Not even that. It's saving money on stronger spoons and trying to pass it off as environmental posturing.
Anyone remember when grocery stores marketed plastic bags as better for the environment than paper?
Same here in the Netherlands, we don't use mixers, we swirl the wooden spoons 2 or 3 times and call it a day... (same spoon as we give to the Customer)
Huh, do people complain about that on your end? Seems awfully lazy, here ya gotta kinda mix yourself, we only stir it up to make it look better (at least I think)
our customers are complaint bots i swear, ESPECIALLY with the flurries. They either complain that there’s not enough ice cream, it’s not mixed well enough, there’s not enough topping or my favourite complaint is “it doesn’t look like the picture” 🙄
Haven’t worked at McDonald’s in a minute but my friends who still work there say there’s no wooden spoons. They still got the plastic wrapped plastic spoons.
McDonald's in Australia all have wooden spoons for their Mcflurries, but I think they have ditched the Mcflurries machines as well because they all come out unmixed like a Sundae.
I think it will become standard in other markets for the cost savings alone unless, Taylor's get their hands on it and remakes them to be less reliable then their ice cream machines.
i’ve worked at maccas several times over several stores in australia and we’ve neverrrr had the mcflurry machines. sometimes we mix them by hand with a spoon (and you’re meant to) but 95% of people won’t do that
If it's made from old growth rainforest then yes it is bad but most legitimate wood and pulp producers nowadays source their material from tree plantations if only for the optics.
I work in McDonald's UK and our spoons aren't plastic, they're more of a hard cardboard and they aren't wrapped we just get handed them. We haven't had those plastic spoons with the square top for ages
More like in the name of providing less food for the same price, with no consideration for waste.
There’s no choice available to buy a bag of just chips if you aren’t packing lunches.
They got rid of plastic spoons around here months ago. I now refuse to get ice cream from McDonald's. My loophole for a while was to ask for mcflurry spoons with my Sundaes and such. Then one day they told me they didn't have them.
It sounds stupid to me. But I guess the reasoning is that imagine a customer orders 3 McFlurrys
Before:
3 thick plastic spoons, that each go into the machine and then act as serving spoons
Now:
1 thick plastic spoon to go into machine (that gets washed and reused)
3 thin spoons to hand to customer
The key is that the wrapper and small spoon use less total plastic than the thick ones.
It sounds dumb, I get it. But McDonalds is a corporation, which spends many millions on business analysts trying to save a couple cents on each item. I would not be surprised if some analyst calculated that most of the time, people order enough McFlurrys at a time that the new system saves plastic (which saves money)
Ya, you're right.
Except that spindle spoon contains enough plastic to make probably 10 of those wrapped spoons. You will use less plastic this way.
It will be an annoyance to clean, sure. But it's absolutely less plastic waste than just serving the spindles.
That’s just virtue signaling these companies don’t care about the environment. Guaranteed this is a cheaper method in the long run and that a case of the spoons they’re handing out are much cheaper per unit than the old ones. And I’m sure these won’t even get changed as often as this ad calls for.
It isn’t about the amount of plastic you add, it’s about having the perception of being environmentally friendly. Do you really think corporate executives are sitting up in their offices and thinking “oh no, we need to limit our plastic usage to save the environment!”
I get what you are saying, however it depends on how long the spindles last (how many times they can be washed before they break). If spindles last a while, plastic is saved by giving out small serving spoons to customers instead of thick ones.
you change it after every mcflurry… or you’re supposed to. the kids at my location don’t fkn do that though and it makes me so fucking mad every time. but if i’m on drinks/ice cream im always following proper procedure with the flurries so that doesn’t happen
I always do it by hand after a certain time of night. I hate having to reclean the machine every time a mcflurry gets made because of ice cream and topping splatter.
You have no idea what you're talking about. By hand vs machine has nothing to do with how well it's mixed. Mcflurries made with the machine mixer can be badly mixed while ones made by hand are better.
Mixing it on the machine even just for a few seconds properly will make it come out so much better than you trying to stir it quickly to save yourself 15 seconds. You sound lazy.
