On Jun 30, 5:35 pm, Andy <q> wrote:
> I worked at a Burger King for a few months, so I know how things were made.
> I ran the flame broiler machine at Burger King!!!
>
> Here's how it worked.
>
> There was a conveyor belt for the buns and another for the burgers. You put
> a bun on one belt and a burger on the other. The belts were timed so the
> bun and the burger came out and fell into the "collection" bins at the same
> time.
>
> I'd grab a bun, put a burger on it and tossed it into a steam oven. --
> Repeat forever--.
>
> The customer orders a burger "you can have it your way" and the assembly
> line staff would grab one out of the steam oven, dress it up, microwave it
> for a few seconds and then wrap it up.
>
> The problem was the burgers couldn't get rotated in the steam oven. Lucky
> folks got the LIFO (Last In, First Out) burgers.
>
> The worst were the double burgers. They sat "underground" in the steam oven
> forever.
>
> Being the burger "king," I'd run a burger through the flame broiler a
> second time to "hopefully" rinse every last drop of grease out of it, for
> my meal.
>
> The flame broiler burgers, if you could get a LIFO one, was about the best
> fast food processed burger money could buy.
>
> Don't be bashful. Tell YOUR fast food processing story!

Many BKs will sell a burger any time of day. If you order a burger at
9am, they will have to make it "fresh."
I like Whoppers, no mayo, no ketchup, extra pickle. I take the
lettuce and tomato off and eat them by themselves, then add 2 packets
of mustard. They're pretty decent, and I know fast food. Over the
years, being as much gourmand as gourmet, I've taken a lot of pleasure
in fast food. At the top of the list is Lion's Choice, Steak'n Shake*
(if you eat at the counter), Popeye's, Del Taco. At the bottom you
have Rally's/Checkers, Arby's, Dairy Queen. Hardee's/Carl's Junior
used to be down there at the bottom, but are now solidly in the middle
for food quality, though their commercials still seek to attract the
cultural bottom quartile of "Amuricuns." They are the best of the
category that also includes McD's, Wendy's, JitB, BK (the second
best), IT SHOULD BE NOTED that I cannot rank Whataburger because I've
never eaten there.
White Castle is what it is, and the only comparable place is Krystal,
which is definitely not as good. The only place I've seen both is in
TN, I think it was Murfreesboro.

* SnS refuses the fast food designation, as they also have sit down
with "real china." Personally, I know from experience to only order
at the counter. THey used to have a motto: "In Sight, It Must Be
Right." Well, out of sight, don't count on it.
>
> Andy
> If Burger King Could See Me Now!

--Bryan