Guessing he was an aspiring actor when this was made. It's amazing how much embarrassing stuff actors go through when trying to break in. I think when you see videos like this, the people were thrilled for the job because it paid rent for a month or two!
I remember Dave Thomas was a kind and generous human being, he was adopted as a child and shared his wealth with many adoption agencies and children without homes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Walter Sobchak that’s impressive, specially since the meat carving buffet was completely unknown to me until today. I did work for Wendy’s, Mc Donald’s and Burger King.
@@carloslozanomolina87 worked for place called Homestyle Family Buffet basically the same exact place same kind of meat Carving Station same exact setup
He has an autobiography called Well Done. He was a very humble and sincere man. Being adopted really bothered him and other than delivering a quality product his passion in life was to help adopted children. We could probably use some Dave Thomas ghost.
It's nice to see Dave Thomas again. He always seemed like such a kind, genuine guy on TV. For the younger people, he used to be in all the Wendy's commercials up until the early 2000s when he died.
He definitely got better infront of the camera. He seemed so unnatural in this video, but I remember him seeming much more comfortable in the commercials in the 90s.
***** the grill worker does not touch the bun, only the sandwich maker does, with a glove. It is a third person's job to keep stock of the buns. The grill person, for food safety reasons, can't touch anything other than the raw meat and the spatula. There is even a separate spatula just for the sandwich maker to use to prevent cross-contamination.
People in the 90s: forced to watch this when they want a job People now: choose to waste 15 minutes watching this (edit: fixed spacing, and '89 is close enough)
He tells chicks about his raw meat and how it goes in one direction in her mouth 👄 or the bat cave. After a few dates he might put the meat in the buns.
I worked at a Wendy’s in Dallas during the mid 90’s. I got a chance to meet Dave and I can attest, the man was probably the most generous boss that a restaurant chain could ever have.
@@jimbL200I would expect him to be a typical greedy, superficially nice but cruel type. I agree, it's nice to hear he might have been a good person. I don't eat fast food anymore but when I drove a cab, I ate it every night. Wendy's was by far the best quality and of course had the longest lines. I would always try to go before they closed but didn't always work out and i had to buy crap from taco bell or something. Not all bad by any means but compared to Wendy's it was a huge difference.
And then on the flipside, you have Harland Sanders, who would apparently randomly visit KFC locations and berate the employees if he didn't think they were doing a good job.
I learned sandwiches and grill for Wendys from these videos. That was 1992. It’s 2023 and I still remember the songs. If that isn’t a testament to power of these training videos I don’t know what is.
I was a unit director for Wendy's in the early 80s.Our motto was We Don't Cut Corners. I had my store right off the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington. The first Wendy's I had ever ate at was the Wendy's Dave Thomas opened in downtown Columbus Ohio, across from the COSI. I still love Wendy burgers
I worked at Wendy’s in high school 2002-2004. I remember watching videos like these, although I think ours were more 1990s Hanging With Mr. Cooper style. You don’t realize how much that stuff sticks with you but to this day I still blossom a potato the way I learned at Wendy’s, still find myself pressing burgers on the grill like we learned back in the day. It’s funny to think how we made fun of that stuff back then but it really does stick with you. I remember being on the grill and the reminder would go off on the timer and you’d call out “stir (chili) drain (pickles) sanitize (the sand which prep board) flip (tomatoes) flop (can’t remember anymore what that one was) fluff (bacon)”….20 years ago and you still remember that stuff.
I worked there from May 2006-February 2009. The 2000s were truly the Last HURRAH for the company. The Quality, Taste, Morale Everything about Wendys before 2010 was just so Great.
"Do you like hot fudge sundaes Dave ? " " Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite." " Is it still hot out there Dave?" "Did you catch the game last night Dave?" - Legendary Meat Carver Guy
McDonalds ads in the 80’s-90’s: people dancing all over town, throwing back their heads in unrestrained laughter, tossing fries in each other’s mouths, etc. Wendy’s ads in the 80’s-90’s: Dave Thomas politely asking you try a burger that’s “old fay-shunned”
We do it in the middle now. But the way they do it is to make sure they don't get lawsuits. What I didn't know is that if the patty isn't cooked well done and the supposed plaintiff is in the age group to get possibly vilely sick by that, they can sue.
It’s nice to see Wendy’s putting effort into keeping they’re employees from poisoning people with botulism. Your artistic direction on this video is awesome.
You must have worked at a company location. I worked at a franchise location and it wasn't as cool. I tried to play my spatula like an electric guitar, and the only sound it made was the sizzle of my skin as it burned horribly. I screamed in anguish, and my manager came running out and said YOU CAN SERVE THE CHILI WITH SOME CHEESE
So if you were a Wendy's employee, you would put on your uniform and go to work so you could watch a video about a guy who puts on his uniform and goes to work and watches a video about a guy who works at Wendy's.