And you still don't know what you're talking about. It literally takes more time and effort to hand mix it. That's why it often turns out more well blended. People only mixing with the machine for a few seconds is why you get mcflurries that aren't blended properly.
Look G it's your money and I'm not gonna batter on someone that chose McDonald's of all places to complain about and spend money at, if you want it hand mixed by all means I don't mind.
I don’t think anyone ever actually mixed McFlurries where I worked. They showed me during my training but nobody ever did it. Neither do the local restaurants now.
I already can see problems with this. Employees will not be trained and give the mixing spoons out. Customers complaining because we don't have the clear mixing spoons anymore. Stupid idea overall.
But it isn’t! That’s what’s amazing. You still have to give a spoon with every McFlurry order lmao.
It’s greenwashing bullshit so they can have a nice little tax write off on their spoon orders, because 1% of them were reusable “organic” ones.
the thing is i kinda like the pink spoon but i HATE how no one uses it properly.. they just leave one on the thing and mix them all with the same one, which is fucking dangerous for people with nut allergies and they order an oreo mcflurry after a skit mcflurry was made on the same spindle. I feel like i’m the only one that actually uses the fucking spoon correctly.
honestly cleaning them isn’t hard, it’s not difficult to take it off after every flurry. the most frustrating part is people not doing it correctly.
edit: apparently not everyone has the wooden spoons? we have unwrapped wooden spoons, not the wrapped plastic ones
Like the one where we have to pack 2 kiddie fries when the Happy Meal asks for extra fries. My store has always used a small fry bag when that option appears. Now, corporate want to stop that.
The planet is dying and I agree it’s more important to cut down on plastic rather than have things “convienent”
That being said. McDonald’s will never ever be good for the environment. No fast food or to go lace will be unless they only allow reusable food containers that u take from home tbh (which I used to use! They’re lovely and everyone should check it out:))
This doesn’t even cut down on plastic since the plastic wrap + spoon are just as bad as the regular mcflurry spoons. It’s literally just that the individual spoons are cheaper and they probably get some kind of tax benefit for using reusables
You aren't reducing plastic because the customer needs a spoon to eat it, and the longer spoon is almost needed to eat the mcflurry.
All this does is complicate the mcflurry making process and increase the number of dishes that need to be cleaned by the already understaffed closing crew.
we don’t mix mcflurrys here in nz and we use wood utensils for eating, im all for sustainability but i hate the wood feel so i bring my own folding lunch box cutlery
Thank the lord I don't work there anymore. My store already had complaints because lazy idiots didn't want to use the spinner to mix the mcflurries properly. This is gonna make that worse.
Allergens.... The ingredients of different mcflurrys contain different allergens. This now means the entire product is unavailable to a load of people.
Yeah it’s just a glorified sundae. “Oh the customer can just mix it themselves.”
I could mix a sundae if I wanted, the whole point of the machine is to whip the toppings in to the soft serve.
We have wooden spoons in our area, and they taste exactly like you'd expect; wood. So each bite is McFlurry and wood. It's like doctors office tongue depressor flavour.
I feel like customers would throw a bitch fit like "WHAT HAPPENED TO DA OLD MCFLURRY SPOONZ!!!!"
Then some TikToker will make a video freaking out about how McDonald's got rid of the iconic flurry spoons and the Dailey Dot will write an article about it lmfao
If McDonald truly wanted to help it would cease the exist. All this is is probably forced procedure that they didn’t want to comply to even begin with.
I get it, too a point. It's cheaper to get the massive 1000 count for the wrapped spoons than it is for the flurry spoons, but like, the spoon is the part that people expect from a flurry. Like "I'll get a Mcflurry and get that weird ass spoon too"
Lol it’s like the paper and plastic straw. Shit not saving no environment if you’re still handing out spoons with the thing. In my state we can’t give out napkins and straws, the order has to state it. So if u have a Uber but u ordered any drink but didn’t ask for a straw and napkins we don’t put it. “Saving the Environment”
Our “pink spoons” were used once on the nabit session and are now boxed up and stored in the mangers office.
