Maybe Those Domino's Dorks Can Get Jobs In This McDonalds
Lots of readers have been sending us this clip today. It's called "The Filthiest McDonalds in the World," and yes, it pretty much is. On the plus side, you don't have to send your kids to the ball pit—you can just place them on the floor and watch them sink out of sight.
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in!)
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We already know what some employees do at fast food 'restaurants' (we like to pretend it never happens) but you can only imagine what it's like at this Mickee Dees...
Well, as if I needed another reason to avoid Mcdees. Although, most the ones I do happen to encounter, they still look much better than that. Much better. Not hard to do, but better.
Based on comments on YouTube, that McDonald's is on Hindley Street in Adelaide, Australia.
and where is this mcdonalds so i can avoid it! thats gross!
@Taed: I remember a post/blog somewhere that explains why this mcdonalds is dirty:
because it's next to a pub, and people go to mcdonalds after getting drunk and throw stuff around without actually eating it...
What the hell... It's like they would have to go out of their way to make it that dirty.
Please tell me this is some kind of modern art exhibition or something...
How in the hell is that place open?
The only McDonald's in the world where supersizing your meal gets you a hooker and an ounce of blow.
I love how this is about McDonalds. Why not blame some of the nasty scum who trash places like that? Like these people who leave trash everywhere in stores with the "let the employees clean it up, that's why they have a job" attitude. Scumbags.
Looks like a McDonalds inside a Walmart! I've seen a few in Walmart with several take-out bags on (ALL) the tables, maybe they clean only once an hour? They only bag it (no trays), so the trash cans are full and there is no where to put the trash. I have never seen it this bad, but I have never been to a Walmart/Mcdonalds during the lunch rush!
Bet you anything it is in a Walmart!
@chuck0008: If the employees didn't empty the trash cans, what would you do with the trash? Take it to your car? You would be one of the "nasty Scum", that would leave it on the table, so when the employees did get around to emptying the trash, it could be put in the trash.
No where to put it, it WOULD be their job to clean it up... There are not that many idiots out there, just the ones who don't do there job at mcDonalds that would cause this mess, blame the employee!
@chuck0008: On one hand, I agree with you. I worked at Micky Dees for years as a teenager, and had to clean up after the pigs who made messes there.
On the other hand, we did clean up. Regardless of how many pigs went through the store that day, almost all the time the store was clean, much of the time it was spotless.
Sloppy clientele has always been a challenge that McDonald's has had to deal with (I worked there in the late 70's and early 80's) but lazy employees who don't take pride in their workplace is a much more recent problem.
@metaled: You could always, you know, let the employees know that the trash is full. Having worked many a dinner rush, someone can't always be checking the trash every second. Personal responsibility doesn't completely go out the window when it's "someone else's job to worry about this."
Still, if nobody emptied it after I asked, I'd leave it there too...
@Taed: Holy crap, I've been to a McDonald's somewhere around Hindley Street in Adelaide! Not that one, though. I'd have remembered.
wow thats bad... i dont know how people got this lazy...
i hate people who leave there garbage at the table, just throw it out!!! they are just as bad as people who are to lazy to return a shopping cart...
Every McDonalds I've been in has been completely immaculate.
Lucky.
ever hear of those restaurants that let you throw peanut shells on the floor? Its like that!
They were just faking that video. The staff would NEVER let it get that dirty. /sarcasm directed at the lame ass excuse by Dominos employees/
@humphrmi: hahaha what with cleaning up cigarette butts also! I know McD's allowed smoking back in the day, because grandma had one of the tin ash trays they kept on the tables back then.
@humphrmi: There are plenty of people who refuse to do their jobs right, yes, and I'm sure once Obama makes everything "fair" there will be less doing so, but your comment is not entirely accurate.
When I worked in a McDonalds, everything was clean. All the time. We had people who spent their entire shift only keeping things clean for the customers.
However, every first couple days of the month, "Welfare Days" would occur. We'd get the worst of the worst coming in all day trashing every table they ate at. They refused to throw away their own trash, spilled drinks, left food on the floor or the table (so glad my taxes went to provide food to the "starving"), and generally worked to make a mess of the place. It was like they enjoyed making "crackers" work for their money, despite the fact that they didn't. So while employees could be blamed, maybe, I have to say that customers could be the main problem here, just as they were at the one I worked at.
This is indeed Hindley Street in Adelaide, Australia.
That clip was obviously taken after midnight on a Friday or Saturday night.
It's not the fault of the staff, but rather the drunken and drugged-out patrons who frequent this seedy nightclub strip.
That looks like the drunken bar close rush to me, probably only a couple hours worth of trash there. I doubt it's like that constantly.
@Taed:
I spent 3 months in Adelaide last year. That does look like the McDonalds on Hindley near Rundle Mall. Not sure though. The entrance definitely looks like it, but I don't recall a seating area like that to the left of the counter. I'll see what my girlfriend thinks since she works near there. Either way, it was clean whenever I went there.
@chuck0008: If I didn't have to use the counter like a trained rodent, I'd consider cleaning up my tray.
And yes, cleaning up after customers is part of the job regardless.
@seamer:
What? "use the counter like a trained rodent"?
It is the employee's job to ensure that your food is prepared in a sanitary environment and that the common area is kept generally clean and sanitary.
It is *NOT* the employee's job to wipe the customer's ass and clean up after filthy pigs who are incapable of placing trash into the trash can.
