Food Theory: McDonald’s Free Food is a SCAM!

Go get a job at McDonald's, then you can get free food from them.

@@noseboop4354 AHAHAH

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Haha, very funny.

@@noseboop4354 depending, most places will fire you for taking food. especially if its the same amount of calories you are burning doing the labor there.

@@noseboop4354 not where i'm from, unless You litterally steal it.

😂 😅

@@itskyle5766 no. He’s part of the club. You have to be in order to get this big on youtube.

Although to be fair, at 2:08, the small print was just the script to The Bee Movie. :P

HE READ THE RULES WRONG. The gold card is a gift card with $1040 added each year. Winner can spend in just a few days, or stretch it out. There’s no restriction to just 2 meals a week
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@@electrictroy2010 You've been spamming this on every top comment when he didn't misread the rules, he just divided 1040 by 52

I mean, it makes sense. It is an incredible marketing for them and they don't even have expenses, because they clearly aren't gonna use it.

​@@pietro4507 You'd be surprised. Warren Buffett eats McDonald's every day and uses that card whenever he can

if McDonald's cared about people and not keeping the rich rich so they stay rich, they'd still have a dollar menu. It's not like they can't afford to sell $.50 burgers anymore, they only care about money

I mean that's one reason he's Warren Buffett, thrifty where he can​@@NarikGaming

Just curious. Does McDonald's allow you to eat free food on your break? I watched a video, that you can get a meal 50% off if you use the app.
But I figure your break is most likely 30min. So, I don't see there being any room for a refridgerator and so, you're prone to have to buy food there just to find something quick to get back on the floor.
I guess Wendy's has a $4 limit on food for free... that's like, one sandwich honestly. :/
I could get a sandwich and a fry and frosty I believe when I worked for a Wendy's 10+ years ago pre-covid. 🤷‍♀️

@@maylin1986depends on the location you work at, when i worked at wendy’s i got $15 worth of free food per shift but i never used the full amount, when i worked at mcdonald’s i got $10 for free food. again, it just depends on the owner/manager and location

@@maylin1986 I once knew a guy who worked at a chocolate factory. Their policy was "eat anything you want, just don't make a mess, do it on breaks, and account for it so we know". The rationale being: The alternative (banning free chocolate) would mean employees would steal it, leading to increased costs of trying to prevent them, firing/hiring, tracking where stock went, having to re-produce it unexpectedly etc. etc. Instead, offering free "all you can eat" generally settled into a very reasonable cost, since nobody can seriously eat that much chocolate.

And the reason for that is profits, and if it's done slowly enough, the people don't immediately notice. They grow acclimated or complacent. BUT, you're right, it wont last forever, hopefully, because they've gone down the shitter ever since they got rid of the dollar menu IMO -- I knew more and more people would start to get upsetti spaghetti about them eventually.

@@Kyosumari "Eventually"
What a fun lie. Nobody will EVER do anything. They release all their tension sobbing online then go back to being doormats because they're too dim to organize and do obsessed with the weak lie of pacifism to engage in meaningful (read: violent) revolt.

*sees people who never graduated to real jobs striking for $21/hour*
Sorry bud, I don't think prices are going down.
*Sees those same people get fired and completely automated, ruining the entry level opportunities for teenagers everywhere*
Well, OK, nevermind. Mass production ahoy!

@@SangoProductions213 Minimum wage jobs are real jobs mate. Otherwise they wouldn't exist in this real world we live in. Plus, when it was introduced in America the minimum wage was meant to support a family with only a single revenue of income. Double Plus, if minimum wage had been raised with inflation it would have been $21 seven years ago. Pull the other one.

A family of 4 could have 4 McDonald’s combo meals, or like 4 ribeye steaks and a bag of actual potatoes for the same price but people keep going lol, it’s the convenience.

I mean, watermelons have fiber and sugars, so how would that impact a diet?

When you are told "you should be drinking 'X' number of ounces of water a day", it's not backed up by science. The average person gets enough water, or close to it from the food they eat alone. The people who need to drink water are people who are sweating a lot, people who eat a lot of food low in water content (like nuts, jerky, bread products, etc.), or people with certain health problems. It's also possible to drink too much water and get water poisoning.