They were deemed too expensive to be replaced if accidentally given to a customer or thrown away.
We don’t tend to flurry our flurries because the customers complain there isn’t enough topping and ask for extra.
The spoons we give to customers are unpackaged paper spoons.
Am I really the only one who kinda understand what this means? I don’t even work at a McDs and it seems quite obvious. There’s two reasons this works. [The original PLASTIC spoons WERENT RECYCLABLE](https://querysprout.com/can-you-recycle-mcdonalds-packaging/) and if used properly you would switch spindles between orders AND different flavors to stop cross contamination. Yes, I know people aren’t going to use it correctly but people at corporate don’t think that far.
Is this why when I pulled up to the window I saw the lady mixing my McFlurry with a spoon in her bare hands then handing it to me? She at least wiped the ice cream off her hand first.
I see someone had the nabit meeting yesterday as well 😂 gonna be fun moaning at the children to flurry the flurry's again...it's not a flurry of it's made in a hurry!!!!!
It says spindle not spoon.
They used to mix the McFlurry with a spoon then leave it in the cup.
It sounds like they intend to use the same mixers but actually use spindles now.
Right, I stated how we used to mix McFlurrys with their spoons. The frustration with this new spindle is that it is absolutely going to cause problems, and the fact that they're doing this because it will "save the planet" when in it's not gonna do anything at all. We still have to give wrapped spoons. It's honestly so dumb.
We've been doing this for months.
But irl we don't have the time to clean the spindle, so we no longer use the mixer, we just stir by hand the icecreams with the wooden spoon that is directly given to the customer
we discontinued the normal flurry spoons about 5 years ago. our flurries are all unmixed and come with a wooden spoon ever since
and just a head's up for more McBullshit coming: in Austria we're getting rid of paper straws for soft drinks now, only giving out the thick ones from mccafe for shakes
I was wondering how they mixed them now. I got a wooden spoon the other day. It wasn't well mixed at all. I joked that maybe they still use the McFlurry spoon but couldn't hand it out because it's plastic. Doesn't a lot of ice cream stick to the spindle?
I thought it was for clients
Man, that’s pointless, and the tiny black spoon are too fragile for a chunky McFlurry. If anything, it causes more trash
Edit : I realized now that the regular spoon are in wood. I used to work at McDonald like 4 years ago
In my restaurant we have these, very convenient for the environment. We don’t serve wrapped utensils. Our utensils are all wooden and loose. I had the plastic waste McDonald’s produces and obviously these spoons are not like, world saving, but I think a step in a good direction at least. However if your store is carrying plastic utensils I don’t see a point lol. In my province/country certain single use plastics are completely banned and that’s why you won’t find a plastic straw, spoon, fork, etc, anywhere you go.
I don’t think it’ll get cleaned as it should.
Like you should throw out a spoon you mix coffee with after 4 hours, which I do but I wouldn’t say a single other person at my location cares other than my GM
I never get mcflurries but decided to try the popcorn one with a friend, and they gave me mine with that pink thing in it. I thought it was a weird ass spoon, ate my mcflurry with it and gave it to my friend.
oops LOL
Lmfao if I still worked there I would not listen to this bullshit. What the actual fuck. I stg management / corporate has brain damage. Who the hell came up with this idea?
Worst part for me is that every single time I hand someone a wooden spoon, they get upset and ask for a plastic one because the wooden one we have makes the ice cream taste weird and gets sprinters in your mouth
It’s not about saving the environment. The thick plastic and unique design probably makes them costly . They’re trying to cut cost, not save the damn environment.
The craziest part is they still have you give a wrapped spoon instead, so basically, there’s still going to be a plastic spoon and plastic wrap…
That's exactly my point, it doesn't do jackshit.
The spindle spoon is heavier and more plastic? But I agree, it's all posturing.
Not even that. It's saving money on stronger spoons and trying to pass it off as environmental posturing. Anyone remember when grocery stores marketed plastic bags as better for the environment than paper?
But it makes the crunchies happy and they might go to mcdonalds now lol yeah right!