Well we wouldn't want it to be be like real life, the video would be 3 weeks long because the idiot didn't pay attention to half of what you said and refused to take notes. He comes back late from every break even after you tell him to quit that shit. Then other dumb employees swoop in like vultures to teach him short cuts and bad habits 🙄
Just showed this to my mom. She was legit fucking horrified when the patties started singing. Staring at me, jaw on the floor, struggling to speak, and literally covered in goosebumps. Thanks for helping me traumatize a middle-aged woman🙏
I used to work at Wendy's back in the early 90s when I was 16 I loved watching these videos my first station was the toasting station where I would toast the Buns all day then I got moved up to fries then I was making the big bucks then they moved Burger Station where I would put all the condiments on memorizing all the sandwiches was really hard but one day I had a dream that I was working and I actually taught myself all the sandwiches in my dream then I got moved over to the grill station and i did the delicious burgers if they ever got overcooked we would chop them up and put them into the chili one day we got really busy during a rush and we were understaffed I knew what Dave wanted me to do so when nobody was paying attention I went to the back grabbed my skateboard went out the back door and never came back except to grab my paycheck thanks Dave it was great By the way this is the exact video they made me watch I remember telling everybody at school about the guy that rapped teaching me about the grill pure cringe
Wild that they have a dedicated wall mounted tv with built in VHS in the 80s. Wendy's was ahead of its time, and only used 100% pure ground beef pressed into squares; so the meat hangs off the side.
Pretty sure he meant once it's cooked. He put the cheese on the grill to make it hot. You can touch food that's going to be cooked without wearing gloves. You can't touch food that already is cooked (like the finished cheeseburgers) or won't be cooked (like salads) without wearing gloves.
I worked for a Wendys back in '96-'97 The managers always had men working on the grill until i put my 16 year old girl foot down and said i wanted to learn it. It was the easiest station to work at. And yes, the old patties that don't get used was saved in a warmer above the grill for the chili.
1:23 “the patty tastes better because the sawdust pressed into the meat makes the meat more tender and also makes the patty larger”. Dave giving away all the Wendy’s sawdusty secrets.
Manager: So what makes you qualified to work at Wendy's? Applicant: I've seen every 80's training video at least 12 times and "Hot Drinks" is my ringtone. Manager: Welcome aboard!
Well just about all stats show opinions on race relations from that time until about the last several years were improving drastically and were actually better than they are now.
I watched this 400 times. I have studied the employee training manual front and back. Wish me luck at the interview guys. I have trained for years for this opportunity.
@@SkinniJ I'm sure he was pretty disappointed when they told him the video was 40 years old and that they no longer use those machines due to being out of commission for years but I'm sure Dave would have been proud!
I love hearing about the old-fayshioned bidness. RIP Dave Thomas. Last note. I love watching these old training videos. The old days were definitely better than our current era.
Things I learned: -Wendys presses the shit out of the meat -The amount of grease fires must have been crazy -They just re-use bad meat for the chili -Dave Thomas can’t say ‘Fashioned’
"Pressing them into the juice". If you have a soaking sponge and press it on a hot surface, it is wetter or dryer than before you pressed. A 5 year old knows not to press meat on a pan SMH.
Its Wendys my man. These are not quality meats...they are meant for fast cooking. I rarely have fast food like this cause Im always hungry after...theyre so thin all these fast food meats. So then I found out its cheaper to buy from my "organic" butcher. I get 8oz burger patties for example, real beef for $8 a 4 pack...
This… and Hot Drinks! The best training videos ever! Seriously, if companies still made training videos fun and interesting like THIS, I know associates would retain a LOT more of what they’re taught before being thrown to the lions. How do I know it works? Because of my old job at Shoprite, and the bagging training video they had for cashiers. The haaaaaam! 🤣
5:10 "We don't want a broken patty." 6:20 - cuts the patty in half with spatula Also, Billy didn't rewind the tape after watching it. I'm guessing that he'll last a week at most.
This is actually genius. I could man a Wendy's grill tomorrow and serve up a prize-winning tender and juicy fraish old fay-shunned hamburger, the best in the bidness.
as much as seeing Dave in this resolution sends me back to my youth- I was rocketed back in time when I saw that salad bar in the background. Wendy's was all about that salad bar.
Fark him. He's only the CEO. Im in Australia and at my last company (not huge German owned multinational in 60 countries doing 2.6 billion a year) there was a guy trying introduce himself and I was kinda in the middle of something and half ignored him til he made a point of shaking my hand. Later found out he ran the whole of Australia and Asia. 😂
Wow, I never see black and white people work at Wendy's anymore. All I've ever seen is Mexicans. The 80s and 90s where definitely a different time I personally miss. I'm sure these employees where never paid to be on the cheesy training video.
