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”.
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!
Jack-in-the-box Smoothies or Milkshakes
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.
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.
Sonic Chili
Sonic has also gotten a lot of flack in the popular Reddit thread from former employees of the drive-in burger joint. These former employees have alleged that the company's chili comes pre-packaged in a bag and is heated at the start of the day. The ingredients are then left outside for god knows how long before they are put back in the fridge at the end of the day.
Another allegation that surfaced in the Reddit thread is that people with allergies should stay away from eating at Sonic’s, due to the company's sloppy and irresponsible mixing of various foods and equipment, leading to a high chance of your food being contaminated with an ingredient that you didn't actually order.