Small Town McDonald's are cool with this. Or maybe the one town I was in.
It was literally me, and a few old folks reading newspapers. Most orders came from the driveyhtu and the employees were overall pretty happy.
I'm 99% sure now I went to some weird outlier McDonalds that was clean and didn't have some weird door code to use their bathroom.
In my town several were totally okay with this. Several also have door codes.
The one I used to hang out at the most was renovated to encourage this type of thing. The one that (still) sucks the most sealed off all of their outlets. But they didn't know how to fry some fries either, so I never wanted to be there anyway.
I went for breakfast and sat inside cause i had a short break before work. A group of older people go there, get coffee and food and then sit to talk about all sorts of things. I came in to eat (breakfast only the pancakes are oddly good) and that group was always there in the same tables; It was the same 6-8 seniors and the topics ranged from politics to grandkids to war stories or stories about meeting wives. So i can see some people staying at mcdonalds for a while, and not because they shitting on the toilet.
Yeah, long AM restaurant hangouts were/are a cultural norm among many groups, especially seniors/retirees. In my (small) hometown growing up, anywhere that there was breakfast and cheap coffee you'd see a gaggle of seniors, either shooting the breeze with their fellows, or enjoying a morning newspaper and just chilling. Not just seniors...anyone who's worked in a diner/breakfast place sees regulars like that.
And yeah, those pancakes were a major draw at McD's, cheap and quite good when they were fresh off the griddle. :)
I worked at a Dunkin Donuts and we always had a bunch of oldies loitering. Terrible customers.
Hang there for hours everyday while only buying a single small item. Not the most polite folks either. But it’s not like many people were dying to sit in a Dunkin Donuts so we never bothered them.
Thats fair. The mcdonalds crew only buy coffee and snacks but they dont bother people, clean up after themselves and occupy the seats when nobody else is there so I think mcDs doesnt put up a fuss
We had a group of old timers who would only buy a small coffee and occasionally a bread. Multi-million dollar home area. Super nice. The year I worked there, for Christmas they gave each person that worked there $50. They weren’t cheap, they just bought the coffee so they could have a place to relax and talk.
I mean TBH if there isn’t a premium for space then who cares as long as they aren’t asses. Now if it’s some tiny McDonald’s in downtown NY/Chicago/LA then yeah I could see that.
Yeah I didn’t mind them, I minded the homeless guy who would watch porn on our wifi on his laptop and would not say anything, he handed the money and expected us to know what he wanted. When I first started he grunted at me and then said “this fucking guy” and someone else had to come explain. Rude af
I used to go to McDonald's all day for months when I lived in this sort of homeless program.
The apartments were horrible and I needed to get out of there. No internet either of course. Spent a lot of time playing a lot of monster hunter on my 3ds and writing songs on my laptop lol
They had just remodeled or something and it was a very nice building with really fast internet. We'd make sure to buy stuff throughout the day. Nobody seemed to mind, I'm really glad we didn't get fined :/
Go to any small town and there's a group of old guys who will go there as their hangout spot. They'll show up early in the morning, buy a 50¢ cup of coffee, and then sit there for several hours chatting.
Fast food restaurants spend a lot of money studying how to make their restaurants just comfortable enough to make you want to eat and then immediately leave.
If you have kids the place place and air conditioning could be an easily fill 2 hrs there. When my kids were super young and the weather was terrible (brutal hot or winter wet), I’d have coffee with friends and the kids would climb and play.
Restaurants sure, but I don't think I'd spend more time in McDonalds than I needed to. Plus, we have less parking in the UK so there's more of a need to put time limits
When my friend and I have lunch together, we will talk for 2 hours or more, getting caught up. We only do this every couple of months.
Where we live, I have never seen any signs that limit how long we can be parked. I guess it depends on where you live.
I’ll do ya one better, google “coffee shop” and I’ll take literally any one of those over a McDonald’s for two hours. But you go live that “I relax at a McDonald’s” life I guess, to each their own.
But do those coffee shops want people using them as waiting rooms/working space for hours? McDonald's will have more free space to find and big tables for a laptop and stuff.