And then his Daughter, Wendy herself took over in 2002 after he passed away. She kept Wendys a Great Company throughout in 2000s, and even brought her Xennial Son on board. But then due to the Recession of 2008, P&G decided to sell Wendys to ConAgra Foods, and ConAgra decided in 2010 that the Thomas family shouldn't be running the company, so they fired her in 2010. And its been going downhill since then.
maybe after humanity has destroyed itself and has been lost to the sands of time, whatever sentient creatures that inherit the planet will find this and guide their understanding of the universe.
Now this is a story all about how My burger got flipped, turned upside down If you've spare time, just watch this cheese A 90s instructional video made by Wendy's...
In Columbus, Ohio born and raised Behind the grill is where I spent of my boring work days Chilling with the druggies with hookers and blow My manager said “Snorting coke is the way to go!”
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I worked for Wendy's in 1979. They told us the patties were square because at Wendy's, we don't cut corners.
I worked there two years ago they said the same thing
kenzey iler I work there now, they’re still saying it 😂
I worked at Wendy's between 2011 and 2013... and they said the same thing even then.
I worked there 12 hours ago and they said the same thing
I worked there 30 secs ago.. Same thing...
I just realized that I’m now a trained Wendy’s employee.
me too
Fuck yeah bro, now we needa flattop
Me too
@@giammarcovictorventuri9287 Krieger "me too!"
You got the grill skillz'
Props to the dude ACTUALLY kinda owning the embarrassing official Wendi's grill training rap. The man had guts and rhythm.
Well he did wear sunglasses inside. I'm assuming to protect his identity lol
Guessing he was an aspiring actor when this was made. It's amazing how much embarrassing stuff actors go through when trying to break in. I think when you see videos like this, the people were thrilled for the job because it paid rent for a month or two!
Actually, this one diddnt make me cringe once. This was high quality and thought out back in the day, trust.
Shout-out to the folks who did makeup/accessories for the singing parties
Embarrassing? I wish more training videos were that engaging. Better than clicking through boring menus that are white and gray 🤣
I remember Dave Thomas was a kind and generous human being, he was adopted as a child and shared his wealth with many adoption agencies and children without homes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Wendys was so special when the Thomas family was running the company. After the 2000s ended, everything went downhill for Wendys.
What a guy 🥺
I heard he ground up the orphans and used them for chili meat
@@humbertox I used to work at wendys this is tru
Who else is watching this after the meat carving and Pizza Hut instructional video?
What's hilarious is I've worked at all three of these places that's coincidental as hell
Walter Sobchak that’s impressive, specially since the meat carving buffet was completely unknown to me until today. I did work for Wendy’s, Mc Donald’s and Burger King.
@@carloslozanomolina87 worked for place called Homestyle Family Buffet basically the same exact place same kind of meat Carving Station same exact setup
🖐🏻
👋 👋 👋
" Hi, I'm Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. I'm presently dead but I haunt the halls of this Old Fayshioned Bidness".
And people like dat
I’m okay with Dave Thomas haunting Wendy’s. He seems like he’d be a nice ghost.
I lol'd
best in the bidness
He has an autobiography called Well Done. He was a very humble and sincere man. Being adopted really bothered him and other than delivering a quality product his passion in life was to help adopted children. We could probably use some Dave Thomas ghost.
When the patties started to join the rap, I lost my shit.
It's nice to see Dave Thomas again. He always seemed like such a kind, genuine guy on TV. For the younger people, he used to be in all the Wendy's commercials up until the early 2000s when he died.
He definitely got better infront of the camera. He seemed so unnatural in this video, but I remember him seeming much more comfortable in the commercials in the 90s.
U know he was a robot don't u? Never noticed how u never see his legs?
Did u know he got his GED at old age, after wendys was already a success for him?
whatya think, is IN THE BURGERS?
@@mothersuperior2014 chupacabra meat
Our old fayshioned hamburgers are the best in the bidness!
lol buns stay hot in a bin above, lay out those raw patties but dont wear a glove,
rat a tatat , zooma zoom zoom zoom,
***** the grill worker does not touch the bun, only the sandwich maker does, with a glove. It is a third person's job to keep stock of the buns. The grill person, for food safety reasons, can't touch anything other than the raw meat and the spatula. There is even a separate spatula just for the sandwich maker to use to prevent cross-contamination.
+Phoenix I started with the frayshest beef i could find
Yes lmfao died at that xD
best in the venice
People in the 90s: forced to watch this when they want a job
People now: choose to waste 15 minutes watching this
(edit: fixed spacing, and '89 is close enough)
People in 2020: use spaces weirdly .
People
in
2040:
Don't
use
spaces.
My bad lmao I’m using mobile
People in the future will be able to beam inside the video
In the 90s this would have just been a lame video. Now in 2020 woah man it's totally nostalgic dude!
Hahahaha
11pm on a Saturday night and I'm spending it catching up on fast food restaurant training videos, what a life.
