In McDonald's 8 19 1988
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2013
- Was just watching this and thought it be good for the people in it to see it. So I thought put it on RUclips.
I did this video back at McDonald's on Belleville Road in Michigan. Most of the people names I do not remember any more. Some I still do.
If any one who is in this video knows the names of the people post it here. Would be nice.
I think the people in it would love to see them self's now years later like this. Maybe even people who know them would love to see how they looked when they were teenagers.
Did this with a old VHS video camera. The big VHS tape fit right in it. I still have that cam and remember it cost $1000 back then. But have some good old videos from it.
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This video is proof that social media has completely ruined this world..
Yep, like 80% of people have narcissistic personality disorder now.
at first I read this as "Didn't ruin the world". I was about to go off lol. Alot more negative Social media has done, than positive.
I think we all know that. I hate that I love watching RUclips. But it’s better than giving your attention to what’s on tv. Delete your social media accounts and watch your life get better again.
get off social media then, including this one
@@fuzzyknuckle4352 LMAO no
Its weird to see the staff laughing and smiling in fast food restaurants..
yea , nowadays they are rude as fkk and dont say nothing to you and hate you, really sad
Not being bullied by a bunch of customers thinking they are better than the next person .
When I go to fast food restaurants idk who is worse. Workers or customers they all rude
Well I worked at McDonald’s in 2002 majority of the second shift people were people I went to school with everybody was having fun laughing and joking making money going out on off days kicking it at the Employees parties lol
@@NewRUclipsr1111 I worked at KFC in 2002, and it was practically a party on 2nd shift, we would close up and actually bust out drinks and other..substances in the dining area after close and just party.
1987 and 1988 was the absolute best era of time to be an 18 year old boy. SOOOOOO glad I got to experience it. I never left the 80's btw.... long live the 80's!
Me too, I was 22 and '87/88/89 have been my favorite years thus far
I was 21 years old in 1988, miss the 1980s.
This was heartwrenching to watch. People born after 1995 will never know what life was like before the internet. The need to go out to be entertained is what made our lives great.
Yep. Calling friends on the house phone & then meeting up with everyone at the chosen spot. What good times!!!
Born in 97 and I still did those stuff us born in the late 90’s still had the same elements in our childhood is just once smartphones were created shit went left from my memory shit haven’t been the same since 2008
After 1991*
cry me a river
i dunnno.. my post internet life is pretty okay
Love how they're all smiling, laughing and camera shy.
You'd think we should've been pissed since minimum wage was only $3.20 an hour. We weren't bitching and moaning about the pay...we simply asked for more shifts or overtime. These kids today would NEVER survive through the 80's. Some of the best times of my life and best memories made! Parachute pants, dropping film off at 1 hour developing booth, T-Top camero, Motley Crue, Prince, Billy Idol, and lots of one hit wonders. Homemade cassette tapes with favorite songs recorded off radio, MTV, Pretty in Pink and Risky Business. Miller ponies, Mary Lou Rhetton (84 Olypmics), no seat belts, drank tap water and smoked on commercial airplanes!!! We lived life to the fullest!!!!!!!
@@kat8132 You're not wrong, and overall I agree. However, this is an issue with the rising cost of living as well as goods & services since then. I'd also throw in the fact that management behavior/ethics have also changed for the worse since the 80's.
@@kat8132 delusional boomers 😂😂 compare the minimum wage to the average rent price, meal and cost of a house and other goods. You delusional boomers have no idea how easy you had it by being propped up by the strongest US economy at the time and before Covid inflation or 2008 recession destroyed millennials and gen z.
It’s actually pitiful how easy you boomers had it yet most of you will retire with nothing because you were too stupid buying large trucks and gambling stuff Vegas.. see we can stereotype u too!
Realize ur children or grand child future are ruined because of actions of your generation. Most selfish group of people who bring the ladder up and vote against building new housing
@@kat8132 there's no pride in lacking backbone and not demanding what you are owed.
@@kat8132 dude, minimum wage has not increased with inflation accurately AT ALL. I have studied economics and it is exponentially more difficult for this generation than yours to make it at all. I am 25 and I work two jobs and live at home. I am not even close to being able to even afford rent with a roommate.
The thing that surprises me most isn't the camera shyness, lack of hairnets or even smoking in the break room... it's seeing a fast-food restaurant FULLY STAFFED the way it should be.
Yup. When the bathrooms actually got cleaned, the trash cans got stomped down with the stomer😂and tables got wiped off. all done by a person with a disability to give them a job and some sort of normalcy in life
They were making 5 - 6 bucks an hour back then and it was fine because it was a minimum wage type job. A stepping stone in life where you learned basic skills like how to work with others and how to clean urinals.
They were actually paid a decent wage
@Rafael Dejesus I remember the implementation of gloves. I started in the food industry in 1994. Pretty much cross contamination was not taught or a thing then. You would pick up raw meat, then you might brush your hands off on a nasty rag and move on to something like make a salad.😆 Around 2000 or so, our local health department cracked down and implemented all sorts of improvements like gloves for anything handled and not cooked.
And everybody is white!
I was 13 in 88. Just watching a seven minute video and you can immediately tell how different things were back then - and it’s not even that long ago. In general it was a much better vibe than today.
