/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10467526
Is it true that they give you 3 free packets of mcchicken sauce if you go up to any booth and say "for me it's the mcchicken, the best fast food sandwich"?

>>10467526
Nice OP, see if you can find out whether or not mcdonald's hires viral marketers. I sincerely believe all mcdonalds marketing on /ck/ is just ironic posts from other anons but it would be interesting to ask

>>10467547
Yes

The coolest feature about working this show are the working restaurants they build on the show floor; this pic is the front of the 4 full size kitchens they built. There are also two McCafes on the floor and one show kitchen they give tours through. They serve a rotating fixed menu of international offerings in the restaurants, and a selection of US/ Canada offerings at one McCafe and Latin American offerings at the other. There are also Centerplate food service buffets around the floor with a rotating menu. The bacon this morning was good.

>>10467547
I tried at the Melitta booth this morning and all I got was a cup of coffee grounds.

>>10467581
They definitely have enough sheckles to do so, although I doubt anyone but the most bored jr exec would bother to shill on this Transylvanian pipe fitting board.

Honestly kind of interested. Do they showcase new products/potential new products at these things?

Behold the giant golden Big Mac. They've got an entertaining amount of odd exhibits like this along the central promenade.

>>10467656
Yes, they have a huge amount of vendors from Play Place designer/ suppliers to food service equipment (ovens/ warmers/ friers, etc.) to uniform and shoe providers all showing off the latest and greatest trying to get franchisees to buy their stuff. There is also a fairly massive part of the floor dedicated to internal McDonalds messaging, sustainability, customer experience, and the like.

Pic related is a set of golden arches with every happy meal toy from 2000 onward glued to it.

Some less /ck/ facts until someone asks a question of substance; we installed 1,100 conventional fixtures, about 150 moving lights, and 80 Air Stars for ambience. There are 2 theaters on the show floor, one for McDonalds themed "TED Talks" and one that puts on a painfully repetitive "industrial" show for the benefit of attendees every 15 minutes or so. Luckily i'm not on the run crew for either. There are also various entertainers and costume characters that wander around, including some Disney costume characters and the Coke polar bear.

>>10467688
That's cool. How about the food? Is some department showing of their ideas for new dishes?

>>10467806
The food is actually excellent, its prepared fresh right on the show floor and is the best McDs food you'll likely ever have, if you go in for that sort of thing. I don't normally eat fast food, let alone McDs, but I have to admit it's definitely a cut above your average fast food. I had a Dulce De Leche Cheesecake today from the Latin America McCafe and it was actually pretty incredible for something that came out of a McDonalds. I don't know if the menu items in the restaurant are new or just regional/ country specific offerings, but they have things that you don't see in the US. I'll get a picture of the daily menu and post it here if the thread is still up by 11:30AM East Coast time.

>Pic is an original neon road side sign from the 50s

>>10467801
That's actually pretty cool.

>>10467526

What kind of food is available at the convention?

>>10467870
Cool sign. They still have some of the old McDingus buildings with the golden arches and all that other midcentury architecture around here. It's managed to trick me into getting a burger for lunch a time or two.

>>10467917
Read the thread broham, Ive answered that already. Although I didn't mention that yesterday Centerplate had a taco bar, Indian offering, and a couple other themes buffets around the floor. They historically have a pretty good variety for those employees and franchisees who don't get high on their own supply.

>Pic is from the second setup day where the lighting was flown but there were no exhibits set up yet.

Is this open to the public?

They serving liqour at this shindig? I'm constantly surprised at how much booze gets sold at conventions. I went to the LA Auto Show (you know, where they're showing CARS and such) and damn near everyone in there was sucking on a tallboy of macrobrew.

>>10468068
I think the last day might be, but its primarily for employees, franchise owners, and vendors. its not actually being advertised on the electronic signage outside the convention center.

>>10468083
Not that I've seen, but that isn't to say its not happening later. I'm only there until 10:30AM and the show floor is open until 5 or so, and some of the larger vendors usually pay for a bar or two to be placed in their booth for an after hours Get Boozed Up and Buy Our Shit-athon one evening. Biggest drinkers/ partiers I've seen in my time doing corporate A/V? Teachers. Damn if they don't know how to live it up.

>Run out usable pics from this year; this Pic is from the last time it was in town in 2016, the whole inside of the cube was projection mapped, and I lit the outside of it. It was a bit of a pain in the ass, I had to re-sync the light show every 45 minutes because they didn't embed timecode in their damn video for my lighting console to listen to.

>>10468268
>tfw you will never bang a drunk, slightly overweight McMILF after attending a McConvention where you get to eat McChickens from around the world

>>10468291
>tfw you'd have to drag your McMILF 1.5 miles off the show floor to the nearest McUber to give her a McDicking.

There are some QT Latinas working the South America McCafe though. It's all order by kiosk now, so no more language barrier when you order and they have different coffee drinks than usual.

>tfw no more pics to post tonight

>>10467526
You're a hero OP, if you could find some "interesting" McDonalds that'd be fun.

Interesting as in McDonalds from Asia or other thirdworld countries, I'm always curious how McDonalds warps their menu to fit those locaitons.

>>10467801
>McDonalds themed "TED Talks"
LOL Please tell me there is video of this

>>10468514
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_availability_of_McDonald%27s_products

>>10468610
Wheres the fun in that? Was hoping OP would provide some OC food pics is all

>>10467801
>McDonalds themed "TED Talks"

>>10468514
>>10468610
Will deliver tomorrow afternoon, I'll get some of the breakfast offerings and grab a pic of the lunch menu.