You too?
Have you tried the Old Country Buffet and the Jewel Grocery store training videos?
@@rdred8693I've binge watched them all, Hardees, Pizza Hut, Blockbuster Video, Old Country Buffet.
@@rdred8693 Pizza Hut's training video is righteous, too
“Billy, you’re high. Please clock out.”
hahahah
Imagine the guy who wrote grill skills.. sitting at the bar, telling chicks, yeah, I wrote that song grill skills, I'm kind of a big deal
Then he weeps into his empty whisky glass, "I wrote that, I wrote that!"
Pussy for days
@@deraifu LOL
I am pretty sure he hung out by the drive-thru speaker box and told everyone as they ordered. In fact, he is still there to this very day.
He tells chicks about his raw meat and how it goes in one direction in her mouth 👄 or the bat cave. After a few dates he might put the meat in the buns.
It’s 5am idk what I’m doing here but my life sure didn’t turn out like I thought it was going to
I hope things are better buddy
You need Grille Skillz in your life, son
You gotta salt the meat
You and me both Jesco... You and me both
You’ll be right mate. we all go through shit times
I worked at a Wendy’s in Dallas during the mid 90’s. I got a chance to meet Dave and I can attest, the man was probably the most generous boss that a restaurant chain could ever have.
This was really wholesome to read, thank you for sharing your experience
@@jimbL200I would expect him to be a typical greedy, superficially nice but cruel type. I agree, it's nice to hear he might have been a good person. I don't eat fast food anymore but when I drove a cab, I ate it every night. Wendy's was by far the best quality and of course had the longest lines. I would always try to go before they closed but didn't always work out and i had to buy crap from taco bell or something. Not all bad by any means but compared to Wendy's it was a huge difference.
And then on the flipside, you have Harland Sanders, who would apparently randomly visit KFC locations and berate the employees if he didn't think they were doing a good job.
I learned sandwiches and grill for Wendys from these videos. That was 1992. It’s 2023 and I still remember the songs. If that isn’t a testament to power of these training videos I don’t know what is.
In a couple of years I make assistant manager and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.
😂😂😂😂
This is one of my favorite lines ever, but no one ever gets the reference
McDougals!
Coming to America
@Barrier Boy thanks man memory isn't what it was. Golden arches and golden arcs
Anyone else here after the meat carving dude? Ya did it again TH-cam 😂😂
Meat carver, then mc Donald’s, now here.
Yup
That poor dude just wanted to know if it was still hot outside 😂😂💀
Did you catch the game last night
Lol that's me
I have to be honest, this is an effective training video. I seriously think I could make a perfect Wendys single or double on my first try now.
Me too . The video was educational and fun
It is so immensely important to this man that the patty hangs over the edge of the bun.
sir, this is a wendy's
"Hi there, I'm Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas. They keep me locked here in this freezer. Send help. Please."
Still frozen in 1986.
They only brought him out to make commercials lol.
The beef may never get frozen, but Dave Thomas is another story!
We keep our Dave's frozen, never fresh!
@@DoctorPorkenfries he was sacrificed instead of the meat, a true hero
Apparently Wendy's does not drug test because this guy is having one major trip.
Apparently, they also endorse using drugs to come up with shit like this.
@@ladysaturn3052 it was right b4 the 80s
Dude, this entire video is a trip.
ediamante3 man this is what a training vid would look like on acid
@@jadelajouz2996 right lol
The production value on this video is insane. It's better than most modern comic book movies.
My grandma still works there. She's 82.
I was a unit director for Wendy's in the early 80s.Our motto was We Don't Cut Corners. I had my store right off the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington. The first Wendy's I had ever ate at was the Wendy's Dave Thomas opened in downtown Columbus Ohio, across from the COSI. I still love Wendy burgers
If you ever ate at Galligaskins 87-90 I might've made you a sammich.
“-and I want a black guy, and I want him to rap the instructions, it’ll be real hip.”
Most diverse video I have seen in this era of training videos by fast food corporations
fershizzle
@@rifleshooterchannel208 muh nizzle
As dumb as this looks, it's really genius, easy to memorize.
@@dingdingdingdiiiiing Indeed lol
My son just got hired there. I will show him this repeatedly. He will memorize this. I will make him.
Have him watch the Wendys cold drinks video. Your son will go from boy to MAN after watching it.
@@juicyfruit6311 I feel kinda funny after watching that.
@Serpentine Fire "Your". SMH
Good dad right there
You are son*
As I was watching, I was thinking "this could only be 1989", and then at the end, "Booya!"