I LIKE CHOCOLATE MILK!
@@imweird.6147Si, and I like potatoes.
@@LickingOfSalt I
@@LickingOfSalt like
@@LickingOfSalt cereal
Thank you, algorithm, for randomly bringing me here and being the closest thing we have to a time machine 💕
*Back when Human beings actually Interacted as Human beings*
People looked naturally beautiful and happier back then.
No it didn’t
@@skywishr1313 . . Troll climb back in your hole . . 🖕
It kills me seeing footage like this shot in the 80's. Makes me wanna crawl through the screen to get back there.
Me too. ✌
Snap
😂😂😂
There must be a portal somewhere, Skull...we've just got to find it, and soon!
@@jeph33 😂😂😂😂
I bet the food they were serving tasted way better than today.
The french fries tasted better. They use to use a different fryer grease back then. Fries back then stayed crispier longer.
@@jameysummers1577 Yeah, I remember the burgers tasting better as well.
Everything was better. I miss it
@@sawsquaresinetube So true.
WOW!!!! What a flashback!! Perms, mulletts, banana clips, no gloves, smoking in break room, sitting and talking with coworkers, uniforms with tucked shirts, and big ole smiles while working hard. I worked at Wendy's during mid 80's so I relate BIG TIME! Thanks for sharing ❤. #GenX💪 #KidsToday😩
Yeah this video is a trip down memory lane! Love it!
You guys contributed to how it is today. Don't forget that.
Worst generation. Horrible fashion. Y’all looked like fuckin assclowns back then lol
@@no-gc1mp that's actually false. Those trash ass celebrities did. Rap music has huge impact on that.
@no. at first this comment confused me, then kinda upset me because I figured it was another bigot comment. But thinking on it, I get what you mean and are low key accurate in that statement
I'm 53 and I definitely was a teenager in the 80s and loved and enjoyed every minute of it. I miss those days so much. Makes me 😥
I am 54 it was such a great time !
I'm 49 lol I was 15 back in 1988 but definitely remember the 80's well and the 90's were not to bad either! miss the good ol days when our country respected each other and had pride being an American! 🇺🇲🤟😞😳
You older than my mom😭😭
Only good thing about the 80's was the rock bands, other than that racism and inequality was at its peak.
@@Arktischen It was no different than it is today....poc hating on whites. How do I know? I lived through it. Did you? Or are you just another Obozo era college parrot?
I was 10 years old in 1988. I remember these uniforms. This is back when they actually hired enough staff to work places. I'm so thankful that I grew up in the 80's and 90's.
They still do hire enough staff when they can just none these kids wanna work
Those uniforms look so uncomfortable. I wish companies would allow these workers to just have a company branded logo T shirt and nice dress shorts that are of a solid color. I remember working CVS years ago and the thick uncomfortable polo and pants would have my sweating my ass off. I tried different pants, shirt or no shirt underneath the polo....I'd have massive pit stains and sweat dripping down my head just walking up and down the isles for my customers. It was not comfortable. I was also in shape going to the gym regularly and muscular, not fat so no sweating doesn't always have to do with your weight.
@@carterclaire8862 no one wants to work minimum wage jobs with little room for advancement, minimum wage is no longer enough money to even support a single person on
In California the franchisees lobbied the legislature to pass a higher minimum wage for its workers (really). The Governor signed it into law & effective January 1, 2023 workers @ MCD & BK will enjoy a...$22 minimum wage. The State wage is $15. Why? Because they can't get enough workers. Holy cow! Remember back in 1978 when the minimum wage was...$3.35. 😳
@@bernieudo4399 this was actually blocked and now has to be voted on in 2024
Social Media has literally ruined the world. I look back at these videos, people were laughing, enjoying their selves in the world, more social, open and connected. Despite the Pros and Cons, I wish I lived in that age
When the country was still full of good young people, born and bred here who loved their job, each other, America and an honest day’s work without complaint or needless aggression.
1988 looks so much more normal than I thought.
More normal than 2023 for sure.
The way things look haven't changed a ton. Mostly the tech which of course would be smartphones. But if you were thrown back I'm time to 1988 you could pretty much navigate the world with no problem and find what you needed and how to live because it wouldn't seem unfamiliar to what we have today.
@@depletable Well we don't know what 2023 looks like yet so....
@@depletable lol
@@danceswithcomicbooks7733 I think this is an underestimation of the changes since then because even in 5 or ten years places have changed a lot with construction and even culturally I would say but this might depend on where you live.
Life was so much more simple back then. People were grateful for those jobs back then and took pride in the work they did.
I was 8 years old when this was filmed. My God, how have we fell from such perfection of the nothingness we had- other than EACH OTHER. No apps, no BS. It was just good folk having fun and making some money for dreams they had stored up in their hearts and mind. God Bless what use to be.
The 1980's sucked. Don't be fooled.
@@texaswunderkind Maybe the 80's sucked for you...............
makes me want to cry
Everyone has such a good attitude, they all look happy to be at work…you’d never see a place of work like this nowadays.
Yeah and there is like less than half this amount of staff at any given McDonald's in 2023.
