8 Strange Lessons Learned From ’80s Fast Food Training Videos

Chain restaurants like to keep some mystery about them to protect their signature recipes. (Who hasn’t tried to guess what’s in McDonald’s secret sauce?) We learn in this 1988 Pizza Hut training video that the special touch on these pies is, apparently, fairy dust, which “magically transforms our ingredients into the perfect Pizza Hut pizza.” The brief description of what the shaker of “fairy dust” actually contains remains vague, even while training employees: it’s described only as “a careful blend of cheese and spice.” Even the written instructions on the spec chart list “fairy dust” as the ingredient. We can only assume Tinker Bell consulted on the Pizza Hut manual.