This is much like it is the garbage collector's job to collect your neatly placed bags of trash, but it is not the garbage collector's job to clean your yard if you've strewn the same trash all over it.
@Edjamacator: Haha, I love how you start off with a nonsensical jab at Obama and then wrap up the comment by making things about race. Good job!
@Dwayne Blake: You're telling us that they have at least one extra member of the staff dedicated to cleaning up the lobby during that obviously profitable rush? Doubt it.
Rich Jeffery:
Confirmed. It's not like that constantly. I eat there some weekday nights because I have late courses some days. Pretty much spotless then
Finally, someone who gets it! If a restaurant is dirty, the fault lies as such: 50% lazy, messy customers, 15% employee, and 35% management who either don't care or don't pay attention. If you want to point the finger, remember, there are always 3 more pointing back at you.
@metaled: As per the earlier post this was not about race when referring to welfare as we all know that every race/creed can be or has been on welfare, so good job on profiling a supposed profiler. And as for the Obama jab? Unfortunatly there is a degree of the population that believe that Jan. 20th was free money day. Sorry to burst your bubble that everyone is fair and just. I had many co-workers who believed that all of their taxes/bills would go down or be erased completely. That is not a joke. I did enjoy go around informing them that just because they have a child does not mean that taxes do still apply to them.
@Syntania: I think it's 50% management's fault because they should be allowing the employees to throw out and ban the people causing trouble.
There's no trash quite like white trash
@Rich Jeffery: Yeah, my first impression was that this video was taken just after some mad rush that the overwhelmed staff hadn't had a chance to deal with the aftermath yet and that the restaurant normally isn't that bad.
But that's not nearly as lurid, is it?
It's too early in the morning to come up with something witty to say :p
Still, it's pretty funny that someone blamed Obama's presidency for a video shot in a Micky Dees in Australia. Thanks for edjamacating me:)
McD's was my first job in highschool. I worked there until the 30 day review and gave my notice. Watching them literally play with the helth of thier customers scared me and I wanted nothing to do with it. 2for2 Big Mac's: You better hope you weren't in drive through when it backed up... I watched the manager repeatedly pull the cooking meat up just over 1/2 cooked (among other short cuts) just to get the customers out of drive through. This was in Lima, Ohio. On a side note: I worked at Arby's for over 2 years while I waited to join the USAF... I still eat there all the time. I can honestly say I never saw anything unhealthy happen there. I make it a habbit of going there repeatedly while I'm home occasionally -- the food there is still as good as I remember... and yes -- they are open 24 hours and have thier bar rushes on Fri/Sat. Still took good care of customers and kept the place clean.
@Scott Fioretta: Um, Edjumacator used the phrase "crackers," as in, the "welfare trash" viewed the white workers as their personal maids. That would imply that the customers are...not white. So yes...that post WAS about race.
And let's not even have the "Obama lovers are stupid" argument. Far more people believed we were going to be forced give up our hard-earned wages and start calling each other "comrade."
@ngwoo: "Every McDonalds I've been in has been completely immaculate."
Apparently you've never been to a McDonald's in inner-city Detroit. They make the one in this video seem pretty good in comparison.
@Scott Fioretta: When Edjamacator stated "It was like they enjoyed making "crackers" work for their money",he/she implied that those causing the problems were not "crackers", which indeed makes the comment about race. Seriously, what does the rest of your comment have to do with this post?
Customers can be awful. Employees can be awful. If both are indeed consistently awful, it's time to duke it out gladiator-style with apathetic management.
@morganlh85:
1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams
You just don't throw big enough parties. ;)
Granted that's like $100 for an 8ball, which is about 3.5g if your guy likes you, which would be like $800 worth.
Point is... you _can_ buy ounces.
@SMSDHubbard:
I would think that at that particular "profitable rush", if given what we have been told is true (drunken, drugged out patrons), it would not be particularly safe to send an employee out onto the floor to start cleaing up after the drunks and drugged patrons while they are still there trashing the place.
I've been in enough places that drunk and drugged patrons frequent (what? Don't judge me!) to know that you don't give people in that state a target.
@metaled:
It doesn't look like it, but agreed about Walmart McDs!
My worst experience in one involved fruit flies despite there being no grocery in the Walmart--they were coming from the McDs itself. I was actually sick after eating there (Didn't notice the flies until I was served and was too stupid not to just throw out the food). Horrid! Beats me how they passed their health inspections.
Now, that being said, outside of Walmart (and, as another poster mentioned, Detroit--I'd like to add in Buffalo as well) McDonald's has consistently been one of the cleanest "restaurants" I've been to and hasn't given me food poisoning or rotten food (apart from the aforementioned incident).
Wendy's, however, is another matter entirely. Hint to Quick-serves around the world: Your customers can taste rotten grease and can see pink in hamburgers. While the latter is acceptable by some from sit-down places, the former is never acceptable!
I just need to stop eating in disgusting places, I guess...
These are not restaurants but local points of assembly for manufactured food.
@GMFish: I second that. I grew up in fairly rural areas and never had any sort issues with McDonald's cleanliness. I live in NYC now, and most of the McD's I have visited in town have been absolute dumps. Some of the employees care, but most don't - and the few who do can't keep up with the large proportion of customers who insist on behaving like animals. And that's not even counting the bums.
It's now my mission in life to go to this McDonalds so that I can litter inside of it.