McDs reopened and massive queues

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Between my parents and my homes there is a McDs which reopened the other day after 7 weeks of being refurbished. I normally take the shortest route - a mile and a quarter. Due to the massive queues to the drive thru, I have to take the longer route which is double.

Have no idea why people are going to this McDs when they could have gone to the other 5 McDs within 5 miles in all directions in the meantime - it’s the same bloody food!

When McDs started to reopen their drive thrus in sections in early summer 2020, the nearest one in the first phase was 52 miles away. I do litter wombling (litter picking) and a fellow womble found a receipt from this McDs on the first day of reopening. So this pathetic saddo drove 104 mile round trip to get a burger from the very limited menu.

What’s this bloody fascination with McDs? It’s mediocre food. I only visited McDs when I go with my fussy eater friends. Another time my flight home was delayed by 3 hours and then took 2 hours waiting to get luggage. It was about 2am and bloody starving and that time of day the only thing open is McDs.

I can see the appeal when they were all closed and a select few reopened after lockdown; people crave some non-obvious things when their options have been limited for a long time and it's usually comfort food that's top of the list, not necessarily the "best" food. And you must admit you can't really make McDonald's food at home. It could also have been a treat for children or something the family did together pre-lockdown and they were desperate to start getting back to normal.

Same near me they queue up around the roundabout plus its next to a race course, so on race days the roads pretty much at a standstill.

"it's mediocre but reliably mediocre" this cracked me up so much 😂

Why are you driving a mile and a quarter to your parents house? It’s a 20 min walk which would not be affected by a McDonald’s drive through

@johann12

Do you buy just the buns from McDonald’s?
I may try that.

@Bumblebun No, it would cost the price of the burger I think

Brilliant 👏 👏

"Unfortunately I had to drive 50 miles to get to my nearest open McDonald's. C'est La vie! On the way back I passed this pathetic saddo (and lazy to boot!) driving a journey that would take twenty minutes to walk?! What on earth are these people (sorry wombles) thinking?"

Mogwais · Today 00:32

Gosforth Park?

Mcdonald's do have litter pickers, it's just that there's only so much you can do against some of their customers who think it's acceptable to drop litter.

I'd like the MN whataboutery collective to justify litter dropping because unless you have no arms, no home or and no car then there's no excuse to not hold onto the litter until you see a bin.

It's not whst I like to eat, but post lockdown people did all manor of strange things, everyone was bored with nothing to do so maybe they did travel 50 miles to get out. Maybe it was a late teen desperate to do something, maybe it was some other reason.

Frankly if it made that person happy well good for them. In saying that it's a shame the receipt ended up blowing around rather than in a bin.

I might just as well post on the internet to express my bafflement and superiority about someone regularly driving such a short distance. Even if you are in fact Great Uncle Bulgaria.

When McDonalds first opened up in England, the nearest one to us was in the centre if Milton Keynes, over 40 miles from home. We made the trip a fair few times. Wouldn’t bother now though, we only use McD about once a year and we have one a mike away.

Oh, and our local one does deploy litter pickers.

Price. I was driving back from holiday yesterday and desperate for a coffee en route. There was a Starbucks selling coffee for £4 or a maccys selling a sausage and egg mcmuffin plus a coffee for £2.79. Guess which I chose.

It's the cheapest option these days especially the saver menu and deals. In a world of ever increasing prices for food/ drink out.

I get that some people don't like McDs. I get that some people think the food is crap.

I don't get ehy some people feel the need to post about it. If you don't like it, don't go.

I feel many of the anti-McD post are just from snobs posting their faux-outrage hoping that somebody will tell them that the people who eat their are scum.

Maccy Ds isn't the problem.

Their business structure is.

A drive thru use to be that.

Now it's a drive thru slowly whilst we deal with all the just eat orders and then when you've ordered sit and wait in queue or the designated waiting bay for your food whilst we serve delivery customers.

I waited 30 minutes in a car Karl once got a plain Big Mac and chips!

They've increased their output but not their ability to cope with it.

Good on that worker

"How the food never ‘went off’ vs other fresh food"

I remember the photos of big mac vs burger experiments, where the burgers were placed under glass domes to see if they went mouldy.

I think that might just be a reflection of how clean McDonald's food is compared to the local kebab shop.

Sometimes I have something heavy to give/collect from or visiting them on the way to/from somewhere

When McDs started to reopen their drive thrus in sections in early summer 2020, the nearest one in the first phase was 52 miles away. I do litter wombling (litter picking) and a fellow womble found a receipt from this McDs on the first day of reopening. So this pathetic saddo drove 104 mile round trip to get a burger from the very limited menu

There are numerous reasons why a receipt for a McDonald’s is found floating about 50 odd miles from where purchased, but even if someone did drive 50 odd miles for a McDonald’s, so what ?
Why would that bother you ?
People were bored senseless during lockdown and after being restricted to 5kms or whatever, people went a bit nuts once the world started to reopen.

I queued for an hour for a curry during lockdown.
In hindsight ye probably a daft thing to do but it was a weird time and Its not like I’d anything else to do.

Next time you come to a McDs with others. Do this. You both order the same food. One orders from drive thru and the other on order touchscreen.

90% of the time the one that orders from inside the branch gets their order first

And we don’t know if this person drove all the way to McD or was doing something else in that town.

I really want a Big Mac meal with strawberry milkshake and an apple pie now.

The answers to why people like and enjoy something to eat you don’t is the same as anything else - everyone, and everyone’s circumstances, are different. No need to be sanctimonious.