I worked at Wendy’s in high school 2002-2004. I remember watching videos like these, although I think ours were more 1990s Hanging With Mr. Cooper style. You don’t realize how much that stuff sticks with you but to this day I still blossom a potato the way I learned at Wendy’s, still find myself pressing burgers on the grill like we learned back in the day. It’s funny to think how we made fun of that stuff back then but it really does stick with you. I remember being on the grill and the reminder would go off on the timer and you’d call out “stir (chili) drain (pickles) sanitize (the sand which prep board) flip (tomatoes) flop (can’t remember anymore what that one was) fluff (bacon)”….20 years ago and you still remember that stuff.
It's the same reason ww2 training videos were funny cartoons. People remember oddities better
Do you still let the meat hang over the bun?
@@Bruce-Leroy Always…. That’s Dave’s way.
@@CThom85Good Man!! Dave would be proud. Carry on. 🫡
I worked there from May 2006-February 2009. The 2000s were truly the Last HURRAH for the company. The Quality, Taste, Morale Everything about Wendys before 2010 was just so Great.
"Do you like hot fudge sundaes Dave ? "
" Have you tried the lasagna? It's my favorite."
" Is it still hot out there Dave?"
"Did you catch the game last night Dave?"
- Legendary Meat Carver Guy
You should see the dub of that video..he's says to the blonde "sup bimbo"...and the to the brunette.."fuck, you're huge".
@@japander is it as good as the viral video where bozo dubs over?
@@flavortown5124 its better. Let me see if I can find the link.
Alllrigghht
lmao!!! I just came from that video.. I'm dying...
“The best hamburger in the bid-ness. A Wendy’s old Fay- shunned hamburger”
😂😂😂😂
using the fræshest beef
McDonalds ads in the 80’s-90’s: people dancing all over town, throwing back their heads in unrestrained laughter, tossing fries in each other’s mouths, etc.
Wendy’s ads in the 80’s-90’s: Dave Thomas politely asking you try a burger that’s “old fay-shunned”
"I'll take mine with pickles, onions, and mustard".
Perfect.
lol You caught that, too?
Damn…I didn’t know Wendy’s was chill like that.
🤢😆
I didn't work at Wendy's, but I did work at McD's and I always called myself a "burger artist" to make me feel better about myself.
I commend you on your dedicated service "burger artist." Carry on with your bad self.
I'm a toilet artist
“We don’t want a broken patty that’s a guarantee.”
*proceeds to break patty to see if it’s done
they always cut my patties too and i wish i could tell them that i dont care if its red in the middle, im a fuckin animal
You need to rap it no one understands you
At McDonald's, the cut is a no no!
did belly wash his hands after rubbing his eyes??😄
We do it in the middle now. But the way they do it is to make sure they don't get lawsuits. What I didn't know is that if the patty isn't cooked well done and the supposed plaintiff is in the age group to get possibly vilely sick by that, they can sue.
“I’m pulling you off fries today.” That’s an executive decision right there. Taking charge.
why did I laugh so hard at this
He’s been on fries for weeks
Reminds me of Coming To America.
Never see that in today's world. Today, you have to ask your employee if that is acceptable to them, first.
And if we stop right here folks,you can witness one of the many ancient comments put here long before COVID-19!
It’s nice to see Wendy’s putting effort into keeping they’re employees from poisoning people with botulism. Your artistic direction on this video is awesome.
This is surprisingly creative, well shot and fun. I think this is more enjoyable than most modern movies.😂
I agree lol
Same here!
I worked at Wendy's in high school in the late 80s/early 90s and can confirm that we get sucked into a hip-hop dimension when we get trained on grill
😂💀😂
Keepin' it real, Yo.
You must have worked at a company location. I worked at a franchise location and it wasn't as cool. I tried to play my spatula like an electric guitar, and the only sound it made was the sizzle of my skin as it burned horribly. I screamed in anguish, and my manager came running out and said YOU CAN SERVE THE CHILI WITH SOME CHEESE
@@RockandrollNegro 😂
Back when rap had educational values not riddled with cussing and twerking
When you try to microdose before your shift and end up getting sucked into a TV with singing hamburgers and a rapping grill cook.
Dam bruh bruh you got me good 😂😂
😂😂😂
Everybody Wants Some! I want some too!
This was one Hell of a DMT trip for Bill.
😂🤣dying laughing over this comment lol!
You know it's fresh because they got a black guy to do a rap about it.
I feel like Wendy's experienced the 90s more vividly than most of us.
Lmao you think this was the 90s?
@@Randomjackass135 Pretty much. 1989 doesn't really count as the true 80's
This is definitely 80s all around
this is clearly from the 80s
Decade doesn’t really start until two years in, as the last decade trails-off.
So if you were a Wendy's employee, you would put on your uniform and go to work so you could watch a video about a guy who puts on his uniform and goes to work and watches a video about a guy who works at Wendy's.
Seems legit
Wendception!!
Yeah but he gets to rap and cook some weak ass patties
The loop hole of wendys
It's like Spaceballs when you are seeing everything live on the bootleg vhs
Manager: Now here, watch this training tape of an employee watching a training tape
So long as I am on the clock when I do.