I wonder why
pay is shit bro, spit it out. No one wants to work a dead end job that barely pays a living wage, including you
@@jeremiahfink5440 if you look at the minimum wage in 1988 and compare that to the minimum wage of today, after adjusting for earning power you’d find workers are actually making slightly more today. So it’s more a question of why does everyone have such a bad attitude….like you just demonstrated. Don’t like the money? Learn a trade or take on a role with more responsibilities, you’ll find crappy attitudes in those roles too.
@@murphine969 fast food workers are not compensated better today comparatively. Stop spreading misinformation.
Before internet, smart phones, tiktok, everything that consumes people today. What a naturally fun time to be alive.
As much as I love the internet, I do miss the time before it. I'm lucky to have lived through 2/3s of the 80s and before 91 when the internet came to life. Before then it was just peer to peer or you had to know the server and dial into it, message boards, etc. It wasn't all connected. Often people had to invite you or you had to be in the know to participate.
ah yes, and before corporate greed took over and only staff like 7-8 people max with not just order from counter bur also mobile orders and drive through
Back when staff was full and nice and nobody was arguing heavily at the poor staff throwing food at them and when you could get a fully hearty meal for $3 or so. So much nostalgia and awesomeness! Bring back these days I promise you won't regret. Also how cute was she being camera shy? Not doing tiktoks and actually hustlin'.
No way in hell I would work in customer service with the crazy people in society now.
Gonna be 40 this year. Boy this brings back memories. How life used to be. Good people, interacting with each other on a personal level. Now it's dystopian.
Try and tell that to the immigrants or children of immigrants. They’ll fight you on every level defending their own lives and family while completely ignoring the destruction of America. They don’t care about this country. Just like they didn’t care about their own, it’s all about using our better economy for their own gain. While everyone around them suffer.
And the Boomers called the 80's "dystopian". Each generation just becomes so jaded as time moves on and they get older.
An Era when people talk to each other... Face to face. No distractions
NOW ITS TEXTING KRAP
I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL THEN
SO DIFFERENT NOW
and people still do..
@@ekop1778 well people can't really be around eachother that often so texting is awesome
If someone rather be distracted or pre-occupied with a phone , newspaper , magazine then they do not want to talk to you 😂
Get off the internet then
People looked so much happier and actually interacted with one another like human beings. The customers were happy to get their food and the workers were happy to do a laidback job with breaks and simple stuff not what it is today.
it's sad because the laid back people in this video are now the customers berating teens in fast food jobs or they're the managers enforcing terrible working conditions
they didnt look happier they look the same as today, just fake. What are you on about.
You can see they just want to end their shifts so they can party and bang many guys.
very true those times we're peaceful but now everything changed
@@d1szi no it was always chaotic , the difference is developig self awarness.
Yo have idiots back then, and you have then here now.
@@cliffhanger906 i see, so ur saying that the ppl back then do not have humanity than now?
Youre watching a much better time in America than today. TY to the filmmaker.
I was 9 in 88'. No phones no social media...PLEASE BRING THIS BACK!!
You’re probably typing this on your smart phone. If you hate social media why are you here?
@@bowlr9794 social media like..Facebook Instagram tic tok. Things like that. 👍
@@Nickecho7979 RUclips is also social media
RUclips is DEFINATELY considered social media. Anything to do with the internet and interacting with people online is social media.
I worked at McD's from '82 until 88. This brings back so many memories.
dang man that sounds really fun actually
It was a whole different world back then
Where you a McManager??
a place like that is more fun when you have friends with you
@@nickhill8612 probably a university student
I’m glad I’m nearly 40 and grew up during the 80s & 90s, the current times are so depressing. I’ve left my home country never to return and want to find a decent place to live out my days. When did society go so wrong.
When the law to put all commercial buildings on one side and homes on others, and the fact that most places need a car to drive/go cause major cities are dependent on cars and not humans
@@d8752rq Based and true
eh, it's all the same. i think the foundation for modern society was laid in the 50's. My mom was born in the 70s and I have a lot in common with her in terms of our language and sense of humor and interests, whereas the difference between her and her parents (my grandparents) is more noticeable.
I have an answer but it'll get me cancelled
@@FryChicken no just don’t be an asshole , I explained it and did I get canceled? no , so just explain it without bringing your personal opinions into it
Being young. The work romances, the cute customer that would smile at you flirty. Fun times.
yeap, you could flirt at work and no one would get upset or offended. If we fell, we would get right back up. Someone yelled at you.... it would all be forgotten at the end of the day
I turned 17, joined the Marines in the delayed entry program, and started my senior year just days after this. Man, how times have changed.
Thank you, sir.
Fuckin crayon Eatin jarhead lol
The music, the hair, the vibe...I lived it and loved it. How times have changed.
*And we actually bred babies that didn't drool all over themselves for the rest of there lives like today*
@@acgillespie And don't get offended by literally EVERYTHING!
Gen X baby!
People were genuinely happier back then.
IDK why. They lacked diversity back then. No diversity sounds miserable.
@@chickenalaking1319 LMAO diversity is what made them miserable
@@shaunsteele6926 yep..
Take me back!! I was 8 years old then.
I loved working McD's back in the 80's. I turned 60 today, and seeing the grills without the clamshell, and the toasters brought back a lot of good memories and great times. I still have all my pins. Thanks for sharing.
