The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Maccas CokeSince people were discussing it, When I was working at Maccy D's after I left uni we'd mostly get up to mischief when the place had closed. This was mostly because this was a company run branch not a franchise so we couldn't get away with much when we were on shift so we'd save our sauce gun fights, frozen doughnut ice hockey and cardboard cage wrestling until the customers went. One night we decided to have some fun with the accounting system and would look up the wholesale prices of various things. One of these was the coke.
McDs sells so much coke than instead of the giant wine boxes full of syrup that most people working in bars will be familiar with they have large steel silos in the back which are filled up by tankers. If you walk around a branch you will find a small catflap sized door usually around by the drive-through lane. This is where the hose comes in to fill these silos up. Because it is bulk bought in such massive quantities it is really cheap at wholesale.
For a large drink, the coke worked out at about 9p and the cup it comes in was 12p.
The most expensive single items were the big boxes of cheese slices which worked out at £70 a box. This was in 2002 so not too long ago.
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