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Never been more amused watching people try figure out what an Egg is lol
Yeah I was LOL 🤣
I was yelling "it's a bloody egg" lol
Same lol
@@shaneb1982 it's a fucking egg in Australia we out eggs on some of our burgers infunno why it's so hard for people to grasp nor grasp bbq sauce or mayo saying nacho cheese which I saw no one correct either. Do people have eyes?
@@snowmorgan4115 lol not on that burger though! Like c’mon dude that was way too pale and dented to be a maccas egg. 100% halloumi like everyone is saying.
This video feels like it was made by someone that had a quick skim through the wikipedia page on Australia's McDonalds. A lot of stuff is either skewed, not true at all or limited time things that they've classed as permanent menu items.
So many inaccuracies in the vid 🤦🏻♀️
@@heidiross8592 So true. This is probably what happens with other videos based on other countries.
The video you watched was so padded out it was boring after for very little poor information
True...half the vid is complete BS!!! I've never had my meal brought to me on a plank of wood. And my fries have never been served in a basket
@@kirk5152 That was part of "create your taste" from about 6 years ago. One of McDonalds many failed attempts to do something. You could order custom burgers cooked to order with gourmet ingredients and it would be served as you said. It was actually really good taste-wise, but the cooking procedures completely clashed with the regular menu and people would end up waiting 20-30 minutes for their meal. (speaking as someone that worked there when it happened)
McCafes are inside the McDonalds store, not like a separate building like the video suggests. It has a separate counter and most people walk into the store to order food and sit down to eat from the McCafe. You can order both from the Mcafe counter and the normal counter. The stores are pretty clean and its always best to go to a high turnover store. You may wait a bit longer but because of the high turnover, food doesn't have time to sit and go bad both once cooked and sitting in storage areas.
There are some stand alone stores. There is a McCafe (with no regular store) next door to RPA hospital in Sydney.
@@krystle2312 yeah I've seen a few stand alone McCafes
My local Macca's has the McCafè as an add-on building attached to the side, not inside the restaurant.
I live in a town about 40 mins away from any Maccas, Hungry Jacks, Dominos etc..... had to go into the nearest town for a medical appointment the other day..... got breakfast, sausage and egg mcmuffin with a cappucino and hash brown.... and wolfed it all down lol..... it's like a quarterly treat.
True
We certainly do have the equivalent to the US McDonalds McValue menu in Australia 😳 We call it the “Macca’s loose change menu”. We do not EVER say “deffo”😳😂We do have Ranch Dressing in Australia but not at Maccas. We do have a number of double story Maccas stores. That white thing in the bottom of the burger looked like a fried egg to me. McCafe was an Australian idea and once it took off here it went around the world to number of countries including across Europe. I’ve been to Macca’s around the world including San Francisco, LA, Chicago, NYC, London, France, China and apart from some regional differences in menu items, Macca’s is pretty-much the same. I have a few friends that work at McDonalds in Australia now and their wages are about 3 to 4 times what the US pays for an adult in the same job.
The white thing at the bottom of the burger is grilled Halloumi
There's some in airports that are double story.
Order etc on ground food cooked at top
This was almost every single thought I had while watching this! The only one I thought of that you've not mentioned is that Maccas coffee is in no way deemed the best and people don't flock to Maccas for their coffee.
I've deffo said "deffo"
@@schlocketmonster3096 yup just coming to say the same thing! It's defo a thing
This video was made by someone that has never been to an Australian McDonald’s. We have the value menu, it’s just called ‘loose change menu’. Also I enjoy honey mustard sauce with my chicken nuggets
Babble top's info is always out of date or not researched properly it's always funny to see what they get wrong
That’s not honey mustard bro, it’s JUST mustard. And yes it’s delicious. Maccas Australia does not have a honey mustard.
I remember when ice cream cones were 40 cents. And you can get fries for $1. And chicken n Mayo burger for $2(I think, can't remember exactly)
We do have a value menu, its called the loose change menu. Most of those deserts are part of the McCafe counter (which is usually INSIDE the Macca's)
Toilets don't swirl in Australia because we have different toilet design...also our soft serve machines usually work...mainly because maintenance and repair happens fast here.
ahh depends how welthy the area the maccas is in iv seen some places where the machiean stays down for weeks
@@brendonrookes1151 Yep down for weeks and don't forget to mention the decorative syringe disposal boxes on the back of the toilet stall doors in some of the "interesting" districts. Try going to one of those classy stores with a toddler and keep them from hanging off the box while you attempt to pee.
One maccas here near me the machine kept breaking so the fixer guy said screw it and legit took outside and pulled it apart and beat the guts with a hammer 🤣
@@southaussiegarbo2054 lol
@@brendonrookes1151 it fixed it. To the point of no return 🤣
These menu items are so outdated. They stopped doing loaded fries 4 years ago. And the gourmet waiter stuff also got phased out years ago. Speaking as a former maccas employee
Macca’s have regular cheap specials. And you don’t have to buy a whole meal as suggested. You can buy just a cheeseburger for instance.