Everyone in this video are now in their mid-50’s approaching 60. Smoking was allowed indoors. We all talked and acted “normal”. Did you hear please and thank you as well? I miss the 80’s.
So u want smoking to be allowed indoors again ..?
@@xia1494 yes
@@doubleyoupea9391 yall want ppl to get second hand smoke...? weird
@@xia1494 he'll yeah this America, or at least it used to be
@@nickthatrick4262 ...smoke outside . least u could do instead of ruining ppls lungs and ur own.
I was around that age in 1988.Graduated high school in 1987. Great times ! teenager in the 80's and young adult in the 90's.
Damn you're so old😭😭😭
@@darkmidnight818 yes to you I am but you will be my age some day! I dont regret all those fun times and music in the 80's and 90's!
To think about that, now im teenager and i still prefer in the 80's and 90's those times we're very peaceful back then no hateful, racism and more but i should be grateful that i was born into the future using smart devices at a very young age
@@d1szi uhhhh, I was 20 years old when this video was shot and , I can assure you the 1980s were very hateful and racist. Just ask a gay person or a minority my age what it was like being a teenager in the 1980s . They won’t be so nostalgic.
@@bonsaitomato8290 hmm, I thought that before times were even more peaceful than now, but i never ever think of ppl in the 80’s were being horrible like u said, i shall put that in my mind
Back when cameras and being recorded was a novelty. Miss those days.
Remember not having any type of computer at home, no phone in your pocket, no internet, no social media. just smokin a cigarette in a McDonald’s... thinkin about life. Those times were very different.
I'd rather have the convenience of a phone (smart phone). I think people INVENTED technology to make it BETTER for the world, not worse. At least that was their intention!
People just seemed so much more healthy back then. The people working there all seemed like respectable people. Walk into your average mcdonalds nowadays and see how it looks.
last time i went to Mcdonalds was about 7 years ago, and i was treated horribly in drive thru, they literally slung my bag to me in drive through, was very rude, i said thanks, and they slammed the window on me and didnt give me napkins, ketchup ( i had fries), no straw ( so i had to wave and yell for them to open the window again after like 2 freaking minutes) the fries had No salt on them, so they were bland and they were cold , i had to also ask for more coke in my cup cause they only filled it up 2/3 of the way, it was bad, i took a picture of it on my cell phone , it was literally only 65% full, im sorry but they did that on purpose. So since that HORRIBLE exerience i will not ever be back and i tell people every chance i get about how horrible they are ( that wasnt the 1st time, i was treated horrible, that was after COUNTLESS times, and i had finally had enough) i understand they dont get paid well, and they dont want to be there, i get it ! HOWEVER they need to at least treat inocent people like myself with some respect no matter what they get paid, i know i did when i worked for Dairy Queen many years ago
Looks like a border patrol check point
@@FightOstinFight you are mentally ill
@@jgs1703 no I’m not. It’s the fucking truth. All it is are Mexicans who barely speak English.
I go into McDonald's once every few years and it gets worse and worse with each year. There is no manners, no customer service, and everyone that works there acts like they're from the hood. I usually avoid McDonald's now, which is probably good for my health.
This is a McDonald’s?! Wow, the staff looked so friendly and happy to be working. Even the stoves/grills and fryers all looked clean. McDonald’s nowadays, you get a frown look from all employees and the kitchen area is just a mess. Times were different. If only time can rewind a bit.
These days it seems everybody is too good for their job. It's almost startling when you get good customer service these days.
The camera shyness is what caught me. People weren’t used to having a camera in their face. It was embarrassing. Now it’s common practice to be recorded practically every minute of every day
What rock do you live under?
There's plenty of people who still don't like being on camera
definitely not unique to the '80s
@@AG-ev3hj lol
Yup, draining whatever is left of our souls.
@@AG-ev3hj There's a big difference between someone who doesn't like being on camera and people who are actually camera shy. There are plenty of people nowadays who don't like being on camera and get annoyed if you point one at them, but they don't start blushing and hiding their faces like the camera-shy people in this video do.
And this vid really does show how much nicer people were back then vs the smartasses of today who start off conversations with things like "What rock do you live under?".
FACTS!
Wow! What a much more laid-back time it was! No social media to ruin your life!
People have already commented about there not being social media at this time, but it was more than that. There also wasn't any Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo was still relatively new, no PC gaming, etc. Even TV didn't have so many programs as there is now. So we enjoyed talking to each other and having a good time. It really makes me sad watching this because it's just all gone now.
Don't bring video games into this...and Nintendo did exist and arcade games where huge...Video games aren't the reason kids can't figure out what's between their legs
@@Tony525_ yeah, these boomers are stupid as fuck. People are miserable now adays working at these places because you don't make a living wage. With inflation adjusted you would be making ~$30 an hour today if you were to make proportionally the same as they made for minimum wage in 1988. But yes boomer, blame video games social media and texting. Soon they'll all be dead and they wont be able to vote for the people who drove the middle class into the ground anymore and we can try to rebuild.
No it's not.
YOU can go to a Truck Stop Diner
and talk to the Truckers, or you can go to an Old Folks Home and visit them and talk to them.
You can go volunteer at a soup kitchen
to help feed and talk to the Homeless
people in your area.
