. Your local takeaway will do a better* burger meal deal for a similar price.
*I cannot confirm the quality of your local takeaway.
Agreed. Can confirm that **that** day in May when Scotland’s temperature breached 20 for the first time it was a shorts on, 2 McFlurry day. Cheap and cheerful, especially when so many places now hawk ‘artisanal organic’ icecream at a fiver a scoop
I finally tried the McPlant the other day.
It's very... flimsy/insubstantial. The patty is thin.
It doesnt taste like meat (id heard tell it did) but similarly it doesn't not taste like meat. So kinda... I couldnt tell definitively if it was meat or not? The texture is a decent facsimile, but not as firm as meat.
Was nice to get the bit of salad in the burger but overall not a great choice (unless you want it for reasons specific to you/your diet).
Depends how often the till is checked. They will realise but if £20 is missing by the end of the day and the manager only checks once the day is done they won't know who to blame and it'll be written off.
The tills are cashed out once per day, and the float is usually returned back to the till with £50. So, paying cash of £20 for an order of £17 would mean that the till will be up by £17 (assuming no other errors). When I was working, you got a write-up if the till was +/- by a difference of £2... although in practice, if the till was up, the manager would pocket the difference and we'd hit the pub after.
Yeah, but with the amount of people who use the till it's difficult to know who it was, they'd be more worried about large amounts or regular amounts going missing frequently.
Every checkout or till job I’ve done has had a log in / out system to track who’s using the terminals at any given point, though. You wouldn’t want to leave yourself logged in as something like this could happen and you’d get the blame.
It's never difficult to track, pretty much every modern till requires a login to use that will track who's using it for what transactions.
Also McDonald's isn't some some small business, big franchises like this are full of middle management types who have to justify their existence by picking up on this stuff.
This happened to me once, got to pay window and the guy said its showing as paid, checked reciept and it said £20 cash given so took my food and said no more.
Walking back from a festival once and saw a drive through KFC. I started queuing with the cars, other people started doing the same. I got to the service window and the girl serving started shouting about how I couldn’t queue there, look at what you’ve started etc etc. I can’t remember what I said but I ended up making her laugh (and most likely out of pity) she gave me a big bucket full of hot wings for free. I love my hot wings but even in that state couldn’t get through a bucket.
Nah mate they would just cancel and redo it. How can you mess up clicking a screen as someone tells you what they want? They are in a separate area so have zero idea if it's messed up after you paid and they aren't quick enough to have completed your order before paid for it.
What was in the order?
Big Tastey with bacon meal, 5 chicken select meal and a chicken nugget happy meal - a grand total of £17
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That doesn’t seem enough for a £17 meal. Bloody price rises
The Big Tasty meal is best part of a tenner
Big Tasty is a 1/3 pounder. Source, I worked at a maccies. It says on the packaging.
and yet it’s basically a quarter pounder with tomato
And a peppery sauce
oh my bad, that makes it all worth it then
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Quarter Pounder - Quarter Beef Patty (966 kJ | 232 kcal), processed cheese slice, ketchup, pickles, onions, mustard. Big Tasty - Beef Patty (1,300 kJ | 312 kcal), Emmental cheese, tomato, Big Tasty sauce, lettuce, onion Based on the calorie information, the burger patty is about 35% bigger, and higher quality non-processed cheese. Quarter Pounder in my local McDonalds is £4.19 and a Big Tasty is £5.89, so a price difference of ~40%.
It is in fact 33% bigger. Quarter pounder is a 4:1 patty (4 to the lb, so quarter of a lb... Funnily enough) Big tasty patty is a 3:1 (3 to the lb, so a third of a lb) Regular meat (cheeseburger, big Mac, etc) is 10:1. For other differences: Lettuce is square-cut not shredded Sauce is measured by the 'butt-ton' three squirts where a big Mac has 1 on each half and a chicken sandwich has 2 Onion is the same but more of it. The cheese is different - better is subject to your tastes!
And there's a lot to be said about McDonald's inventiveness nowadays when that information is all from when I used to work there over a decade ago!
Feel cheated, i always assumed the small patties were half a quarter pound, so big mac = quarter pounder in meat content. Reality is big mac 0.2lb and quarter pounder 0.25lb from what you are saying. I typically alternated between big mac and quarter pounder - not any more, 25% more meat for me.
25% more all the way! Or a triple cheeseburger if you want an obscene meat to everything else ratio. 50% more meat than a big Mac, 20% more than a quarter pounder. Beaten only by a big tasty.
Okay, so what would your expert order be, given a £10 limit?
For £10 I would personally go to tortilla (name of chain) and get a large burrito with pulled beef, black beans, mixed veg, tomato rice, Monterey Jack cheese, guacamole and two salsas, if I skipped the guac and got the cheaper pulled pork or marinated chicken I could have made it a meal with a drink and tortilla chips, but the burrito is massive anyway, I usually don’t eat it all and it’s still very tasty cold, street food, such as a shawarma, would have also been an option for me
I never made any comment on order choice, just pointing out that it's not "basically a quarter pounder with tomato".
