McDonald's employees know all about how things are run at the fast-food giant.Customers might miss out on some secrets that are obvious to employees.Here's a look at some insider facts from employees that you should know if you're planning to go a Big Mac run.McDonald's jobs are abundant.About 375,000 people work at the fast-food chain, according to a 2016 McDonald's filing. But if you include franchise employees, as Forbes did in 2015, the number jumps to 1.9 million, making McDonald's one of the largest employers in the world.Whether they work for franchise locations or corporate stores, McDonald's employees gain a keen insight into the inner workings of the fast-food giant.McDonald's employees can tell you all about the most annoying customer requests and the consequences of working around french fries all day.Here are a few things only McDonald's employees know.SEE ALSO:Walmart employees share 8 insider facts about shopping at the big box storeDON'T MISS:Costco employees share the 20 things they wish shoppers would stop doingREAD MORE:The secret history of McDonald's Filet-O-Fish, which was almost killed from the menu before becoming Trump's staple sandwichPeople can get pretty invested in their food"I was amazed at how furious people could get over food," a person who says they worked at McDonald's wrote on Reddit. "I was a swing manager for a while, and one time I took a call from an angry guy ... Seems that even though he asked for no mustard on his burgers, he got mustard."The Reddit user said the man claimed to have a spreadsheet on which he recorded every time a McDonald's employee made a mistake with his food. He yelled and kept demanding to speak to the store owner.The Reddit user said the owner ended up taking a call from the man and promptly hung up after telling him to find "somewhere else to eat in the future."There's a trick to getting a fresh egg on your breakfast sandwichMackenzie Shelton, whose Quora bio says she's a McDonald's employee, offered a hack for getting a fresh-from-the-carton egg on your breakfast sandwich.Request a "round egg," she said. "It's the best egg we have (and definitely real!)."The website Serious Eats confirmed that the request could swap out "your folded egg patty with a real egg, free of charge."Chuck Chan, who says he worked at McDonald's, wrote on Quora that you'd get the same type of egg used in McMuffins.Employees sometimes get some unusual requestsSometimes customers come up with some rather unusual requests for McDonald's employees to tackle.Mike Bowerbank, who said he worked at McDonald's, said on Quora that a woman once asked for a "McDLT" with no meat.A McDLT is a discontinued McDonald's sandwich that consisted of a cheeseburger split in two and placed on different sides of a specialized container. One half had a bun with a patty and cheese (the hot side), while the other had a bun with vegetables and sauce (the cold side)."For some odd reason, this seemed to be the funniest thing the girl behind the counter had ever heard and she started laughing," Bowerbank wrote. "And she couldn't stop. The assistant manager had to step in, apologize, and put in the order for her."Ganesh Satyanarayana said on Quora that while he was working the closing shift at a McDonald's in the UK, he encountered a customer he described as "visibly pregnant.""She quietly asks me: 'Are you still open' Because I'm craving a sandwich and none of the other McDonalds were open,'" Satyanarayana wrote. "My heart immediately melted and I let them in and told them that it would take a while as I had already finished cleaning the oil vats and the grill. She said: 'Oh, I don't want any meat on my sandwich, I just want pickles on a toasted bun.' I swear to God, I thought she was joking."And not all of the strange requests involve food. Arthur Adams, who says he worked at a McDonald's in the 1980s, said on Quora that customers would ask him to tell a joke or sell his McDonald's hat.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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