The reason why you think it's "all gone"
is because people stopped trying.
But it's not all gone, it's STILL out there.
I practiced what I preached also,
I worked at a Homeless Shelter for many years.
Eh, we could be glued to the tv in the 80,s 😂.
I was online at this time. Used a 300 baud dial-up modem to connect to bulletin board services. Only the super geeky we're online back then. The "net" was so much better before the masses came and turned it into a marketing tool that has gone on to destroy the world.
I was 16 when this was recorded. I remember this era of uniforms because some of my friends worked at a McDonald's. I always liked that old building design. It was much more distinctive than the cinder block styles of contemporary restaurants.
Happy 50th. My friend just turned 50 this month and was 16 during 1988. Where does the time fly?
@@bamboosho0t into the abyss
I know it looks like a Tiki Hut. Notice no one wore latex gloves when preparing food then either and no one thought anything of it. The headsets required an alkaline battery belt!
You mean brutalist bunkers aren't aesthetically pleasing?
I was -7 when this was recorded lol
I was born in 92 but wished I was before 88 to enjoy life and see people actually helping one another 😢
Don’t feel bad I was born in 1990 you didn’t miss a lot other than the TV and move nostalgia and a band called Flock of seagulls band that’s about it.!
This was shot only a few days after I was born. It’s so nice to see people happy and relaxed at work. Wish there was a time machine I could jump into and go back to the 80s 😢.
People were so much more beautiful back then. I really wish I was a teenager or early 20s in the 80s. I hate what the world is now.
Nice blast from the past! 👍🙂
Everyone seems so happy, I blame social media
Thanks for posting this, it really brings back the memories 😊. I worked at Mcy D’s starting at 16 years old in 1984 to like 1992 working my way up to becoming a McManager (or A Smurf) as the envious crew members would refer to us as due to our little blue uniforms as seen in this video. I made so many great friends along the way and having moved from New England to Las Vegas and then to Southern California I always had an instant McJob waiting for me in a new city! The little details in this video vouch for its authenticity for that time period. Such as if you take a close look at the name tags crew people were wearing you can see some tiny round stickers at the base of the tag. There were three spots for these stickers and managers would periodically award a crew person metal of recognition for each main area of the store (Grill, Window (AKA front counter) and Drive Through) the sticker were Bronze, Silver and Gold and as one would earn a higher sticker for an area the Manager would for example remove the silver sticker and place on the Gold one. Once you became proficient in all area and were sporting Triple gold you could study and take a test to become a Crew Chief (this was a senior crew person position just below swing manager) and that would actually get you a raise of 50 to 75 additional cents per hour :). In the video you can see a couple of crew chiefs. They wear the red and white candy striped uniforms. One was working fries towards the end. Something else that clearly shows the dating on this was the grill. McDonald’s switched to clamshell grills (2 sided simultaneous cooking of burger patties) circa 1991. These were absent here and the timers above the grill would direct us when to sear, turn and remove the Pattie’s. I could go on and on but I’m sure it’s much more interesting and fun for me to talk about than for others to read, cheers
I worked at McDonalds in 87-89 and we had the clamshells then as the store was rebuilt in early 88 so we got all the new stuff. Before that we had a portable "clamshell" that was made to quickly cook 2, 1/4lb burgers at once.
That was informative and good reading for someone who never worked in a fast food place. I was a retail girl. Mervyn's, Montgomery Wards, Robinson's. Yes, I'm dating myself. Fun times 😁
I would read more
I’m old lol
Clamshell grills were in place well before 1991, at least in California. We had them in 1987.
Wow. You really know your McHistory 😊
Everyone was getting along, no one was standing around staring at their phone, and customers were being taken care of.
There were no phones so duh . If there was phones then clearly people would be on it 😭
@@Liliilefleurhat was the point of you even saying that? Such a genius comment
@Various it's just true. If smart phone technology existed, they'd be on their phones. You giving them some kind of "credit" for that is dumb.
The phones didn't exist back then genius. Do you use your phone today or are you walking around without one getting along with everyone? 😆 🤣 😂
Back when high school white people worked at McDonald's and their service was fantastic, unlike today.
“Lady In Red” playing 🎶🎵 in the background 🤭♥️!!! I was only 10 in 1988 but vividly recall this song being played toward the end of all the jr. high & highschool dances I went to- (1990-1996)….💃🏼🕺🏼….
In the midst of digitizing over 1,000 hours of my late father’s 8mm 🎥📽️ reels!! Such a slow painstaking project….but so worth it!!! Thx for sharing !! 😎🌷
I love this. I miss that time, people had more emotion, there was much more color to the world and certainly more life to their lives.
God damn... this hit me in the feels. What an amazing way to express that. TRUTH.
Very true. People had a more innocent and good hearted nature in that time. How things have "progressed."
@@82stuntman "progress" no we haven't made progress these days LOL
I'm 53. I can attest to that. I suffer from depression now because of the contrast.
I think a lot of people commenting really are just remembering and missing their youth. And yes, I don't think smart phones have made the world a better place.
I was 13 years old at the time. I loved the 80s and 90s. When people look at you, talked face to face, carried a full conversation with no screen interference.
