McDonald's outrage! No bikes in the Drive-thru!

UndercoverElephant
UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
edited June 2013 in Commuting chat
Yes, I tried it. I was hungry and I didn't have a lock. Cycled round to the window only to be told by some pimply-faced youth that I was to be denied service. Wasn't allowed to take the bike inside, either, so I buggered off.

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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    They were doing you a favour. Think of your arteries :D
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    :cry:

    Now, as it turned out it may have been worse for the arteries. Next door to the "drive-thru", some enterprising soul has parked a large, caravan-style greasy spoon. Above the window, she's even painted the words, "Walk-thru" :lol:

    She was most accommodating, and supplied this hungry cyclist with a lovely bacon and haggis roll. Lovely it was. She also was outraged (ish), pointing out that they serve moped riders, so why not cyclists?

    Why indeed?

    ETA: Here's where it all kicked off....

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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    She was most accommodating, and supplied this hungry cyclist with a lovely bacon and haggis roll. Lovely it was.

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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    davis wrote:
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    Another thing I appear to need in my life. Curse you!

    She'd run out of black pudding, but the haggis was quite delicious. Brown sauce, naturally. :twisted:
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  • g00se
    g00se Posts: 2,221
    Was working in the US a few years ago. Me and a college were late looking for food and ended up in a McDonalds which were just closing and couldn't serve us. Being a bit squiffy, we tried walking the drive-'thru' with less luck. tried a few more times making car noises etc but still no joy....
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    In America it is a legal requirement to have braille on the buttons of drive-thu cash dispensers......this is I promise not a joke.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Is it called a ride-thru?


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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Is it called a ride-thru?

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

    They probably serve motorcyclists. It's two-wheelist!
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Agent57 wrote:
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    They probably serve motorcyclists. It's two-wheelist!

    They do! And mopeds too! It's a disgrace, I tells thee!
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  • spen666
    spen666 Posts: 17,709
    Agent57 wrote:
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    They probably serve motorcyclists. It's two-wheelist!

    ??????????????? Don't motor cycles have 2 wheels?
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    It's discrimination against those of us who bother to use our legs, I tells thee.

    I have officially complained. :o
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Seriously? Someone has actually gone to the trouble of implementing a rule that prevents a customer being served, based purely on how they approach the window?

    On a matter of principle I avoid places like McD's, but I'm tempted to drop in on the way home and try to get served, just for the argument that would inevitably follow. :twisted:
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I would endeavour to establish just exactly which vehicles one can take through a drive-thru. I mean, technically, one drives a horse and carriage, or a dog sled, or a herd of cattle, does one not?

    :twisted:
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  • Clarion
    Clarion Posts: 223
    It's worth checking out Mark Thomas' take on this on Youtube. The clown car is inspired...
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    CiB wrote:
    Seriously? Someone has actually gone to the trouble of implementing a rule that prevents a customer being served, based purely on how they approach the window?

    On a matter of principle I avoid places like McD's, but I'm tempted to drop in on the way home and try to get served, just for the argument that would inevitably follow. :twisted:

    They'd probably serve you and then you'd have to eat the stuff :shock:
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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,693
    OMG! You mean they won't let you eat cruelly treated, badly cooked, steroid filled animals?

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  • Fireblade96
    Fireblade96 Posts: 1,123
    The only reason to ever visit McDonalds is to have a McDump.

    :twisted:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    I've served teenagers on bicycles as they've gone through a McDonalds window. Yes I worked at a McDonalds drive through for 3 of my teenage years.

    I've heard of no such rule....
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  • TommyEss
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    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I would endeavour to establish just exactly which vehicles one can take through a drive-thru. I mean, technically, one drives a horse and carriage, or a dog sled, or a herd of cattle, does one not?

    :twisted:

    I'd love to see a herd of cattle driven through a drive thru -

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  • SimonAH
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    Fireblade96 wrote:
    The only reason to ever visit McDonalds is to have a McDump.