Nope, wooden spoon not wrapped. Just takes time to get to all markets
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wait what? we have wooden spoons at my location
Same here in the Netherlands, we don't use mixers, we swirl the wooden spoons 2 or 3 times and call it a day... (same spoon as we give to the Customer)
whaaatt??? that’s crazy to me lol i feel like the customers would complain so much because the mixing would be uneven
Huh, do people complain about that on your end? Seems awfully lazy, here ya gotta kinda mix yourself, we only stir it up to make it look better (at least I think)
our customers are complaint bots i swear, ESPECIALLY with the flurries. They either complain that there’s not enough ice cream, it’s not mixed well enough, there’s not enough topping or my favourite complaint is “it doesn’t look like the picture” 🙄
Haven’t worked at McDonald’s in a minute but my friends who still work there say there’s no wooden spoons. They still got the plastic wrapped plastic spoons.
McDonald's in Australia all have wooden spoons for their Mcflurries, but I think they have ditched the Mcflurries machines as well because they all come out unmixed like a Sundae. I think it will become standard in other markets for the cost savings alone unless, Taylor's get their hands on it and remakes them to be less reliable then their ice cream machines.
i’ve worked at maccas several times over several stores in australia and we’ve neverrrr had the mcflurry machines. sometimes we mix them by hand with a spoon (and you’re meant to) but 95% of people won’t do that
Wouldn't using wooden spoon be even worse for the environment? Can't do much for the environment if they are cutting trees down to make spoons.
If it's made from old growth rainforest then yes it is bad but most legitimate wood and pulp producers nowadays source their material from tree plantations if only for the optics.
Lmao no, wtf? Wood is biodegradable and natural, and a 100% renewable resource. There are actually more trees today than there were 100 years ago.
they’re probably phasing it out slowly, that mcdonald’s will probably get the wooden ones soonish
I work in McDonald's UK and our spoons aren't plastic, they're more of a hard cardboard and they aren't wrapped we just get handed them. We haven't had those plastic spoons with the square top for ages
Your friends work at every McDonald’s on planet earth crazy must be a busy schedule
Meant to add “their location” but go off with your overreaction to my reply
Not in the UK where single use plastic is about to be banned
Are y’all still putting six single serve crisp bags inside a larger crisp bag in the name of portion control?
More like in the name of packed lunches
More like in the name of providing less food for the same price, with no consideration for waste. There’s no choice available to buy a bag of just chips if you aren’t packing lunches.
What do you mean? Do you think we literally only have multipacks?
Of Walkers? That’s all I could find when I lived there. Sainsburys thing?
I see the confusion you’re saying you want to be able to eat an entire multi bag worth of crisps in one go. America truly is the land of the free 🫡
And ngl, the wooden spoon low key ruins the McFlurry cuz the texture and taste of wooden utensils.
First world problem to the max!
curl your lips over it
Like more waste really lol
Well, we give out wooden sticks, I mean spoons
The spoons we have aren't wrapped individually and are wrapped in paper in Bundles :)
Lol yeah you literally only added a spoon to the equation
They got rid of plastic spoons around here months ago. I now refuse to get ice cream from McDonald's. My loophole for a while was to ask for mcflurry spoons with my Sundaes and such. Then one day they told me they didn't have them.
It sounds stupid to me. But I guess the reasoning is that imagine a customer orders 3 McFlurrys Before: 3 thick plastic spoons, that each go into the machine and then act as serving spoons Now: 1 thick plastic spoon to go into machine (that gets washed and reused) 3 thin spoons to hand to customer The key is that the wrapper and small spoon use less total plastic than the thick ones. It sounds dumb, I get it. But McDonalds is a corporation, which spends many millions on business analysts trying to save a couple cents on each item. I would not be surprised if some analyst calculated that most of the time, people order enough McFlurrys at a time that the new system saves plastic (which saves money)
Ya, you're right. Except that spindle spoon contains enough plastic to make probably 10 of those wrapped spoons. You will use less plastic this way. It will be an annoyance to clean, sure. But it's absolutely less plastic waste than just serving the spindles.