Some 90s ass shit
@Sky Pirate
Keepin it real! :)
Is It like making love to your own making love video tape !!?
So cool to see him Again. Feel like it's been 30 years since I've seen him on a commercial. Never heard anyone say fashioned like that.
These 90s videos were pretty creative than what we have out now
I'm more impressed by the fact that he remembered the lyrics to the song after hearing for the first time.
Oh shit Obese Maurice in the house!!
Well we wouldn't want it to be be like real life, the video would be 3 weeks long because the idiot didn't pay attention to half of what you said and refused to take notes. He comes back late from every break even after you tell him to quit that shit. Then other dumb employees swoop in like vultures to teach him short cuts and bad habits 🙄
@@BunnyCavendish cry about it
@@thisdudegotreal Derp
so, here is where the beef between rappers started...
AHHAHAHAHHAAA good one
A+
underrated post
Biggie Fries was really misunderstood.
Corny,but good
Just showed this to my mom. She was legit fucking horrified when the patties started singing. Staring at me, jaw on the floor, struggling to speak, and literally covered in goosebumps.
Thanks for helping me traumatize a middle-aged woman🙏
I used to work at Wendy's back in the early 90s when I was 16 I loved watching these videos my first station was the toasting station where I would toast the Buns all day then I got moved up to fries then I was making the big bucks then they moved Burger Station where I would put all the condiments on memorizing all the sandwiches was really hard but one day I had a dream that I was working and I actually taught myself all the sandwiches in my dream then I got moved over to the grill station and i did the delicious burgers if they ever got overcooked we would chop them up and put them into the chili
one day we got really busy during a rush and we were understaffed I knew what Dave wanted me to do so when nobody was paying attention I went to the back grabbed my skateboard went out the back door and never came back except to grab my paycheck thanks Dave it was great
By the way this is the exact video they made me watch I remember telling everybody at school about the guy that rapped teaching me about the grill pure cringe
Bill has a psychotic break and his manager is like “cool, ready to work the line?”
I guess this is why they tell us not to come to work while high.
She’s a fast food manager, she’s seen it all.
Ah he's right where he belongs
So this rapper doesn't exist in the established Wendy's canon, right? I just need to get my lore straight.
I thought you meant Dave Thomas was the rapper
Imma tell my kids this was 2pac.
Dave Thomas had more beef than any rapper, ever.
so that's how Wendy's be having them roasts tweets
He's an SCP
Wild that they have a dedicated wall mounted tv with built in VHS in the 80s. Wendy's was ahead of its time, and only used 100% pure ground beef pressed into squares; so the meat hangs off the side.
Looks like Dave Thomas pre-1990s tv commercials.
"the best burger in the bidness." "I started with the frayshest.."
"Don't touch them with your hands thats a big no no"
*immediately touches the cheese with no gloves*
Pretty sure he meant once it's cooked. He put the cheese on the grill to make it hot. You can touch food that's going to be cooked without wearing gloves. You can't touch food that already is cooked (like the finished cheeseburgers) or won't be cooked (like salads) without wearing gloves.
Nobody wore gloves then
@@maxheadrum9030 sometimes, what you don't know won't hurt you.
Wendy's workers who didnt see the video is where AIDS really started back then
@@thisdudegotreal LMAO
Just in case you didn't know, the burgers are square, so the meat hangs over the bun.
the customer will like that
And people will like that!
I DO like the meat hanging over the bun. I AM The Customer, Case Closed!
Are u sure? When did they say that?
I’m pretty sure it’s because Wendy’s doesn’t cut corners though.
Dave Thomas is an underrated GOAT
I worked for a Wendys back in '96-'97 The managers always had men working on the grill until i put my 16 year old girl foot down and said i wanted to learn it. It was the easiest station to work at. And yes, the old patties that don't get used was saved in a warmer above the grill for the chili.
congrats
When the LSD you took before work hits
Makes for a bad day at work... Trust me. Don't do it!
@@325aliceI you don't micro dose at subway?
@@Jason-or4mc LOL ..uh..why Subway?
@@325aliceI u prolly don't even take tabs
@@salimwali4663 you're right...as I said...been there.done that.
“We make a old fayshuned burger, the best in the bidness”
Davebonics
bidness
LOLOLOLOL
Don't forget that they only used the frayshest beef. 😂
"Bidness nigga" gtav
1:23 “the patty tastes better because the sawdust pressed into the meat makes the meat more tender and also makes the patty larger”. Dave giving away all the Wendy’s sawdusty secrets.
Yes, the 90s were exactly like this. Fair fucks to the rap fella, he earned his fifty bucks.
I worked at a Wendys in college and I DOMINATED the grill!
Did you also break into spontaneous singing?
