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[–] jordanlund 219 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Bonus:

https://www.newsx.com/world/health-violations-at-mcdonalds-location-that-hosted-trump-what-happened/

"Notably, Trump did not wear a hairnet or gloves while serving food, claiming that “my hands are clean already.” This assertion stands in stark contrast to health standards that require food handlers to maintain strict hygiene protocols.

In fact, the McDonald’s location Trump visited has a recent history of health code violations, having failed its last health inspection from Bucks County. The report cited multiple infractions related to employee hygiene, particularly the lack of proper handwashing practices, which are essential for minimizing the risk of foodborne illness."

[–] EmpathicVagrant 129 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love how he mocked Harris saying she never worked there or whatever and then does a publicity stunt but can’t even follow the most basic rules of the job. Someone actually working that position would be terminated for health code violation.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or maybe they wouldn't, given the history of infractions at that location.

[–] jaybone 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn’t one excuse he gives for eating at McDonalds is because he knows he won’t be poisoned? Like when he was in the White House, with a fancy ass kitchen staff full of top chefs he’d still rather get McDonald’s.

[–] cheese_greater 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Its 100% this, altho I can't tell if he's more worried about the Russians or some rando he fucked over previously.

The funny thing about Mar-a-Lago is how grounded and accessible it is

[–] linearchaos 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think I would trust White House staff before I would trust McDonald's staff. I'm sure whatever McDonald's they were ordering from was having their employees vetted anyway.

To think of it if a person was really into McDonald's that deeply they could just send fresh ingredients every week.

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"my hands are clean already"

As someone who ran a restaurant kitchen for 5 years, this is called a lack of standards. Oh I forgot gloves? Meh. That's a slippery slide that shows you don't actually care or have standards, and you throw rules by the side when it suits you. That a sign of a shit worker.

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[–] Etterra 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't wait until they're on the news next year because they were shut down because every business Trump touches turns to shit. Like the King Midas of poop. King Poodass.

[–] teft 10 points 1 month ago

King mierdas. Mierda is spanish for shit.

[–] Ensign_Crab 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like we have photographic evidence of more health code violations. Who do we contact?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The restaurant is closed, so as long as they claim they threw away everything he touched they should be fine.

[–] jaybone 24 points 1 month ago

The health inspector has declared anything that is an official act no longer violates the laws of microbiology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm kind of a germaphobe and am big on washing hands, but if I were a mcdonalds employee, there's just no way I'd have gloves on to put out the hamburger patties then take the gloves off, and wash my hands, then put another set of gloves on to do other food prep stuff.

I'm not washing my hands between every glove swap. You don and doff your gloves correctly there's no reason to.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I've watched some of those mcdonald's shift videos and I cringe at the amount of gloves constantly being used for 3 seconds then thrown away

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[–] Etterra 92 points 1 month ago

"We are not a political organization."

Well even if I believed you, which I don't, you will be now. Good job dipshit.

[–] Dorkyd68 80 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Small business???? Bitch you own a fucking McDonald's get the fuck out of here

[–] Maggoty 28 points 1 month ago

They technically qualify. All the franchises do. Yes it's cursed. Especially when it's time to hand out SBA funds. Remember the pandemic? All the small business money got sucked up by franchises and large money cap/small employee number businesses.

[–] donescobar 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Poor guy probably got a small million dollar loan for his small McDonalds business!

We all know how much McDonald Trump cares about small businesses…

Also there is this… https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-donald-trump-worked-failed-last-health-inspection-1971998

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[–] Treczoks 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Of course they closed the McD for that occasion. DT is not qualified or certified to work with food. Imagine he undercooks something or f-cks up cleaning the salad properly and people fall ill. Of he could have spread some germs, as we don't know what prevents him from publishing his medical record.

[–] psycho_driver 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plus he's a convicted felon so probably not eligible for employment at a McDonalds.

[–] TwoBeeSan 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If felons weren't allowed in food service we'd all be going hungry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Some felons are working during their incarceration. Not by choice either.

[–] Passerby6497 18 points 1 month ago

They probably also had to sanitize everything and throw out any food his diaper touching hands have touched

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[–] Nuke_the_whales 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How does McDonald's corporate feel about their franchisees using McDonald's for political stunts?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Well you don't want food service workers wearing gloves for the most part. Nonsterile gloves protect the wearer much more than anything they're touching and food should be the opposite of chemically unsafe to touch. Gloves can also undermine a focus on or even specifically discourage regular handwashing which is what actually keeps food and food prep equipment clean / sanitary. Unless you have cuts, sores, warts or some other infection on your hands, gloves are the least helpful solution to keeping food sanitary.

