Poll: Macdonalds - bin or leave rubbish

Do you clear your own rubbish?

  • Yes, of course, I'm not a scuffer

    Votes: 525 85.8%
  • No, I'm a scuffer

    Votes: 87 14.2%

  • Total voters
    612
I work there and only about 20% of people bin there rubbish in Dundee.

I'm almost tempted to go into McDonalds to see if I can spot you. Almost but not quite as that would mean eating a McDonalds meal and I've avoided that for years now, I would bin the leftovers on the way out though. ;)

I never clear up at McDs or similar. Why would I? It's a restaurant, it has staff. Clearing up after customers is their job. I don't clear up after myself in a pub, why would do I do it a McDs?

Never in a pub? I find myself doing it a fair bit, I'm heading up to the bar anyway so why not take a few glasses, it clears a bit of space and makes the job of the bar staff that little bit easier.

I never use toilets to **** in. Why would I? It's a restaurant it has staff. Clearing up after customers is their job.

Remind me never to go for a meal with you. One would be a reasonable expectation appropriate to the job, cleaning up tables wouldn't be. Or maybe that's the wrong way round.
 
They serve food; they provide tables to eat at. It's a restaurant.

You go to the till to buy your food, they give it to you there and then, you pay before you eat, you take the food to the table yourself, you pay about a tenth of the price, you would never take a girl on a date there, it has BINS. It is different to a normal restaurant.
 
I don't like the idea of my McDonalds wrappers ending up in a landfill somewhere, I prefer to wait until the mop jockey who clears the tables picks up my tray, then I set fire to both.
 
Having worked at McDonalds for a very short amount of time (was a student and found a better job), it is very annoying when people (mainly chavs) leave rubbish everywhere, especially when they decide to have a food fight in the carpark. Retarded I know, but chavs will be chavs!

I, as a customer, will/have always cleared my rubbish - Parents always made me when I was little and it is just what I do, I don't think about it, I just do it. From experience it tends to be the badly brought up people (generally working class people) who leave crap all over the tables - You know, the sort whose parents never made them chew with their mouths shut.

To me, leaving your rubbish everywhere would just feel childish, like something you would do in high school.
 
I don't like the idea of my McDonalds wrappers ending up in a landfill somewhere, I prefer to wait until the mop jockey who clears the tables picks up my tray, then I set fire to both.
I agree about the recycling bit. Its a disgrace McDonald's don't recycle their rubbish.
 
I think this is the answer to this question.

BK pricing is a bit of a mick take, though. If you buy a non XL burger it's so small you literally laugh when you open it, smaller than a McDonalds burger. So by default you must order an XL burger.

Large XL Bacon Double Cheeseburger meal: £6.19
Large Quarter Pound W/Cheese meal: £3.99

Thats a considerable difference for two competing companies. 6 quid for a BK? You can almost buy proper food for that.
 
I always clean it away, it's common sense since you're passing at least one bin anyway.

[TW]Fox;13009842 said:
People who dont put their rubbish in the bin when they have finished are animals. It's a shame they are the most prevelant customer type in McDonalds.

THESE.

Bin the whole lot before you even attempt to eat it tbh.

ahaha :p

Totally disagree, not that i eat there much. I never ever clear up in McDonalds, if they are going to advertise as a restaurant then i will treat it like a restaurant. Clearing food away off a table is the staff of the restaurant's job.

Poor way of looking at things...

I always clean my table, its common sense... do anything else and you've been brought up poorly...
 
McDonalds is much chesper than BK, true, but then again BK is much tastier and you get a lot more.

I also get hungrier much quicker after a Maccies than I do other forms of takeaway.
 
See i disagree with this argument too, my reasoning behind not clearing up is absolutely nothing to do with the demographic of the workforce. It is nothing to do with respect, it is everything to do with the fact that it is a restaurant. Out of courtesy i will pile it all up neatly on my tray, i don't feel that i should have to do that, but i am not an arse - i can see they are busy.

Very true statement, but when you consider that respect these days gets less and less mutual by the minute, you have to question if it's really worth it (in McDonalds of all places anyway). Out of respect I would walk on the outside of pavements, open doors, pick something up off the floor, help someone across the road. But that benefits the individual, not the job an individual is employed to do. I have to admit I very rarely visit the place, and mood would play a big part in my decision.

Ah so whether or not you leave rubbish behind thus annoying the people who have to use the table after you depends on whether or not the employees fall into one of your approved categories of people?

Exactly. Although the situation you describe would rarely happen in the McDonalds I visit, as it's rarely at capacity. If it were busy, I would probably change my perception to consider that I wouldn't want to see the next customers have to put up with the pathetic and lethargic students not doing their job well enough to clean up before they get there. Which would lead me to the decision to take my plate to the bin.

[TW]Fox;13010114 said:
Awesome, did you really manage to slip this into a thread about McDonalds? Kudos :cool:

Your next challange is to make a dig at me in a thread in the Linux forum. GOGOGO.

Of course, I'm very adaptable like that.

Sorry, unfortunately I’m not easily dictated by 'challenges'. I might have been back when I was in education though. After all, you can always rely on an academic environment to make you feel good about doing what you're told, or reading from a book.
 
[TW]Fox;13010222 said:
BK pricing is a bit of a mick take, though. If you buy a non XL burger it's so small you literally laugh when you open it, smaller than a McDonalds burger. So by default you must order an XL burger.

Large XL Bacon Double Cheeseburger meal: £6.19
Large Quarter Pound W/Cheese meal: £3.99

Thats a considerable difference for two competing companies. 6 quid for a BK? You can almost buy proper food for that.

... but did you get your micrometer out of your cardigan pocket and measure both burgers?
 
[TW]Fox;13010222 said:
BK pricing is a bit of a mick take, though. If you buy a non XL burger it's so small you literally laugh when you open it, smaller than a McDonalds burger. So by default you must order an XL burger.

Large XL Bacon Double Cheeseburger meal: £6.19
Large Quarter Pound W/Cheese meal: £3.99

Thats a considerable difference for two competing companies. 6 quid for a BK? You can almost buy proper food for that.

This is very true, although to be honest i must admit that i rarely look at the pricing in either so wasnt aware that there was much difference. When grabbing a cheeky burger in town i nearly always get a wetherspoons microwaved one and pint & chips for a fiver or whatever it is.
 
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