2007-03-01 09:45:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
Yes, it is true. It's not days old, and it's already cooked, but in order to serve the freshest burgers, they don't keep them on the grill for long. We piled them up in a heated drawer for the day, then stored them in the cooler until we needed to make chili either in the evening or first thing the next morning. It's totally safe!!!
HEY- why anyone would give me TWO THUMBS DOWN for telling you exactly how we did it is beyond me. Did you see that I am a former chili maker? Did you see that I have worked there and speak from experience? They do NOT make the chili and ship it to the store. It is made daily AT the store with hamburger, a spice pack, the beans and a veggie pack and water. Anyone who is telling you otherwise is just trying to be a smarty pants.
2007-03-01 10:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by AnastasiaBeaverhousen 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Wendy's actually makes your food as you order unlike Mc Donald's where it sits waiting for you to order it. So the dude on the grill is just cooking and cooking and cooking and when burgers are done and no sandwich is there to claim that burger that is when that burger is turned over to the chili. So just like at home when you make chili you gotta cook the hamburger first. Nothing nasty about it at all! Out of all the restaraunts that I've worked there are only two that I still eat at Wendy's and Subway!
2007-03-01 16:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by bearcat513 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
From what I've heard it's actually made of fingers!!
I haven't read the other answers but I'm betting I'm not the first to mention this!
Okay, I'm saying some of these people are full of poop. I remember when the finger scandal was going on and they spoke specifically of the chilli processing plants. The chilli is made at the plants and shipped to the individual stores to insure uniformity. That is the "beauty" of being a chain of restaurants. You are certain to get the same thing at every store. If each store made their own chilli out of leftover hamburger it would taste different at every place and fast food chains can't take that risk. Don't listen to these yahoos on yahoo!!
2007-03-01 13:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by squealy68 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'm not for sure about Wendy's. When I was in College I was a butcher. Every morning we would get the 5 day old steaks and roasts that hadn't sold and ground them up into hamburger.
2007-03-01 09:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by BKN 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer that Anastasia gave you is correct. My husband used to work there when we were in high school. He said that they did it then, too. But, the wording of your question makes it sound like a bad thing. The bottom line is that they are actually using ground beef in their chili and their burgers. They only use them for chili after they have been "left over" for a few minutes. It is kind of like making all of those funky casseroles with leftover turkey at Thanksgiving.
2007-03-01 18:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by jamilu 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No it is definitely not another "fast food myth"...they actually do make their chilli from the left over burgers!!! my cousin works there and he told me that after a certain time they can't sell the burgers any more so they save it for the beef in the chilli. I personally can't tell that it is left over ground beef b/c there chilli is GOOD to me!!!
2007-03-04 08:10:55 · answer #6 · answered by Kia 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just keep an eye out for fingers. Just kidding. I don't know if they reuse the leftover hamburger or not.
2007-03-01 09:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by *Cara* 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
yes they only keep the hamburgers for like 15 mins then if they dont sell they throw them in a bin for the chili
2007-03-01 10:18:47 · answer #8 · answered by mdiggity 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but it is logical that they do. I would not be concerned over it, no worse than the rest of the menu!
2007-03-01 09:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by Charles V 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I never herd of this but now that you say it. It really isn't to far fetched.
2007-03-02 00:47:01 · answer #10 · answered by joe d 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