Mc Donalds And Baby Changing

Davidth88 · 01-06-2012 9:35am

OP , Complain to McDonalds , name and shame the branch

That is totally out of order.

I am fed up when I change my daughter having mothers looking at me like I have two heads

AH response ...... get the baby to blast them with ........

Davidth88 · 01-06-2012 9:35am

MagicMarker wrote: »

May I ask OP, do you encounter this problem a lot? It's just that I've never noticed any baby changing facilities in any men's room pretty much anywhere...?

I certainly encounter the problem often

Gummy Panda · 01-06-2012 9:40am

Send a letter to McDonald's corporate head office. You should get a reply about the issue.

bronte · 01-06-2012 9:43am

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

mcdonalds cant be expected to cater to the minority of babies who will need to be changed by men...

The majority of my nappies were changed by my father back in 1984. Don't you think both parents should be able to access changing facilities?

Lollipops23 · 01-06-2012 9:51am

bronte wrote: »

The majority of my nappies were changed by my father back in 1984. Don't you think both parents should be able to access changing facilities?

and in 1987 my father changed a lot of mine. there should be a unisex baby changing area, even if it has to double as a disabled toilets (it would need to be buggy accessible anyway). They should have let you into the staff toilets or something OP.

flutterflye · 01-06-2012 9:51am

So I've read the whole thread, and can't find an answer.
Where is it I go to change my baby?
I'm not happy with this one, I'd like to change it for a different one.

Pushtrak · 01-06-2012 9:54am

flutterflye wrote: »

So I've read the whole thread, and can't find an answer.
Where is it I go to change my baby?
I'm not happy with this one, I'd like to change it for a different one.

If you were in the shoes of the OP, you'd go in to the womens toilets, and there would be a changing facility. Not so for gents, and no disabled toilets. Generally, it is my understanding, this is available in disabled toilets so parents of either gender could use the facilities. Changing facilities shouldn't be gender specific.

flutterflye · 01-06-2012 9:56am

Pushtrak wrote: »

If you were in the shoes of the OP, you'd go in to the womens toilets, and there would be a changing facility. Not so for gents, and no disabled toilets. Generally, it is my understanding, this is available in disabled toilets so parents of either gender could use the facilities. Changing facilities shouldn't be gender specific.

Oh ok.
So there's someone there to take my baby and give me a new one is there?
Cool.
Thanks a million - I'll do that after lunch so x

Davidth88 · 01-06-2012 9:56am

flutterflye wrote: »

So I've read the whole thread, and can't find an answer.
Where is it I go to change my baby?
I'm not happy with this one, I'd like to change it for a different one.

I must admit sometimes about 3am , I feel like changing my baby too ... want to swap ?

Cookie_Monster · 01-06-2012 9:57am

Optimalprimerib wrote: »

Alot of people are saying the op is overreacting. I think he under reacted.

2. There is no reason in the world one of the worlds most renown franchises should have facilities to cater for every one.

FYP

It's a massive over reaction, why on earth would you expect a fast food place to have any baby changing facilities at all? This whole thread is so ridiculous. Having a baby is the OPs problem, not McDonald's.People really need to get over themselves.
McD's whole reason for existence is to provide fast food to people and make money off it, they have no other responsibility to anyone after that.

facemelter · 01-06-2012 10:01am

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

yeah exactly, they're a fastfood outlet, not a creche

yeah a fast food outlet that has a clown for a mascot and often can be seen with a playground on its premises and includes toys in their kids meal.:rolleyes:.

keano_afc · 01-06-2012 10:04am

You need to perfect the art of changing him on your knee bro. I still have to change my daughter on my lap in some places. She's 18 months so it can be tricky at times, but some places are still not used to seeing dads on their own with kids.

In fairness though, you should have just went in to the ladies.

shaunandelly · 01-06-2012 10:06am

Maccy d's usually have their changing facilities in the disabled toilet.....So that raises another issue,why no disabled toilet ?

Pushtrak · 01-06-2012 10:08am

shaunandelly wrote: »

Maccy d's usually have their changing facilities in the disabled toilet.....So that raises another issue,why no disabled toilet ?

