31 Fast Food Restaurant Employees Warn About Things To Never Order

There's a rule for how long something can sit under the heat lamps, but no one follows it. If you're not ordering during the lunch or dinner rush, you should assume whatever you get has been sitting out for hours.

The 'premium chicken' that they use as a pizza topping has to be the absolute worst on the menu. It is very obviously liquefied and re-condensed chicken pieces which are then cut into strips and given artificial grill marks.

The main thing that was nasty was the fish sandwich, for a few reasons. 1) The thing just smelled foul. It was a frozen patty of fish that we’d dunk in the fryer for like four minutes, and then attempt to not vomit when we pulled it out because of the smell. 2) The tartar sauce. The tartar sauce sat in a container that was ‘cooled’ by the the larger tray it was in. This didn’t really cool it though, so it was usually room temp. Since few people ordered the tartar sauce, the top layer would quickly turn this greenish-brown color, which doesn’t sound that gross but it would turn FAST. 3) The fish patties tended to sit in the warmer for pretty much forever.

Caramel frappuccino with extra caramel (I'm sorry dont hate me). I worked at Starbucks for over 4 years and this drink, as tastey as it is, is so high in sugar it makes a can of coke look like a cup of green tea. I get upset when I see parents order their children these sugar bombs.

The drink gets 3 different sugary syrups and EXTRA caramel. The only real bit of drink in it is the 2 oz or so of milk. Oh and ice, I suppose that too.

My best friend worked at a very popular sandwich fast food chain. Some of the tomatoes had mold on them so she went to throw them out. Her manager scolded her and told her if anything grows mold, you cut the mold off and still serve it so they don’t waste food.

The chili is old dried-out burgers mashed up, microwaved in water, then mixed in with chili mix. I will not eat it knowing where the meat came from.

Never. Ever. Ever. Eat a baked potato after 4 PM. We stop making them after lunch, unless there’s a rush at dinner where we use the last of them and need to make more. Otherwise, it would be left in the warmer going soft and brown. We were told that if a baked potato was passable enough that a customer might not notice it was basically mush on the inside, we just cover it in toppings so there were no visual cues that it was gross and nasty.

I work at McDonald's, nothing in my store is actually gross we are really clean and follow procedures, but I wouldn't have a filet o fish with the sauce because the sauce makes a disgusting sound coming out of the sauce gun.

A former taco bell worker told me she would never eat the beans. They came as dehydrated powder that they’d mix with hot water and voila, “refried” bean paste.

The chicken pot pie was made with old chicken from three to four days ago when we froze it. Nasty, and we wouldn’t make more pot pies unless we ran out.

I worked at a Subway in my senior year of high school. What disturbed me was how the tuna came packaged: in a big metallic bag (to keep it fresh, I guess.) Then when we had to take it out, it would make this squelching noise. And because I made so many subs, completely put me off from eating those sandwiches ever again.