Plastic trays! (McDonald's)

Member Name: mreyre

Product:	McDonald's
Date:	05/02/01 (76 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice food, fairly cheap.

Disadvantages: Don't take your Nan. She'll moan that there are no knives and forks.

I was in McDonalds in Norwich the other day and had a most interesting experience which I felt I just had to share with dooyoo readers!

Now, everyone knows about McDonalds, the quality of food, incredible advertising campaigns, ubiquitous phrases (ie. do you want fries with that.....can I help you...etc.), but did you know about the case of the amazing disappearing brown plastic trays????

Well, it was a new one on me, I can tell you, until last week's discovery!

The "waitress" was just about completing my order, 2 value meals and a Happy Meal, and placing all the food items in a large paper bag and the drinks in a cardboard carrying thing. What with my shopping bags and young daughter's umbrella, I could feel a truly amazing balancing act coming on.

I therefore plucked up the courage and asked, rather timidly, "Could I have a plastic tray?" (You know, those handy brown devices for transporting your food items to your seat, without having to perform said balancing act.....)

Well, I might as well have been asking for an extinct rare species of lesser spotted fruit bat as the look I got was one of "Oooooooooooooo!, I don't know about that.....I'll have to have a look!" I then wait about three times as long as it took to get my food from the relevant sections, I can actually feel the burgers getting colder by the second, then eventually, as if by magic, a tray appears!!

The helpful lady informed me that "our customers are very silly, you know, they will insist on throwing these plastic trays away with their empty food packets" (yes, those were her exact words).

I then felt myself glaring towards the waste bins, watching every person throw away their food to see whether they threw away their tray, and actually, at least 3 people did!

So, there you go - you have been warned! When dining out in McDonalds, remember the golden rule - do NOT throw
away the precious brown plastic trays as they are becoming an extinct species!

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