How many fast food, so many passions run high about his health hazard.

Probably, as there are fast food, so many passions run high about his health hazard. On TV more than once showed "exposing" the transmission, written more than a dozen books and thousands of articles on the subject.

In turn, representatives of the fast food chains are trying in every way to be rehabilitated by introducing a menu of salads, yogurt and fruit. Publish data on the number of calories and convince their innocence wonderful hamburgers. But recent years have increasingly invites journalists and bloggers on production, so they personally made sure that their buns are the best in the world, and cutlets nothing but 100% no meat.



This time we were invited to an Italian company MARR RUSSIA (in the people - Marussia), which produces 100% all beef patties for McDonald's restaurants in Russia.

MARR RUSSIA - an independent Italian company that supplies a huge variety of products in the fast-food chains, hotels and restaurants Russia.

For McDonald's, they make everything from beef patties for Russian restaurants. Their currently about 251 and they work almost 25 000 people. Farthest - Tyumen and all the cities east until "omakdacheny."

The world's largest McDonald's, until recently, was a restaurant on Pushkin in Moscow. Now it is Europe's largest and most visited in the world in 118 countries, where there is a fast food giant. In Russia the day McDuck is visited by about 900,000 people.

One of the main features of the Russian market - the lack of a franchise to open a restaurant. All snacks are directly owned by the company. In most other countries to open a McDonald's franchise can. We have the same management company fears that the level of service may fall, but the quality will be easy to control.

Central office, where coming up with recipes, located in Munich. In Russia, a huge number of McDonald's suppliers that make them different plants burgers, bread, sauces, grow vegetables, etc. Marine products come from Norway, potato varieties Santana and Innovator - from Poland (supply of 50 thousand tons per year). All this goes to a restaurant and combine the ingredients ... "Free Cash!».

Our excursion to the meat production began with the fact that a representative of the company "Maroussia" said photographing anything - is strictly forbidden. After talks with the director of the company managed to get permission to shoot with the approval of all the pictures.

Security measures here as at a nuclear facility. Everywhere people in suits on the meat itself can be viewed only through the bulletproof glass at gunpoint laser beams.

Before entering the production staff remove all decorations and put in a special mini-safes.



When you think about, now see the place where the produce makdachnye burgers all over the country, imagine the giant halls with dozens of tapes of running with thousands of semi-finished products.

In fact, everything was much more modest than imagined. Everything happens in two main halls. In the first room there are two main installation. One - for the production of minced meat. On two tapes served meat: the first - fresh, made in Russia, for the second - frozen, foreign.



Our meat is very lean cows low-fat (about 8%). Therefore, until the required prescription cutlets 20% fat it is brought foreign, more fat meat. 70% of the meat and 30% bulls - cows. By the way, precisely because of the lean meat, the South Americans think our hamburgers tasteless. And we believe their burgers too smelly for the opposite reason :)

Frozen.



By doing these two tapes, meat is ground and connected into a homogeneous mass in the proportion of 50 \ 50. Here it is waiting for the finished sausage meat inspector.



Minced line up and wait until it will be taken to the next machine, which make him burgers.







The main words in the production - safety and quality. The temperature of the stuffing "pending" should not rise above a certain temperature. This is followed by a special person with at least a special device.





Waiting for their turn, minced loaded into the molding machine, which makes two different thickness burgers.



And ... drumroll! Here they are, burgers for all Russia.



While seemingly miniature production, with the line every day comes out to about 1 million cutlets (about 70 tons)! That completely covers the demand of all Russian fans of fast food from McDonald's. At night, nothing works, all equipment is checked and cleaned.

On the production line are two of the detector, which implies that the meat in something that is not horrible.

All burgers pass through freezing and appear in the next room, where they are packing in special boxes.



Thick and thin.





Specially trained people in spacesuits monitor the process.

It is worth a decent noise and therefore all headphones with antennas. Iron machine men in white suits, bright red meat, antenna on his head - in general, it is still a spectacle :)





Boxes for hamburgers served from a separate room.

Other machines all completely packed and sent for shipment.





And of course looked into the lab, where it is constantly checks the quality of the meat.





In general, the process is of course incredibly simple. Salted meat and peppers are already "on the ground". On the assurances of employees McDonald's nothing in it is no longer added.

By the way, told me that in a bun as much sugar as in a piece of cake. This is done in order to when baked crust was formed and there was a need splendor.