Water is water regardless if you "eat" it or drink it, for exemple people living on a fruitarian diet (raw vegans that only eat fruits) usually never need to drink any extra water since they get everything from the fresh fruits they consume.

@@fatlittlebigslim is that why they end up withering away

I doubt it

You can thank brandon for that.

Depends where you live and which McDonalds even for a big breakfast with hotcakes near me prices are: $5.79, $6.29, $6.69, for the first three on the app all in the same city

I thought it was for the Burger King appearance in Iron Man. But cool story.

@@msmaria5039 thats actually why Burger king is in Iron Man and why Robert Downey Jr was iron man in the first place. it was his first role after being drug free to show people he actually turned his life around

I read an article and apparently the burger was so bad he quit drugs? I don't think that's good marketing, unless that wasn't the real story.

@@astrofish6163 it is, the problem was that he was on so many drugs the burger did not taste good. basically he realized that he was on so many drugs he could not enjoy the good things in life (such as the burger) so to be able to taste food again he chose to get off drugs (not trying to make it sound easy, he put alot of work into stopping)

@@monkeyking9863 didn't think about it like that, he was so lost in the sauce only coke gave him any dopamine.

Kinda… except cars depreciate until worth nothing. Investment in a generalized stock or mutual fund will Appreciate (long term).

@@electrictroy2010 you can't travel to work with an investment. Purchases for the short term take precedence over those for the long-term

@@jolenemathews public transportation exists tho, americans just forgot how it works due to lack of planning along with geography in some areas and also well...
*_CARS_*

Yep

@@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN That unfortunately depends on where you live. Looking at you, USA

I think he was talking about the card lasting 50 years

@@rougeknight4029 Nah you know, you might be right tbfh

I’m late, but quick theory to what happened:
During a episode meeting, a member of the team told MatPat it was a 13 year difference. MatPat hears 30 years, and writes down “three decades” in his notes. Unfortunately, none of the editing notices.
I literally have no idea what actually happened, but this is how I rationalized it

Yeah, I scratched my head at that one.

Dont say the Lords name in vain

@petterderter6354 get bent helmet, it may be your lord but he ain't mine

You actually read that

I thought that's what it was

Shrinkflation, companies will shrink their products during times of high inflation to keep costs similar, almost every food brand does it.

Well it can be a good thing. So you can't eat it frequently even if you wanted, leading to less bad eating habits and making eating fast food more rewarding in the sense that if you can eat something rarely you will appreciate it more. I eat at McDonald's like once a year when I fly to home.

@@alihorda We all don't live in forced Dubai labor camps.

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@@Clow0 although companies have recently been not going back to old sizes or lowering prices. I'm actually not against shrinking food and drink sizes in America, because they are ridiculously massive. But the prices need to reflect that too

While this is probably largely true, I have heard that Warren Buffet for example eats McDonalds literally every single day

@@shannonmorton8945 I was about to say the same. I wouldn't be surprised if Warren Buffet regularly used his card as a sort of coupon because of how frugal he is with his money

Having Warren Buffet in their restaurant every single day is the best kind of advertisement they could ever have, I bet Buffet alone is worth millions to McD in PR and goodwill alone. Imagine if they had done even a single commercial on that theme? The cost of that Gold Card wouldn't even have covered the cost of the jingle.

I imagine there are still limits. For example, a savvy entrepreneur might try to milk an unlimited card to feed his entire staff lunch every day. All but eliminating the cafeteria budget for one of his properties. And I don't think McDonalds would like that very much.

The more I think about it, celebrities tend to have access to good lawyers. So you know even the cards handed out to the rich and famous have fine print. In fact it probably has more! 😀

Yeah

Yeah, imagine reducing 5g of a burguer. In a company that procudes billions in burguer a month, imagine how much they save

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No you could do this lifespan dosent matter

That's not what this channel is about. But to address your benign example, according to the hierarchy, that scenario you spelled out will only occur when the needs beneath it are already fulfilled. It's not about "I'm hungry so let me take care of that basic need now." It's more like "I have a house and food so I'm stable, and I know that there is food in my kitchen, so even though I'm hungry, that doesn't mean my lower level needs are unmet, so I'll eat when I finish this level."

I'm decently sure they wouldn't let you do that

@Not gonna lieThis is not a full clip, neither did MatPat comment on it. This is fishing for views. Don't watch the video.

