McDonald’s prepares to close dining rooms again – IOTW Report

McDonald’s prepares to close dining rooms again

FOX- The drive-thru might be getting a lot busier.

Over the past several months, restaurants across the country have started to return to business as usual. Many fast-food places, for example, have reopened their dining rooms after closing them due to the pandemic.

Now, based on reports, some of those dining rooms may be closing again.

McDonald’s recently instructed its franchisees on what steps need to be taken to reclose dining rooms, Reuters reports. Restaurants in areas where the Delta variant of the coronavirus is rapidly spreading are likely to be impacted. MORE

23 Comments on McDonald’s prepares to close dining rooms again

  1. The one near me in Vegas hasn’t had indoor dining in 18 months.
    I think the main reason is the lack of employees.
    That and the homeless they have to keep tossing.

    Hell, Wendy’s has drive-thru ONLY!
    Burger King is so hard up they have everything open.

    When I go in these places now, they are so busy preparing delivery.
    Folks are too lazy to even go get the shit!

    I was in Key West last Fall and the Five Guys Burger place was catering a FUCKING WEDDING!
    I can’t blame them, I thought of crashing it!

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  2. I don’t eat at McDonalds, but had to go to Arkansas yesterday and was going to run in and eat at Wendy’s for a quick lunch and their dining room was closed.

    However I personally think it’s because they don’t have enough employees. I was telling my daughter yesterday that I really don’t get these places anymore though thinking they need a dozen people to run a fast food joint. When I was a teenager working in a HB joint, we had two people per shift, we had a dining room, drive-thru and walk up window. During rush hour we’d have all packed and it only took two people what it takes a dozen to do today.

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  3. Been working a lot lately and I am treating myself to a moca at Dutch Brothers drive-thru in the morning. When I went through this morning there was a sign on the window that said “to help protect us from covid we asked that you wear a mask in the Drive-Thru.”
    I asked about the sign and she said I didn’t have to wear it, I said good cuz I was about to drive off. I’ve had it. It’s one thing to tell your employees to do something stupid, it’s a whole other thing to tell your customers to do something stupid.
    And then there was another sign above it saying “we are all in this together.” No, no we’re clearly not. But the left clearly is in it together.
    I’ll start making my own coffee again.

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  4. …I would prefer they put a bit more effort in to actually completely cooking their fries, but sure, worrying about a political disease is good too, whatevs, you don’t really need customers anyway…

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  5. Jason
    SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 AT 7:07 AM
    “It’s not the pandemic. It’s worker shortages due to the government paying people not to work. That will SUPPOSEDLY end this month.”

    …so I’ll have sullen, lazy people who don’t want to be there and have been gone so long they forgot whatever skills they ever developed serving me?

    Oh, joy…

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  6. I wouldn’t be bothered at all if McDonald’s or any of them closed permanently. The real health crisis in the world are fast food restaurants ruining the health of millions. Geez, when you’ve got people storing a Big Mac for 10 years and it still looks like it was made 5 minutes ago is telling…..and they’re all worried over a flu variant? This is all about control and nothing more. Don’t do business with them.

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  7. ǝpɐɥsʇɥɓᴉuɹǝdnS September 1, 2021 at 9:34 am

    Jason
    SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 AT 7:07 AM
    “It’s not the pandemic. It’s worker shortages due to the government paying people not to work. That will SUPPOSEDLY end this month.”

    …so I’ll have sullen, lazy people who don’t want to be there and have been gone so long they forgot whatever skills they ever developed serving me?

    Oh, joy…
    ———————

    Think about it, do you want someone preparing your food, who resents having to do it, hand over food that perhaps they sabotaged? Big sign hanging on McDonalds every where here: $15/hour NOW HIRING! I asked DH who is going to fork over $15 for 2 pieces of bread and who knows what’s inbetween.

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  8. Most likely won’t be the only fast food restaurant closing in-door dining. They/the corporation send out recommendations, individual owners have some leeway. If the virus is hitting an area hard, you can expect local in-door dining to close up. Who wants to work at a fast food restaurant during a pandemic, not a lot of people. Who wants to have their kids work there & possibly get the virus, not a lot of parents.
    Virus transmission will happen between the vaxed or unvaxed, being vaxed will not hurt nor be the least bit unhealthy towards any customers.

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  9. Goldenfoxx SEPTEMBER 1, 2021 AT 10:20 AM

    “Think about it, do you want someone preparing your food, who resents having to do it, hand over food that perhaps they sabotaged?”

    …Back during the Clinton Administration, OH went to a system where if you wanted CASH payments from Welfare (not SNAP or Food Stamps or WIC or housing assistance or anything like that, JUST cash), you had to go work somewhere for at least a few hours a week to prove you were trying. This was heavily subsidized for employers and the state would provide transportation and everything, so of COURSE the factory I was working on jumped on it with both feet, envisioning a large pool of cheap line grunts at almost no cost to them, and adjusting their imagined bonuses accordingly.

    This really should have been dispelled when the first junked prison bus showed up.

    …the State ran these decrepit former(?) Prison Bureau busses complete with rusty lattice window bars but repainted (with a brush and no talent whatsoever) into happy colors on the outside with cutesy “Limosine Service” names on them through the ‘hood, collecting reluctant souls with little to no work experience and CERTAINLY no experience with doing things on time, then dropping them at the door where the confusion could TRULY begin.

    The reason I describe the busses in detail is that they were pretty emblematic of what they contained. A happy face cracked veneer painted over rusty skills and a general unwillingness to turn a tire, that would be far less out of place at a prison than a place of business.

    The bus drivers didn’t like their charges either, and made it VERY clear they would abandon anyone who wasn’t out at the bus on the dot. Which they did, leaving the Company to figure out how to get all the helpless people home. It also made it IMPOSSIBLE to clock overtime as they had to leave ON TIME, and things don’t always wrap up ON TIME at a factory, so you had a LOT of work for few people to do when the thundering herd left.

    Not that they did much anyway. They were pretty good at doing drugs as the parking lot was littered with needles and used vials of various things during that time. They were also good at domestic violence, which was a skill they DEFINITELY brought with them, sometimes a drug dealer boyfreind or pimp or something would show up as well to try to beat a girl up, but mostly it was internecine warfare among those already here, over stupid stuff like “Dissing” and things like that. They were largely unteachable because they were uninterested in learning, they didn’t want to be here, didn’t want to learn anything, and were simply checking a box that had NO stipulations on performance to check, and they didn’t care WHERE they were shipped to check that box, they weren’t gonna do the job ANYWAY.

    It kind of came to a head when one of the (female) supervisors was trying to get a literal welfare case to clean something with a Strahman hose, which is a high-pressure water hose that entrains live steam to superheat the water for sanitation purposes, and he obliged her by squirting her in the face with it. Happily, it takes a minute for the entrained steam to superheat the water so she was “only” knocked down by the high pressure part, and since he stopped to laugh after she was knocked down she didn’t get lethally burnt, but that was pretty much the end of THAT worthless experiment.

    I don’t think we ever got any usable labor that way.

    Just problems.

    Expect the same with the forced return of Branch Covidians, with an added overlay of Goverment taught severe hypochondria.

    …its going to be a VERY long time, if at all, you get anything USEFUL out of them, you just watch…

  10. I would occasionally grab a shake and a $1.00 mysterymeat cheeseburger gut lump when they used to have a McD’s in the local McWallyWorld, but since that moved out it’s probably been 2-3 years since I’ve had any of that crap.
    We eat out less and go to places like this when we do these days; Mark Bohannon is a chef extraordinaire:
    http://www.peggysonthegreen.com/

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