McDonald's’s earns a 1.6-star rating from 2922 reviews, showing that the majority of fast-food enthusiasts are dissatisfied with dining experience.
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Sunday December 23, 2018 at 1:30pm I was in the drive thru and I forgot to ask in my order 2 frappe, as soon as I got into the 2nd window I told the lady please I forgot to ask for 2 frappe could you please charge me and add it to my order, other lady I think is a manager came with a bad manners very rude telling me that she doesn't have time that she has a...
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I am very disturbed by the manager Terry to our local McDonald's in North Topeka kansas.. This store has an amazing drive thru employee. His name is Cameron. He's such a great person with an awesome personality! He is always happy, respectful, willing to fix anything his customers are unhappy with & quick without hindering the order! I also have found i am not his only regular customer that comes to this McDonald's just to get a great experience from him. It is such a pleasure to come daily to order from him. He always makes my day better! Last week I came into the restaurant instead of my normal drive thru & was very upset to overhear his manager Terry speaking about him in a rude & distasteful manner. It wasn't about how he does his job. It was uncalled for & unacceptable! This is not the first problem I have seen or over heard with this manager since the other manager left. I am also NOT THE ONLY customer that has seen problems with this manager. Maybe she isn't the correct person for this management position.
employee
I have never seen anything as upsetting to me as did on Sunday Dec 23rd at 9:40 pm at the McDonalds in Greenfield In.
My sister and I were ordering thru the drive thru.
We were waiting on our food and could see the employees inside the restaurant.
On employee had just fixed an item with whipped cream on it and then licked the top of the whip cream lid.
I was appalled.
When they opened the window to serve our food I suggested to the employee that they might want to throw that can of whip topping away.
Her asked why, I said because the other employee licked it.
The employee that had done it stepped around the corner and said I used my finger!
WRONG we saw what happened.
I was in food service for 25 yrs. I would have fired the person on the spot.
Had I not been so hungry I would have demanded my money back and gone elsewhere.
I had a fish sandwich and large ice tea, My sister had a sausage cheese biscuit and large dr pepper.
I did not get the employees name but could easily describe the person I am speaking of.
I definitely will not eat at this store again.
Patricia Nawa
2090 George Bush Lane
Jefferson Ga 30549
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drive thru service
Very rude customer service. Told me I need to check my order before I pull to the window and I asked her name after several confusions with my order and she slammed the window and shrugged her shoulders. Cashier had a bad attitude and was very unethical. She needs more training on customer service and when she gets upset she should walk away politely and have another co-worker step in.
locked doors
12-21-18
After a wonderful night out with my family at a Christmas cantata, my children along with my mother in law suggested dining in at Mcdonalds. We went to the McDonalds at 5600 Riverdale in Memphis Tn. The time was 10:47 which allowed us plenty of time to dine-in especially since dine in closes at 12:00 .a.m.
I suggested that we go to the drive thru however, mother-in-law was not in the mood and we all went home without eating. That was very disappointing and I would like coupons for my family of five to have a nice dine-in dinner at McDonald. (Make Up Meal)
drive thru
Come on the 3rd window ok now there's parking spots for those who are order got it But it's no good!!! After they take your order and your inching your way up around the corner your thinking should I have gone to Wendy's because your hoping there's not a line of car waiting as that's When the drive thru is parking customers in these spots and the 3rd...
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Half way through eating my burger I've discovered something sickening in the actual chicken burger itself to think a well trusted fast food company is providing food like this and could be in your little ones happy meal absolutely disgusting and deffo disgusted, I feel so sick and I've already eaten half of it before even finding something so nasty really cannot believe it that could of been my babies food
Buttermilk chicken sandwich
Ordered buttermilk chicken sandwich. Was cooked too long and was not battered. Was just a hard piece of meat. I will not be going back to McDonald's. A chicken sandwich ordered this way should be crispy. Apparently your staff either does not know how long to cook or y'all have poor quality of products y'all are sending to your restaurants. Even the frie...
Read full review of McDonald'svulgar tv station playing during a visit for supper cnn news I could 12/15/18
My grand children and I stopped for supper on 12:15 2018 at about 10 in the evening CNN news was playing and the news anchor began to repeat vulgar words penis vagina pussy I couldn't believe my ears I was astounded that my grandchildren came to McDonald's and had to listen to something like that I talk to the person in charge and they said there's nothing they can do about it that they always play CNN on the TV you just lost a McDonald's customer and I will put this on social media this is disgusting I will also contact the BBB and see if there's anything they can do and yes I know you don't control what is set on CNN but you can't control what is played on the TVs in McDonald's this was on the McDonald's in Port St Lucie Florida Prima Vista and US1
burger and service
Post Road - CummingGa store.
1. Kid doing fries - no gloves and eating fries at station.
2. My quarter pounder was almost raw!
3. Manager (short heavy set lady with long white hair). Yells at staff members in front of customers. She takes a smoke break outside main entrance door and upon returning licks her fingers and goes back to work. No gloves here either.
Prretty much everything disgusting You really need to send in a secret shopper a few times.