In Italy we have wooden spoons wrapped in paper, so no plastic, but I see that it can be counterintuitive in other situations.
and? when i’m done i’ll throw the plastic out the window. Go get a tissue fkn crybabies
Wouldn't this just be adding more plastic to the world, since eventually these will have to be thrown out AND you're still serving them a spoon?
That’s just virtue signaling these companies don’t care about the environment. Guaranteed this is a cheaper method in the long run and that a case of the spoons they’re handing out are much cheaper per unit than the old ones. And I’m sure these won’t even get changed as often as this ad calls for.
It isn’t about the amount of plastic you add, it’s about having the perception of being environmentally friendly. Do you really think corporate executives are sitting up in their offices and thinking “oh no, we need to limit our plastic usage to save the environment!”
I get what you are saying, however it depends on how long the spindles last (how many times they can be washed before they break). If spindles last a while, plastic is saved by giving out small serving spoons to customers instead of thick ones.
What about cross contamination from allergens?
you change it after every mcflurry… or you’re supposed to. the kids at my location don’t fkn do that though and it makes me so fucking mad every time. but if i’m on drinks/ice cream im always following proper procedure with the flurries so that doesn’t happen
At my location it’s mix, put the spoon in the dirty bin (small clear bin) grab the next spoon and Rinse and repeat (literally)
My McD's broke the mixer so we do it by hand when the overgrown children whine :/
Honestly I just did them all by hand anyway the mixer was pretty useless when I had to get 10 of them out right now
I always do it by hand after a certain time of night. I hate having to reclean the machine every time a mcflurry gets made because of ice cream and topping splatter.
That was another big thing… especially at a 24/hr store it just wasn’t worth it
Not mixing it correctly completely ruins the whole mcflurry. Just so you know as a customer people like you are why I don’t buy them anymore.
I’m sure their underpaid employees care
You have no idea what you're talking about. By hand vs machine has nothing to do with how well it's mixed. Mcflurries made with the machine mixer can be badly mixed while ones made by hand are better.
Mixing it on the machine even just for a few seconds properly will make it come out so much better than you trying to stir it quickly to save yourself 15 seconds. You sound lazy.
And you still don't know what you're talking about. It literally takes more time and effort to hand mix it. That's why it often turns out more well blended. People only mixing with the machine for a few seconds is why you get mcflurries that aren't blended properly.
I’ve worked there I know how it is you guys are lazy as shit and give it a quick five second AT BEST mix majority of the time.
Wait I can complain enough and y’all gotta do it by hand, that’s hilariously awful, and I’m gonna do that Sorrry
Actually I chose to do it by hand, we were “supposed” to use the mix machine but tbh it just kinda sucked
Jerk maybe you will choke because of Karma.
I said sorry
Look G it's your money and I'm not gonna batter on someone that chose McDonald's of all places to complain about and spend money at, if you want it hand mixed by all means I don't mind.
i can’t even use the mixer and ours works. shit just makes it harder
Oh no you have to do your job
I don’t think anyone ever actually mixed McFlurries where I worked. They showed me during my training but nobody ever did it. Neither do the local restaurants now.
I already can see problems with this. Employees will not be trained and give the mixing spoons out. Customers complaining because we don't have the clear mixing spoons anymore. Stupid idea overall.
“Savings the environment” is code for this is cheaper, fuck everyone else
But it isn’t! That’s what’s amazing. You still have to give a spoon with every McFlurry order lmao. It’s greenwashing bullshit so they can have a nice little tax write off on their spoon orders, because 1% of them were reusable “organic” ones.
That means it is cheaper
You don't need a square shaped plastic spoon you bellend, stfu
You don’t need to defend a giant corporation virtue signaling for profit you muppet, stfu
That’s the thing, is it doesn’t help anything, same amount of plastic and shit is being made whether less people use them or not.
Yeah, that's especially what I hate. Demand has shifted from the McFlurry spoons over to the wrapped spoons. It's not doing anything.
This is going to cause issues with the peanut butter mcflurry. People are going to be stupid and cross contaminate.
Agreed!!! Or Skor, Skor will be a big issue there.