    :twisted:

    .............and if you tell them that you're just going to the toilet quickly and that then you'll order your food it's called a McShit with Lies..... :P
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  • Agent57
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    spen666 wrote:
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    ??????????????? Don't motor cycles have 2 wheels?

    I mean discrimination between different types of two-wheeled vehicles, as sexism is discrimination between different genders, and racism between different races. :P
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  • rich_e
    rich_e Posts: 389
    From a sensible point of view, it's presumably a rule that applies to any vehicle where the driver could not possibly drive the vehicle after purchasing from a McDonalds drive through because of having to hold the food items in their hands.

    Sure, you could say that motorbikes have bike boxes, and push bikes have backpacks or panniers, but its a bit more of a fiddle than giving the goods to a passenger in a car, or putting them on the seat.

    I'm sure McDonalds is probably well aware that they could get sued or something if somebody fell of a bike and was injured, because its within their carpark property.

    Therefore, they defiantly shouldn't be serving people on mopeds and motorbikes as well.
  • glauciaregina9
    glauciaregina9 Posts: 259
    Despite it seeming completely bonkers, in this day and age i suspect the reason behind not serving cyclists at the Drive Thru is due to some typically over-zealous Health & Safety regulation ...

    Personally, I would go hungry rather than eat at McDonalds.

    Bacon and haggis sandwich sounds tasty though :-)
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  • spen666
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    Fireblade96 wrote:
    The only reason to ever visit McDonalds is to have a McDump.

    :twisted:

    A McCrap with lies surely
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  • UndercoverElephant
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    Rich_E wrote:
    From a sensible point of view, it's presumably a rule that applies to any vehicle where the driver could not possibly drive the vehicle after purchasing from a McDonalds drive through because of having to hold the food items in their hands.

    Sure, you could say that motorbikes have bike boxes, and push bikes have backpacks or panniers, but its a bit more of a fiddle than giving the goods to a passenger in a car, or putting them on the seat.

    I'm sure McDonalds is probably well aware that they could get sued or something if somebody fell of a bike and was injured, because its within their carpark property.

    Therefore, they defiantly shouldn't be serving people on mopeds and motorbikes as well.

    You're assuming here that I don't have a wicker basket. :twisted:
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  • prj45
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    I got refused service at maccy d's. On my bike, thirsty as hell, rolled up to the automated order point (no person there):

    "Can I get two large cokes please..."

    silence, fumble, fumble, and about a minute later:

    "We don't serve bikes *click*".

    So I went in, with my bike (so desperate for a drink).
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  • andy83
    andy83 Posts: 1,558
    Is it wrong that i have been served on numurous occasions when my gf has wanted a mcdonalds. I just roll up to the window and put in my order, on a centruy ride was in the middle of nowhere but there was a mcdonalds and I needed a drink so took bike in as drive thru que was too long lol
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    prj45 wrote:
    I got refused service at maccy d's. On my bike, thirsty as hell, rolled up to the automated order point (no person there):

    "Can I get two large cokes please..."

    silence, fumble, fumble, and about a minute later:

    "We don't serve bikes *click*".

    So I went in, with my bike (so desperate for a drink).

    A better reply would have been. "I can't move any further without fuel, so please provide the fuel I am asking for and willing to purchase". Then let a nice long queue build up behind you.
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  • navt
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    prj45 wrote:
    I got refused service at maccy d's. On my bike, thirsty as hell, rolled up to the automated order point (no person there):

    "Can I get two large cokes please..."

    silence, fumble, fumble, and about a minute later:

    "We don't serve bikes *click*".

    So I went in, with my bike (so desperate for a drink).

    No service. And to be called a bike to boot. I would have been Mcpissed.
  • jthef
    jthef Posts: 226
    I too have been refuded at the drive through in Chorley :(
    So not been to a mc D since :)
    Its a dam site more risky walking on there floor with cleats on than cycling throw a drive through!

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