5 surprising things you lot didn't know nearly Wendy'southward

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At that place'southward a lot you lot don't know almost the fast food concatenation.
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I accept a special place in my heart for fast food workers, because I was one for five years. My first job was as a crew member at Wendy's, and in my time there I learned a lot about what goes on backside the scenes in the construction of your Inferior Bacon Cheeseburger and much more.

To my pleasant surprise, I never witnessed anything disgusting or blench-worthy while working there, and I still find it to be 1 of the simply fast food restaurants I'm comfortable eating at. So, here's what you lot need to know, even if you didn't work at Wendy'southward.

While I can simply speak to what I saw at my Wendy's location while I was working there, INSIDER has also reached out to Wendy's for comment.

The meat is really fresh, never frozen.

The slogan is (partially) true.
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Well, the beef is. Where I worked, the chicken (grilled, homestyle, spicy, nugs) was delivered to the restaurant frozen, but the burger patties remained refrigerated at all times. So, the respond to the infamous question, "Where's the beef?" is definitely "in the cooler."

They reduce food waste matter as much as possible.

It's actually pretty absurd.
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When you lot think about the food waste that goes on in fast nutrient , you lot have to appreciate this signal. When burger patties are grilled, they're only servable for a certain corporeality of time — around xxx minutes — and so when that time is up, it was my store's policy that the patties would get into a container where they are ground and stored to be used for Wendy's famous chili the post-obit mean solar day.

Another fun food waste fact: the Frosty machine (the goblet that holds the magic chocolate deliciousness that is only 99 cents per minor cup) at the Wendy'southward where I worked was emptied out and cleaned at the end of each night. We would place the excess Frosty mixture into a bucket and store it in the freezer overnight, just to exist returned to the frosty motorcar the following morning. I know, the bucket thing sounds unsanitary and weird, but I can clinch you lot it's all completely hygienic and bourgeois.

There's zippo "fresh-squeezed" near their natural lemonade.

Not everything is super fresh.
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Yes, in that location are sliced lemons in that display bullpen, just where I worked, they were simply for show. I detest to break it to y'all, only the lemonade we would brand at my store was just about as "fresh" equally the powder you mix with h2o at home. And it calls for a ton of white carbohydrate — like, a ton. And so recall about that the next fourth dimension yous go for a large.

Their salads are actually fresh.

These are real veggies.
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I am personally invested in the freshness of Wendy's salads because I spent too many mornings washing and chopping dozens of lettuce varieties and produce, and hand-prepping the batches needed for the day — Apple Pecan, Spicy Chicken Caesar, you name it — I can notwithstanding recite the number of tomatoes that were to exist placed in the bottom right hand corner of each. Information technology was piece of work, permit me tell yous. And, if there were ever whatever left over from the previous day, the Wendy'south where I worked would throw them abroad.

The employees are always listening.

Yes, even in the drive thru lane.
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This really goes for any fast food joint, and information technology's something anyone who has worked in fast food volition tell y'all. When you pull upward to the speaker in a bulldoze thru lane, your car sets off a sensor that turns on the microphone. As long as your car is triggering that sensor, the external microphone stays on. So yeah, they tin can hear you talking to your mom on the phone, or complaining about the line in forepart of yous. So be nice.

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