I go to McCafe a lot. The coffee is brilliant and I mostly have the cheesecake
I've never seen anything with Vegemite at Macca's in Australia but I have had the salad with a whole choice of different dressings including ranch.
only vegemite ive ever seen is the lil pre packed breakfast menu ones. You know for your toast or Muffin, you can get the jam or honey ones too. That video they were watching was full of sh** on so many things
I think you get it like with toast from McCafe
You get it with the toast or English muffins.. available in every store Australia wide for the last 40+ years :)
You just gotta ask for some bro
Same I've never seen anything Vegemite in maccas lol
McDonald's in Japan serve beer. Our toilets don't swirl, they flush like a waterfall around the lip of the bowl, and there is less water in the bowl so no poop splash. $2 hamburger,$1 frozen coke, $1 icecream cone with flake
Australians don’t generally like ranch dressing - it’s definitely a North American thing.
Maccas coffee is reasonably good but wouldn’t say there’s a “hype for Maccas coffee”.
Compared to my local barista, maccas coffee rates a 6 or 7 out of 10. A pass but not great.
True, 5.00 am shift, maccas coffee is way worth more than disgusting 7-11 2 dollar one
Definitely a ‘when proper coffee stores are closed’ coffee that passes just
Yeah our equivalent is probably aioli...as in it's everywhere and served with everything lol.
Love ranch dressing
Lol maccas coffee sucks, tastes like toilet water
Not sure if any Aussies have said it yet but yes we do call it Maccas mostly but the signage change was a relative handful of stores and some changed them back. I believe it was for a promotional thing initially.
Fun fact, the one the video most showed was in Melbourne and was actually bulldozed (along with other nearby stores) to make room to build a new underground station
I literally laughed out loud when the lady said 'defo have a good time' 😂it's sounds like it would be something an Aussie would say but it definitely isn't 😂
The video forgot to mention the children’s playgrounds attached to the Maccas premises. I don’t think I’ve seen them anywhere else in the world, esp in the US. 🤔
Lots in Canada.
@@geoffdrew6353 I am curious. With the weather, in Canada, are most of the Maccas playgrounds undercover or outside (but attached) to the Maccas building? Ours varies but most Maccas here will have a playground attached to the building and vary with undercover and outside. Usually tunnels and slides.
I've seen quite a few in USA
We have them in Australia. Less so now but there are still some around with them.
@@tgmaps I don’t know where you are in Australia but here in Sydney, they seem to be at just about every Maccas
Your South African accent is coming along nicely, Miles - if you like McCafe, it was started in Australia as well. It's not seperate as implied in the video - it's instore.
Lmao
have to agree Mile's accent is shithouse lolol please stop cruelling our wonderful OZZY accent Miles
@@anthony6044 harsh much
LOL
I always laugh at Phez frothing Miles' pronunciation of 'reacting' because it's the most inaccurate sounding word he says.
The ice cream machines are almost never broken in Australia
Yeh never really remember soft serve machines being out of service
Haha yeah right. They're always bloody broken.
I heard they were always broken too but only came accross that twice.
They definitely break
pffft they're always broken, & they park you for a happy meal!
We are blessed here with easy access to fresh food, so even fast food restaurants have to step it up to be popular. The average minimum wage at Maccas is 23.71
more like 17-21 a hour 23 is like a managers wage
@@brendonrookes1151 Minimum wage is $20.33
@@darianistead2239 its actuly 21 in aus but yeah
Bruh I get $11 an hour
@@bradyfeenan6304 That's criminal bro.
Starting rate in the lowest non skilled position at my work is $39 per hour on morning shift. Afternoon shift is $45..
That's starting rate, raises are guaranteed yearly based on a percentage rate which also equates for inflation. You also get bonuses for performance, and this is an American company in Australia.. So if for example, raise rate is 4% and inflation is 1.5% you would be guaranteed 5.5% raise per annum.. You could negotiate more if your bonus targets were exceeded each month. That's just a warehouse position picking boxes to order....
You are getting ripped off. If they can afford it here, they can there, they just know they don't have too..
Not all maccas have the boards and baskets. More often they just have the standard trays. But a couple years ago I did order a coffee and macarons in the Mcafe section and opted for table service. It was delivered to me on a board and with a proper cappuccino mug and and the macarons on a proper China plate. Lol.
We do have a value menu called the loose change menu. It's not called the dollar menu. Items for $2 etc.(which would about be the same as U.S $1) And no, you don't have to buy a meal to get it!
I remember the loaded fries marketing initiative. We went and tried them. The most popular two results ended up on the menu. They've changed the loaded fries a few times since it started.
The Mcspider (or float) is a frozen coke/fanta with a scoop of ice-cream on top. Not my thing but to each their own.
Google, there's a bunch of places in Texas that sell Macarons.
where do they have the board and basket?
The boards are gone .it was used when they made custom burgers you got from the kiosk but they got overloaded and delivery to table time blew out
@@whatwhatinthewhat4400 It used to be a thing, now nowhere does it anymore. You could order a burger exactly how you wanted it and they'd deliver it out to the table but most people wanted to just get their food and go, so the concept didn't stick about very long. You could go crazy with how your burger was constructed though, it was pretty fun. Expensive but fun.
I have never seen a seperate McCafe, the are always in the same store. that being said I do live in a more regional area.