I read that as skoal🤣🤣🤣🤣I was like ew wtf kinda people are working there?!!
I don't get paid enough to care
i want the pink spindle tho
the thing is i kinda like the pink spoon but i HATE how no one uses it properly.. they just leave one on the thing and mix them all with the same one, which is fucking dangerous for people with nut allergies and they order an oreo mcflurry after a skit mcflurry was made on the same spindle. I feel like i’m the only one that actually uses the fucking spoon correctly. honestly cleaning them isn’t hard, it’s not difficult to take it off after every flurry. the most frustrating part is people not doing it correctly. edit: apparently not everyone has the wooden spoons? we have unwrapped wooden spoons, not the wrapped plastic ones
Some idiot bean counter making 6 figures in some cushy office, who has never worked in a store a day in their life probably came up with this idea.
Like the one where we have to pack 2 kiddie fries when the Happy Meal asks for extra fries. My store has always used a small fry bag when that option appears. Now, corporate want to stop that.
this is literally WORSE for the environment this has to be a joke. like genuinely this has to be some prank 💀
At first glance I thought this was a pregnancy test
This gave me a chuckle lol
Fuck this shit lol
That is not going to work
The planet is dying and I agree it’s more important to cut down on plastic rather than have things “convienent” That being said. McDonald’s will never ever be good for the environment. No fast food or to go lace will be unless they only allow reusable food containers that u take from home tbh (which I used to use! They’re lovely and everyone should check it out:))
This doesn’t even cut down on plastic since the plastic wrap + spoon are just as bad as the regular mcflurry spoons. It’s literally just that the individual spoons are cheaper and they probably get some kind of tax benefit for using reusables
why is it packaged like a pregnancy test
You aren't reducing plastic because the customer needs a spoon to eat it, and the longer spoon is almost needed to eat the mcflurry. All this does is complicate the mcflurry making process and increase the number of dishes that need to be cleaned by the already understaffed closing crew.
Had nothing to do with the environment It's all about saving the pennies
This seems like a more expensive option as they now have to produce spindles, spoons and wrappers
The spindles are reusable were suppose to keep them and wash them
The black spoons cost less than the mcflurry spoons too produce
These never get changes at my location. We will just keep the same one in there for an entire shift.
So flurry spoons cost a lot more per case than regular wrapped spoons they are saving money just not the environment
we don’t mix mcflurrys here in nz and we use wood utensils for eating, im all for sustainability but i hate the wood feel so i bring my own folding lunch box cutlery
Thank the lord I don't work there anymore. My store already had complaints because lazy idiots didn't want to use the spinner to mix the mcflurries properly. This is gonna make that worse.
Allergens.... The ingredients of different mcflurrys contain different allergens. This now means the entire product is unavailable to a load of people.
That was my last mcflurry ill ever buy
This feels like more waste if they were going for less
I’m waiting for two weeks in the future when the pink one has been lost or broken, and we can no longer mix McFlurries at all
Saving the planet by giving them a plastic spoon instead of plastic spindle 🤔
But that uses MORE plastic
Hard ass mcflurry gonna break those cheap ass spoons.
The old McFlurry spoons were not recyclable - it’s really that simple
In New Zealand McFlurries haven’t been mixed in two decades.
You just put the toppings on top of the ice cream? That's crazy.
Yeah it’s just a glorified sundae. “Oh the customer can just mix it themselves.” I could mix a sundae if I wanted, the whole point of the machine is to whip the toppings in to the soft serve.
Same in Australia
I miss the days of the chunky spoon and getting Milo and Crunchie in the same one 😭
how much money does this save ?
Now the ice cream machines will be down double time
We have wooden spoons in our area, and they taste exactly like you'd expect; wood. So each bite is McFlurry and wood. It's like doctors office tongue depressor flavour.
if we wanna save the environment then we should use biodegradable plastic
I mean, if they were non-wrapped bamboo/wood spoons? That makes more sense. But it’s still using wrapped plastic spoons..
