to think McDonald's have lost the main idea of "fast food"

[urwildquoter24]

It's not even fast anymore. It takes at least 15 minutes on a good day to get food, and on a bad day even longer. The drive-thru is even worse, I was in there last weekend and there were three cars in front of me and took half an hour to get my food and go.

I haven't even seen McDonald's do anything particularly creative recently. They're just bringing back old things and the food really doesn't look anything like in there adverts (which we established years ago)

And don't start about the new Happy Meal toys!!!

McDonald's is basically where fast food started, and now I think it's lost it a bit.

I mean, it's only the same if I go to the drive thru and drive it home myself.

Don't eat McDs 🤷🏻‍♀️

Totally agree.

The normal sauces? They just hand them to me when I ask for them.

I'm boycotting McDonalds as they're supporting soldiers who are committing war crimes by giving out free meals to all the soldiers.

Hang on there Inspector Morse, finding a receipt from 53 miles away doesn't prove anyone made a round trip there.

Well just shows millions disagree with you.

Found the day after the McDs reopened the first 60-70 drive thrus 53 miles away - smacks a saddo imo

It's because they're so focused on Deliveroo/ just eat orders. The customer standing in front of them isn't important anymore. Have noticed this in loads of places.

@WhatsTheUseOfWorrying "the dreary ‘60s ex-hippies plus some younger new ager fools"??? What?!

How do you know the person wasn't passing by anyway?

Is it not "pretty sad and pathetic" to drive the long way to your parents' when they live a 10 minute walk away?

It smacks a saddo imo to sit in judgement because someone found a McDonald's receipt and assumes the person who ate it drove 106 miles to get it when you don't know if they did!!

And how do you know it's "mediocre" if you don't eat there?

I don't like it anymore but that's based on personal experience!

S’true. The ‘healthy’ restaurants and organic food shops round me are full of chunky sweater-wearing ex-hippies and smelly looking new age types. There are some younger mums with small children in those places; but they always grow out of it (or their children do) soon enough.

There not it was an April fools joke. Not a funny one 😡😭

I have to jump on the moanfest wagon and add:

1. The cardboard knife & fork for their salads fills me with rage. Utterly useless and leave me feeling as sad as their salad looks…
2. The milkshake/mcflurry machine never seems to be working (I hear this is often a ruse as they can’t be bothered to clean it?)

I think the issue is uber eats! They can't keep up with drive thru, deliveries and sit in customers all at once. Our local one is really slow and their systems also go down a lot! I've waited in the drive thru for 20 mins before and inside for 30 mins.

Oh FFS. I was on your side @urwildquoter24 But now you have just admitted you have Maccies food DELIVERED! YOU are part of the reason that the service is so slow in the restaurant! 😫

The irony is deafening!

To be fair, I'd have wanted there to be separate "ghost kitchens" for McDonald's, and for the restaurants to go back to how they were around 7/8 years, before they started offering delivery.

I can understand that McDonald's restaurants are juggling eat-in, drive-through and delivery, but they can't just prioritise delivery and think everything else doesn't matter.

But I haven't had a McDonald's delivered in over three/four years. I rest my case.

@urwildquoter24

Oh come on! 😆 That's a VERY poor attempt at back-peddling 1/10!

You have started a thread whining about McDonalds being slow at serving in the restaurant, and drive-thru (which they often are now because of the delivery service they now provide,) and then gone on to admit you have deliveries!

You said at 18.40 today

"When I get it delivered, it's usually lukewarm."

Present tense... 'WHEN I GET IT DELIVERED.' You did not say 'when I USED to get it delivered 3-4 years ago!' 😆

As I said, poor attempt at back peddling!

Like I said before - you complain about slow service in the restaurant and the drive-thru, and yet YOU are part of the problem with the slow service. Don't try and pretend you haven't had a delivery for 3-4 years now, to try and back out of what you said. 😂

You have dropped yourself right in it mate. You have not 'rested any case.' Just proven yourself to be a massive hypocrite!

Not where I live!!

You should try it - being bone idle fucking rocks!

Not with Mickey D's though. The food is always cold and tastes of nothing.

Random digression: when did "park" become "park up"?

McD in here in Japan is generally agreed to be much better - although I don't go often enough to really judge. I did have some french fries recently and they were hot and fresh.

Drive through is a thing in the suburbs and rural areas, you won't see it in the central urban areas though. We do get the annoying Uber Eats people hanging around, although at least they use bikes to deliver.

No issue with either of the ones by us in terms of time, was in our most local one at the weekend and it took 5-10 minutes for a large order for 5 people including mcflurries, which seems reasonable

Occasionally we have a missed item, most often when we use the drive thru, but we always park up to eat anyway so we just pop in or go round again if the drive thru is quiet and they always sort it (and don't even ask for proof which is surprising)

I remember when i was a kid, a trip to macdonald back then was a big thing, still have some happy meal toys! The one in the pic is my favourite, comparing to what you get now? Ridiculous.