10 Fast Food Restaurant Secrets The Staff Will Never Reveal To You
Fast food today governs a major part of an adult’s diet. Rigid work schedules and a fast paced lifestyle has made fast food the dietary choice because of easy availability and short preparation time. However, fast food is never a healthy option where nutrition is concerned and with that in mind here are some fast food restaurant tricks employed to lure eager customers.
10 The best time for fast food
The busy hours are generally regarded as the best time to visit a fast food restaurant or café. Between 11.00 am and 1.00 pm and again between 6.00pm to 8.00 pm are the hours where one isn’t likely to get a table but you can be assured that the food is being served fresh.
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9 Order French fries without salt
After a batch of French fries is cooked, salt is already added. To cater to your order of French fries without salt, the kitchen would have to make a new batch for you.
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8 The smell from the kitchen is actually a marketing strategy
Don’t you get a very tempting whiff and aroma when passing a fast food restaurant? Even passing a bakery, you most certainly will get an amazing scent of baked goodies that are just impossible to resist. Well, this is an important part of marketing strategy to lure customers. Some restaurants intentionally leave their kitchen doors open.
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7 Coke stimulates the appetite; hence it is cheaper than tea
No restaurant would want to curb your appetite and risk losing a good order of food from you. This is one of the restaurant fast food tricks to make tea costlier than coke because tea curbs your appetite while carbon dioxide stimulates it.
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6 French fries contain 19 ingredients
That’s right and you thought French fries were all potato. The flavor of French fries is derived from mixing 20 different ingredients where potato remains the basic one. There are 18 other ingredients such as flavor enhancers, additives, and fats making French fries not totally harmless or healthy.
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5 Being an early bird isn’t advisable
Never be an early bird in any fast food joint. Opening time is the time when staff cleans kitchen equipment with aggressive and harsh cleaning chemicals which are unknowingly left on kitchen and preparation tops. This poses a risk of some dropping into your food.
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4 Fast food today is way higher in calories than 30 years ago
Fast food today is richer and higher in calories in comparison to 30 years ago. One cheese burger contains almost 75% more calories than a cheeseburger in the eighties. Pizza too has increased by 70% more calories.
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3 Sugar in a milkshake exceeds the daily dietary requirement by 2-3 times
Everyone loves a milkshake in fast food cafes but did you know that by consuming a milkshake in such places you are consuming over and above your daily dietary requirement of sugar which is 1-2 oz. A milkshake contains 3 oz of sugar.
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2 Eating with hands makes food seem more delicious
Among fast food restaurant tricks this is really clever. There are no forks and knives in fast food restaurants because of the possible reason that eating with bare hands gives a person more pleasure where the process of eating is concerned and increases the taste of food. This means a customer may just eat more than he normally would.
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1 Soda fountains are extremely dirty
Most soda fountains in fast food joints are very difficult to clean or wash. This means they are susceptible to germs and all kinds of bacteria. The sugary and sweet environment especially gives bacteria favorable conditions to thrive.
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