Im in a major city... They arnt separate. They are inside the Maccas
There are a few stand alone McCafe’s in Westfeild food courts.
I've seen them in a few regional airports.
So I was in Hawaii years ago and ordered a cheese burger from MacDonald's I actually ended up throwing it away! It tasted plastic. It was weird. The bun tasted sweet and the meat was gross & the cheese was plastic. We do pay more for Mecca's burgers here but they are sooo much better quality and variety. Worth it.
100%. Our beef is incredible, theirs is inedible 😭
Wow! You fellows are missing out. In Australia the best burgers are those you buy from many a fantastic local fish and chip shop. You tell them what you want on your burger and they make it right there fresh.
or the old roadhouse burgers hey...
Am I too old now to have remembered when I was a kid they had milkbars that sold hamburgers too? Hamburgers and milkshakes. Fresh. And they knew your name.
Fish and chip shop burgers are much better, but, they are not open at stupid o’clock in the morning on the way home from work so maccas coffee and food is awesome when your hungry 😋
@@juliedeveson9275 stupid o’clock? That’s what kebabs are for 🤣🤣🤣 but get what you’re saying and true
@@iloveentertainment … unfortunately I’m allergic to garlic and can’t eat kababs… the biggest disappointment in my life
In Sydney, there was a third type of Mcdonald's called The Corner McCafe with a different menu. The Corner was divided into different stations. There's a help-yourself wall of pre-wrapped wraps, fruit salad, and plastic tubs of tofu and vegetables. A pastry cabinet is filled with lots of chocolate, spongy cakes and a coffee counter sells corn fritters with avocado and feta at breakfast. At the lunch station, you can choose two out of the four salad options and one serving of meat.
the cakes/slices/donuts/biscuits are part of the McCafe menu
i live in australia and alot of the things on these menus i would love to see and the mcafe is inside just on a separate counter
with the 'value menu' the video makes it sound like you have to buy a meal, you don't you can just buy a burger or nuggets or any other item on the menu by itself. they also have 'loose change' menu that has things like a $2 burger and a $1 frozen coke.
A common thing for families to get is a 'Family McValue Box', there are a few variations but its basically 4 burger meals from about $20
yeah but the australian "loose change $2 hamburger".... $1 for the value menu cheeseburger in america...and 1 australian doller = 1.5 american dollars.
so in australia you pay 50 cents more for a hamburger without the cheese, so it's not really a good deal is it.
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 when you consider the workers get paid nearly double what the workers in USA get paid, that seems about right.
crew members apparently get paid about $23 AUD per hour, thats around $17.50 USD at the moment.
@@myopinion69420 yeah but the point that you completely missed is the VALUE MENU is for people who don't have a job and cannot normally afford fast food.
@@mentalasylumescapee6389 the point I don't think you get is that the food cannot be that cheap while paying the workers a decent wage. even if they were to pay the minimum wage, thats about $20 an hour now, so not much room to drop cost there.
@@myopinion69420 america wins at the end of the day then.
Australia has always been a place where maccas trials everything first. So we get heaps of ‘new’s’ first before everyone else, so we get all the best stuff first!
You can get ranch dressing in supermarkets and some American themed restaurants here in Australia….. just not at Maccas or fast food places. It’s not a common dressing here, unlike in the USA (same with blue cheese dressing).
The only fast food joint where I've seen Ranch dressing has been at Subway.
I just discovered ranch after a life time of presuming it was another shitty American food like orange cheese, just mayo with a southern twist!? Wrong! I can't believe I've deprived myself of this magic sauce/dressing for most of my life 🤬
They did do gourmet build your own burgers for a while, but rationalised it to a few offerings a few years ago
They junked all the gourmet burgers in May 2021
Also our coffee beans r also Aussie made, (as McCafe came from us, well particularly Victoria) in Melbourne...and each coffee is made by a trained barista ONLY, as making a coffee is an art form to itself.
Hence why were the coffee nation, as were influenced by other culture coffee
Hey just a correction: we do in fact have dollar menus. They’ve been common for years now, you can get a cheeseburger for $2, and a large frozen coke for $1.
We also have something called “McDonald’s monopoly” where our McDonald’s will put stickers on our burger boxes/fries/drinks and you can win prizes when you peel them off. They can value from a free burger/meal to like winning cars and stuff. It happens yearly :)
Yes, we pay our Macca's staff real wages. We also have what's called a "loose change" menu so you can get the cheaper stuff. Doesn't mean that they always get your order right though, or that the service is always good ... but I think it's better here than the US though.
My teenage daughter works at Macca’s, she brings home a good wage for a 16 year old.
@@whisperslmao798 Nothing wrong with a fair wage for fair work. As some people just use it for a stepping stone to get better work, that is the only reason it is looked at as a low-income job. It is actually not bad. It is probably the best job a 16 year old can have for experience, responsibility, team-work and customer service. Those that stay on go up the ladder and can get to shift manager or manager with a good wage
Congrats on your healthy journey Miles, you've trimmed up a lot and it shows on camera bro. 💜🇦🇺
Also those were macarons, a macaroon is totally different 🙂
Almost all of our beef cattle are Angus but the name only started being used as a marketing tool a few years back to make it seem "premium". As for wagyu, we actually export Australian wagyu to Japan! You should look how it's raised on little islands and moved around at low tide!
