We’ve already explained twice in detail just how unsanitary and bacteria-infested smoothies and milkshake machines tend to be. This turns out to be twice as bad when you’re talking about a company like Jack-in-the-box since a former employee wrote on Reddit that they often don’t clean their machines at all.
This means that there’s a high chance you’re actually getting some bits and pieces from someone else’s half spoiled smoothie ingredients along with your own drink. Hopefully, the ingredients will mix along well, or else the shake might lose some of its tasty features.
Subway Oven-Roasted Chicken Sandwich
Usually, when you add specific adjectives and verbs into the name of a meal, it would only stand to reason that the meal would contain or be made in the way that the name explicitly states. If, for example, we were to open a restaurant called “The Vegan Express”, customers would be wise to believe that the joint serves exclusively or almost entirely vegan meals.
Since Subway serves a sandwich named the “Oven-Roasted Chicken Sandwich”, we thought that meant the sandwich was actually roasted in the oven. Apparently, an employee of the chain recently claimed in the aforementioned Reddit post that the sandwich is not roasted in the oven, rather it's simply microwaved and put in a bun. If this is true then it would only be appropriate for Subway to change the meal’s name to “Microwave-Heated Chicken Sandwich”, although that might impact sales to a dramatic degree, so perhaps just ditch the “oven baked” part.
Friendly's Tuna Salad
Would you eat a tuna salad that was made almost one week ago? We certainly wouldn't. Well, according to a nice gentleman who used to work at the Friendly food chain, it seems that their policy is to only re-stock the tuna salad once a week.
On what specific day these are made every week? We don't know. So next time you go to Friendly, make sure to ask the staff ahead of time, maybe you'll get lucky and get to enjoy a freshly made batch — or you might just have saved yourself the experience of eating an almost week-old tuna salad. Yikes!
Dairy Queen Salads
Apparently the salads at Dairy Queen aren't quite as majestic as the brand's name would have you think. The company has been facing quite a few challenges when it comes to their profits and revenue, and decided that it would be a proper solution to just downsize some existing bowl sizes for the sake of saving money.
While we understand that paychecks need to be made and customers waiting to be served, if you've reached the point of having to hurt the quality of what you serve to your clients (rather than just raise prices), it might be a good time to take a serious look at who's running the show and whether it would be best to replace the Queen’s executive staff with a different kind of “royalty”.
Panera Pasta
One of the most insulting things that any restaurant can do is to charge you full price for what is essentially a microwaved meal. Most of these joints at-least have the decency to add some fresh ingredients and a false sense of effort to make you feel better about buying something that you could have made in two minutes at home for about a fifth of the price.
This egregious behavior is taken to a new level at Pantera, where we've reportedly learned that the pastas (all of them) are basically just microwaved meals without any actual cooking taking place. If this is true then this is beyond absurd and we'd prefer to stay home with our own familiar microwave.