I used to be a manager for McDonald's. HBO means "Hand Bag Out". The goal is to have the bag hanging out the 2nd window before the customer makes it to it. The thing that has "total" on it, it is a timer for the team to basically time how long it takes from the customer first ordering to when the customer picks up the food at the second window. When I was working for them it was 90 seconds or less. The things hanging off the roof in the kitchen area are plugs/outlets. You would have to switch out certain appliances from breakfast to lunch/dinner and vise versa. McDonald's does test the color of the oil. Chicken, Fries, and Fish are all cooked in a different "vats". If the oil is darker than what the test shows, it is time to change it.

This interior brings back a lot of memories. I worked for a McDonald's in high school that still had this vintage design. It opened in 1997 but didn't fully renovate until a few years ago and now it looks like every other location. McDonald's typically updates their interiors once a decade from what I'm told. I guess the owners of our local franchise left that one behind. Still, I appreciate the vintage look!

Each abandon place tells a story. I've always hated history growing up during school. I wish I payed attention back then. Because history is amazing 👏 ✨️

That is so neat. I use to work at a McDonald back in 2001. I remember it being somewhat like this. I'm from Texas and we did not have a basement in our Mcdonalds lol. H.B.O. stood for hand bag out . The oil thing on the fryers is to check the oil....if the oil is dark then it needs to be changed out. It's been about 14 years since I have worked at Mcdonalds but still remember a lot about that place lol

So the total thing is how long it takes to push someone through drive-thru, you have to meet certain goals. In the basement was the break room that you were looking at the schedule board. The long corridor that had the safe most likely would have been an office because that is where they would keep the safe. The oil plunger was to test the quality of the fryer oil to make sure it still looks good enough to cook in. You have to filter the fryer oil often to get that perfect golden color on fried foods. Those things hanging were most likely outlets to plug in the bun warmer, cold table and other large machinery that was on the assembly line, where you would assemble the burgers. Just fyi, I love how young you guys are and how you call everything vintage, makes me feel old lol. good work.

I just happened to stumble on this in the suggestions. And it immediately made me think "gosh, like the one my family used to go to". My heart skipped a beat when I realized the one in the video is the *very same* one! This was just such a shock because it still really doesn't make sense to me why they closed it, as the new location is just in the worst place imaginable: a parking lot of a supermarket (that has also since closed (edit: the supermarket, not the 2nd McDonald's)). Furthermore, this place has a lot more sentimental value for my dad. This was one of the first McDonald's restaurants to open in New Jersey. Going here, as a kid in the '60s, was a treat for him. Later, when he was in High School, this place was just right across the street from the High School. So he'd just walk across and go have lunch with his friends and some of his teachers. To see it the way it is is just a shame. But I'm kind of glad that even when it's abandoned, you know what it was before. As opposed to the current theme of taking away the eye-catching design of older Fast Food places and "modernizing" the exterior & interiors. Namely, just making them all look the same beyond the logos. It's kind of heartbreaking, but I hope for however long it will be, this place stays up.

Oh man. The feels on this. I'm from this town, I remember going here for lunch back in high-school across the street. I skated all the time in the parking lot. The carnivals across in b the park. The memories are a big staple here. Wow has times changed.

Wow this a classic building! I love it when buildings like these have aesthetics. They don’t build them like that anymore. Great video.

Great Job! Being a child of the 90s myself, I still prefer the old look of McDonalds, it brings back a lot of memories. Ronald, Hamburglar, Birdie, Grimmace all that todays kids no longer know.

This is just so cool thank u for showing us all these amazing places! I use to work at McDonald’s last year and yeah this McDonald’s is oldddd!

This just makes me really sad to see such a wonderful place just abandoned.

Cool video guys! Reminds me of the old buildings where I grew up! Keep up the good work!

The McDonald’s I worked at back in my high school year 2000-2002 in Alabama, ours looked exactly like this. We also had a basement, that’s where our break room and storage was. The door you’re talking about at the stairs, it comes down flat so when the truck delivered the stuff they can slide everything down. It was easier than walking up and down the stairs lol thank you for bringing back so many good memories.

