McDonald’s

Hadn’t been to a McDonald’s in a while, and I was in a rush. Big mistake.
I ordered a two cheeseburger meal, with the caveat that I wanted hamburgers instead. Simple enough, right. Nope.
Also, the ketchup packets were covered in some sort of anonymous sticky goo. The weird smile the drive through attendant gave me when he handed it to me didn’t fill me with confidence, either.
Tl;dr — this place sucks even for a McDonald’s.

The morning crew is beyond friendly, efficient, and just plain amazing. Always friendly and working hard to get the customers serviced.

Drive through is adequate for a quick order to go, but as a previous poster mentioned, getting in and out can be confusing. There is no left turn allowed on to 50, so it is not possible to get back to the Northway without some convoluted driving.
Inside is a different story: it is a mess. The tables and floor are almost always messy and covered with food or paper wrappers. There usually is only one counter person handling the inside customers, leading to long waits. In comparison to other fast food restaurants, the experience is chaotic. The owner must really be trying to keep costs down.
So use the drive through if you must, but don’t go inside.

Just got a club burger. The roll was stale. This mcdonalds is not good. Owners must be cheapskates or something.

It’s your basic McDonalds, which is pretty good, if you can actually get inside. Whoever designed this place should have gotten an «F» in planning. Between all the one-​way lanes, left-​turn-​only and right-​turn only exits, the crazy intersection behind leading to/​from Denny’s and Hannaford, the building’s exit-​only doors, and entrances not in obvious places… let’s just say I’ve seen corn mazes easier to navigate. The children’s play area is huge, and there’s some interesting décor inside as well as a variety of seating. It does need larger rest rooms.
As for this particular visit, the cashier I got was either very new or not familiar with the food. I asked for the tomatoes to be held on one of the chicken sandwiches, and she said it didn’t come with them — at which point I pointed her to the picture behind her which distinctly showed them. She said «oh,» and I did get tomatoes held as requested on that sandwich. The unsweetened iced tea also had an off taste and must have been a bad brew.
On the plus side, my Monopoly ticket awarded me a free breakfast sandwich, so all is forgiven… this time.

It’s true that you don’t expect much from a fast food establishment – they either get your food right or they don’t, they’re clean or they’re horribly maintained, they have the snottiest employees or they do their job and are unremarkable.
With that in mind, I felt I needed to share a story from our trip through the drive-​thru a month ago: there we were, sitting in an excruciatingly slow-​moving line where it seemed the lead car, already pulled-​up to the second window, had been sitting there as if they’re waiting for the entire right-​side of the menu they no doubt ordered. We’re 4 cars back, we hadn’t even reached the first window yet to pay for my weird imitation fast food milkshake-​disguised-​as-​a-​frappé. The crew that apparently ordered everything (and probably some diet cokes to wash them down) finally moves, and the car behind them seems to have the same appetite issue getting bag after bag when we reached the payment window. We hand the kid payment, and he hands me back, not only the receipt, but THE DRINK AS WELL! Stunned, we sat there for a moment, wondering if that really had happened and if we really could just leave, which we did just that.
Looking back, either this young man has upper-​management consideration in his future, or else he’ll get fired at some point in the near-​future for engaging common sense and not following staunch fast food protocol.
It was a remarkable moment in fast food service. I feel it deserved to be acknowledged. Thank you, kid at the first window, you won’t be forgotten – by the internet anyway.