If your company platforms racists, it's a racist company.

If a Nazi sits at a table with 9 others and no one objects, there are 10 Nazis sitting at that table.

we open our doors to everyone

So I can have my local McDonald's close for several hours while I get some vanity pictures of me standing in front of a fryer?

“... we open our doors to everyone,” the company said.

But also you must leave within 30 mins or it's loitering and you will be trespassed.

Allowing everyone behind the counter serving food to unknowing customers sounds like a massive health code violation.

They don't care. Nazis have money too, and McDonalds doesn't discriminate.

They haven’t revoked the franchise license which means they support the action.

thruways

Exactly what they did in New York State. What use is a highway rest stop where the main food store is closed on Sunday?

But the company that New York gave the contract to is the problem. They made those rest stops too small. All it takes is one bus stopping and the line for the tiny restrooms will take a half an hour. I hope the company goes bankrupt and they tear them all down again and rebuild them to be the proper size.

Yeah although probably bk will just double down on the impossible menu, igniting the first of the burger wars.

I can't imagine there is anything in the contract they violated either.

That's part of the damage done. They can claim they're non-political, but they allow their franchisees to make corporate appear political, because they're basically the same thing to the average person because they don't know the difference.

The original McDonald's didn't have a lobby. You were supposed to eat the food in your car.

It looks like McDonald's is trying to get back to its roots.

Makes sense, except that they won’t get any of this business if they take away the play-place. I’m already leaning away from McDonald’s due to this.

Some fast food places near me have started using automated ordering at the window ie a chatbot

Also order-yourself screens in the inside ordering zones

Which I guess is cool or whatever but some of us don't mind human interaction and are fine paying .50 extra for a taco if that keeps someone employed until we can figure out how to move to a more automated world without fucking over those at the bottom

It is more that the cost of operating a dining area isn't worth it for a lot of fast food restaurants.

You have to dedicate staff time to maintaining the dining area. You also have have to maintain a public restroom, even if it is only for customers. At best, you only get the random biohazard of someone shitting themselves. It then slides to being the bathroom and living room to an unhoused population or a place where junkies go to do heroin.

Does corporate not make money from franchises? Honest question because I thought it worked that way.