@@trooper326 my freestyle rap game was lacking, I will admit
Manager: So what makes you qualified to work at Wendy's?
Applicant: I've seen every 80's training video at least 12 times and "Hot Drinks" is my ringtone.
Manager: Welcome aboard!
I can't believe you'd start a job being that over-qualified. You should've applied to be an assistant manager at least.
@@jasonkeith2832 with that resume they would be ceo of Wendy’s
Not so fast, hot shot.
Flash quiz.
How many grill presses does each patty get?
@@supercoolyguy 4 corner press
😂😂😂😂😵
This just healed race relations in America
Well just about all stats show opinions on race relations from that time until about the last several years were improving drastically and were actually better than they are now.
@@tv92taylor apparently they were better before the end of segregation. So that goes to show the power of social media brainwashing
@@tv92taylor forreal.. weird.
And views on slavery were much more positive before the civil war. Funny that.
And views on slavery were much more positive before the civil war. Funny that.
*DRINKING GAME*
Take a sip every time someone says:
- "100% BEEF"
- "BURGERS ARE SQUARE"
- "HANGS OVER THE BUN"
- "AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT"
I laughed so much through these training videos, thank you so much for uploading them. Whenever I’m cooking now I’m like yeah grill skills 😂😂
The new guy has been hitting the Crystal Pepsi a little to hard.
Underrated comment lmao
😂😂😂 Man that's funny
I think it pronounced crystal meth
@@DeedeeandtheBeebee I don't think you got the joke.
Profits
I watched this 400 times. I have studied the employee training manual front and back. Wish me luck at the interview guys. I have trained for years for this opportunity.
Well? Did you have the skills?
@@missjess82 probably but we’ll never know unfortunately.
@@SkinniJ I'm sure he was pretty disappointed when they told him the video was 40 years old and that they no longer use those machines due to being out of commission for years but I'm sure Dave would have been proud!
“You have trained for years for this opportunity...so you be the laughing stock of your community”....
😅😂😂😂
I now know how to cook a Wendy’s Oldfaceshened Hamburger.
Thanks Dave! 👍🏻👍🏻
I love hearing about the old-fayshioned bidness.
RIP Dave Thomas.
Last note. I love watching these old training videos. The old days were definitely better than our current era.
Things I learned:
-Wendys presses the shit out of the meat
-The amount of grease fires must have been crazy
-They just re-use bad meat for the chili
-Dave Thomas can’t say ‘Fashioned’
Did Wendy's have chili in the 80s?? Glad I wasn't alive to have it because that sounds, rather unhealthy
@@kenskingdom9288 omg I know someone who eats that chili whenever they go there and spend the night on the toilet.
Fayshioned
Don't forget the acid you drop before work
I think Dave was having a stroke. Or has been day drinking.
I see. They "seal in the juices" by slow-cooking instead of searing the meat, and by pressing the juices out of it 8 times.
This video is slow cooking the juices in my brain.
Right?!
"Pressing them into the juice".
If you have a soaking sponge and press it on a hot surface, it is wetter or dryer than before you pressed.
A 5 year old knows not to press meat on a pan SMH.
Its Wendys my man. These are not quality meats...they are meant for fast cooking. I rarely have fast food like this cause Im always hungry after...theyre so thin all these fast food meats.
So then I found out its cheaper to buy from my "organic" butcher. I get 8oz burger patties for example, real beef for $8 a 4 pack...
Because everyone wants a dry burger
This… and Hot Drinks! The best training videos ever!
Seriously, if companies still made training videos fun and interesting like THIS, I know associates would retain a LOT more of what they’re taught before being thrown to the lions.
How do I know it works?
Because of my old job at Shoprite, and the bagging training video they had for cashiers. The haaaaaam! 🤣
That day, before going to work, Billy was approached by his best friend, Josh. Josh gave Billy some blotter acid.
5:10 "We don't want a broken patty."
6:20 - cuts the patty in half with spatula
Also, Billy didn't rewind the tape after watching it.
I'm guessing that he'll last a week at most.
back in the day(the 80's)we called broken, or burned patties, "chili meat".
Pay attention - it was that manager Mary who pulled the tape. Bill never had a chance...
If he got distracted by a tv with the power turned off he’s not going to survive on the line.
@John R we know who wasn't paying attention to the training tape
@John R 🤣🤣🤣
Dave Thomas woke up in a cold sweat, one evening in 1969, two words reverberating through his mind; grill skills.
Did he find his mind inventing a new form of music when a grill master taught him how to make a smashburger
I come back and watch this when Wendy’s actually makes the burger right, today was one of those days
I just wanna mention that @ 3:35 the audio playing is from Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
Do a shot every time Dave says "old fayshioned."
Alcohol poisoning!
how to turn anyone into a demoman
Mind your bidness
Thats when grill skills guy visits you
I thought I was the only one that kept hearing "faysion"
Meanwhile in the real world, his coworkers look on in horror as he seizes on the floor.
