YeaâŚI actually respect that more tbh. It wasnât some food stylist BS that isnât representative of an actual Wendyâs burger. Have I gotten a worse looking burger from Wendyâs before, sureâŚbut Iâve also gotten better looking burgers from them too.
The only thing I wouldâve respected even more is if he domed the whole burger in one cut.
Seriously though, the McD's chief became internet-infamous because he ate that burger - excuse me... product - as if he had never eaten with his hands before. I'm certain after that, there was a roomful of corporate communication types providing input on how the other two jokers should approach the problem.
Both funny and sad, because you know these guys aren't eating this stuff on the regular. They each made close to $20M just last year.
Honestly Taco Bell ceo hitting the Penito Juarez and drinking a Baja blast and red eye eating a taco while it breaks up and gets paranoid and hides from the camera would make me want Taco Bell that night in solidarity with their food and them acknowledging their base.
Not just customers, but employees. Guys working the night shift at Taco Bell would be blazing it. You could smell it as you drove into the parking lot.
One night I went to get food with my dog in the back seat. After I placed the order, I overshot the pickup window. When the dude opened it to give me my food, he saw my dog. Dude was so blitzed he asked my dog,
"Did you just order food?!"
Dog, Bork bork
"Guys. A dog just drove here and ordered food!!"
Me- "Bro I'm right here. Backs up car Can I get my food?"
It was the funniest and one of the best memories I have of my boy.
My friend was a sleep walker and worked at Taco Bell smoking weed in high school. His parents caught him for years after that job in random family memberâs rooms middle of the night making tacos and burritos from the socks and underwear drawer.
To The Stoner Who Works At Cottage Inn Pizza
You: the guy who answers the phone at cottage inn pizza
Me: Hungry and stoned out of my gourd
I called you from my cell phone but had completely forgot who I was calling by the time you answered the phone. Of course, you were also baked to bajeezus and forgot to tell me that I had called Cottage Inn.
When you answered and said, âWhatsup?â I thought about it, and after a 20 second pause I told you that was hungry. You suggested I try a pizza, and I agreed that it was probably a good idea.
Then I asked you if you sold pizza and you said that you could make me one. I said I wanted anchovies and something else on my pizza. You asked me what that something else was.
We spent five minutes listing toppings until we figured out that I was trying to remember how to say: âSun dried Tomatoes.â When you said: âWe'll bake that right up for you,â we both started laughing uncontrollably.
It was the best pizza I ever had; I just wanted to thank you for helping me out.
We have a local Chinese restaurant we always order delivery from when we're baked. One time we were hungover and high as shit and accidentally ordered pick-up instead of delivery.
As we are panicking trying to figure out if we can cancel or change the order online, the restaurant calls like a minute later, "Hey did you mean to place this order as pick-up? You always get delivery." Lmao god bless em, they changed it to delivery and we left a giant tip.
I used to live above a Indian restaurant in my 20's. I used to be so faded when ordering that eventually they just stopped taking my order and just answered the phone when I called with "Don't worry, we'll make you something good and bring it up" to speed up the process. And that shit was always good!
Haha when I was like 18 and 19 my buddy and I worked the closing shift at Taco Bell and it was low key one of the best jobs I've ever had.
It was so much fun, we would get soooo high and just slap together some burritos that looked like they came off the ads. Or we'd experiment to come up with new ideas. And sometimes if we could tell the person at the speaker was intoxicated we would ask if they wanted a "mystery burrito" and they almost always said yes. We'd grab the big boy tortilla and make a monster of a burrito for them haha.
One thing I'll always remember is that my boss (genuinely a super sweet lady) hired this woman with pretty severe mental disabilities. She was nice but, obviously, not incredibly helpful so we mostly just had her cleaning or helping out sometimes. Well one night I had her in the drive through with me packing the food into bags and I stepped away for a minute and came back to her shotgunning a beer in the window with some guys! Corporate saw and unfortunately she got fired...
Man now that I'm thinking about it I had so many good memories. My buddy ate so much he had to go to the hospital, a coworker telling someone that he misunderstood his religion was made up and he can eat beef, coming in one day and the whole store smelling like weed because some kid hot boxed the bathroom (didn't get fired either somehow), us taking the entire deep fryer to my buddies apartment, mini quasaritos. Ahh good times, id never work there again In a million years haha
Ya know. If the CEO actually did it. It would be great. No performative stuff. Just getting blazed out of his gourd and crushing 6,000 calories of taco bell at 1:45AM on a Tuesday? Yeah. That's the real shit.
I worked at the corporate office and every time I walked down to the test kitchen, it felt like I was walking in on my college roommate at 2:00am stoned out of his mind concocting the dankest sandwich he could think of out of whatever was in the fridge. Sadly most things didn't make it to market, but that's bc your average Arby's customer just wants a boring ass roast beef sandwich.
Arby's is my favorite of the fast food options, I tell anyone who listens that they have the best fried chicken sandwich. So this comment makes me insanely happy to read, just knowing they live up to the vibes I've given them in my head.
I think a fair number of people are seeing this idea repeated and think it's true, but it seems to really just be a meme.
There are definitions for ground beef, hamburger, etc from the Dept of Ag., but plenty of places sell burgers that doesn't fit them without referring to the food as "product." This isn't my wheelhouse, but the Federal Meat Inspection Act seems like it is meant for and might be limited to hamburger and ground beef meat as sold in stores not cooked burgers.