@Not gonna lie this isnt the full video this dude is literally just trying to get views dont watch his trash

Gift cards can't be used through the app, at least not where I'm from

The app can be used every 15 minutes to get almost free food.

You'd probably be interested in his vid on Halloween candy

(As a joke,) I don't think that would fit on one thumbnail.

Or explore the environmental and labor impact of cacao agriculture. Go the extra mile and get your sweetheart fair trade, single source, rainforest alliance chocolate. You can actually taste a difference between the locations where chocolate is grown. I recently tried one from Columbia that was super rich and fudgy 😋

here before this gets noticed

A fair few stores tell you the weight per 100g for chocolate so it's pretty easy to tell that way, but generally the bigger the chocolate the cheaper per gram.

2 meals a week for 50 years is still a good deal.

@@juancamilorodriguez937 I mean you're right, you probably shouldn't eat McDonald's every single day. you would lack alot of nutrition you get from other foods, so it surely wouldn't be healthy, but it is still false advertising. as it is not for a lifetime (only 50 years) and it is not unlimited (2 meals a week, as of now but inflation might change that)

And yet we still fall for the ''Starting at'' signs in stores...

@@mattdarrock666 lmao yea

I knew it's too good to be true!!!! I KNEW IT!!!!!😡😡

Should have used the app. Could have got the Happy meals half price & the burgers half price. Total would have been $25 instead of 50

*correction: $30 with the smoothie. You’d then have 3000 app points, and be able to get 2 free cheeseburgers or McChickens or 2 free ice cream cones
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As if a Mexican Restaurant is any healthier than McDonald's.

@@johnsullivan186 its much higher quality food thats actually cooked in a kitchen, fastfood restaurants don’t actually cook food its all precooked and heated up

@@johnsullivan186 did I say a Mexican restaurant is healthier? I said it was cheaper.

Well McDonald’s does it for a reason lol and that reason being that they will probably never use the card, and it probably gives them a bit more influence.

I’m 90% sure most of the influential people that got this card almost never used it.

There we go.

Yeah that’s the point unfortunately. The gift is meaningless. It’s the press they want. They aren’t giving the rich gifts. They’re using them for clout. Still if they gave it to people who is poorer they’d still get some level of press. Though I guess they must perceive it as the lesser of 2 options.

It's expensive being poor.

I remember a 2 liter of soda used to be $0.50. Now they're almost $3!

Inflation, also they were actually a bit more or less expensive back then sincd inflation rates

No more mean tweets though right? So glad eggs cost over $5 now so we could have dementia Joe instead..... 🤡

McChickens were $1 just 1.5 years ago. Now $2.50 where I live. That’s 250% in a very short time.

Inflation

Considering how often I go to McDonald's, I would probably not get tired of it and instead just pay for everyone's meal. Plus, considering you can get ANYTHING on the menu rather than just 1 specific item, it would probably take a lot longer to get tired of McDonalds

Yeah, I would just get the items and sell them to others

B-Dubs?

B........ B-dubs?

You can always give the food away

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Please do and leave the link here!!! XD

But if they’re really that old, will they still be eating McDonald’s?

They pay workers starvation wages

@@colonizingpuertoricoisunde2971 the sky is blue.

My grandparents had mugs that they could take to McDonald's for a while that you could take to a McDonald's and get free coffee. They used them all the time. Until one of them broke and McDonald's stopped honoring the mugs.

@@KougajiCalling Did they ever mention how they got the mugs?

@@colonizingpuertoricoisunde2971 You could just work... another job, and get out of the way of teenagers that want to have some pocket money. Like literally any other job. Instead of forcing McDonalds to automate even faster.
The true minimum wage is 0, because your job isn't actually needed. Go learn a real skill.

@@Thisissoawesome lol

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@@CozyChomps1234ROBLOX Did I do something?

I love McD's, but I wish it wasn't poisonous. So I make McD's a very rare treat.

You're selling poison
Straight up.

most average people can eat the "dinner for 4" meal by themselves in 1 sitting. because its not filling

@@redeyestones3738 Anything that is not in moderation is bad for you.

