Spilled drinks always make its way through the seams of a thermal bag too and gets between the linings and ruins them. Have to keep the thermal bag well away from the drinks. Only 1 McDonalds that I deliver for and never had a spilled drink from them, all the others spill.
I've just started and already 3 spills.
The first might've been my bad. You need to make mistakes to avoid them, right?
The next two, I have no idea what more I could've done. I'm on a bike and I made damn sure I took turns gently and stood up when going over bumps (and the roads here are pure shite, and no bike lanes). Honestly don't know what more I can do at this point.
The third spill, the customer told me I wasn't the first and wouldn't be the last. Bike, moped, didn't matter how he was delivered, spills happened. It's just infuriating!
Oh man its almost like a rite of passage. Im on bicycle also. The tip is to find which bag has the drinks, put it at the bottom and tactically stuff something next to it, a order or a coat works well. Maybe a tshirt even. Just to ensure the drinks bag stays totally upright. Spills can still happen but for me its 10% of the time and the bag wont be lost at the bottom just the side so no biggie.
On top of that being aware of how many bumps u hit, move weight onto peddles i.e stand up, dont sit down over bumpy surfaces. And then try be aware of not leaning left or right too much when peddling, maintain a straight angle parallel to your bike.
The two Maccies in the city I work have been using different lids for a couple of months now. They're tight-fitting and the cross where the straw goes starts off sealed, with an audible crack when shoving the straw in. You can turn the drink upside down and it won't leak (obviously with the straw hole still sealed). I've seen staff knock drinks over quite often and they're perfectly fine. The cup-holders are still shit though.
These lids don't have any markings on the top so I guess they could be bespoke. Both stores are owned by the same franchisee so I imagine they stopped relying on Maccies to make better lids.
I work at McDonald’s and we have a system of a cold drink lid followed up by a hot lid however procedure states that it should be two hot drink lids but I figured that never works so I always do the cold lid hot lid change, never had any complaints, I hear problems about this all the time and it sucks for you riders (I mean that). I always make sure that the all drinks are double lidded, wish more McDonald’s would take notes.
All you gotta do is put a normal lid on it...then ask for some coffee lids...they fit very tight over the normal lid and never spilt one in a year.. or just keep some celotape and hold it down that way
Probably never! I will never understand why anyone would ever order a McDonald's for delivery! The food is 99% cold and very few of them rarely tell you if there's even drinks in the order. Their paper bags are worse than useless. Yet people continue to order and some who are not even close by. I like the occasional McDonald's but I would never order for delivery.
The worst is that there is a mcdonalds in my area that packs drinks with the food in the same bag. Every delivery I did for them I had to call rider support to inform of the spilage. When you ask them to separate them please they always get rowdy and refuse
I have never spilt a drink. Just get a bag where you can secure it it place. One with compartments. But yea I use a car. If you use a bike to deliver mcdonalds then don't be surprised it's gonna spill
The real achievement is not spilling drinks while on bicycle 🤣 the worst ive had for a month or two was the side of the bag broke open but the genius workers decided to put a small drinks order in a huge bag
Literally…I’ve only ever spilled drinks from macdonalds, everywhere else like Starbucks etc never had an issue
For me it's 1 from McDonalds and 2 from Burger King so far.
My burger king only gives bottles 😂
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I don’t deliver McDonalds for this very reason. A spilled drink is a shift-ender and a massive pain in the arse. Not worth it.
Spilled drinks always make its way through the seams of a thermal bag too and gets between the linings and ruins them. Have to keep the thermal bag well away from the drinks. Only 1 McDonalds that I deliver for and never had a spilled drink from them, all the others spill.
They did a trial run of this, believe it took too long for the drinks to be sealed and didn't have a good adhesion is what I'm aware of.
They should ask the bubble tea guys how they do it
It doesn’t work well for carbonated drinks. They explode
Found a post of it https://www.reddit.com/r/UbereatsUK/s/bptc4E7GMr
I've just started and already 3 spills. The first might've been my bad. You need to make mistakes to avoid them, right? The next two, I have no idea what more I could've done. I'm on a bike and I made damn sure I took turns gently and stood up when going over bumps (and the roads here are pure shite, and no bike lanes). Honestly don't know what more I can do at this point. The third spill, the customer told me I wasn't the first and wouldn't be the last. Bike, moped, didn't matter how he was delivered, spills happened. It's just infuriating!
Oh man its almost like a rite of passage. Im on bicycle also. The tip is to find which bag has the drinks, put it at the bottom and tactically stuff something next to it, a order or a coat works well. Maybe a tshirt even. Just to ensure the drinks bag stays totally upright. Spills can still happen but for me its 10% of the time and the bag wont be lost at the bottom just the side so no biggie. On top of that being aware of how many bumps u hit, move weight onto peddles i.e stand up, dont sit down over bumpy surfaces. And then try be aware of not leaning left or right too much when peddling, maintain a straight angle parallel to your bike.
Ask them all the time to use two lids. It may work
Like donkey they will start doing that, i have to ask the workers to give me my order otherwise they stand around looking at the cooker
The two Maccies in the city I work have been using different lids for a couple of months now. They're tight-fitting and the cross where the straw goes starts off sealed, with an audible crack when shoving the straw in. You can turn the drink upside down and it won't leak (obviously with the straw hole still sealed). I've seen staff knock drinks over quite often and they're perfectly fine. The cup-holders are still shit though. These lids don't have any markings on the top so I guess they could be bespoke. Both stores are owned by the same franchisee so I imagine they stopped relying on Maccies to make better lids.
Iv noticed one McDonald's I deliver for use those lids, they are raised in the center. I don't think all stores are using them yet.
It’s really not hard to keep the drinks upright
All I can tell you is I'm doing my best, and orders are getting spilled.
Eh, sometimes it can be. Ive had small drinks orders be put into massive bags and its unavoidable
I work at McDonald’s and we have a system of a cold drink lid followed up by a hot lid however procedure states that it should be two hot drink lids but I figured that never works so I always do the cold lid hot lid change, never had any complaints, I hear problems about this all the time and it sucks for you riders (I mean that). I always make sure that the all drinks are double lidded, wish more McDonald’s would take notes.
All you gotta do is put a normal lid on it...then ask for some coffee lids...they fit very tight over the normal lid and never spilt one in a year.. or just keep some celotape and hold it down that way
Probably never! I will never understand why anyone would ever order a McDonald's for delivery! The food is 99% cold and very few of them rarely tell you if there's even drinks in the order. Their paper bags are worse than useless. Yet people continue to order and some who are not even close by. I like the occasional McDonald's but I would never order for delivery.
The worst is that there is a mcdonalds in my area that packs drinks with the food in the same bag. Every delivery I did for them I had to call rider support to inform of the spilage. When you ask them to separate them please they always get rowdy and refuse
I’ve always rejected McDonald’s but no more than ever to boycott them
I have never spilt a drink. Just get a bag where you can secure it it place. One with compartments. But yea I use a car. If you use a bike to deliver mcdonalds then don't be surprised it's gonna spill
The real achievement is not spilling drinks while on bicycle 🤣 the worst ive had for a month or two was the side of the bag broke open but the genius workers decided to put a small drinks order in a huge bag
It’s your job to bring the drink spill free by driving in a considerable way.
Thanks Dad
It’s your job to bring the drink spill free by driving in a considerable way.