It was the best of times. Sad those days are gone. Great video!! ❤
@Rob Robby I don't think the young are wasting their lives, they're just living differently because it's like the world requires of them in a different way. I don't know, I feel like even being a high schooler is harder these days than back then (even just 20/30 years ago).
This video should be played in all McDonalds training classes.
The best decade … The 80’s
I miss those days.
Thanks for sharing you did an amazing job with the recording and it was nice to see all the smiles while working. Looked like good times
"I see the trolling, hiding behind keyboard warriors are out in full force." Original comment --> This is so awesome. From the absence of any cellular device to the banana combs this just sends me back. I was 20 in 1988. I would love to go back for just a single day.
I was 22, you are correct, the pre cell phone days are when people actually acted like humans, talking to each other, laughing. forget a single day I would like to go back forever.
I was 18 and I worked at Popeyes, much better than McD's
I was 24 in 1988. I'd like to go back for the rest of my life!
@@wescald Yeah because people give a shit what a lazy Gen Z thinks. 😆 Get off your phone, the fries are burning.
@@wescald I work for a defense contractor and get a salary, Mr. fry station. Go argue with someone else.
I miss the world before the internet, it changed everything mostly for the worst. This video is so cool to watch.
I love all the older folks shaming me for being young like there's anything we can do about it. Like, yeah, I'd absolutely love to be born 30-40 years earlier, to grow up in this amazing time. But I can't. And there isn't a single thing I can do to bring those pre internet times back. Times have changed, and I'm genuinely depressed they have devolved into the mess we live in currently. I want to be a 70s-80s kid more than anything, and I just hope that in heaven I'll get to do that.
Start by leaving your phone at home when you go out.
I know it's not face to face, but you just communicated that you would've rathered been born 30-40 year's earlier. Nothing wrong with that, it just shows that you have a civility to you, and you realize that the people your age have missed the boat when it comes to human emotions and common sense. Congratulations kiddo, you're rare and your heart and mind are an asset to the civilized world. 😊👍
Wow, I graduated in 87... Worked at McDonald's and Wendy's right out of high school for a couple of years and boy this brings back memories! Lol at smoking in break room, no hair nets, no gloves, lack of entitled angry customers... the crew having a crazy but fun time working together. Ah the days....
Let's not get carried away. I worked at a McDonald's in the 80's, it wasn't THAT great.
The exterior and even interior was the best McDonalds has ever looked IMO in the 80s.
They look cold and uninviting now.
@@Bryan-od7nv yeah and they try to make them seem homely or classy, but the vibe just isn't there. This video is peak McDonalds/fast food era.
My hometown in Michigan exterior still looked like this until about a year ago the redid it 😞
Today's McDonald's looks UGLY love the old retro ones from 70s thur 90s without Ronald McDonald and gang it when to 💩💩💩💩 including the food.
I was exactly 2 months old when this was recorded. Kind of neat to see how stuff was. Wish people remembered their early years
I was exactly one year and one month into my 30 year Marine Corps career when this was filmed
I was 9 years old when this was filmed. I remember those days. Good times.
@@WarhavenSC
I was 9 myself and just started another year of elementary school after a period of summer school. I don't think the summer drought ended yet.
88s woo🎉
Why isn't ANYONE wearing gloves or hair nets ?
I'm jealous of everyone who got to experience the 80's. Born in 93 I barely got to enjoy the 90's, things started to go to hell right around the time I became somewhat sentient.
I was one of the lucky ones to grow up in the 90's. Playing with all the kids in my neighborhood, going to each others houses. Knocking on the door or to see if your friend was home. Oh man.
It’s weird everybody’s so friendly and smiling and talking and acting like they’re enjoying their job. Maybe it’s just for the camera but I have a feeling that it wasn’t all fake! And I love how the one girls even wearing a skirt. You’ll never see that anymore.
That's how it was in the 80's. You could just start talking to practically anybody. Everybody had hope for their future. That's why us X-Gener's are worried about today's society....it's really depressing.
Camera's weren't available like today. People were bashful, shy and natural. I remember always laughing if I was recorded by family at parties (we had many). It was a special time and great to be alive.
That was the manager and it was part of the uniform for female managers at the time. Those uniforms weren’t exactly the most comfortable things to have on your body after a 4 hour shift. The polyester mixed with the fry oil and the sweat coming off your skin produced a smell that would never come out of those clothes.
@@bonsaitomato8290 I worked at Jack in the Box and had a crush on our Shift Leader ( older late 20's gal, I was 18 so yeah lol) Tammy. She'd speak non-stop about her boyfriend. I had zero chance.
Smokin darts in the break room, touching food with no gloves. Just livin’ like the good lord intended
Truth!
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yeah when people weren't fkn slobs and washed their hands
The "good lord" intended teenagers to smoke cigarettes? Nothing like starting a life of addiction, eventually leading to emphysema, heart disease, lung cancer, premature aging, and most likely a miserable death. The "good lord" must be pretty callous.
I worked at McD's back then and this is spot-on. So much fun! Thanks for the nice memories.
They all look so happy back then. Walk into a McDonald's now and the employees all look like their dogs just died. 😒
Literally lmao
Probably because they still get paid the same amount
@@Silver7Bird This guy gets it.