FYI: Macca’s is a nickname given to anyone with a ‘Mc’ surname it’s not just for McDonald’s. I’ve noticed that not many videos explain this and yea, back in the ‘McDonald’s’ labeled days it was common to tell your mates “wanna head to macca’s for a bite?”. The rest is history.
Also McDonalds workers are paid under the Fast Food Industry Award in Australia which is currently (just checking) $29.59 an hour AUD or currently 22.01 / hour USD That's for casual which is the fairest comparison as full time workers in the US aren't guaranteed any vacation leave, sick leave or public holidays. If we take the full time wage for McDonalds workers that's AUD$23.67 an hour which is US$17.61 an hour with 4 weeks paid vacation leave, 10 sick days paid and about 10 days a year paid public holidays depending on which state you live in. The full time rates are $26.04 an hour for 10PM to midnight ($19.37 USD), $27.22 for midnight to 6 AM shifts ($20.24 USD). $29.59 for Saturday ($22.01 USD) and $35.51 for Sunday ($26.41 USD). Working on a public holiday gets you AUD$53.26 which is $US39.61. Casuals are paid more for each of those times up to a maximum AUD$59.18 on a public holiday a whopping US$44.03 an hour. Yet, burgers in Australia are really no more expensive than they are in the US. McDonalds restaurants are as ubiquitous, fast and well served. US workers are being ripped off.
This particular video was so misleading & a lot of it actually wrong. And no macca’s coffee is not sort after it’s just not too bad but incredibly convenient especially late nights with the drive thru. Actually a while back they got so much negative feed back on their coffee that they did a full barista training for their staff & advertising campaign to encourage people to come back.
Macca’s is not on most signs, I think there may be a few but is more used in advertising. A lot of the things in this were available but are now not. And they do have a ‘penny pinchers’ menu.
I've lived in Renmark SA for 20 years and until about 4-5 years ago when the 'firehouse cafe' opened, Macca's was 99.9% the best coffee in town (mine being the exception). Coming from Newcastle where they have a solid coffee culture it's been sad here for a LONG time. Luckily I have espresso machine and enough barista training to get by!
I’d still go to a McCafé coffee than a Starbucks 🤮
@@slai83 100%
we do have a mcvalue menu in australia it is called the "loose change menu" which includes 2$ burgers and cheap chips etc but we do defintely have a loose change menu. also mccafes are in the store and you have to do months of training to work there the coffes are only avalable at certain times. and lunch and dinner foods are only available from past 10-11am
Macca's had a lamb burger as well, plus McRib pork burger, Mini and Mega Macs, chicken big mac, Big Mac with bacon, loaded fries are the best, shaker fries are not bad either, Nutella pancakes, we do have a cheap range called the loose change menu, you can also get a Cadbury flake cone for $1
here in Australia we do have a budget menu at Macca's it's called the "loose change" menu with $1 frozen cokes & soft serve ice cream, $2 hamburgers & small fries, $3 sundaes and chicken mcbites etc. And yes here in Australia our wages are typically much higher than in the US, in Australia the minimum wage is about $20 an hour.
Mcdonalds in Australias employees are mainly students and its considered an excellent training for future employment. I worked there when I was at school as did my daughter and she enterered a sponspored essay writing competition and was one of 12 winners that year 2008 and won a cash prize of $2000 Aud. As far as I know they have this opportunity every year for 12 employees in each state.
Gotta remember all those pictures are "food styled", the real thing looks nothing like it. Also the menu is considerable smaller than this video shows. There are no more fully loaded fries (except maybe gravy), no more wagu beef, just the angus etc.
Hi guys, the images you are seeing in this are nothing like what maccas burgers look like. They are actual cafe burgers, you can see in the background that there is a cafe sign. And another one has MY BURGER on their aprons lol. Our burgers look just as shit as yours do. Nothing like the ads at all.
We also don't have signs that say MACCAS. It would be be awesome if we did.
Vegemite is not on anything at maccas at all. You can ask for vegemite if you have toast and they give it to you in a tiny plastic thing.
We do get free wifi at maccas though and we do have garlic aioli. We also have amazing coffees at McCafe which you can still get through the drive through. It's all in the same maccas.
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Boys in Aussie having Macca's on your resume is a big plus for future employment opportunities.
not really..
What, as toilet cleaners
@@michaelfreeze2949 The ones I know got good office jobs based on their reference from Macca's besides don't knock toilet cleaners without them without them all public toilets would be to filthy to use.
@@charliew4823 In the real business world you don't have 20 year old managers who only became managers because they have worked for the company for more than 12 months
We absolutely can get a burger by itself without needing to get the full meal lol
God those american info videos are so painful
From what I understand our wagu beef here is the second best behind Japan at a7 grade and it's full wagu. American wagu cows are actually half wagu bred with half of whatever the most common cow over there is. Still technically wagu but not the same quality .
America invented McDonalds, Australia perfected it !!
Aussie here so I'm not bashing us , but I tried McDonald's in NZ and it was better than ours.
