Reason number 7,629 to never eat at that disgusting "restaurant"

I'm guessing the same franchisee owned multiple locations and needed an emergency restock at one, from a different location's supply.

You can see the employee holding on to two carry-out bags and one can only guess that the person on the left in blue and the person to the right out of the shot are also employees. This would lead me to believe they are delivering a large order to an office.

A) Those boxes are opened, so they probably didn't contain what they say.

B) If they did, the chicken was frozen, and has plenty of time at room temperature before something bad happenes.

C) Until recently in history, eggs were STORED at room temperature. By food safety standards, they have four hours out of refrigeration before they are considered unsafe.

D) I doubt that's any kind of delivery, as the amount of food there would barely allow operations to continue for a few hours.

E) Its interesting that McDonald's boxes haven't changed a lick in 15 years.

@MonkeySwitch: Hilarious comment! The irony is subtle.

Why would you eat at McDeath in New York, for crying out loud‽ Look around for thirty seconds, and you will find at least twenty better places to eat.

So what?! People actually transport groceries-- shocking! I suppose Christopher eats all his groceries in the market before he leaves.

In NYC, the subway is probably the fastest way to move something anyway, so good for them!

@bbbici: yep was going to say that food has more of a chance getting there fast and fresh by subway than it ever would via a truck.

There IS a reason they are trying to limit downtown traffic in NYC you know.... its because it can take a hour just to drive 6 blocks these days.

Because it's cheap, tasty, and reliable? And where I live, one of the few things open after 10.

What swalve said. Eggs and poultry can be left at room temperature for short periods without danger. I guess Christopher has never been out of the country as we are one of the few countries to obsessively refrigerate such things as butter, cheese, and even bread of all things.

Oh,good.There's our new shipment of dirty towel buckets.We need them for our new shake machine.

Why would someone assume they are moving food? I have moved many a times my household items in McDonald's boxes. They look opened, I imagine something else is in those boxes rather than MCD's food.

How do we know it was a delivery? Maybe the employee was heading home, and just grabbed a bag from work to carry some of their stuff?

When I worked at Krispy Kreme, I often rode the bus to work/home in uniform.

@MoogleLally: Oh wait, I didn't notice the guy next to her was also in McDoogles garb as well. Weird. Never mind me!

@MoogleLally:

He's the delivery guy,and she's the bodyguard.

If they're actually eggs he doesn't seem to be too worried about putting a heavy box on top of them.

They're clearly open boxes being reused for delivery. All of the original contents inside the boxes would have been in extra packaging (bags, cartons, etc), so the boxes are safe to re-use. McD's delivers in New York; I'm guessing big office or church delivery.

Would you rather McD's threw all the boxes away and used other boxes for food deliveries?

Why didn't the photo-taker just ask what the situation was? End speculation. And even if those are eggs, they won't self-destruct if left outside a fridge for an hour or two. This just might be the silliest story I've seen posted on here so far.

It's the start of a new fable "The Boy that Cried McDonald's corruption".

If you had a huge delivery order to make for a company, and you worked at a McDonalds in Manhattan, what would you do? Rent a truck?

I'm with Balisong. Can we have reports of real violations instead of pictures from some "concerned" dude's cellphone?

Let's take a cell-phone photo that doesn't show much of anything so we can come up with something that looks like it might conceivably maybe hint at a perhaps possibly being an issue and get our 15-seconds of fame online.

I think some ppl are missing the bigger possible problem. I certainly wouldn't want my food delivered in a box that had previously contained raw meats or eggs. I don't care if said raw meat/eggs were in another package. Its not a healthy way to store food.

@Balisong: Because in New York, if you talk to a stranger on the subway, they might shoot you.

I think that Hoosier45678 has it right. My roommate was a manager at a McD's and we often would fill up her car with boxes and go out and get or deliever product when needed by another store. Even driving between Kansas City and Topeka. So I wouldn't be suprised if in NYC they used the subway. McD's doesn't supply cars and if you are trying to make up your mistake on your order your are own your own.
Also my last couple moves have been entirely with McD's boxes, they are the perfect size for college girls on the move.

I was under the impression The Consumerist was edited in Manhattan; you do realize that in Manhattan, the subway is probably the safest, and most certainly the quickest, way to transport anything in Manhattan.

I've seen Chinese restaurants get restocked via the subway - dirty white buckets of mystery getting off at the Canal St station. Mmm... tasty.

They really should charge these people extra - or have a Cargo Metrocard

Maybe they're on their way home, and hope that nobody notices the empty storage areas.....

@Megatenist: Exactly what I was thinking!

I'm a little surprised that you can get that much stuff through the subway. I mean, the guy has an actual trolley with him. Isn't there someone in the subway station making sure people don't come in with stuff? How did he even manage to get through the tiny gates with it ?

@uricmu:

Um, he probably used the wheelchair entrance. With the swing door, not the turn style.

I've see them transport stuff in cabs here in Chicago (I only saw them load buns before I went down to the subway)

So ummmm, the guy taking the picture had a great chance to confirm what they were doing..... Just ask.