At 8 dollars an hour wtf do you expect asshole
@@AK4974U I don't mean to be that guy but pretty sure McDonald's pays at minimum like 10-12 now at most places. Still dogshit but it's better than minimum
1988…to think this era and those times I lived through are now over 30 years ago brings one thing to mind - where in the hell did the time go?
Thanks for the video. Great memories of the 80s. I sure miss the good old days..👍👍
The 80s!
I wasn't alive then but man my parents told me it was the best.
It was! I always tell that to my daughter
It was the absolute BEST!!! 😁
@@lyssadyane5870 70's were better
Yeah. AIDS was “the best” 🙄
Def….
I'm 56 years old, McDonald's was my first job in 1983! Such great memories! Yes, I did give free food to some of the cute girls!
I'm reporting you.
I don’t know why this makes me so sad.
I wasn’t born until 94, but I do remember a very different McDonald’s than today. I remember the “we love to see you smile” slogan. I remember lightning fast delivery of delicious food as a kid. Always happy people who very rarely got our orders wrong.
Wendy’s was also a gem.
Now it’s usually staffed with college and some high school students who couldn’t care less and have no business making food for people.
Me too. I was convinced I was just remembering things wrong, but you’re right! It felt like people were generally happier back then.
@@mavhunter8753 Why?
I was born in '*84* and I remember Ronald McDonald and friends and even Burger King's Kid Vid! "Have it Your Way"!
I vaguely remember these uniforms. I was 1 in 1988 but I think they rocked these uniforms or a variant for a few years. What a time to be alive. We have to appreciate homie recorded, saved the video and uploaded it to the internet for essentially archiving.
Miss the days when people were friendly. In person social. Great values. World has gone down the tube.
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No it hasn’t Your just old
@@skywishr1313 You're*
You can still do that if you turn off your phone or computer/laptop.
@@SVAsianPhilippinesGo6858 its not the same as this time period
A great example of how working was before cell phones and before people got lazy and stopped caring. This was the fast food I grew up working in. Fun and everyone worked hard. I miss those days.
It's hard to care when your employer can't even give you a proper uniform anymore.
I'm almost 50 working hard and getting paid $6 an hour plus tips as a server at a pizza kitchen. I care about stuff. Ridiculous to read the comments here about how shitty life is now versus then. What are you all doing to make things better besides crying about it on the internet? Are you striving to be a better person? Do you do random acts of kindness? Do you not use your phone for a day or a week?
Everyone didn't work hard. I was a salaried manager in charge of scheduling. Believe me, the slackers and goof-offs were abundant and they didn't get the hours because of it.
Nobody asked, stupid boomer.
@@bluescreen5678 I can tell your a millennial lol.
Blast from the past. This is how i remember the work place. Nothing like that today. Great video.
I worked in the fast food industry in the mid 2000s. I can't believe how much staff they had back then! Wow! We were all running around like crazy and it seems to me that we had less than half the amount of staff as I saw in this video. It makes me so sad! Loved this video :), so cool to take a step back in time.
Back when young people from middle class families (like myself) used to have jobs after school and sometimes on weekends. Those days appear gone forever.
Middle class families... Where have they gone.
@@a.b.4052 Into tax hell
Thank you isreal and random Jewish rabbi raising our taxes with no citizen say
When I was in High School seemed like everybody worked at a fast food joint at some point. Was like a rite of passage in those days.
How has our society worsened in the span of 20 years? It’s insane to see this and see how it is now. Everyone looks miserable everywhere you go. It’s very sad to see.
it's actually 35 years since 1988
Capitalism baby ! The rich get richer, watch your kids suffer!! 😅 unless of course you are a nepo-baby🥲 nepotism & capitalism baby watch the world burn❤️
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Technology and social media has made everything worse. Especially dating in my opinion cause you can’t get anymor real looking at a face then a prof pic. I wish I was born in the 80s
@@Fatmanager4404 You would have loved it...I was 14 in 1986, and graduated class of 1990...
Cheese burgers were served HOT back then. Now, they are room temperature.
Ah 1988. I was 14 and went to a Pink Floyd concert that year. At the time, I had a girlfriend that was a McManager (not at this location). Today she is an attorney and I have been on an amazing journey through life. Seven states and ten countries later, I still don't know what I wanna be when I grow up. But if I could visit 1988 again, I would.
WE. DONT. CARE.
@@bigboss-qv7pe 😆 lol
This brings back memories. That kitchen layout is identical to the first store I worked in. I was in the system from 86-94. Went from crew to store manager in that time. I hated the job (lol) but I miss those days.
I had turned 10 around two months before this video was shot. Grew up and lived in Upstate New York (still do) and remember seeing the same style McDonald's buildings, uniforms, and '80s hairstyles here back then, lol! Being an '80s kid was great, and this video really took me back to happier, simpler times. Thanks so much for uploading this!
Upstate NY gang! I turned 10 in 2006 lol.
@@Remembering-rq6si You've got your memories, and I've got mine. Nobody's memories are "wrong", and if I remember the '80s as being simpler times, which they were, then that's how I remember it. 😏
@@Remembering-rq6si very much simpler times
Ur rememberer is wonky
Exams have nothing to do with how life was lived
We had same buildings etc in western NY too
Back when the fries were cooked in beef tallow. I miss the old McDonald's.
