Raw Burgers at McDonald's: Is it Time for Robots to Make Our Food?

Listen up, Louisiana, Texas, and every sorry soul still brave enough to hit a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Year of Our Lord 2025: I just paid fifteen American dollars for two raw-as-hell Quarter Pounders that looked like they lost a fight with a microwave and then got served anyway.

Pink in the middle. Cold. Squishy. The kind of raw that makes vampires say, “Bro, cook that thing.” TWO of them. Not a fluke. Not “one slipped through.” This was a deliberate act of culinary terrorism executed by a crew that clearly thinks “medium rare” is a personality trait.

And before any corporate bootlicker slides into the comments with the tired “they’re just kids making minimum wage” excuse: shut your lying mouth. These people are pulling in $7.50 - 13/hr in Baton Rouge right now. That’s more than half the paralegals, and preschool teachers I know.

This isn’t about pay. This is about pride, training, and basic human decency being extinct at the golden arches.

Gone are the days when a manager would’ve seen that pink hockey puck, screamed “DROP EVERYTHING AND RECOOK THE WHOLE LINE,” and personally walked the new burgers to your car with an apology and six free apple pies. Now? The manager’s in the back making dance videos while the headset kid hands you salmonella like it’s a party favor.

This isn’t a staffing problem.

This is a standards problem.

This is a “nobody gets fired anymore” problem.

This is a “we’ll just put another NOW HIRING sign out tomorrow” problem.

Two raw burgers.

Two chances to catch it.

Zero cares given.

So here’s the new rule, McDonald’s corporate:

Every time you serve raw meat in 2025, you owe that customer a year of free food and the employee who did it gets marched out the door on TikTok live so the rest of the crew learns what consequences feel like.Until then? Automate the whole damn thing.

I’d rather have a robot that cooks every patty to a perfect 165° every single time than pay $18/hr for Russian-roulette ground beef.I’m done.

We’re all done.

Two raw burgers was the last straw.

For the record, to the person screaming about suing for recording them that you can't hear in the background, Louisiana is a one-party consent state.

Drop your raw-burger receipts below. Let’s make this trend so hard they have to bring back cooking.#TwoRawBurgers2025 #AutomateOrDie #WecuMedia