That's basically the central question. No equivocating can get around it.

01-06-2012 10:09am

Ring their head office and complain. They're the only people that can do anything about it.

keano_afc wrote: »

You need to perfect the art of changing him on your knee bro. I still have to change my daughter on my lap in some places. She's 18 months so it can be tricky at times, but some places are still not used to seeing dads on their own with kids.

In fairness though, you should have just went in to the ladies.

These posts are the most worrying. Seriously? Change a baby at a table that people have to eat at? Do you people have no concept of hygiene?

ash23 · 01-06-2012 10:17am

I would prefer if the baby changing facilities were in the mens. We women are being forced to suffer crying babies and the stink of sh*tty nappies when we go to the toilet. Not to mention that the men get to cop out of changing the babies when they are with us. "oh no love, I can't change the little tykes sh*tty arse because the baby changing facilities are in the womens loos - heh heh"

Move the changing tables to the mens I say!

MiseryCat · 01-06-2012 10:23am

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

So i was in mc donalds today having a burger and had 7 month old son with me. eventually he needed to be changed so off i went to the baby changing in the toilets
the next part enraged me. there was no baby changing in the gents and no disabled toilet, the baby changing area is only in the ladies.
i asked a member of staff where was i able to change the baby and she said 'only in the ladies but obviously you cant go in there'.
i couldnt believe it, the baby was starting to get cranky but she stood at the door of the ladies blocking it so there was no way i could go in.

im very angry over this, i feel its sexist that baby changing is only available in the ladies toilets. i ended up changing him in the car but could have prevented him crying for half an hour if baby changing was available to men. it was the donaghmede branch of mc donalds. im seriously thinking of ringing joe tomorrow over this and going further

thoughts?

I thought baby changing area would be in the disable toilet so both adults could change baby nappy in there and its a big enough room like.

flutterflye · 01-06-2012 10:33am

Davidth88 wrote: »

I must admit sometimes about 3am , I feel like changing my baby too ... want to swap ?

Well, it's actually not born yet.
But you can have my 9 year old instead.

keano_afc · 01-06-2012 10:41am

Deleted User wrote: »

Ring their head office and complain. They're the only people that can do anything about it.

These posts are the most worrying. Seriously? Change a baby at a table that people have to eat at? Do you people have no concept of hygiene?

Where did I say he should change him in the restaurant in full view of people? I thought it was obvious I was referring to going to the gents and changing him on his lap in a cubicle.

Lollipops23 · 01-06-2012 10:54am

keano_afc wrote: »

Where did I say he should change him in the restaurant in full view of people? I thought it was obvious I was referring to going to the gents and changing him on his lap in a cubicle.

It didn't come across that clearly. But I see your point.

pickarooney · 01-06-2012 10:56am

Why are the able-bodied toilets gender-segregated but the disabled ones not?

01-06-2012 11:36am

keano_afc wrote: »

Where did I say he should change him in the restaurant in full view of people? I thought it was obvious I was referring to going to the gents and changing him on his lap in a cubicle.

Well I've actually experienced people changing their baby at the table during my stint in McDonalds. Some people are just that thick/inconsiderate. :mad:
I was hoping you weren't one of them

Unavailable for Comment · 01-06-2012 11:39am

pickarooney wrote: »

Why are the able-bodied toilets gender-segregated but the disabled ones not?

A unisex toilet allows carers of either gender to assist a person with a disability. It's a good thing really.

keano_afc · 01-06-2012 11:42am

Deleted User wrote: »

Well I've actually experienced people changing their baby at the table during my stint in McDonalds. Some people are just that thick/inconsiderate. :mad:
I was hoping you weren't one of them

Definitely not. I havent eaten in McDonalds in years. Eddie Rockets are no great shakes when it comes to changing facilities. It was there I've had to change our baby on my lap.

