Disturbing Fast Food Restaurant Secrets

April 18th, 2016

Awake Goy

Fast food is disgusting, and is made out of 10 percent foodstuffs, 90 percent fillings found on the floor. Even hardcore Big Mac fans know that. But you know what’s really disturbing about fast food places? Everything else they do. Some of their corporate practices are shadier than a thousand Eminems, and if pink slime and e-coli aren’t enough to convince you to grill your own damn burgers from now on, nothing will.

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The McDonald Brothers were put out of business…by a McDonalds

The story of McDonalds founder Ray Kroc is basically that of a petulant bully who wins. According to a Daily Mail interview with the McDonald family, after Kroc convinced the McDonald brothers to let him franchise their restaurant, he immediately began plotting their demise. He hated how he couldn’t change things at his McDonalds without a thumbs-up from the brothers (who were, technically, his bosses). So he offered to buy the company outright. When the brothers asked for $2.7 million plus 0.5 percent of future company royalties, Kroc apparently snapped, throwing a baby tantrum in his office and cursing the McDonald family for being so greedy as to ask for money. How dare they?

Kroc eventually paid, but then immediately cut the brothers out of their royalty deal, which would’ve earned them hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition, Kroc hated that the brothers still ran their old restaurant under a new name (Big M). So, he opened up another McDonalds nearby. Within a few years, Big M was no more. Ray Kroc had achieved his dream of owning a hugely successful company, plus another dream of guaranteeing his old partners would never work again. Fitting punishment for the crime of annoying him once.

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Jimmy John’s makes regular employees sign non-compete contracts

If you leave a fast food job and aren’t, say, the CEO, you can easily get another low-paying job elsewhere. Unless, sadly, you work at Jimmy John’s, the popular sandwich shop best known for never having one of its mascots wind up in prison. As revealed by the Huffington Post, when JJ’s hires you to slap turkey on rye for eight bucks an hour, they force you to sign a non-compete contract that bars you from working for any competitors for two years after you leave. By competitors, they mean any company that makes more than ten percent of their money off of sandwiches, and is less than three miles away from any Jimmy John’s, anywhere. Since sandwiches aren’t exactly an exotic dish enjoyed only by the hippest of the hipsters, and since there are about 2,300 JJs worldwide, with more coming every year, exiled Jimmy Johns workers are pretty much screwed.

You’re probably wondering what justification Jimmy John’s could possibly have for handcuffing minimum-wage workers like this. Well, join the club: the company refuses to give a reason, probably because every possible reason would be the dirt worst, and they know this.

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Colonel Sanders hated what KFC did to his recipes

Kentucky Fried Chicken can have every comedian cosplay Colonel Sanders, but it doesn’t change how the real Colonel Sanders despised KFC for betraying everything he stood for. Sanders, having made his name on delicious chicken and gravy, sold KFC in 1964. But to the bottom-line-obsessed new owners, his recipes were terrible for mass production. As one executive put it, “The Colonel’s gravy was fantastic but you had to be a Rhodes Scholar to cook it.” So they dumbed down the recipes, and Sanders (who remained with KFC as a goodwill ambassador) was incensed by this. He’d regularly visit KFCs and loudly dismiss the gravy’s taste with “[it] ain’t fit for my dogs” and the chicken as “a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.”

KFC, for its part, treated the badwill ambassador like, well, a doddering old grandpa. As Vice President John Fox patronized, “He has been doing this forever. It comes and goes. The colonel is just a very independent-minded individual.” Eventually, both sides sued the other: Sanders sued for misusing his image, and the company sued for slander. Post-settlement, Sanders promised to never bash the company again, a promise he simply couldn’t keep. Because when corporate hacks take dime-store Crayolas to your culinary Da Vinci, you tend to stay cranky.

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Pizza Hut’s “delivery fee” is probably a tip-slashing scam

Have you ever seen the “delivery fee” on your Pizza Hut bill, assumed it went to the delivery person (hence the name), and adjusted your tip accordingly? It appears you may have been bamboozled by a company greedier than you could ever imagine. According to an August 2015 lawsuit filed by two former delivery drivers—one of whom worked for the company for seven years—the Hut’s “delivery fees” don’t actually go to the delivery people, but to Pizza Hut itself. So if you order a $10 pizza with a $2 fee, you’re paying Pizza Hut $12 for that pizza. And if you don’t tip, thinking $2 is already 20 percent, the driver gets nothing and the company gets everything. Good luck getting service with a smile after that snafu.

If that’s not enough, Pizza Hut has yet another delivery fee lawsuit to deal with, this one a class-action filed by a former customer who claims the company overtaxes its product by secretly taxing both the delivery fee and the food. If true, that would be super-illegal and make the company look even worse than it does whenever you take a bite and sadly remember “oh yeah…it’s Pizza Hut.”

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Wendy’s fired the “Where’s The Beef” lady for the worst reasons

You’d think it would be impossible for even a fast food company to turn the brief employment of a sweet old lady into a shady facepalm-fest. And yet, here are are, documenting what Wendy’s did to Clara Peller, the old lady who sassily demanded of Wendy’s’ competitors, “where’s the beef?” This made her a minor celebrity and even got her onto WrestleMania, where she narrowly lost the WWF Championship to Hulk Hogan. Or rang the timekeeper’s bell, either one.

Despite her helping them earn gobs of money, Wendy’s apparently paid Peller peanuts; she reportedly earned $317 a day for her first commercial, and not much more for her second one, though Wendy’s claims she made half a million. But cheating an old person and probably lying about it paled to what happened next. Peller, needing money, appeared in a Prego meat sauce ad and claimed “I found it! I really found it!” Wendy’s, showcasing the family-friendly warmth it’s known for, fired her. Why? Because as Wendy’s put it, the commercial ”infers that Clara found the beef at somewhere other than Wendy’s restaurants,’ and this apparently damaged the multi-billion-dollar brand that gets richer everyday somehow. Who knew the secret ingredient in those delicious shakes of theirs was pure, unfiltered pettiness?

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Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. and Womansvibe.com. Both website are dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 36+ years researching Bible, History, Alternative Health, Secret Societies, Symbolism and many other topics that are not reported by mainstream media.