What's up with McDonald's?

As many others here have mentioned poor service and dirty restaurants have hurt McDonald’s. They’re trying to do new things with a $1 menu and they’re test marketing a “3 n’ 1” restaurant in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Who knows if it will do any good. If the restaurant is just coming up with different food, and charging less, it’s not going to matter if people aren’t interested in waiting in line for cheap food and eating in a filthy restaurant.

Here is a press release about new “3 n’ 1” restaurant.

At least in Chicago I can concur with the majority. Here they hire far too many workers that don’t speak English.

Even downtown on State and Chicago or in Watertower, or my local NW side I have to speak slowly and heaven forbid you order any drink but a Coke. Still virtually every time they screw the order up. This is a language thing. The resturants are dirty too.

I NEVER have had that problem at Wendy’s, Burger King or White Castle or even KFC. The order takers a lot of times are Spanish Speaking but they have a DECENT grip on the English Language.

Recently my friend had a thing for their Pumpkin Pie. On the McD in Logan Sq, Watertower, Rock and Roll McD AND Clark and State they all let her place the order then went over and said “Oh we’re out of Pumpkin how about apple.” Now they have to void the order. She only liked the Pumpkin.

Too many McD is a problem as well. In one stretch of Milwaukee in Chicago there are 6 McDonalds, to ONE KFC, to 2 Taco Bells to 1 Wendys, to 2 Burger kings to 1 White Castle.

Another thing: most fast-food restaurants offer free soft-drink refills, and provide a help-yourself soda fountain. McDonald’s offers free refills too, but (in every one I’ve been in, anyway) you have to get them at the counter, which can be problematic, especially if they’re busy.

Twice now, I’ve gotten up about 3/4s of the way through my meal for a refill, ended having to wait over five minutes, and returned to my seat to find that some unusually industrious employee threw away my meal (and the magazine I was reading), thinking I’d left.