Wednesday, June 30, 2004

McDonald's lost the Big Mac "secret sauce" recipe

McDonald's secret sauce recipe is supposed to be a closely guarded corporate secret like Coca Cola's secret formula. Apparently like forgotten passwords, the recipe was too secret. McDonald's actually lost the recipe. Over the years they had modified it to cut costs and lost track of the original. How could this happen? Wouldn't you think it would be stored in a safe or archived somewhere? Fortunately Fred Turner, who had worked alongside McDonald's founder Ray Kroc in the company's early days, recalled the name of a California supplier who had helped develop the sauce 36 years ago. The supplier recovered the recipe. Not so secret after all.

Actually, they could have just done a Google search. In two minutes I found this one that claims to be from a 1968 McDonald's Manager's Handbook (36 years ago).
posted by Bob at 6/30/2004 05:55:00 AM  | | digg | del.icio.us | reddit