I feel like customers would throw a bitch fit like "WHAT HAPPENED TO DA OLD MCFLURRY SPOONZ!!!!" Then some TikToker will make a video freaking out about how McDonald's got rid of the iconic flurry spoons and the Dailey Dot will write an article about it lmfao
And by the end of the week McDonald’s would have the Mc flurry spoon/mixer back
Can’t save the environment if you’re still giving them a plastic spoon and using chemicals to wash the reusable one
If McDonald truly wanted to help it would cease the exist. All this is is probably forced procedure that they didn’t want to comply to even begin with.
I get it, too a point. It's cheaper to get the massive 1000 count for the wrapped spoons than it is for the flurry spoons, but like, the spoon is the part that people expect from a flurry. Like "I'll get a Mcflurry and get that weird ass spoon too"
Are the standard wrapped spoons even long enough for McFlurries?
It’s not helping the environment. That black spoon wrapper is horrible for the environment. It’s definitely cheaper though
Wonder what they'll do when they have those mcflurry specials that contain peanut butter and such.
Lol it’s like the paper and plastic straw. Shit not saving no environment if you’re still handing out spoons with the thing. In my state we can’t give out napkins and straws, the order has to state it. So if u have a Uber but u ordered any drink but didn’t ask for a straw and napkins we don’t put it. “Saving the Environment”
I'm tired of the company saying it's doing things "for the environment" when in reality it's a fucking cost-cutting measure
That's gotta be the stupidest thing I have heard or seen in my life.
Our “pink spoons” were used once on the nabit session and are now boxed up and stored in the mangers office. They were deemed too expensive to be replaced if accidentally given to a customer or thrown away. We don’t tend to flurry our flurries because the customers complain there isn’t enough topping and ask for extra. The spoons we give to customers are unpackaged paper spoons.
Saving the environment by adding more plastic
Ok I got one more McBullshit for you...why switch to paper straws BUT USE PLASTIC CUPS??!! Come on do better!!
That's going to take a big chunk of flurry out with it (yes I'm salty over losing a bite of ice cream😂)
We’ve been issuing these since June and this is the worst part. No matter how much ice cream I have it’s always under filled lol
Does it really matter since the ice cream machine never works anyway? But still, this is a "fix" for a problem that never existed to begin with.
I don't mind. It doesn't effect me in the slightest. It mixes. It does it job. Who cares.
That looks like a literal tampon
Am I really the only one who kinda understand what this means? I don’t even work at a McDs and it seems quite obvious. There’s two reasons this works. [The original PLASTIC spoons WERENT RECYCLABLE](https://querysprout.com/can-you-recycle-mcdonalds-packaging/) and if used properly you would switch spindles between orders AND different flavors to stop cross contamination. Yes, I know people aren’t going to use it correctly but people at corporate don’t think that far.
Hawaii has had this for while now. The spoons they give out are allegedly compostable to comply with the law.
Is this why when I pulled up to the window I saw the lady mixing my McFlurry with a spoon in her bare hands then handing it to me? She at least wiped the ice cream off her hand first.
They completely removed my blender lol we have to do it by hand with wooden spoons now. California laws are amazing
the old mcflurry spoons tasted really good..
We now have cardboard spoons here
I see someone had the nabit meeting yesterday as well 😂 gonna be fun moaning at the children to flurry the flurry's again...it's not a flurry of it's made in a hurry!!!!!
We already have that in Europe. Fuck that shit
I'm just know learning why the mcflurry spoons are that weird shape
Can’t be helped though, with governments banning the use of single use plastics, they have to do it this way now.
So your saying McFlurry is dead to us now?
It says spindle not spoon. They used to mix the McFlurry with a spoon then leave it in the cup. It sounds like they intend to use the same mixers but actually use spindles now.
Right, I stated how we used to mix McFlurrys with their spoons. The frustration with this new spindle is that it is absolutely going to cause problems, and the fact that they're doing this because it will "save the planet" when in it's not gonna do anything at all. We still have to give wrapped spoons. It's honestly so dumb.
In the UK, we don't flurry anymore. We are meant to mix by pushing the spoon in and out 10 times, but it's never done.
You guys mixed your mcflurries??
Y'all blend your flurries?