@@tomblack6965 gotta agree with that . They even have pies across the ditch
Miles has been avoiding Macca's I think, looking fit son!
We have mcvalue meals, including cheeseburgers. We also have a variety of cheap eats for $2. Not every shop has the full range of pastries, McCafe is often inside the usual macca's,
Aussie fish shops serve "the Lot burger," large bun, with a minced meat patty, fried egg, cheese, pineapple slice, pickled beetroot, tomato, onion, lettuce and tomato sauce. Some of us still prefer those over chain burgers. My sister likes the fish and salad version. Fresh beetroot from the supermarket veg section, can be boiled then peeled, as is they are quite sweet, canned beetroot as used on burgers is pickled. People add whichever seasonings they prefer to beetroot and cook them as they choose. If you get purple fingers from touching beetroot, use toothpaste to get it off. Dropping it on clothing is a problem as well.
"The lot" or "the works" burger usually has bacon as well: meat patty, lettuce, tomato, beetroot and fried onion as standard, with egg, bacon, cheese and pineapple as the add ons.
No Maccas or at least the ones I go to have value items
Maybe they changed after the video
We DO have a dollar menu and have had in a lot in the past, it's called the Loose Change Menu
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Most Maccas have the McCafe in the same building. So you can get your usual burger & chips, but also get a good coffee (or hot chocolate), tea, pastries, cheesecake, chocolate muffins, macarons etc... You collect your burgers as normal, and your McCafe purchase from the other counter. Sometimes in the drive through, you will collect the foods at separate windows if it is busy. Also, McCafe is an Australian invention. We also have multiple flavours of Frozen Fanta. At one stage there were 30 different flavours to choose from & you could mix 2 in the one drink. I used to get Pinappe and Lime.
And Australia McDonald's aka mcafe dont use the board service system anymore since 2019 its back to original maccas service
The only time our local Maccas soft serve doesn't work is on every Tuesday morning when it is cleaned. You don't have to order a full meal. You can just get one single cheeseburger or any burger if you want. Anything in a meal is available as a single item.
$1 value menu is a special thing that comes and goes
Love the Angus burger and the McOz. Now I want Macca’s 😓🇦🇺
I love McDonald’s in Australia
I am Australian and had McDonalds as a customer. I can tell you McDonald’s, Macca’s Australia has value meals.
At my maccas we don’t just have the frozen coke, we also have a multi flavour frozen drinks you can get. You can choose one or pick two flavours into one drink, with me I normally choose lime and pineapple. Search it up 😁
A couple of points missed here.
McCafe was an Australian idea, established in Melbourne in 1993. Melbourne has one of the largest Italian migrant populations outside Italy, and espresso was introduced and well establish in the city decades before the same craze occurred in Seattle for example.
McCafe was born out of necessity.
McCafe first made its way to the US a full 8 years later.
McDonalds in the US often uses Australia as a test bed or uses some of their ideas. The Australian market is small but wealthy and higher expectations for freshness and variety.
Being one of the fastest adopters of tap and go, and having a highly sophisticated banking system, the Australian McDonalds was among the first to introduce the tablet style ordering and table service common around the world. It’s been available since 2008, once again a full 8 years before the US. It was introduced into the US in 2016 rolling out at first to 1000 stores.
Mobile ordering has been common for a long time as well going hand in hand with self service kiosks.
Lastly the Value meals don’t exist in Australia , but it’s misleading to say they don’t exist at all. In Australia they’re called “loose change menu”.
One of the original items to kick this off was the 30c ice cream cone. But it’s moved to $1, $2, $3.
A lot of the changes such as self-serve kiosks, McCafe and architectural interest have been needed and started in Australia because of the market.
There is a lot of competition specific to Australia that focuses on much higher quality and Australians more often than not, are will to pay significantly more for higher quality.
Speed and cost are far less of a concern than quality and ambience.
When I worked at McDonald's around the time I was 16 I was getting $15 an hour give or take. When I got to 18 it went up to around 21 when I left it was around 22.5 thats aud tho, as a casual (they only have to give you 3 hours a week and no sick leave or annual leave) worker I was getting 28 an hour
So having worked at Maccas for 14 years when I was younger from crew person all the way to assistant manager from 2002 to 2016, just a few corrections/additional points.
- Ranch dressing is an American thing, it tastes like musky gym clothes (Sorry, not sorry).
- The beef used in maccas patties is made from export grade meat and is not made from leftover scraps and such.
- They're pronounced Mack-a-Rons not Mack-a-Roons both are two very different things. A Macaron is French and is a ganache/jam filling between two meringue biscuits, a macaroon on the other hand is an Italian Almond/coconut based biscuit/cake
- The white slice on that burger is grilled haloumi cheese which was available as part of the create your taste menu that launched a sometime around 2013
- As the angus pricing, depending on your location as maccas pring changes depending on the socioeconomic demographic of the surrounding area, a Big Mac will cost you $7.10 whereas a Classic Angus burger will cost you $9.15
- Maccas is also a lot healthier in several areas most don't realise one of which was in the mid 2000s Maccas moved to a canola oil blend from the American lard style oil that is cholesterol free and has 85% less trans-fat than the American lard style oils.
- The coating on the fried products on the Aussie menu was also updated around 2010ish to make them less bad for you.
