My experience has been just the opposite. McDonalds has always had the highest standards of cleanliness.
Maybe it's different in other areas?
We see the same here in N Californicator land, and we have never been charge to sit down and eat. They probably should have when our offspring were young, and when we took grandkids and nieces/nephews in to eat.
“My experience has been just the opposite. McDonalds has always had the highest standards of cleanliness.
Maybe it’s different in other areas?”
“Maybe it’s different in other areas?”
Some McDonald’s do seem to be better managed than others, but the problems with getting orders filled as requested, the all too frequent problem of finding a clean table even when you are the only or almost the only customers in the restaurant, and the microwave soybean burger improvements are all too common. I remember the days in the 1950s when a McDonald’s Cheeseburger was all meat and actually resembled a real cheeseburger on a sesame seed bun that was delivered to your car window by the car hop. By 1970 the food had already deteriorated to the point of being a pale shadow of a decent burger. It is sad so few people in the present day no longer understand what it means to have decent fast food, servers who can count change and memorize an order properly, and maintain clean restrooms. Today it doesn’t matter whether the McDonalds is in new York City, Los Angeles, over the expressway in Chicago, on the plains along Interstate 70 in Topeka, outside San Antonio, or on the northside of Seattle. They all have some serious problems with service, cleanliness, and the ability to handle a simple order.
If you want to see how to run a fast food restaurant serving burgers and fries, pickup some good food at the old style In’n’Out drive-thru stands. They are much more like what McDonalds used to be or better, when a burger was still a burger and not some kind of Soylent Green experiment.
And while I’m at it with the venting of my disgust, let me also put in a reminder of what Coca Cola and PepsiCo have done to ruin the restaurant experience for a lifetime now. There used to be a time when customers could actually buy a wide assortment of soft drinks at reasonable prices from a variety of different bottling companies. Everything From Dad’s Root Beer, Nehi Grape Soda, Pineapple Soda, and 7-Up to a variety of local types you’ve never heard about. Now customers are dictated to what they can and cannot drink at prices equal to the entire meals for four people. There are still fond memories of our favorite stopover on our long trips where we could buy a brown paper sack with eight real beef cheeseburgers for $1.00 and a choice from over two dozen ice cold soft drinks for 10 cents each. Ever since Coca Cola and PepsiCo managed to “persuade” a court to hand them monopolies of the restaurant market, customers have suffered under their pricey cartel system.