>>10468526
>>10468637
I'm sure they're exactly as cringy as they sound. I don't know if they'll be posted online anywhere (likely not) but they are billing them as FRED Talks in honor of the late CEO. I'll see if I can scare up a list of topics in the morning.

This'll be may last post tonight - I've got to be onsite at 5:30AM to police burnouts in the rig so I'm up at 4:30; look for me tomorrow around 11:30AM Eastern.

>still no new pics

>>10467801
>zoom and spot Mew immediately

>>10468637
>>10468799

I'm honestly not that surprised and I'm kind of expecting them to just be tips to help franchisees sell more product or encourage their workers or somesuch but packaged in a way that conforms to the kind of speeches that are trendy at the moment.

>>10467688
>all showing off the latest and greatest trying to get franchisees to buy their stuff.

and they are just wasting their time. all the mcdonalds still look the fucking same with all their trash equipment.

i bet this shit only applies to international mcdonalds. seems like they care more about their brand over there than american ones.

>>10468799
>FRED Talks
I'm sure they will noot be made public,but boy oh boy I would definitely listen as I drive.

damn it's in orlando?

looks fun and tasty. thanks for posting.

Post food pix OP

>>10469838
Dude,I'm in Orlando!

Alright co/ck/s I'm back. And with more pics!
Since there was a lot of interest here are the topics for the FRED talks for today and tomorrow. Postan food pics next.

>1/2 (names omitted for the sake of adhering to my my NDA)

>FRED Talks schedule for tomorrow 2/2

A pretty quiet morning overall, only 13 burned out lamps, roughly 1% failure which is about what can be expected.

So for breakfast today they were offering regular US Egg McMuffins, regular US hash browns (which were top quality as far as McDs hash browns go; perfectly crispy and hot right out of the fryer) and a chicken McMuffin from Singapore. Pretty goos as far as fast food breakfast is concerned, but not something I'd eat every day. It had some kind of sweet mayo sauce (could just be McDs mayo; idk) that lent some complexity to the sandwich, the muffin and chicken were somewhat dry otherwise.

I also visited the Latin America McCafe again before my shift was over and got a Mocha Cappuccino and an Alfajor Maicena. The Mocha was somewhat disappointing, there wasn't much chocolate flavor in the drink, just a pool of hot fudge at the bottom of the cup when I was finished. The pastry though was really quite good! It appears to be a textbook example of an Alfajor Maicena, a very light shortbread like cookie and dulce de leche filling, like an Argentinean macaroon. not quite as rich as the dulce de leche cheesecake i had yesterday, but very satisfying.

>yes, they do have 1c prices on all items as a placeholder, no, you don't pay anything.

posting menu pictures next!

>>10471857
chicken mcmuffin would be good. i'm going to order than next time

>>10471898
Its a bit weird that haven't added it to the US menu to compete with Chic-Fil-A for breakfast market share.

Here are yesterdays menus for breakfast and lunch. I heard the BLT McMuffin was a hit, it looked pretty good too but I didn't have time to grab one.

>1/2

Yesterdays lunch menu; If I was getting paid to stay I would have definitely tried the Maestro: Angus burger from the Netherlands for lunch today.

>2/2

Coke is a major sponsor for the event, they have a fairly large booth with samples and there are diabeetus dispenser stations all around the exhibit hall. They even trucked in special restaurant bottles of Dasani.

>Pic related of their EXCLUSIVE RESTAURANT PACKAGING

>>10471930
you could always get an egg mcmuffin with southern style chicken patty, no ham??

are you a vendor or something?

HEY OP!
Is this going on in Orlando?

>>10471966
I'll be honest, I haven't been to a McDs for any reason since 2005 or so, so I have no idea what the regular menu is like. I'm a contractor for the A/V company that installed all the lighting for the show floor; I go in every morning on show days to make sure all the lighting is working properly and change any dead lamps.

>pic is my office this morning; will follow up with shots of the show floor from the lift.

>>10471977
Sure is. Tomorrow is the last day, then I get to take everything down on the 21st after they clear out all the booths and temporary structures from under the truss.

>floor shot 1/4

>floor shot 2/4

>floor shot 3/4

>Floor shot 4/4

>>10472006
>>10472000
>>10471997
where's all the people?

lovely thread, OP

>>10472011
That's at 6AM famalam. The show floor doesn't open until 7:30; I'm only there that early to drive a lift in and fix what needs to be fixed. There is a surprising amount of activity going on though, forklift drivers taking pallets of consumables to the cafes and restaurants, cleaning staff, security, etc.

>Pic is my ride for the morning, first one the right.

Put this on

>>10472037
i love a man on a lift BEEP... BEEP,.. BEEP...

>>10471930
That is weird. You'd think with Cuck-fil-a and Hardon's serving chicken biscuits as part of their breakfast menu it'd be a no-brainer to add one to McD's menu and try and take a bite out of their market share.

>>10472076
lol, one of the first things I learned in the industry is how to shut that fucking beeper off. A skill I have made it my sacred duty to pass on to less experienced technicians.

>say what you will about the quality of food or ethics, McDs had some damn good food photography. I pass by this tasty looking bastard every time I clock in and out. And that's just in a vendor booth.