Oh the memories 😂 I didn't work that exact location but like 20 years ago worked one built just like it except the Playland was fully outside and not covered. The "door" over the basement stairs is a ramp for sending down inventory. They were very slippery. My best friend broke her leg trying to walk down the ramp once. The one I worked out was torn down a few years ago and a modern one (without a basement 😔) was built in its place. Thanks for the memory booster. Now find a Taco Bell untouched since the late 90s/early 00s. ✌️

Very cool, I'd love to explore an abandoned fast food place! I worked at a McDonald's in the late 90s (during the beanie baby craze)...I don't know if it's consistent with all McD's, but our fry maker was called Herman. Cool they had the basement, too. Thanks for sharing, as far as this video goes; I'm lovin it! 👍😁

H.B.O is an acronym for Holding Bag Out. A well running drive thru should have the food out the window before your wheels stop rolling. The hallway between the drivethrus was a manager office. The basement would have had the walk in freezer, dry storage and the employee break area. The door over the basement steps was for when deliveries came. You would cover the steps and turn it into a slide to get products down. The orange, yellow, blue caps hanging from the ceiling are connectors for the electrical for equipment. The oil tester near the end was determining when oil needs to be changed. 11 year mcds manager here. 1997-2008

The timer is for drivethru times… when you hear the ding to notify you when the customer is there. It basically times you for how long the customer is in the drivethru. The lower the time, the happier your manager was. I didn’t work for McDonalds, but for Wendy’s.. Every fast food drivethru has one.

I've never worked at one that had that hallway connecting drive thru booths. BUT my first thought was that was where they kept the safe, and managers would have a small desk there where they could do cash, floats, book off book etc. It's like a mini office separate from the main office, it's main task is for counting tills, setting up tills, and making change from the safe like if a till runs out of small bills or change, or a customer pays with a 100$ bill, we don't often have enough change to break that in the tills. I actually love the idea of this separate hallway. Also the 10-15 seconds is first response. People shouldn't just be sitting waiting to talk. Entire order from start to finish is around 2 min as goal. Longer is ok for bigger orders, but we want to be as quick as possible.

OK so the BLD in the drive thru window number 1 is the way to change the drive thru menu board. You press the button and it flips around to the different menus. The number thing above it is a drive thru timer to keep track of how long it takes to do orders. Most older stores that had 2 windows would have the narrow office area to count drawers and for management stuff. The wires in the grill area that are blue and yellow with the caps are power outlets for equipment. Certain colors go to certain equipment. The cap is on there for safety. You are correct about the fry oil test kit. The coffee stirrer your found is the 2nd generation ones. The very first ones were like those but instead of being flat at the tip , it would be a mini spoon. Due to the use of snorting coke with them , McDonalds then changed it to the paddle ones. Since they still were being used for coke, the drug, they changed to just a wood stick. The last time that store was updated was prob in the 80s when McDs did a huge remodel on most of them due to the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid NY. The rose , tan, brown and blue for the inside was the theme. Outside turned to red, white and yellow. Most stores do not have a basement but if they do , it was usually used for dry good storage and a employee breakroom. I worked for McDonalds for 7 years and traveled for the company so I have seen a ton of these stores. Any questions you might have just ask me here and I will let you know about it.

I saw a post about this on TikTok. It was on my FYP. Awesome. Thank-you. 🙏🏼 May God Bless you two.

I remember this kind of McDonald's . They were in Iowa & Missouri . I can't believe you found one so complete. Loved this video.

I just came across your channel on TikTok I don’t regret it vintage is what I love

The things hanging from the ceiling are outlets for different refrigerators, toasters, microwaves, etc. Also McDonald’s doesn’t have basements anymore. Most older buildings (including ones that were remodeled) have basements. If a McDonald’s was rebuilt it did not have a basement.

The thing hanging above the basement is a slide for boxes for storage. It’s safer and faster sliding them down than carrying. Not all Macdonalds have a basement but many of the older ones do.

