please empty your brain below
After one visit in NZ we renamed it "Mac Cardboard" and never went back!

NZer | 14.07.17 - 7:08 a.m. | #

I don't go there often, but their food is perfectly good and cheap. I don't have a problem with it. Given their efforts in health and animal welfare, they're probably better than your local chip shop.

Kirk | 14.07.17 - 7:16 a.m. | #

I once bought a burger from McDonald's. It wasn't memorable

Tom | 14.07.17 - 7:17 a.m. | #

I do like a McFlurry, but I don't think I've had one of their burgers in over a decade. The prepacked salads they did in the media catering village at the Olympics were alright, if a bit sweet.

martin | 14.07.17 - 7:21 a.m. | #

I occasionally use one of the vouchers that appear regularly in the Metro; burger and fries for £1.99. Pretty good value if you just need something quick and cheap. I'm always impressed with the enthusiasm and speed of the staff.

Dave | 14.07.17 - 7:23 a.m. | #

Have occasionally basked in the glow of the golden arches, usually to breakfast at expensive airport outlets. Always surprised how little the menu has altered since they first entered the UK market.

Frank F | 14.07.17 - 7:41 a.m. | #

As with Frank F, only place I'll eat in McDs is Dublin airport for breakfast, ridiculous prices elsewhere - rubbish tea though

Andi Chrome | 14.07.17 - 8:27 a.m. | #

Have never been since hearing what dirty tricks were played against the McLibelTwo

Bob L-S | 14.07.17 - 9:19 a.m. | #

I don't understand how they can have such a difference in quality between their breakfast food and daytime menu. The latter is pretty crappy, whilst Sausage/Egg McMuffins are the things hungover dreams are made of.

gooneruk | Homepage | 14.07.17 - 9:38 a.m. | #

I go to McDonalds often, but I never buy hamburgers. (I rarely visit McD in the UK, which explains why I get interesting things which are not hamburgers).

John | 14.07.17 - 10:04 a.m. | #

I remember when the first McDonalds open here, people travelled from all over the country to try a real American hamburger.
There was always a queue to get in side, there was a policy as soon as you were finished eat you had to leave.
This was in Zaandam on the Vermiljoenweg in 1971.

Michael | 14.07.17 - 10:23 a.m. | #

I use their loos while on the road, always buy a coffee as 'rent'. Don't eat the food as I don't really like it. At £1.99 the large latte is fair value compared with boutique coffee shops. And every seventh one is free if you collect the stickers.
Just forgot, had a Dairy Milk McFlurry this summer on a particularly hot day. It was good.

Chris | 14.07.17 - 11:12 a.m. | #

Must be 20 years since I stepped inside a McDonalds. Burger and chips doesn't appeal as a "meal" anymore.

I don't eat take away food as I can cook better and more authentic meals myself. It's also disproportionately expensive.

PC | 14.07.17 - 11:33 a.m. | #

@Kirk "...their food is perfectly good and cheap...Given their efforts in health and animal welfare..."

While I would never dispute that in your opinion the food may be good and cheap, to praise their efforts in health and animal welfare? Nothing has had a worse effect on health (heart disease, obesity levels, childhood weight and dental problems), nor a worse effect on factory farming and the lowest passable animal welfare standards, than the fast-food industry, of which McDonald's are at the top. To praise their efforts is the most ludicrous thing I have read on the internet in a long time...

Not a vegan | 14.07.17 - 11:51 a.m. | #

I am angry about straws.

Brian | 14.07.17 - 11:55 a.m. | #

According to local legend where I grew up (Kokomo, Indiana), our local McDonalds was said to have been the first one to have closed down. "Late 1960s/early 1970s" and "due to race riots at the time" was part of the saying.

dd | 14.07.17 - 12:12 p.m. | #

Only ever buy a 99p cup of PG Tips

Mike | 14.07.17 - 1:26 p.m. | #

@Not a vegan - Notice that I compared them to your local chip shop.

And they have almost certainly done more to reduce salt and sugar in their products and ensure they come from good farms in the last ten years than your local chip shop has ever.

Kirk | 14.07.17 - 3:31 p.m. | #

You can't beat a big mac at 3am

McDonalds headache is the worst. I succumbed after 15 years of never going

Bruce Wayne | 14.07.17 - 4:24 p.m. | #

Sadly no longer extant, the McDonalds at Huntingdon was an experience far from the usual template layout : https://youtu.be/MOPQPE-K3jw

NLW | 14.07.17 - 5:20 p.m. | #

Logically, in order to avoid using your local McDonalds, you need to fulfill two conditions. One is indeed the self restraint which you mention. But the other is that you have to not like any of their offers (on grounds of taste, cost, reputation or any other reason of your choice).

I say this because I occasionally buy food at McDonalds, but I do not feel that this demonstrates any lack of self-restraint on my part. It is just because what they are offering is occasionally just what I want.

(I usually go for the salads, but sometimes other stuff. I do tend to avoid things containing beef, on planet-saving grounds).

I also find the very short wait to get fed rather attractive, particularly on a brief stop on a car journey.

Malcolm | 14.07.17 - 6:04 p.m. | #

If I'm going to have fast food it will always be Burger King in preference to McD's. Not necessarily better, just personal preference with the food, and too many bad experiences with the latter.

Cornish Cockney | 14.07.17 - 7:25 p.m. | #

McDonald's Old Kent Rd provides iPads for the kids and table service at no extra cost. The kids love it!

SJM | 14.07.17 - 8:43 p.m. | #

Apple pie great but service slower than Argos tea cold by time u served

Paula | 15.07.17 - 8:26 a.m. | #

The first McDonald's I ever went to was in Haymarket, around 1977 I think.
It's no longer there.

Outside of London, I've visited a branch of McDonald's in Harlem, Paris and Connaught Place in Delhi.

The shakes give you brain-freeze.

Richard M | 16.07.17 - 10:58 p.m. | #

My wife has a restricted diet because of food allergies. When we went to Paris for a day trip we had a take-away lunch from McDonald's. Not the "best" food in Paris, of course, or anywhere else, for that matter. But it's an international brand with a standard menu. She knew what she was getting and that it was safe for her - no problems with translation.

Notts Railman | 18.07.17 - 9:05 p.m. | #











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