I will NEVER enter this McDonald's again.
management/drive thru
The management at the Lightfoot restaurant in Williamsburg, VA is horrible. They are not very friendly and act as if the customers are more of a bother. The employees running the drive thru need to have more training. Every time that I am there it either takes at least 15 minutes or they start to give me the incorrect order. I will be really glad when another restaurant opens up across the street from them in about a month.
cheese burger
Ok, where to start. First off never go inside this place. Its a very dirty place. Trash everywhere all the time. The last 2 times here. Got nothing on hamburgers. No pickles, lettuce. Yes, both times. This time. One pickle, wow. They went all out. Still no lettuce or tomato. Last I knew, all the things were standard on a cheese burger. We call and gue...
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I reported a case of food poisoning to McDonald's when my wife and I returned from a trip from our home in Quitman, AR to Ocean Springs, MS. I was directed to a web site where I was assigned a reference number: [protected]-PA-01. A rep named Nathanial called me a day or so later. He was a little brusque not quite rude. He insisted I have a "stool sample" if I wanted to file a claim. I told him it was probably a little late for a fecal matter test and that I wasn't suing - I just wanted to report the incident. He was cold and aloof and officious which irritated me. He made a federal case out of it so I went to my doctor, gave their lab the stool sample. They said it was silly to do it 5 or 6 days after the incident which is exactly what I had told Nathanial.
After I gave the sample I told Nathanial since I had to take the test then I wanted $250 plus the cost of the test as a reasonable compensation for the illness and the lost weekend.
Obviously the sample came back clean and Nathanial immediately denied my claim and any food borne problem. He said I should have taken the test as soon as it happened! Since we ere hundreds of miles away from home on the road all I could do was make it to our daughter's home. Once there, I was too weak to leave the bed.
When I had became ill it was several hours after eating the sausage, egg cheese biscuit. I had eaten nothing since the previous evening meal at home which both my wife and I had eaten. There was no other explanation for my illness other than the sausage biscuit. Neither my wife nor I had ever had food poisoning before. We had no idea of the protocol required to report it. Who knew. Needless to say, we're not happy with the experience or the post illness treatment by McDonald's representatives.
quarter pounders with cheese
It seems like all the McDonalds restaurants in the Joliet/Plainfield, IL area serve undercooked quarter pounders. Have complained numerous times by filling out the receipts but nobody seems to care. Eventually someone is going to become very ill by eating what is basically raw beef. i tried a different location today at lunch and same thing... inside of the burger is raw...yuck. Considering they raised their prices, the least they could do is cook the food completely.
Also, fries are dark brown, hard and cold.
poor and unprofessional service.
On 12/11/2018 we went to the McDonald's. After ordering our food the server was absolutely unprofessional. she shoved the food into bags so bad that when we came home to take out the food the fries fell out all over the floor because the bag was ripped. She failed to provide the receipt in the bag. The final issue was the chicken tenders were hard as if...
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Every trip to Littleton Walmart mc Donald's the service is poor. They are either out of stuff or grill isn't working. The Big Macs are cold and dry. The buns crumble and are very stale. Have to Always wait for fries. What's up with this mc Donald's. Afraid to try any other location now. Help!
It is convenient because it is on the way out to my car with groceries.
That's every McDonalds these days. Years ago they changed the special sauce recipe and since then they have went down the tubes. I do not know what kind of oil they use but it has a bitter taste to it. I have not really enjoyed McDonalds for a very long time now. The corp needs to do a little soul searching and go back in time to fix what they have ruined. Look to the 80s When your food was actually fresh.
bad customer service, incorrect orders, rude staff and bad cold food falling apart.
There have been many occasions where McDonald's Sydenham make you think that they either don't care about their jobs or don't care about the service you get. You constantly don't get the correct order even though you are sometimes made to wait 15min in waiting bay. Food is pretty much always cold the burgers are falling apart and you never get the extra sauce or they leave the onions in when you say no onions. Today we received the wrong ice creams, the Mc Spider had no ice cream in it first, the second time the lid wasn't put on properly and as worker was giving it to me through car window it fell all over the inside of my car, third time syrup was still all over the outside of the cup and had to tell worker to please wipe it or give me some tissues which she replied with a sigh and walked off, fourth time came back with the exact same problem just not as bad as the third time but still had syrup, by then I was over it told the worker it's the same and asked about the tissues which she ignored and walked back into the store without a reply. This is the first time I have made a complaint like this before but honestly that store is the worst store I have ever been to in my life. Workers need to be trained properly or sacked and then given to people who actually care, please do something about this store so that they can actually realise how bad their service is with both food and customer service.
getting our order correct and in a timely manner
Several times we have ordered quarter pounder with no ketchup. When we get home and go to eat we find ketchup on our burger. Today my husband went to get burgers and asked for pickles only. We got ketchup and pickles. A lady waiting in line ordered 3 Quarter pounders with meat only. When her order came, there was no meat. Two working men came in and...
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I'm complaining about nikki she is very disrespectful to the workers and customers she talk as if she has kids in there she need to b removed this is not the only time I came in there n seen her acting this way. I come in almost everyday I been coming here for years I don't like her ways my experience there when she's the is not satisfied at all...
fries 🍟 all small orders despite the size you order
I ordered a quarter pounder with cheese meal LARGE at the McDonald's on Baltimore Blvd in Westminster MD. However the LARGE fries I received was only half full, if that. If you are going to raise your prices then at least give people what they ordersd. I ordered a LARGE fry not a small and I certainly PAID for the large. I don't care what time it is or how busy you are (which they really weren't that busy) it doesn't take long to make more and give people what they ordered.
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