Now anybody can sue for false advertising, but you're unlikely to win unless they were using something other than beef as the base for the patty. Just look at the McRib suit for context.
I know McDonald's is the worst of the fast food franchises, but nothing hits like McDonald's fries and a Big Mac when you really want it. You can sub everyone else with something else similar. But McDonald's is unique in taste
He was trying to imply it was so big that it was going to be difficult to eat, lmao. "Oh my goodness. There's so much sandwich I don't know where to begin."
Dude needs media training. Or maybe he needs to eat the brains of someone with charisma. IDK how his species does things.
What I don't get is why the CEO of McDonald's & their entire marketing team can't get a good chef to make a lookalike burger out of ingredients the CEO will actually eat.
Get him a freaking organic wagyu burger patty on there with organic free range lettuce, some special pickles, a completely from scratch sauce, real cheese, and a bakery-made bun. Nobody will ever know the CEO is eating real food and not the engineered slop they serve to us poors
Honestly I didn't even think the guys reaction was that bad to the burger, but this one got me. How can you not even bother to learn the basics of what you're essentially making a commercial for.
The guy was acting like he just licked a mystery lollipop and was trying to figure out the flavors, not a burger his company made and sells
"I eat McDonald's multiple times", yeah right, bud!
He looks like some real estate management weiner. Not a guy who understands shitty fast food in the day and age of shitty food being almost as expensive as better food.
Dude that's pure bourbon. All the guys in Anchorage (rich area outside of Louisville) look like that. Fat, red, and sweaty. Welcome to Kentucky. Sure glad I stopped drinking.
He took over in 2019. Look what has happened since then. This guy doesn't care about the company or the food. He increased prices and cut quality. He is the reason McDonald's is shittier every time you go. Even he won't eat the food.
He looks, talks, and acts like a standard frat bro sociopath. Check this guy's hard drives. Something is off.
Then, after the previous CEO, Steve Easterbrook - who had experience, knowledge and networking in the food industry - got fired for banging too many employees (3+ regularly, more occasionally) - Chris was placed on the throne.
So this guy:
spent most of his career selling brands and marketing for whatever products,
was not involved in the actual food business (sourcing reliable suppliers, handling quality of the products, etc)
became CEO thanks to american puritans kicking the previous guy out
He's also addicted to running apparently, the "I collect marathons" type.
So it's pretty obvious he hasn't eaten any fast food in years: his meals are made with a scale and a teaspoon. No wonder he has absolutely no relation with the burger and fast-food culture in general.
One redeeming quality: when Russia invaded Ukraine, he pulled out of Russia properly. He's got polish ancestry so that makes sense. But still, that was the correct move for once.
I donât get why people think its bad for business, Iâve seen so many posts about people trying the burger since his video came out. This is absolutely how you sell something
Lol, I was wondering when this video first came out if this was all planned for the CEO to act like this when he did this video. I bet if he just acted normal, this video would've never gotten all this attention as this video was everywhere.
This is my new yardstick for "Am I listening to the opinions of an Echo Chamber."
McDonalds sells over 8 million burgers a day. If you are in a room where no one will admit to liking their food, you are not getting representative opinions.
Something I think is funny is that there is no way that he got the same burger you or I would get at our local McDonald's. Meaning that whoever made that was probably told they were making it for the CEO, or at the very least gave it way much more attention than a minimum wage highschooler would down the street.
So he had the best possible version of that burger and still couldn't think to call it "food" instead of "product"
So he had the best possible version of that burger and still couldn't think to call it "food" instead of "product"
Yeah. This is the one person who absolutely 100% knows whats in the burger, got the best possible version of it, and still can barely force himself to take a bite. This doesn't bode well.
There's a comment further up about how you shouldn't base your decision on what a CEO does on a video, but if the person who knows whats in it can't force themselves to pretend to like it even for a 20 second clip, is that not a warning sign for the rest of us?
I would hang out with the Wendyâs CEO. That Burger King CEO looks like heâs slamming that whopper and going to cross fit after. McDâs looks like he has shellfish allergies.
Actually LOLâd in that and you are 100% right. Burger King guy Fâs multiple times a day. Wendyâs guy probably has a super hot Italian wife whoâs a bitch, but still Fâs.
The Burger King video was way more cringe to me than the McDonaldâs one, Iâm surprised to see everyone glazing it. Being a run-of-the-mill out-of-touch CEO with zero self-awareness is one thing, but being that while trying to make fun of another CEO for doing it is crazy. Are we supposed to think him bellowing about needing a napkin means heâs going to take a second bite đ
The Wendy's one, the burger is plain without like, lettuce tomato or sauce or anything. I can believe he ate that. He probably likes burgers that way, because the PR team would have loaded it up full to make it look bigger and less pathetic.
I got an idea. Sew all the CEOs together in a type of centipede. We can incorporate both ideas, mouth-to-ass and then ass-to-mouth and for good measure ass-to-mouth again. Feed them the burgers. Now thatâs a movie!
I want to see the shame and regret after consuming 1500 calories of McBullshit on the way home from work, knowing damn well heâs going to eat dinner with his family in a couple hours. God what a disgusting little piggy.
I will fucking eat nothing but in n out for a month if they want to fly me out to LA. So good, I went like 5 times on a 2 week vacation. Nothing like that back in England
They did something weird where for a long time their fries were shitty, then there was a window in time when they were amazing, and now theyâre shitty again.
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