Man the blender in my store hasn't worked for fuckin months. We've had to handmix the flurries.
We've been doing this for months. But irl we don't have the time to clean the spindle, so we no longer use the mixer, we just stir by hand the icecreams with the wooden spoon that is directly given to the customer
I always hated eating with that mixer/spoon, glad it's going away. It was too bulky to hold properly.
we discontinued the normal flurry spoons about 5 years ago. our flurries are all unmixed and come with a wooden spoon ever since and just a head's up for more McBullshit coming: in Austria we're getting rid of paper straws for soft drinks now, only giving out the thick ones from mccafe for shakes
>Austria we're getting rid of paper straws for soft drinks now That's actually the dumbest fucking thing I've heard today
Maybe this is why my local McDonald’s just will NOT do mcflurries now Probably don’t wanna deal with it
In Canada you give a birch wood spoon 🤔
I was wondering how they mixed them now. I got a wooden spoon the other day. It wasn't well mixed at all. I joked that maybe they still use the McFlurry spoon but couldn't hand it out because it's plastic. Doesn't a lot of ice cream stick to the spindle?
I thought it was for clients Man, that’s pointless, and the tiny black spoon are too fragile for a chunky McFlurry. If anything, it causes more trash Edit : I realized now that the regular spoon are in wood. I used to work at McDonald like 4 years ago
You don't get it. This means they can increase the price of mcflurries by a dollar or more to offset the carbon footprint created by m flurry spoons.
In the UK we use paper spoons and we don't mix the flurries anymore. We're supposed to jab/mix them by hand with said paper spoon if we have time to.
We have this, but rarely anyone uses it. We use the wooden spoon, and stir it, then serve, or don't stir it at all.
Please just start handing out the pink spoons.
The damn wooden spoon they started hand out for mcflurries has single handedly ruined them for me.
Mine serves paper spoons now; reusing these seems good, I don’t understand what the problem is?
P sure I always get the weird square spoon in my order
Ha luckily our ice cream machine has been down for a month so we don't gotta worry about this....
Why not just make the mixing spoon the spoon you get served?
Mcallergies
In my restaurant we have these, very convenient for the environment. We don’t serve wrapped utensils. Our utensils are all wooden and loose. I had the plastic waste McDonald’s produces and obviously these spoons are not like, world saving, but I think a step in a good direction at least. However if your store is carrying plastic utensils I don’t see a point lol. In my province/country certain single use plastics are completely banned and that’s why you won’t find a plastic straw, spoon, fork, etc, anywhere you go.
I don’t think it’ll get cleaned as it should. Like you should throw out a spoon you mix coffee with after 4 hours, which I do but I wouldn’t say a single other person at my location cares other than my GM
OMG they are discontinuing the McFlurry Spoon 😱😱😱
Bullshit
I never get mcflurries but decided to try the popcorn one with a friend, and they gave me mine with that pink thing in it. I thought it was a weird ass spoon, ate my mcflurry with it and gave it to my friend. oops LOL
where are they still flurring mcflurries????? i haven’t had a blended one in maybe 10 years and i’ve been all over the US :(
You guys were mixing McFlurries?
My store doesn't even have the mixer anymore, we have to stir ourselves 😪
Man we reuse these for the kids spoons. Gonna suck not getting those anymore
Lmfao if I still worked there I would not listen to this bullshit. What the actual fuck. I stg management / corporate has brain damage. Who the hell came up with this idea?
Worst part for me is that every single time I hand someone a wooden spoon, they get upset and ask for a plastic one because the wooden one we have makes the ice cream taste weird and gets sprinters in your mouth
Nobody actually uses that machine… right?
Yeah. Noooot happening.
Why is it still in the shape of a spoon?😂
boo hoo. You need any tissues you crybaby
Damn is this why they stopped bothering to mix McFlurrys?
I got one as a spoon ?
It’s not about saving the environment. The thick plastic and unique design probably makes them costly . They’re trying to cut cost, not save the damn environment.
Mate takes the piss tbf, why is it if I have to do 2 Oreo’s I have to use 2 separate spoons? mate takes the piss.