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even tho this is abandoned... this unlock a whole koy of memories and nostalgia

So way back in 99-00 I worked at a local McDonald's, had almost a similar setup. The two drive through windows was for ordering and paying at the first window and getting your order at the second window. The premise was that by the time you paid for the food and got to the second window, your food would be really close to being completed and your wait would be short. McDonald's shot themselves in the foot shortly fter I left when they expanded their menu with the start of McCafe, and the rest of their menu additions. Then going 24 hours...not having a set time to clean the machine during closing of course the machines are "down" a lot.

Very nice these old style locations are a rare find!

That room with the safe is definitely a managers office. I work there and we got the same thing. The sign that says total at back booth, my best guess would be it’s must be for how many cars they did for the hour

The basements were common in older locations (like 30 years +). There was one in the Kelowna, BC location and it’s where the owner’s office, storage, and break room / training room were. Seemed like a fire trap!

Hey guys just watched video great job. The basement was where the break room was for crew members. That was also storage they would put the slide down and send boxes down the slide. Then the space between. the drive through was the office for managers. The cords hanging from roof in the kitchen was outlets for the equipment they needed.

Having worked fast food i can chime in on a few things. 1. HBO stands for Hand Bag Out, often what drive-ups will do is try and just take the bag off the drive window counter and hand them the money, instead of what we're told to do and hand it to them personally. 2. Total sign. That is a clock that times how long it takes the person at the drive through to get the order recited, condiments and straws and such into the bag and then hand it over to the customer. 3. Sprayer Nozzles. Those are there in case there is ever an oil spill or some other mess that needs to be hosed down to clean or even at the end of night, to help clean the floors up. Most places now just have a faucet and tiled "shower" station for it rather than those that hang from the ceiling. 4. The basement looks like that small room might've been a supply closet, while the room with the board is likely a break room /managers office.

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Seeing that White Castle apron made me LOL!

Hey! I have worked at McDonald's for over 10 years, started as crew member, and now I am a Market Supervisor and oversee 4 McDonald's in Canada! H.B.O Stands for "Hand Bag Out" The standards we use for speed of service is called "O.E.P.E" Order End Present End We have a goal of 15 seconds at the speaker 15 seconds of payment And if we don't have your order ready to present to you in 10 seconds, we pull it. The door thing you sae down in the basement is not actually a door, but a plank that would be used to slide Boxes. Most locations don't have basements, and new ones are not made with them What you found hanging in the kitchen were special outlets we use for our toasters and UHC cabinets UHC Universal Heating Cabinet Earlier you saw ADB Hasbrowns That Stands for All Day Breakfast The thing you found on the grill hood was an oil test kit When you would use the middle piece to collect oil, you would then place it in the middle to compare to the colors of the oil. If it was Darker it needed to be changed, if it was lighter it could stay

The "caps" are electronic "plug-ins" for the dairy products (McFlurry machine) The tubes are oil quality testers - we didn't have computer monitoring then. In the 90's- everything changed to computer operations that this building could NOT be updated to; so they had to close it.

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The oil thing u take the oil from the fryer before it gets filtered if it matches the light oil u can filter the oil and if it matches the dark oil then its time for new oil

I used to have my birthdays at that exact McDonald's location in Middlesex Boro as a kid. I have lots of fond memories of that location. My grandpa used to take me there all of the time back in the 1980s and 1990s. Sad to see it closed. Wish I got to go there one last time before they moved up the road.

So cool seeing the old McDonald's merchandise. I remember the monopoly pull offs.

That long hallway with the safe would’ve been the office most likely. The basement is the crew room for breaks ects. The blue and yellow caps are outlets for all the machinery, they got that in every McDonald’s. Everything else I’ve never seen in a McDonald’s so i can’t even say anything on that lol

Old mcdonalds worker here, that mcdonalds is probs from 80s or 90s, but mcdonalds buildings dont have basments anymore also the big thing hanging are plugs for the grills and bun toaster.

You guys will be able to get any job now in McDonald’s as you know all the inside cooking times etc 😂 great video btw!

Wow this is so cool . So crazy how times have changed .