@@jujuawesomebeans7348 that is also true. But any amount, or frequency of eating McDonald's is not just bad for your body. It's also a vote for what we want in the future. It may already be passed the tipping point. But there's 38,000 McDonald's restaurant locations in 1,000 countries, selling hundreds of burgers a day. Even with the fact that their burgers are less than 50% meat, that still requires A LOT OF LAND to have that many cows. It will eventually snuff itself out, after swallowing up unmeasurable resources that could've been used to do something that actually benefits mankind, instead of slowly corroding it away with garbage filler food, for people who are too lazy to cook their own food. It's absolutely criminal

Didn't notice it

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If it was 250k vs a 250k mc Donald’s card (that doesn’t expire) I’d take the card because free coffee and Icecream

@@TheMissSerena with 250k, I could buy my own type of coffee and own type of ice cream 😅

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It's to get publicity from Bezos etc. being seen in a McDonalds. I'm sure they don't go there very often, unless they're stuck in an airport waiting for their private planes to be refueled or something.

And who probably don't even use the amount provided.
It's because it's not charity. It's invaluable marketing to have [insert celebrity here] visiting your store. Why do you think Nike pays millions to "athletes," while using slave labor to manufacture their shoes?

You'll be surprised how much free swag celebs & other rich people who can afford it all get. Especially since just seeing a certain celeb hold your product can inflate your profits exponentially. It's pretty ridiculous.

My thoughts exactly

It'd pay for my utilities for the whole year thats for sure!

And now he’s in prison

HE READ RULES WRONG. The gold card is a gift card with $1040 added each year. Winner can spend that giftcard in just a few days. There’s no restriction to only 2 meals a week
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Nice

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Good job

If that's how you feel, then look up how McDonald's Monopoly sweepstakes unknowingly funded an actual mafia. Pretty crazy stuff

Gd it's only bots under your comment bruv

@@JontheRoc I heard that it’s all a scam, and that there is no prices.

It’ll barely make a dent to McDonald’s 😭

@@jordynisboredyn ik lmao and they gotta put the thinking emoji cuz they're wrong iykwim

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They already have

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can i just get a location near me there likely only in the times square like locations of major cities

Same. Lol I don't even like McDonalds but here I am

HE READ THE RULES WRONG. The gold card is a gift card with $1040 added each year. Winner can spend that giftcard in just a few days. There’s no restriction to only 2 meals a week
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Yeah i came to say this! I wonder why it was once in the uk but twice a week in america

@@deadlymelody27 would be seen as encouraging an unhealthy lifestyle

What I like to do on pay day is to go to the dollar stores, and give the clerks 20 dollars, asking them to give 5 dollars off to the next 4 check outs. (Might be because I live in a small town, but) They almost always do it, and the people who struggle such that they actually go to dollar stores, get the benefit.
It's really not a lot of money, and since you're not wasting money through a charity, your small contribution actually does help several people.

Fast food restaurants aren't a good deal in food for charity, grocery stores are the way to go.

@@Jason75913 but he doesn't have a free groceries card, he has a free McDonald's card

Ur profile had me for a sec lol I saw 69d ago and I’m like how??

@@MattMcConaha and Matpat showed that the free food card can be converted to money; he suggested investing but Hemlocktea wants to spend it on food, so groceries are the way to go for best bang for the buck, also healthier

HE READ RULES WRONG. The gold card is a gift card with $1040 added each year. Winner can spend that giftcard in just a few days. There’s no restriction to only 2 meals a week
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@@electrictroy2010 Isn't the card only for McDonalds? That's why he made the invisible line so he had a model to build off of... Did you even watch the video?

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Ewwww and yes would love to see one on this

Frosted Flakes or Special K, I say.
Unless Quest or One start making protein-rich breakfast cereals, then those will be the winners.

I'd say some lond of cereal that doesn't have any sugar in it. And then add a bamanna/fruit of choice into the cereal for natural sugar.

@@Jason75913 frosted flakes???? C'mon man...lol

Take oatmeal, mix it with coconut oil and honey, throw it in the oven, toast it evenly, then add flax, chia, and sunflower seeds afterwards mix it up. And you got yourself a healthy crunchy cereal. Goes great with blueberries and bananas. Get weird in the kitchen. Have fun.

@@Alex-Defatte This actually sounds incredible. I will be trying it.