I worked at McDonald’s and people always make the same mistake when ordering a Big Mac – please stop doing it
AN EX-MCDONALD’S employee has revealed that people often make the same big mistake when ordering a Big Mac.
Ally Eley explained that many people will claim that they are allergic to gherkins and will ask the staff to remove them from their burger, but will then later admit that they aren’t actually intolerant and were in fact lying to get the staff to remove them.
Ally took to TikTok and acted out a typical conversation that she previously had with a customer whilst working for the fast food chain.
She shared her clip with the caption ‘On minimum wage too’ and said: “An actual customer interaction I had when I worked at Maccas.”
Starting out the conversation, Ally asked the customer: “Hi, what can I get for you?”
To this, the customer responded: “Hi, could I please have a Big Mac meal but could I have no pickles? And I mean no pickles, because I’m deadly allergic and if I have a pickle, I will die.”
Following this, Ally then replied: “Yep no worries, do you also want no Big Mac sauce then?”
However, the customer then said: “No, just no pickles please, the sauce is fine.”
To this, the at the time McDonald’s employee confirmed: “But the Big Mac sauce actually has pickles in it, so if you’re deadly allergic, then we should probably take that out.”
But the customer still wasn’t happy and noted: “No, no, no. I do not want you to take out the sauce, I just want no pickles because I’m allergic and I can’t have it.”
Ally then explained: “I totally understand that but I’m just telling you that the sauce actually has pickles in it and if you’re allergic to it, I think that the safe option is to not have the sauce.”
However, ending the conversation, the customer then admitted: “Ok, I lied, I’m not actually allergic, I just said that because every time I come here, you guys stuff up my order and I ask for no pickles and you put pickles on the burger, so I just say I’m allergic, so the sauce is fine, just no pickles.”
Ally’s clip has clearly made many people chuckle, as it has quickly amassed a whopping 349.6k views.
It has 44k likes, 294 comments and 170 shares.
However, social media users were left divided at the clip – while some emphasised with the customer and her request, other McDonald’s workers shared Ally’s irritation.
One person said: “I feel this. I don’t even know why I bother asking for no pickles anymore tbh.”
Another added: “I also lie and say I’m allergic to foods so they don’t give me them.”
A third commented: “Tbf to them 90% of the time if you ask to have something taken out of a burger they do not listen and put it in anyways.”
Whilst someone else put: “How hard is it to take the pickles out yourself lol.”
One ex-McDonald’s employee admitted: “I used to work at Macca’s and this happened ALL THE TIME.”
Another claimed: “This happened to me at Maccas more often than I’d like to admit.”
And someone else posted: “This sums up my life in customer service.”