Now THAT’S McValue! Friends score a free McDonald’s burger by tricking the self-serve computer using a little-known hack
- The friends select 10 hamburgers and then remove beef patties from them
- This takes $1.10 taken off of each, leaving the whole order with a $0 balance
- The screen says ‘no payment required’ and a receipt with their order prints out
A little-known hack that can get you free Maccas been doing the rounds online, and now it’s been put to the test.
But hopefully all you’re craving is hamburgers, and lots of them.
Using the self-service screens at McDonald’s, customers need to select 10 hamburgers, and then remove the beef patties from all of them.
Then, before clicking take away, customers just need to add a regular hamburger – without removing the patty – and click the take away option for checkout.
Removing the meat from the 10 burgers discounts each meal by $1.10 – providing the customers with a surplus that covers the cost of the additional regular burger.
Upon collecting your order from the front counter, staff are unaware that what you’re picking up hasn’t actually been paid for.
Two friends demonstrated the trick on a self-serve screen in a video posted to Reddit on Sunday.
The pair can be seen ordering 10 patty-less $1 burgers, as well as a regular $1 hamburger for a grand total of $0.
Removing the meat from the 10 burgers discounts each meal by $1.10 – providing the customers with a surplus that covers the cost of the additional regular burger.
After the friends request to check out, the computer confirms there is ‘no payment required’ and prints out a receipt and order number for the delighted customers.
The customers were then left with 10 patty-less burgers with the usual fillings, and one regular burger that had beef on it.
Reddit users were left divided over whether the hack was an ingenious way of eating for free, or a complete waste of food.
‘May I suggest if you go to Maccas and order a hamburger with nothing in it, you’re a bit of a tosser,’ one user wrote.
The pair can be seen ordering 10 patty-less $1 burgers, as well as a regular $1 hamburger for a grand total of $0
‘I’m all for exploiting loopholes and sticking it to the man or whatever, but I’m not a fan of wasting food. I hope you’re going to eat all those buns.’
‘At the end of the day though, you only wanted the real cheeseburger. That’s a lot of effort to save $1,’ another user pointed out.
Other social media users warned against trying out the self-service hack in full view of security cameras.
‘Personally, I’d advise against trying to rip-off a multinational on its own premises under the full view of CCTV.’
After the friends request to check out, the computer confirms there is ‘no payment required’ and prints out a receipt and order number for the delighted customers