- In regards to the aesthetic of the restaurants, It's only the production/payment area that is commonly seperate from the main counter. The dining experience for the Restaurant as a whole is almost always the same design as what you saw in this video for the McCafe areas.
FYI guys, Australian minimum wage is currently $20.33/hour but must people earn a lot more than that. Also, in addition to paying wages all employers must pay 10% of employees gross wages into an an approved superannuation fund which can be drawn down on retirement. And don't forget that health care costs are covered by the government.
We have Ranch Dressing at Subway, but not Macca's.
Macca's coffee is ok. Hungry Jack's (Burger King) is mud-puddle crap (they even admitted it in their own ads, when they tried to be better).
No Value Meal? We have the "loose-change menu" (our coins are $1 & $2).
If you're ever on a road-trip in Oz, Macca's have the cleanest toilets (rest-rooms).
i cant live without an occasional bacon deluxe lol although you have a %50 chance of getting a raw one😂
And we do have a value meals...we also having something called the loose change menu. Not just that, we also can get family dinner boxes.
We did used to have a "Loose Change" menu with cheaper options from $1-$3 but they got rid of it.
Also the Create Your Own burger where they deliver to you was actually incredible, at least at my local memories, honestly still one of my top Burges I've had was one I created at a Macca's but it only lasted maybe just a year and surprised it lasted as long as it did cause there is no way it was feasible to run both the regular menu and the create your own at the same time.
But would be amazing if they opened up stores just doing the create your own
The last time I went to Maccas was on the 11th March. I ordered a small "Big Mac' meal consisting of a Big Mac burger, small fries and small diet coke. The cast was $A11:30. By the way, the word 'root' has numerous meanings: the root of a plant, having sex 'Wanna root?' and feeling very tired 'I'm rooted/feeling rooted'. The Brits use the word 'shag' for both sex and weariness. We always have a laugh when a young American woman says that she's rooting for a particular team. Now, if a male says that................ If you aren't adverse to bad language, check out 'Rodney Rude - Maccas' on RUclips.. He was a popular, crude comedian of the 1980s/1990s. I saw him live once and nearly had a heart attack from laughing. Finally, Miles, like the Brits, we pronounce 'RUclips' as ;Youchewb' instead of 'Youtoob'. One of Rodney Rude's Maccas jokes was 'If ya go to Maccas and want a p*ss, in the toilet which queue do ya join - the 'junior burgers' or the ''quarter pounders'?
McCafe (worldwide) startedin Melbourne AUS. It is basically a store witin the restaurant, with its own counter and checkout register, tho you can place a single order in either section rather than queuing twice eg if you want a breakfast mcmuffin and a hot chocolate, or if an adult wants coffee & cake and kid wants a burger & fries.
the mccafae has changed it is now only available at the regular counter as of 2019 along with that fun lockdown time
The whole wooden tray, basket of fries, and skewer through your burger thing was kinda short-lived. At least in Victoria where I'm from. I don't remember that lasting more than a year or so before they just decided it was too much effort and went back to plastic trays and normal packaging. The table service thing was also short-lived. There was a period where you'd be given a thing to sit on your table that would allow the staff to locate you and bring your meal out, but now it's just back to the good old standing awkwardly in a crowd near the counter waiting for your number to be called out.
edit. When I lived in town I probably went to Maccas like 3 times a week at midnight just for chicken nuggets. But having a meal there was probably a once a fortnight thing or less. There are better places to eat for the same price or less. There is also a bit of push-back in Australian culture towards chains. Especially international chains. People are far more likely to buy from a local family-run take-away store if its within normal business hours. edit2. This is probably why McDonalds endorse the slang term 'Maccas' so freely here, to try to make people feel like it's local, so they'll be more likely to go in.
23:55 - I haven't seen a wire basket or large wooden slab since before covid.
Its egg on the burger haha
Also, not all of out Maccas have this on their sign, only some. Also...Ive never seen my maccas served on a wooden block like that..pretty sure that would only happen at a few select stores...
hey guys, our mcdonald’s don’t offer the same sauces but some of those are available at subway. so u can get ranch and southwest sauce at subway just not at maccas
We use to have a hard chocolate topping on our soft serve ice cream in Australia
We don't have the value menu but you can definitely buy individual items. It's just that you're going to be paying $4 for a cheeseburger. And McCafe is in a Macca's, it's just a different counter that you order from.
That video is oooooold. Like the table delivery thing. It was very short lived a few years back.
I’m 53 and I’ve never seen anything with Vegemite on the menu.
A lot of this stuff were limited time trials
We used to have CYT which was ‘create your taste’ they flopped it because they didn’t do it properly. But that white stuff at the bottom, that was fried halloumi cheese which was a part of the CYT range
And we have the loose change menu….
I have a question, from a non tipping country, do you tip for fast food? if not, where is the line? is it you only tip if there is table service or is it 'diners' and above?
Aussie with American family here. Of all the times I’ve been over there I’ve never heard of anyone tipping for fast food and my sister there says it would be ridiculous.
@@dutchroll I thought so, but that makes it even worse.
