Secret McDonalds menu turns $1 cheeseburger into something tasty.
Fast food places are promoting their online ordering, through a browser or a proprietary app. Nothing wrong with that. And I’ve discovered that you can hack the online ordering system to create a secret McDonald’s menu which would be difficult to pull off when you’re standing at the register.
My secret McDonalds Menu order
Case in point: the hacked $1 cheeseburger. Click it into your shopping cart in the app and click “customize”. Add extra onions, pickle and mustard, minus ketchup and add lettuce and tomato. Walla! You’ve got a reasonable facsimile of a Texas cheeseburger for a more-than-reasonable $1.20. (Upcharge for the lettuce and tomato.) If you’re worried they won’t put on enough mustard, go the condiment section and add a serving of honey mustard or hot mustard to your order for a cost of $0.00.
This works because there is a system in the store that prints a perfect order ticket, ready for processing. As opposed to standing in front of the minimally trained order taker who is punching buttons and may or may not make a mistake. (Even at In-N-Out, which is proud of its off-the-menu specialties, my custom order is wrong maybe 10% of the time.) Plus the people behind you in line are getting more and more irritated.
The order!
Another online ordering hack is my custom sub at Jersey Mike’s: I start with the #2 regular (best combination of value and flavor in my opinion), request it “Mike’s Way” which means oil, vinegar and oregano, then add crushed pepper spread, jalapeños, banana peppers and pickles. The meat and bun are swamped by the delicious veggies making me think this sandwich is good for me. (Probably not.)
McDonald’s secret menu? Jersey Mike’s secret menu? What’s your online ordering hack?
Hacked #2 regular at Jersey Mike’s
