Have you ever seen a McDs close down?

[d000hg]

Good for Macc (not McDs) stuff their french/freedom fries - we call 'em chips in this country.

So there's only room for one type of cooked potato now? I guess we'd better not serve mash or roasties either.

[lukemg]

I went to a McDonalds once and said to the oik behind the counter

"I heard on the Internet you serve pigs arseholes and bulls bell-ends?"

He said

"Yeah, we'll serve anyone here"

LOL - nice one, whole office now looking at me for laughing out loud...

[GreenLabel]

One closed down in Sydney years ago. They'd opened it in Newtown, Sydney's equivalent of Camden. The local soap-dodging hippie trash didn't take kindly to a "big corporation" opening in their cess-pit of a neighbourhood and boycotted the place.

After McDonald's packed up and moved on, the building turned into an Irish bar. Perhaps deliberately, they've left the original McDonald's floor tiles in place. Patrons could often be seen staring at the floor, wondering why that tile pattern looked so familiar.

[d000hg]

I've never visited a McDonalds.

Have I missed something?

It depends. If you never visited any fast-food burger place then yes, but they're all much of a muchness. Apart from In-n-Out.

[kandr]

I suppose for some Mcdonalds provides a lost cost family meal. For £12-£15 you can get 2 happy meals and 2 large adult meals. For poorer working class families this allows them to eat out without spending too much. Whereas middle class families see nothing of spending 50-100 on a family meal out.

[Alf W]

Spooky - I was also at the Wilmslow one on their opening day!!

McDonalds in Wilmslow closed as Gourmet Burger Kitchen opened up - During the recession!!

Wilmslow is a weird place.

End of 2007 wasn't it? Weren't we still in the grip of a 'boom' at that point?

GBK note. Some things belong in burgers. Stuff like stilton, avocado and beetroot just don't. Yuk!

[d000hg]

Actually, I never thought McD was that cheap. An adult meal is what £5-6? For that you can get a full meal in some cheap pub (I guess Wetherspoons is a reasonable example but non-chains do too) or a cafe. Maybe not a great deal better but still, a proper sit-down meal.

Also, many chain restaurants do 50% off vouchers and so on, if you don't drink 2 adult meals for £10 is easily possible especially in pizza restaurants (not pizza-hut) that do happy-hours.

[TimberWolf]

I suppose for some Mcdonalds provides a lost cost family meal. For £12-£15 you can get 2 happy meals and 2 large adult meals. For poorer working class families this allows them to eat out without spending too much. Whereas middle class families see nothing of spending 50-100 on a family meal out.

What I find interesting is the nutritional information, provided on the back of their tray coasters, which I've looked at in the past when they've run out of free copies of the local rag. More energy than I'd have supposed, with a Big Mac Meal containing something like half the recommended daily energy requirement for a female. Just a Big Mac was 25% GDA or something IIRC. Still doesn't stop me from getting hungry a few hours later though. Being unfat, I do like to get my energy's worth.

[AtW]

Closed on our local high street years ago, never opened again.

[Platypus]

I've never visited a McDonalds.

Have I missed something?

Lots of lovely fat humans