I do get that in restaurants and diners in some states the workers don't even make minimum wage without tips because of 'tipped minimum wage' were the employer is allowed to pay as low as like $3 an hour with tips to make up the rest, that is just absurd!
@@myopinion69420 Yeah the tipping culture is out of control there. You’re also supposed to tip for haircuts. When we lived there for a year my wife got in trouble when she paid a hairdresser without tipping and got a lecture! Hairdressers, barbers, taxis, diners, restaurants, pubs, bars, and many other places. Anything less than 15% is considered insulting and 20% is not uncommon. Things like cafe food are expensive here compared to the USA but I always make a point to American visitors of saying “well you can cut 15-20% off that price up front before you start making comparisons.” Then you add in the bit about the waitress getting a half-survivable wage, super, leave, universal healthcare, etc.
@@dutchroll its more than a survivable wage if you live within your means. the minimum wage is now just over $20 an hour.
I can see it not being liveable in places like Sydney, especially if you only work part timr. but if your careful with your money, live outside the big cities and work full time, you can live quite comfortably on minimum wage. I did for many years while saving up for a house deposit.
I always get so annoyed at people that complain about 'never being able to buy a house' and that they can't save money on their $80k a year salary, yet they get a new iPhone EVERY year, with the massive data plans they don't even use and have to get the new iPad with it. no wonder they can't save money when they are spending close to $300 a month on a phone and an iPad.
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@@myopinion69420 yeah when I said "half survivable" I meant that in relativistic terms compared to $4/hr in the USA! I mean you're obviously not gonna be buying a Porsche on a waitress wage in Australia but you can get by. Not so in the USA where they'll often work 2 or more jobs to pay the rent and buy groceries.
Even when you type in "Maccas" in Google Maps, it takes you to the nearest McDonalds here... also, the govt here gives you a Seniors Card, when you reach a certain age. So when I go to Maccas, I get a free coffee or drink. Hungry Jacks (Burger King) does the same as well as KFC and other places. Some give 105 discount. Crispy Kreme gives 20% off for seniors on Tuesdays. There's heaps of other discounts as well, like half price public transport and free on weekends etc.
Lady in the video they are watching: *pronounces it “ossies” for the millionth time*
My eye: *twitches*
This is nothing like an Australian MacDonalds. They are highlighting special offers which are not usually available at the stores. Maccas is occasionally referrred to, but it is usually called by the full name. I have also never seen a store branded as Maccas.
Only a very small percentage of stores serve food on wooden boards etc. the vast majority call your number and hand your food in a paper bag.
The McDonald’s gourmet burgers are served on wooden boards.
Miles, you're accent is getting so much better....almost there. And I must say, man, you're looking good!!!
You cool too Phezz....xx
MCafe started in Swanston St Melbourne and then spread worldwide. Melbourne and Sydney are known for the quality of their coffee. Some say we are coffee snobs. The Australian coffee options are a proper list of real coffee Italian born choices - Cappuccino, Macchiato (a shot of espresso topped with a dash of milk for a strong, smooth taste) Mocha, Latte & Espresso. Then 2 styles invented in Australia (we really are coffee snobs) Flat White (like a latte with double espresso and a little less milk), A Long Black (a double espresso with less water and crema - the more bitter froth. Less water than a single shot Americano makes it more intense). One Italian/Australian creation, The Piccolo Latte (A ristretto (short) shot of coffee topped with warm and silky full cream milk, served in a piccolo latte glass).
My view is the US menu is more like a Starbucks with all the caramel and vanilla options (yes Maccas does have some of those as well) The US Premium Roast Coffee is, direct quote "brewed every 30 minutes". If you get it in the first 10 minutes it won't have the bitter, burnt taste from sitting on the stand'
The food option we love here is the 'Chicken Wrap' a soft tortilla filled with chicken and salad. The US does have a sausage burrito. Mustn't forget the Maccas pineapple fritters and obligatory beetroot on some burgers!
And...we defiantly don't say 'deffo'.
It's not all better of worse. Just different - if you love good coffee. The local coffee quality is why there is an explosion of Aussie barista owned coffee shops in the US, particularly NY (including owned by Hugh Jackman) and LA where serious coffee drinkers are going.
Did I mention Maccas playgrounds?
Value meals are called "loose change" meals,as in the coins in your pocket. Pay in Maccas is around $22ph in Oz
We have the loose change menu so it definitely exists here!
They also don’t serve meals on the fancy boards and in the wore baskets anymore.
We have 2 storey McDonalds but ive only ever seen them in Sydney..
The garlic aoli isn't available anymore I believe, and Vegemite I believe you can ask for a little packet of it from the McCafe when you order toast, as for the ranch and other dressings mentioned no we don't have that at Maccas but you can get them at any supermarket, but they are not as popular here as in America.
I think a lot of the burgers mentioned in this are part of the Gourmet range, which stopped years ago.
The Loaded Fries were also discontinued years ago I was very mad about that they were awesome.
We had the Loose Change menu for a while but they stopped that too, but there are some things that stayed like hamburgers are 1$ after midday and frozen cokes are 1$ too
The Create Your Taste menu with the delivered to your table fancy serving is also discontinued.