Thanks for the inner Macdonald's reveal. Well done. Very interesting. Mold in the basement would be enough to make them change locations. 👍

I don’t work in McDonald’s, but in the hotel I work for, those blue chords hanging from the ceiling are used for powering electronics that need a large amount of power, like a cooker or food heater or something :)

This was so cool. Thank you

Okay the HBO stands for hand bag out. The place in the basement was.more than likely the crew room / storage area. Those things hanging are plug ins for things like freezers, fish bun steamer, bun toasters etc. Yes they want you to be that fast in the window. The ADB hasbrowns and stuff stand for All Day Breakfast when you asked what that thing is it checks to see if the oil is still usable or not so you are correct on that. Lol any other questions about mcdonalds I got you worked there for over 15 years now in many different restaurants including old style ones like this.

Wow.. This is an old One.. Lol but First that .Apron. Someone didn't want to pay for a new one so they brought there own to use. And Hbo is code for Hand Bags Out. The long tube things from the ceiling are power Cords.. They hooked up the Bun toasters with. Thanks for sharing. This my first v8deo I've seen buy u guy's 👍

It's so weird and kinda creepy to see a abandoned McDonald's.

person: hey can l get ice cream? worker: sorry our ice cream maker is broken come back person: ok! [5 years later] l'm still waiting :|

All those time, guides, measurements, and whatnot. McDonalds is VERY precise with what they do. As corporate as they are, I do admire some of their efficiency. If you ever saw S Patula's videos of working at McDonalds, you understand what goes into it. Efficiency, cleanliness, and the like. ...Now I'm hankering for a Big Mac....

Also guys be safe sometimes places will abandon their original buildings for asbestos. It's expensive to remove so a lot of people rather just build elsewhere.

Some McDonald’s have basements not all… btw that hallway connecting the drive thru most likely is the Office because of the money safe I work in a McDonald’s those things are heavy so I doubt it was moved newer McDonald’s don’t have the office near the drive thru

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Legend says the ice cream machine Is still Broken to this day

I was in one yesterday and looked at the screens now it is basically a competition with the other locations in the area on who is the fastest and who gets the most orders a hour. All those results go directly to HR and if it is in the red they will come out and see what is wrong. My grandma told me this she worked in the fast food/restaurant Industry for years as manager

This is pretty much how I remember McD's. Now it's depressing. It used to be bright and colorful. Ours had the Playland outside and a birthday room with a talking tree. And one drive through window.

I work for a mc Donalds.. the timer in the drive thru is the total seconds, hbo( hand bag out) but it’s pretty awesome guys

The basement is where the freezer/refrigerator units were. Also the dry stock mop station breakroom. Leastways thats what it was at the McDonald's in South Lake Tahoe Ca all those years ago when i worked there.

H.B.O is hand bag out :)

HBO - Have Bag Out. The time is total drive thru time. That basement looks like the break room. We didn't have one but that would be it. The hanging things are plugs for equipment (holding bays, toasters). The one you're in looks like it transitioned to the "cook to order" before it closed. It has seen the "holding bin" where there were rows of pre-made sandwiches in a warming bin to the "made to order" where each sandwich was made as it was ordered though meat/chicken/etc were cooked and held in tray cabinets to "cook to order" which is what it is now, wvery thing cooked when ordered. This looks just like the store I worked in in the mid 90s. That drive thru hallway brings back many many memories 🤣

1970s McDonald's at least the one I worked as a teen had a basement. It included a tiny break room for employees. Also had all the big fountain drink syrups across the hall. Basement covered maybe half the restaurant size. Back then syrups were in tall aluminium containers, also we were still wrapping bugers in paper as well as using the foam containers for larger sandwiches.

Reminds me of when I worked at McDonald's as a teenager. Ours didn't have a basement tho. I miss the old style ones.

Hanging from ceiling in kitchen are outlet plugs for equipment

I'm sure someone will have already answered somewhere in the comments. But those blue and red things hanging from the ceiling are where the toasters and other equipment would have been plugged into.