That's what we came for.
What is Dave Thomas thinking about this
Last time bill takes mushrooms before his shift
This video has no business going as hard as it does. Absolutely phenomenal stylin’ and profilin’.
"If you see a dead rat, throw it in too. All of it turns into chili goo."
Lmao
LOL
"But shave that rat first and chop off the tail.
I don't know about you,but I ain't going to jail!" 🎶
@@kevincrisantemi1891 LOL! 🤣🤣
Hey , don't eat my finger. Gimme that dude
"Hey John" "Yeah Billy?" "That's the last time I take LSD before my shift. Shit got weird"
That's exactly what I thought. Designed for stoners - lol.
Hahaha....I've been there done that,its very strange
I’m very high and this made me feel like I fell into a dimensional time sink.
I was today years old when I learned the Wendy’s chili is just all the messes up burgers
This is actually genius. I could man a Wendy's grill tomorrow and serve up a prize-winning tender and juicy fraish old fay-shunned hamburger, the best in the bidness.
Hwell golly gee now that's one mahdy fahn burger
@@terminator572 yeah it's a good thing Dave turned the 'aw shucks' schtick down before he started doing commercials
I guess it's true what they say, cringe is knowledge.
old fayshuned indeed!
Underrated comment
IT'S PATTIED IN SQUARES SO THE MEAT HANGS OVER THE BUN. DUNNO IF WE MENTIONED THAT.
Not so fast, I need to write this down...
What about the old faceond hamburgers?
+Car Car Binks the best in the bidness
AND PEOPLE WILL LIKE THAT
what.. what is off about that sentence i must know o_O
as much as seeing Dave in this resolution sends me back to my youth- I was rocketed back in time when I saw that salad bar in the background. Wendy's was all about that salad bar.
Wish they still did it like this. Those who remember know that Wendys burger tasted WAY better when they did it this old way.
“Try choking up a little on the spatula.”
That’s good advice in any situation.
Lmfao🤡🌭👺
Imagine being a part-timer making ends meet and the goddamn CEO walks up right next to you
Dude this sounds like a panic attack waiting to happen. Yikes! 😱😱😱
Fark him. He's only the CEO. Im in Australia and at my last company (not huge German owned multinational in 60 countries doing 2.6 billion a year) there was a guy trying introduce himself and I was kinda in the middle of something and half ignored him til he made a point of shaking my hand. Later found out he ran the whole of Australia and Asia. 😂
I was going to like this comment, but I'm not so that it stays at 69
Wow, I never see black and white people work at Wendy's anymore. All I've ever seen is Mexicans. The 80s and 90s where definitely a different time I personally miss. I'm sure these employees where never paid to be on the cheesy training video.
“Every burger you cook should be the best in da bin-nes.”
- Dave Thomas Guy
Dave Thomas WAS wendys. From entry level employee to the CEO
And then his Daughter, Wendy herself took over in 2002 after he passed away. She kept Wendys a Great Company throughout in 2000s, and even brought her Xennial Son on board. But then due to the Recession of 2008, P&G decided to sell Wendys to ConAgra Foods, and ConAgra decided in 2010 that the Thomas family shouldn't be running the company, so they fired her in 2010. And its been going downhill since then.
maybe after humanity has destroyed itself and has been lost to the sands of time, whatever sentient creatures that inherit the planet will find this and guide their understanding of the universe.
as it should. America rocked in the eighties.
America rocked indeed🤟
They will be wasting their time trying to invent a TV that sucks you into another reality.
11:30 " Bill....Bill?! ....HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO COME INTO WORK HIGH!?"
Well, it's Bill Burr, so.
I couldn’t understand 1 word Dave Thomas(rest in peace) said, but when the MC made a rap about the secrets of chili, my mind was permanently blown
No lie: when Dave is talking I'm calmed. Anything other than him my anxiety level is over 9000!
"Hi, I'm Dave Thomas, and I was most certainly hammered while making this video!"
chalk full of painkillers while recovering from his fifth triple bypass
He said “Best in the bidness” 😆
Wendyelfashoin hemburger
Lmfao
Damn so chili buckets are a real thing huh 🤔
Now this is a story all about how
My burger got flipped, turned upside down
If you've spare time, just watch this cheese
A 90s instructional video made by Wendy's...
tolchok89 Pure poetry!
In Columbus, Ohio born and raised
Behind the grill is where I spent of my boring work days
Chilling with the druggies with hookers and blow
My manager said “Snorting coke is the way to go!”
Nice
@ATCkeepsUsafe you mean 1981?
Edit: Archive.org says 1989 (see link in video description)
Awesome!!
It's amazing how far Wendy's, and many others, restaurants strayed from what they were famous for.
Sometimes art is crafted. Sometimes it is accidental. This defies both origins and yet is decidedly art.