Appalled by fast food customer laziness

[Beautifulweeds]

Just that really. Taking DC out for a treat and sitting in, every time I've been shocked at how 'diners' leaves their tables. Just this evening, 3 teenagers left everything a mess on their table when there was a bin clearly labelled just 3 feet away from them. Another table, a big family with young kids, left their waste strewn on the table, chairs and all over the floor, others as well, they were just who we sat next to. It was the way they didn't even acknowledge it, just sauntered off looking at their phones, absolutely no thoughts to it.

Meanwhile the place was clearly short staffed and the workers were run off their feet, people shouting when is my order, getting huffy, rude and complaining. Yes I know it's fast food and they were doing their best and pretty well.

I was sat with our DC, patiently waiting, not a big deal, then cleared up every bit of waste and mopped up any spillage.

Surely this is just common decency, takes seconds to tidy, teach kids to put it in the bin, have some respect.

Rant over, just felt the need to get it off my chest. So many lazy, entitled and rude people everywhere.

I do clear up, but sometimes feel a bit daft when there is nowhere obvious to put the tray/empty cup or there is no obvious bin nearby. Have sometimes walked out of the cinema and haven't found a bin for ages. Or there is a complex recycling system 😆Signage or somewhere obvious to leave the tray would help.

If it were up to me fast food places would be banned from using disposable items for people eating in. It's something we've got used to but doesn't actually make any sense, certainly not environmentally.

The etiquette is completely clear, if there are bins there, use em

It's the same sort of people who don't pick up dog shit, or drop fag butts, or dont wear headphones in public.

And it’s not just inside!
We live half a mile from a drive thru KFC and people dump their chicken detritus everywhere. I have to avoid the area when walking the dogs as I’ve had to wrestle chicken bones off them quite a few times. There’s always cups and wrappers in the gutter or on the verge.

There is a McDs near me and the chavs drive to the car park opposite (making an illegal right turn to go onto the road, otherwise its going around the whole roundabout), park randomly - not tidily. The four eat their McDs and throw all rubbish out of the window.

Alot of it is down to laziness & not being responsible for your own mess - I always think how is it coming across to my child if I'm just to get up and leave the table area a complete mess? They're learning from our example. It's not that hard in places like kfc or mcd's to take your leftover rubbish etc on a tray, to the bin.

True, any public place!

And then you get rats.

They're threatening a McDonalds in our very nice genteel high street and the locals are all feeling very apprehensive.

I predict chaotic parking, ankle-deep litter, anti-social behaviour and noise.

Who made it up, teenagers? 🤣 Do you think if you took your own rubbish and disposed of it, the cinema staff would look down on you? Absolutely not, I would just follow your own instincts as you were taught to do and clean up your own mess.

Years ago I was in McDonald's with my friend and her then boyfriend. I put our rubbish in the bin and said boyfriend told me I shouldn't because "in a restaurant you don't get rid of your own rubbish."
I didn't bother to explain the difference between a burger place and a 4 star restaurant (where you should still leave things tidy)

She'd be thrilled to be a teenager, she's 35.
The people cleaning up said they preferred it to having bins overflowing all over.
Not my idea I'm just saying how it was.