The oil dropper thing at 11:20, is to check to see when to change the fryer oil the chicken in fish is the reference to compare the oil to to see if it needs to be changed for quality of product 😊

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Those blue and yellow things hanging from the ceiling are plug inside for equipment like heated tables and toaster and heated cabinets to keep extra food in when busy

The thing blue and red on the ceiling seems to be industrial power outlets (example for kitchen hardware such as oven, frier and other stuff. In Italy blue mean mono-phase, red tri-phase. Orange and green means power under 48volt)

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Wow.. no way.. I remember this style T-T Childhood memories man..

Welcome to the McDonald's of the late 90s. I miss that! My childhood... The plugs are 220 plug ins. The eye dropper with oil is when to change the oil.

Those big huge things that were hanging in the air are power cords for the bun toaster, fish steamers, ect.. Never see a drink dispenser like that before

The hall between the drive thru windows would sometimes be used as a manager space...that hall is typically not in the newer buildings

Love the video and just now finding you guys. I’m curious though…how do you not get in trouble for exploring these buildings?

It’s quite similar to the Uk I worked in McDonald’s in 2000 and I recognise the timers near the chicken vat space. Each button was for different thing. One hand wash another cloth changes one was for 4 hourly cleaning of equipment etc. the vats themselves were alcoves and had individual timers on each vat. HBO wasn’t terminology in England it was just an overall experience time of 300 seconds

The door thing by the basement stairs is actually a slide or ramp, so they can move supplies to the basement quickly.

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Those hangy cap things were the power cords to the various appliances like grills, fryers and holding cabinets

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Wow I’ve been going to Mc Donald’s for so long I never knew this is how it looked like!

I think those hoses with the cap things you were taking about are the hoses that attach to containers of syrup for the soda machine.

Basement was storage area. That store was built in the 50’s or 60’s. What you called the weird door was the slide to slide the boxes into the basement. That store had been remodeled. That was why the hallway between drive thru windows. That area was used for storage. Things hanging were electrical cord connections not sprayers. Just to fill in some of your questions.

Depended on the location if they had a basement or not. The "Door" was likely a gravity fed roller conveyor to get their stock downstairs. that room down there was likely the crew break room and office. H.B.O. sticker in the Drive-Thru was likely "Hand Bag Out". Don't forget, most McD's are privately owned franchises so most of the decorating was up to the owners. the White Castle apron might have been extra stock from a White Castle location that the same owners had that they stitched the pocket over so it could be used

The present target is 10-15 seconds to get people out of that window! HBO stands for hang. Bag. Out. Hang food out the window to keep the wheels rolling 😊

So I work at McDonald's in Smithfield Utah those blue and yellow capped wires u were playing with those are power connectors u connect them to the bun toaster and bun steamer.

8:30 that’s for connecting plugs to the machines and stuff

that mcdonalds looks like it was something else with those artistic wallpaper

That skinny room with the safe is the office, also where they kept all the head sets to charge and security camera screens. The stinky room with the coat racks is the employee break room

The "door" at the stairs isn't a door. It's a fold-over ramp used for when they get their supply truck delivery. Instead of walking heavy items down the stairs, they lay over the ramp and slide the items downstairs. The hoses you asked about look like fire-prevention devices. They were usually over the grills. If they caught fire, flame retarding powder would come out and extinguish the flames.

Those blue and yellow that are hanging down from ceiling are power supply for equipments.

I work at a McDonalds and our basement has a similar cover for the stairs. Never seen it used though.

I use to work at a McDonald's with a basement, where there was a manager's office , employees bathrooms, and breakroom.

The door looking thing on the basement stairs is for when they got a delivery they would slide down the boxes so they didn't have to walk up and down the stairs ( I worked in one in Canada that has the same thing)

I've seen that wallpaper trim in some McDonald's before. I can't remember where, and it was rare, but I agree, it WAS weird lol. Also, you were in a pretty old McDonald's because basements in them were rare. I only worked at one that had a basement, and I think it was the only one that bad one in the area I lived in. Down there was where we took our breaks and kept the bun racks.

Must be nostalgic for workers who work at the new one to drive past the old one they used to work at

H.B.O Hand Bag Out👍👍 and those are electronic plug in for the tables in the grill area,bun toaster etc and that is to make sure the oil matches up in the fryers :)

This looks like some of the current open mcdonalds. They can't find enough staff to clean it properly.