That said, I doubt he washes his hands adequately and the whole hairnet thing is gross AF, especially with that glued-on dead animal he calls hair.

I just get feisty about the gloves thing because I remember during the pandemic when my hospital was struggling to keep gloves in stock for us to handle blood and bodily fluids with, and one day in an urgent care I saw a patient in the waiting room wearing gloves reach up and run his gloved hands through his hair. I almost just screamed at him. They're not magic clean hand socks you have to use them properly and in the right situations.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I went to subway recently (and briefly) and the employee sneezed into their gloved hand before starting my sandwich. Literally no glove change, just grabbed the bread and kept going.

I said never mind and left.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm right with you on "magic clean hand socks". In the canteen at my last job the staff would make sandwiches wearing gloves and then take money from customers and ring it up on the till - still wearing the same gloves. Cash is the filthiest thing you could touch in this situation, but they'd go and make the next sandwich after handling it. Yuck.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I definitely had my doubts when Subway started having their employees wear those weird loose "definitely not sterile" plastic gloves while making sandiwches.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Subway is a little different because it’s often the same person taking cash as making the food. Money is dirty and the register doesn’t get sanitized too often either. The option is wash your hands with soap and water after taking payment or slap on some fresh gloves. Those loose gloves are a faster changeover than properly washing your hands. And they don’t have to be sterile, just clean.

In a McDonalds you have separate folks doing the prepping & cooking vs the ordering and serving. If the person the person touching the food never touches the register, and the person handling the ordering/serving only touches the outside of the packaging, then neither of them have to wash their hands as often.

The problem with rubber gloves in food service is they provide a false sense of security. They make you think you are being sanitary, when the reality is you should wash or change your gloves anytime you touch something that would have necessitated you to wash bare hands.

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[–] over_clox 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"we proudly open our doors to everyone".. when they're officially 'closed'?

Knock knock knock, knock knock knock...

Donnie McRonnie, don't feed me a line of shit, I ain't sniffing it. Fuck McDonald's.

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[–] Furbag 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lmao this owner is so demented he thinks McDonalds is a "small business". You're a franchisee, not a small business. Enjoy making french fries for nobody.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

At first I found it baffling that the Trump Campaign would go along with Donald’s McStupid idea for a photo op because anyone not experiencing significant cognitive decline would be able to see that it’d put a lot of unwanted attention back on the fact that Donald Trump has never worked a day in his life. But after some thought, I suppose it did succeed in getting people to stop talking about his dementia induced DJ set for an afternoon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I now ask the Internet for an animated gif of him dancing by himself at McDonalds.

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably for the best, honestly. You don't want diaper leakage, Adderall, or malignant narcissism getting into people's food.

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[–] EleventhHour 21 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Insig 10 points 1 month ago

Signed on paper that says "DG Empire"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

You know you're reading a quality publication when they use an exclamation mark at least once per paragraph.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago
[–] Suavevillain 10 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I'm still struggling to see what point he was trying to make.

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[–] thedeadwalking4242 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Open our doors to everyone” that’s why we are closing them for you!

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[–] JustZ 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ok it shouldn’t be a big deal, but I’ve found that you can tell a lot by a signature.

This guys signature looks like a 7th graders.

Edit: wow I just noticed the “DG Empire” on the sticker. Emperor Axe Body Spray over here

Why is that important? I mean it’s not really, I’ll fully admit I’m being petty. But I’ve found that people that write like they’ve just learned cursive do so because they seldom write things. Now this observation is likely less true today than it was in the Jurassic period when I grew up and had to write out schoolwork, but given that this guy owns a McDonald’s franchise I’m gonna guess he had to handwrite schoolwork too.

There is just something visceral about this signature, it’s a sloppy and bad version of textbook cursive. One of the things that happens when people write a lot is that they develop their own handwriting style.

Anyways, the sentiment in this letter and the stupid stunt are enough to hate, but this signature is just awful 1 / 10 please try harder.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know how it happened, but over the years, my signature developed from '7th grade cursive' to 'squiggle that vaguely starts with my first initial in cursive.'

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[–] AngryCommieKender 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Meanwhile my signature is lying through it's teeth, while claiming I must have multiple PhDs to have the signature I have.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

But I thought he was gonna do "all the jobs" ??? /s

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