This video must be pretty old because it's pretty inaccurate
Lol mid to higher end 😂😂😂 there just competing with the fish and chip shops lol this is so funny
The burger you 1st showed, the white thing on the bottom, I think was just an egg, as they tend to fall out if you put them elsewhere on the burger.
We do have McValue meals and if you add the phone APP you get offered a different deal each day for a good price. I often go in and just order meat patties. There are 4 tiny Yorkies in their booster seats in our truck. When we are traveling we get those or Chicken McNuggets for the puppies. They never know what to charge us for meat patties and one lady told us to just take them. McCafe is inside every Macca’s.
Yes, they have started changing our signs to Macca’s because we don’t call them anything else. Everything here is shortened and we either add an a or a y to the end.
We used to take our kids for a treat but not often because we helped raise a lot of kids. It was rare that just our 4 lived at our house. All of ours would eat their ice cream by digging their fries in to get some and that is now an Aussie thing.
In Australia we demand a healthy option everywhere. Right now I cannot eat at Macca’s because they do not have anything a Diabetic can eat. I used to love their frozen yoghurt with berries. I ordered that in America and they looked at me like I was an alien. They didn’t know what a thick shake was either and it is nothing like our Macca’s. Totally different menu.
If a fast food chain comes here they have to adapt to what we want and expect or they don’t last long. It wasn’t that we didn’t like Starbucks. We already changed the coffee to great coffee and the menu to what we like but they were too expensive. They also opened 46 stores at the same time and it was overkill. Our Country is almost the same size as yours but there are only 25 million people here. We didn’t need that many Starbucks all at once and some just a block apart. Most American homes have drip filter coffee but we never have, it tastes like battery acid. I have big coffee machines, one in the kitchen downstairs and one on the bar upstairs. They grind fresh beans for every cup and I have the choice of making 5 different types of coffee. The machine does the rest. They cost more than my fridge but that is how fussy some of us are, there is a good reason we won best coffee in the world especially if you live in Melbourne. I am not allowed to drink coffee but I still make it.
Gloria Jeans was already established here, they are good and affordable. My daughter is still mourning Starbucks going but we still have 6 stores and if she wants a 90 minute drive she can have more. She told me if she is driving that far she would rather get on a plane to Rome for coffee and it wouldn’t be the first time she did that.
America seems more insular like they mostly just see their Country. We aren’t.
We used to have a burger store here owned by Burger King but it was called Hungry Jacks. There is a video on this on RUclips and worth watching. Burger King had the restaurant’s franchised to Australian’s but the contract could be changed after I think 30 years. When the time was up they were not doing anything about the contracts and it changed what we could sell. They decided to do nothing even though we had made them millions they wanted more. So they tried sending them all broke. That went to Court and Aussies don’t like going to Court. We can work it out and we are more, she’ll be right mate, people. Burger King had to pay millions in damages and now Hungry Jacks is all Australian. That was taken to Court in the USA and it is very rare they find in our favour. I can eat at Hungry Jacks. They have a wrap with skinless, grilled chicken and salad.
You also said something about Macca’s and Japan. Did you know Japan passed a food law because their young people started getting fat eating junk food? Everyone was told to resume eating a traditional healthy meal and only that can be served in schools. The schools also have no cleaners, the kids have to do it all to learn responsibility, working as a team and cleaning skills. We should all do that. That is why Macca’s looks so different in Japan now.
Australia has the loose change menu instead of the value menu
No one says ‘Defo’ instead of definitely. Never heard that in my life. Most new Maccas are 2 story. We absolutely have value meals and only the Angus burgers from specialty menu come out on wooden boards…not sure if they still even do that. Macca’s coffee use to be disgusting so they create McCafe where you can get a decent coffee from made by a barista. McCafe’s are located within a Macca, just has a separate counter. We don’t have beetroot burgers we have burgers with beetroot on them as you would tomato. Pretty sure that was an egg at the bottom of burger.
I’m sure the regular parts and menu at Macca is the same as Mickey Ds
Still remember soft serve ice cream cones, four or five inches tall (eat 'em quick before they melt), for thirty cents. For twenty cents extra you could have a Cadbury's flake with it. Life was good them days.
The maccas in Ballarat Victoria, is the most stunning I’ve seen, it was, is 2 stories. I’ve not been there for some time; just the decor is beautiful
The Breakfast menu at Macca’s has an English muffin with your choice of butter, honey, jam or vegemite. McCafe is within the Macca’s restaurant. Its pronounced Mac Cafe not Mick Cafe. Nobody wants to clean the Soft serve icecream machine in America. The machines are always working in Aus. Cleaning the entire restaurant is the job of every worker. Jobs are allocated and rotated. Pay at the cashier which was partly cut out in editing.
Frozen coke machines always seem to be broken whenever its a 40+ degree (Celsius) day which is a bummer
Hey guys, Australian coffee snob here. Macca's coffee for is used for a scale of goodness for cafes, purely because it's terrible. If a Cafe rates worse than macc's coffee you know it's bad! Cheers
another thing not mentioned is we can now get a double or triple qtr pounder and big macs. no Idea why you would want them but you can.
also the wagyu burger was a limited thing.
not sure where they get the beetroot burger but we do have a seasonal mcfeast that has beetroot