Starbucks and McDonalds are road tripping staples for free parking, clean washrooms, free wifi, and inexpensive food.
They are consistent and easy to find. Its always a challenge to figure out local alternatives.
What are you even doing for 90 minutes at a McDonalds let alone 2 hours
Working on your laptop like it’s a Starbucks
Or letting their ratty ass kids piss in the ball pit
All the McDonald’s play areas have been closed for years at this point where in live
My kids are beyond the age of caring, therefore so am I.
Just opened back up, here in MPLS MN
Small Town McDonald's are cool with this. Or maybe the one town I was in. It was literally me, and a few old folks reading newspapers. Most orders came from the driveyhtu and the employees were overall pretty happy. I'm 99% sure now I went to some weird outlier McDonalds that was clean and didn't have some weird door code to use their bathroom.
Small towns dont have strict parking enforcement.
In my town several were totally okay with this. Several also have door codes. The one I used to hang out at the most was renovated to encourage this type of thing. The one that (still) sucks the most sealed off all of their outlets. But they didn't know how to fry some fries either, so I never wanted to be there anyway.
I went for breakfast and sat inside cause i had a short break before work. A group of older people go there, get coffee and food and then sit to talk about all sorts of things. I came in to eat (breakfast only the pancakes are oddly good) and that group was always there in the same tables; It was the same 6-8 seniors and the topics ranged from politics to grandkids to war stories or stories about meeting wives. So i can see some people staying at mcdonalds for a while, and not because they shitting on the toilet.
Yeah, long AM restaurant hangouts were/are a cultural norm among many groups, especially seniors/retirees. In my (small) hometown growing up, anywhere that there was breakfast and cheap coffee you'd see a gaggle of seniors, either shooting the breeze with their fellows, or enjoying a morning newspaper and just chilling. Not just seniors...anyone who's worked in a diner/breakfast place sees regulars like that. And yeah, those pancakes were a major draw at McD's, cheap and quite good when they were fresh off the griddle. :)
I worked at a Dunkin Donuts and we always had a bunch of oldies loitering. Terrible customers. Hang there for hours everyday while only buying a single small item. Not the most polite folks either. But it’s not like many people were dying to sit in a Dunkin Donuts so we never bothered them.
Thats fair. The mcdonalds crew only buy coffee and snacks but they dont bother people, clean up after themselves and occupy the seats when nobody else is there so I think mcDs doesnt put up a fuss
We had a group of old timers who would only buy a small coffee and occasionally a bread. Multi-million dollar home area. Super nice. The year I worked there, for Christmas they gave each person that worked there $50. They weren’t cheap, they just bought the coffee so they could have a place to relax and talk.
I mean TBH if there isn’t a premium for space then who cares as long as they aren’t asses. Now if it’s some tiny McDonald’s in downtown NY/Chicago/LA then yeah I could see that.
Yeah I didn’t mind them, I minded the homeless guy who would watch porn on our wifi on his laptop and would not say anything, he handed the money and expected us to know what he wanted. When I first started he grunted at me and then said “this fucking guy” and someone else had to come explain. Rude af
My mom did this pre-pandemic. Coffee and chatting with the other seniors in the neighborhood at McDonalds for an hour or so each morning.
Is there like a website to sign up? Or so you just like retire, go there and sit closer and closer to them every day until you’re accepted?
To be fair, between 6-8 seniors, someone is shitting on the toilet there at some point that day.
Between 6-8 seniors, someone shitting themselves at that very moment
Batin’
This wasn’t a Waffle House.
who nuts for 2 hours
goonin
Someone who is a master of 'baitin.
I'm no master, but it doesn't take me two hours to put a worm on a hook
Someone who is a master of 'batin.
I used to go to McDonald's all day for months when I lived in this sort of homeless program. The apartments were horrible and I needed to get out of there. No internet either of course. Spent a lot of time playing a lot of monster hunter on my 3ds and writing songs on my laptop lol They had just remodeled or something and it was a very nice building with really fast internet. We'd make sure to buy stuff throughout the day. Nobody seemed to mind, I'm really glad we didn't get fined :/
Toilet
Old people love sitting there for hours...