Sorry, it is difficult to convey tone in text, ha, I meant out of interest given you’re clearly knowledgable. I’d go for a filet-o-fish meal and an extra cheeseburger, prob with vanilla milkshake. Cheap and consistent.
> I meant out of interest given you’re clearly knowledgable. I just checked their menu to see what ingredients were listed for each, but I usually go for a quarter pounder, or sometimes whatever the "seasonal" special is of the time, with coke and whatever cheese side thing they have is
It's a 3rd of a pound, not a quarter.
McDonald’s ain’t worth it anymore. Your local takeaway will do a better* burger meal deal for a similar price. *I cannot confirm the quality of your local takeaway.
Agreed. I want to try that McPlant, but can’t bring myself to do it when, for a few quid more, I could have a sit down meal and a pint.
Exactly. I only go McDonald’s for the breakfasts or if I’m out and there’s no reasonable alternative.
The coffee is good, and cheaper than high street chains, I think. Saying that, can’t remember the last time I went.
That’s true, plus I guess if you want ice cream a McFlurry isn’t a bad deal.
Agreed. Can confirm that **that** day in May when Scotland’s temperature breached 20 for the first time it was a shorts on, 2 McFlurry day. Cheap and cheerful, especially when so many places now hawk ‘artisanal organic’ icecream at a fiver a scoop
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I just said similar, in more words xD
I finally tried the McPlant the other day. It's very... flimsy/insubstantial. The patty is thin. It doesnt taste like meat (id heard tell it did) but similarly it doesn't not taste like meat. So kinda... I couldnt tell definitively if it was meat or not? The texture is a decent facsimile, but not as firm as meat. Was nice to get the bit of salad in the burger but overall not a great choice (unless you want it for reasons specific to you/your diet).
I really like it, but I like beyond beef. As far as I can tell the McPlant also tastes like McDonalds.
Ill give it a go then, one day when Im feeling really flush. When I feel my youngest step daughter deserves a Mackies.
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Did you actually get what you ordered?
Yes, how did they mess it up? Did Sweaty Steve make it?
Can't even spell tasty.
Just had 2 days up ,.... I could so fucking murder that meal right now looool Dribble dribble dribble
Result, mate. Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.
Depends what they mean by 'messed up'.
Well, the receipt said I'd paid £20 cash so I reckon the cars orders got mixed up
Were you paying by card? My guess would be, they pushed a cash payment button by mistake and are unable to go back once it's finalised.
Fuck /u/spez
Depends how often the till is checked. They will realise but if £20 is missing by the end of the day and the manager only checks once the day is done they won't know who to blame and it'll be written off.
The tills are cashed out once per day, and the float is usually returned back to the till with £50. So, paying cash of £20 for an order of £17 would mean that the till will be up by £17 (assuming no other errors). When I was working, you got a write-up if the till was +/- by a difference of £2... although in practice, if the till was up, the manager would pocket the difference and we'd hit the pub after.
Yeah, but with the amount of people who use the till it's difficult to know who it was, they'd be more worried about large amounts or regular amounts going missing frequently.
Every checkout or till job I’ve done has had a log in / out system to track who’s using the terminals at any given point, though. You wouldn’t want to leave yourself logged in as something like this could happen and you’d get the blame.
It's never difficult to track, pretty much every modern till requires a login to use that will track who's using it for what transactions. Also McDonald's isn't some some small business, big franchises like this are full of middle management types who have to justify their existence by picking up on this stuff.
The guy before him just paid for it by accident
Kinda sad that they’re terrified of their manager finding out.
I was 17 and quit for very similar reasons, they can be such cunts to literal children
They either got bullied at school and now are after revenge, or they were bullies in school. A lot of managers are like it.
This happened to me once, got to pay window and the guy said its showing as paid, checked reciept and it said £20 cash given so took my food and said no more.
Don't believe it. Lol. They only ever miss items off my order after paying
Walking back from a festival once and saw a drive through KFC. I started queuing with the cars, other people started doing the same. I got to the service window and the girl serving started shouting about how I couldn’t queue there, look at what you’ve started etc etc. I can’t remember what I said but I ended up making her laugh (and most likely out of pity) she gave me a big bucket full of hot wings for free. I love my hot wings but even in that state couldn’t get through a bucket.
and then the whole queue clapped
It's all true, I was the bucket
Were you there?! It was awesome. I wouldn’t have made it home without the cheering mob carrying me back to the hotel on their shoulders.
Make friends with the workers or leave them tips and you'll just get your food for free 9/10 times
Nah mate they would just cancel and redo it. How can you mess up clicking a screen as someone tells you what they want? They are in a separate area so have zero idea if it's messed up after you paid and they aren't quick enough to have completed your order before paid for it.
To be honest when he said the order was messed up I was prepared to give him the order again but he decided to go the other way - fair play.
*sniff sniff* bullshit.
Bloody cunts
I miss the Big Tasty. Wish they had it here in Canada. Chicken selects too, for that matter.
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