The McDLT was amazing. When they discontinued it, in the late 80s I stopped going there. I did have a random Big Mac about 3 years ago. It was one of the worst burgers Ive ever eaten. I threw half of it away.
they were the best fries ever. Now they taste like salty plastic
I was working at Ponderosa steakhouse in 1988, still in high school...they are no longer in business....how times have changed.....this video is so 80's looking, thank you for sharing it...
It truly was a much better time not only for me, but for our country. My first job was at a mall working for McDonald’s in 1981 and then the Gap.
My generation has seen so much from technology advancements to all manner of disasters.
Every time you turned the TV on back then you would see commercials for, made in America! or the words in the USA!. it really was about our country! Things were not at all instant and we waited for the night of the week movies to come on. But then ,unfortunately, greed took over when Kmart came into play followed by Walmart and nothing but ‘made in China’.
Here we are today in 2024 where the networks are openly at each other‘s throat’s and the country is divided not to mention morals and values have gone straight to hell. I’m actually glad I grew up during that time. I have very fond memories of holidays, season changes and summer vacations. The kids today hide behind a machine all day long, it’s so sad what has happened to humanity.
It’s disgraceful what’s happening to our country and our government. I feel sorry for the new generation of kids it’s just terrible.
My how society has fallen. This is when you could still understand what people were saying!
Or is that when you were able to still hear old man 🤣🤣
Yep,nowdays all thes snowflakes are making up words
@John they make up words like all words were made up like yall ain't etc 😂😂 you guys both sound like old ass boomers who are afraid of something new 😂😂
@@bakedbeansbaby3908 You went from dehumanizing the disabled to assuming a person's age and gender! Shame on you! lol
@@bakedbeansbaby3908 no the majority of fast food employees especially McDonald’s are fucking Mexican
awwe :) i was randomly remembering how I would record my family randomly when we were just chillin or having a bbq.. they always had the same reaction. that cute bashful "why you recording me/this?" ☺ my Dad had given me a old school cam corder and i thought it was the most fun thing ever
I worked in a restaurant, washing dishes, in the early 80's for 3 years. We had SO MUCH FUN there. We laughed. We smiled. We were happy. We had a good time. You see that here in this video. You DO NOT see it in restaurants now. Everyone at McDonald's now is not part of a team, they are individuals, all struggling to do something, and not taking pride in themselves while they do it. This is why, even with as long as McDonald's has been in business, and with MORE TECHNOLOGY THAN EVER BEFORE, you cannot get waited on, get your order right, or get your food in a decent amount of time. Why does anyone still go there? For 6 times the price compared to the 1980's you get to wait MUCH MUCH longer, for your order that is going to be wrong, from someone who doesn't care and is unhappy.
I don’t know how I am nostalgic and miss an era in which I was not born yet.
Sad state this country is in. The best days are behind us.
This was a year after I graduated high school. So many differences in fast food places back then and now. The main thing is that there used to be a lot more employees, and most of them were American teenagers. There was kind of a youthful vibe and the staff really hustled under the watchful eye of the adult shift-managers, even though they were only making $3.35/hr. There would often be 3 full lines to the cash registers. Today the employees are mostly immigrant adults who often speak broken English and they always seem to be understaffed--especially the cashiers. The vibe is definitely gone. Kind of depressing now.
The reason that they looked so youthful was that was their staff force back then. Kids nowadays think they are "influencers" or get paid to fart in jars and call it a career. Besides getting paid crap money the pipeline of kids wanting to actually work as opposed to filming dumb dances and getting paid for it ruined that.
You nailed it! Took the words right out of my mouth. 💯
For young white people there really is no incentive or interest in working at McDonalds if most of the staff there hates you and doesn't even want to speak your language and the pay doesn't keep up with inflation.
@@SlumberBear2k Valid points but not all fast food places I have been to have been predominantly one race/ethnic group.
@@craigstrickland1572 omg a fellow 90 day fiancé’r heya
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When I was a little kid eating at these kinds of restaurants, the workers seemed so old! Now, looking back at this, they really were some baby-faced kids themselves, lol!
Love this video I was 23 in 1988 and I grew up eating McDonald's food I'm 57 years and McDonald's is my favorite fast food to eat love the attitudes of the employees in the video those were the good old days
Wow people looked normal. The other day I went through a McDonald's drive thru and I dont know what was at the window.
yeah I went to taco bell and a 250 pound gorilla gave me tacos with rotten lettuce and tomatoes. I tried to be nice but he didn't say a word to me. 11 bucks to spit it out in disgust and throw it in the garbage.
Glad you posted this and youtube decided to share it with us rn. Really nice slice of life in the late 80s
I'm 48 and I worked at a Mcdonald's in high school in Florida and it was my first job. This video brought back so many memories. I work at a Mcdonald's now in my hometown and it's for sure more different than it was back in the day. I liked the way we cooked the meat and did batch cooking back then. I actually think the way we did it back then was much faster than the way we do it now.
This is interesting to me, sir. If you care to elaborate, what is batch cooking? Also any other differences that you observe? Thank you.
wow that's just beyond lovely everyone happy and smiling and sitting together it would be nice to go back to this.