McDonalds

Dropped in for a quick coffee. Wanted to read the paper on my iPad. Nope. No WiFi. That sucks. The coffee, however, is pretty good for $ 1. When I want to bank a couple bucks, I grab a large black here. Otherwise, my intestines tell me to have mercy and stay away.

Judging on McDonlads standards it is ok, The food was fine and hot. Ate breakfast here and stuck with the old standby Egg McMuffin. It is hard to get into this McDonalds if you are on the wrong side of the street and yet there is a lot of traffic in their parking lot. Dinning room was clean but nothing to write home about.

1.) Introduction (reiteration 2):
When I do reviews on fast food places, I don’t do them on the food, I do it on everything else. Unless the food here is really horrible then i’d post a review on it, but we all know what a place like this is all about. The food here is served in a certain timed, heated, portioned, with specific contents in each kind of fashion. Go to a McDonald’s in Hartford, to one in California and you’ll get the same kind of burger. Now if I were to compare the McDonald’s burger to the McDonald’s in Australia or the McDonald’s in another foreign country then you’d definitely get a different taste. Not to mention the menus vary in every country. McDonald’s in Indian is way different than the McDonald’s in Kuwait, Japan, etc.
2.) Aesthetics:
The thing I will remember with this place is the playscape. It is diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirty! Yuck, yuck, yuck! I don’t even believe they clean this place. It is disgusting! And it’s sad because children play here. And you gotta clean it because kids are dirty themselves. One kid stripped down to his boxers, and almost stripped down to his birthday suit. This was a 12 year old kid (who knows, probably younger, thanks to the hormones in the foods these days) and he was almost butt naked in front of a group of children ages 1 to 8. Yuck. And that was going on for at least a good 10 minutes before anyone intervened.
3.) Service:
The cleanliness speaks for this kind of service… negligent. No staff there to intervene or keep this place sanitary.
4.) Impressions:
Carry around wipes or anti-​bacterial gel or… just don’t come here at all!

The food here is terrible and bad for you (does it even qualify as food?) but the drive through for a large Newman’s own coffee for $ 1 is a deal.

A four-​star review for a chain restaurant = five stars for any other business. It’s freakin’ McDonald’s, so the quality of the food kinda automatically results in the deduction of one star.
Anyway, this location is just about the best one could expect for a Fortune 500 crap food company… Forget the food, let’s talk amenities. There’s an HDTV (which usually has CNN or ESPN on), lots of seating, free WiFi, a soda machine for free refills, a Playplace so the kids can go scream somwhere else, and believe it or not, a conference room.
I don’t know who would have the gaul these days to host a meeting at a McDonald’s conference room, but I like the intestinal fortitude shown by whomever decided to put one in this location.
I actually come here to get work done now and then. In fact, I generally prefer to come here over the often overcrowded Barnes & Noble coffee shop next door.