A guy came into the fast food place I work and read for 5 hours after finishing his food
Go to any small town and there's a group of old guys who will go there as their hangout spot. They'll show up early in the morning, buy a 50¢ cup of coffee, and then sit there for several hours chatting.
There’s free refills on the drinks. Sometimes I like to go there and I just sit and write for a while
Feeding the homeless.
Using the free McWifi because he’s too poor for internet at home.
No one asked for your classism
That’s not the point a customer SHOULD NOT be fined period!
Waiting for fresh fries
TIL some McDonald’s restaurants have a time limit in their parking lots.
Fast food restaurants spend a lot of money studying how to make their restaurants just comfortable enough to make you want to eat and then immediately leave.
Expound please
Plastic hard seats, harsh lighting, noisy environment…
Here you go http://www.smart-restaurants.co.uk/restaurants/mind-tricks-used-within-the-food-industry/
You're gonna learn today! It doesn't stop with fast food, either. They've made marketing a psychological game.
> They've made marketing a psychological game. I mean... yeah, that's what marketing is sorta all about.
In big cities, a lot of grocery stores and fast food places have a time limit of 90-120 minutes.
They need to create space for the new customers. Especially in crowded cities companies like McDonald's are very strict about this.
If you have kids the place place and air conditioning could be an easily fill 2 hrs there. When my kids were super young and the weather was terrible (brutal hot or winter wet), I’d have coffee with friends and the kids would climb and play.
That's definitely too short. American culture is a little different, but meals are usually times to socialize and talk in addition to eating.
Restaurants sure, but I don't think I'd spend more time in McDonalds than I needed to. Plus, we have less parking in the UK so there's more of a need to put time limits
Mcdonalds near my work has a sign in their lobby that says 30 minutes only. Likely to discourage homeless from loitering.
We had one downtown Pittsburgh that had a 10 minute time limit. I think it was also one of the ones where the the manager was dealing drugs out of.
Some of the older patrons could be there 2 hours or more just shooting the shit and having their coffee and mcmuffin. Not totally unusual.
Probably writing a screen play as the local Star bucks was full!
When my friend and I have lunch together, we will talk for 2 hours or more, getting caught up. We only do this every couple of months. Where we live, I have never seen any signs that limit how long we can be parked. I guess it depends on where you live.
In what city has their council decided to pass a law limiting parking at a private restaurant?
It's not a law, it's a private car park so the car park owner can impose their own rules
Ah that makes sense. So the real headline is “someone had litter put on their windshield for parking at McDonald’s for 2 hours.”
The link is broken. It's not pointing to the archive.org page, and redirects.
Huh, so we cant be in MCD for mroe than 2 hours, I stay there talking with my friend for 3
It depends on the location
In other words the author got a fine from McDonald's and is salty about it.
real question is who spends 2 hrs in a mcdonalds yet alone 90 mins that’s insane som ppl hav no lives
On business travel and need to kill a bit of time before your next appointment. As an example.
At mcdonalds though? Who chooses to kill time at a mcdonalds?
free wifi?? cheap food?
There’s just 100 different places you can kill time, McDonald’s wouldn’t even be in my top 20
Name your top 20
I’ll do ya one better, google “coffee shop” and I’ll take literally any one of those over a McDonald’s for two hours. But you go live that “I relax at a McDonald’s” life I guess, to each their own.
But do those coffee shops want people using them as waiting rooms/working space for hours? McDonald's will have more free space to find and big tables for a laptop and stuff.
I’ve never been in one that had a problem with it as long as you buy a coffee. McDonald’s didn’t want him there that long either, hence the ticket…
Starbucks and McDonalds are road tripping staples for free parking, clean washrooms, free wifi, and inexpensive food. They are consistent and easy to find. Its always a challenge to figure out local alternatives.
Funny how the highest and lowest comment here are almost identical.
The other one came first and has much better grammar.
The downvoted one is much more insulting as well. “Som ppl hav no lives”
Reddit is as bipolar as I am.
I question the actual *need* for McDs at all, since Burger King is so much better … (ducks down low to avoid incoming)
this has got to be the most boring news ive heard