By the time I started working there, the tomatoes came pre-sliced.kr.abs.swy wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2022, 9:26 pm To be clear, just about everything on sale at a Burger King has been frozen -- at least that was the case 20+ years ago when I worked at one. Whopper patties, chicken patties, fish patties -- all frozen. French fries, onion rings -- all frozen. Egg patties, sausage, bacon -- all frozen. Chicken Tenders -- frozen. Biscuits -- arrived in preformed frozen patties and were baked each morning. The apple pies -- frozen. We would pull a day or two worth, unthaw them, then warm them in the microwave when they were ordered.
Lettuce was pre-bagged and arrived in the store already shredded.
Cheese of course was not frozen.
Bread arrived from a local-ish bakery and wasn't frozen.
Tomatoes were sliced in store. I believe cucumbers for the salads were also.
At least then, technical procedures were that all beef patties had to be microwaved, even if it came directly out of the broiler and skipped the holding steamer. Ironically if you got a patty that was fresh out of the broiler, you could end up with a really soggy bun after it came out of the microwave because the juices from the patty would just annihilate the bun when it was microwaved.
The mayo had enough preservative that it did not require any refrigeration whatsoever. (It went back in the fridge overnight, but could sit out on the burger boards all day long). Same for the sauce for the Big King and the tartar sauce for the fish sandwich.
On occasion, we would run out of onion rings. It wasn't unheard of to take some money from petty cash, drive down to Albertsons, buy a few bags of their frozen onion rings, and toss them in the fryer. We really didn't sell that many onion rings. Maybe something like one order of onion rings for every 25 orders of fries.
DFWRetaileWatcher wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2022, 5:47 pmTo answer your question about the Onion Rings, they are prefrozen, at least that was the case when I worked there over 10 years ago.Alpha8472 wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2022, 4:18 am I saw videos online about someone who had never tried Burger King before. His reaction was that the Burger tasted like a sauce burger. You could not taste much of the meat at all.
The mayo and sauces are out of control. They have lost the flavor of the meat. Perhaps it is to mask the frozen meat flavor or the microwave taste. When you microwave meat, the flavor is altered versus flame broiling.
The onion rings are so processed. They have a coating on them that is like a manufactured shell. It is too sweet and artificial. Other restaurants fry real fresh onions. Does Burger King get their onion rings prefrozen?
As far as the meat, I understand the microwave thing is at the discretion of the individual store/franchise. Not all Burger King locations do it, and it's not a corporate directive. That said, at my Burger King location (also franchised) in Metro Detroit, we were also in fact trained to microwave the patties for about 30 seconds before finishing the sandwhich & serving it. This accomplished 2 things, that being to ensure the meat was fully cooked (without that spongy texture) and also to drain the juices so the burger isn't runny.
I'm almost positive the Burger King locations here in DFW do *NOT* microwave their patties, because I always get meat with a spongy texture and wet buns.
Everything else you say is spot on though.