Owryan · 01-06-2012 11:50am

Mickey Lover wrote: »

I would have changed the baby on one of their tables - that'll teach them

I have done, in the recent past. Or else on the seat beside me. No staff came near me (could ve due to the noxous nappy mind you )

RaRaRasputin · 01-06-2012 11:52am

I agree, this is outragous. McDonalds should change all their restaurant tables to nappy changing ones and change their logo to a nappy as well.
We need to teach this world to put parents first, because no one else counts.

Medusa22 · 01-06-2012 11:53am

I also think that the OP is overreacting. There are bigger problems in this world, I definitely think that ringing Joe Duffy is unnecessary. Many people seem to survive without a baby changing area. However, there should be a separate baby changing area or a disabled toilet with a baby changing area which caters for men and women who need to change their child. I also find it hilarious that apparently Ireland is ''anti-family'', it must be the most child friendly place in the world.

wallpaper12 · 01-06-2012 11:58am

I think all baby changing facilities should be in a seperate room, there is nothing I hate more than going into the Ladies toilet to be confronted with a disgusting dirty smelly nappy been taken off a baby

Paparazzo · 01-06-2012 12:18pm

Medusa22 wrote: »

I also think that the OP is overreacting. There are bigger problems in this world, I definitely think that ringing Joe Duffy is unnecessary. Many people seem to survive without a baby changing area. However, there should be a separate baby changing area or a disabled toilet with a baby changing area which caters for men and women who need to change their child. I also find it hilarious that apparently Ireland is ''anti-family'', it must be the most child friendly place in the world.

Why the hell do bigger problems in the world mean that small ones should be ignored? Suppose your parents were murdered by your neighbours with an axe. You ring the police and they say "Well, there's a famine in sudan and 2 million people are at risk, an earth quake in Pakistan with 100,000 people still missing and currently malaria is killing 10,000 people a day, so we won't be down to your house"
Extreme example I know, but the "bigger problems in the world so ignore anything small" argument is so stupid it pisses me off.
Rant over

stupidusername · 01-06-2012 12:24pm

I think the OP is both overreacting and underreacting. There's much more he could've done to actually get somewhere with his complaint instead of just walking out. But then was it really that big a deal to have to do it in the car?

You can't dismiss the reasoning of demand so easily. As pointed out already, demand is what drives business. It just doesn't make sense for a business to invest in something that isn't legally required or financially beneficial. There can't be that many fathers wanting to change their babies and coming across this problem, else we'd have heard about it by now surely. or McDonalds would have baby changing facilities to please both genders, because it'd be bad for business for them not to.

Plus you're talking about a building that's already there, they likely can't just knock through to the next building to accommodate extra facilities like this.

If you really think this should be fixed, then I suggest you all write to McDonalds requesting that these facilities be provided. Nothing else will result in any changes here. While you're at it, write to all the establishments that you discover don't have baby changing facilities.

Medusa22 · 01-06-2012 12:27pm

Let me rephrase then. Most people have bigger problems to occupy themselves, I wish that a lack of baby changing facilities was my biggest problem. :rolleyes: Great comparison between murder and nappies, definitely in the same league.

cruais · 01-06-2012 12:48pm

IrishAm wrote: »

Children should be banned from all restaurants and bars.

Problem solved.

But then who would eat all the happy meals?

Paparazzo · 01-06-2012 12:56pm

IrishAm wrote: »

Children should be banned from all restaurants and bars.

Problem solved.

Heres a better idea. People that hate kids should stay away from mcdonalds

agreed on the bars though

Unavailable for Comment · 01-06-2012 12:59pm

Medusa22 wrote: »

Let me rephrase then. Most people have bigger problems to occupy themselves, I wish that a lack of baby changing facilities was my biggest problem. :rolleyes:

I'm sure the OP has bigger problems too but at that particular time the most pressing problem he had was trying to change his baby. What's so hard to grasp about that?

Medusa22 wrote: »

Great comparison between murder and nappies, definitely in the same league.

It was an analogy and personally, I found it a particularly succinct one. However it's all about each person's capacity to understand it. Try reading it again with an eye to inferring meaning appropriate to the OP's circumstances. You might be surprised that it isn't as straightforward as you thought.

Best of Luck!!

lord lucan · 01-06-2012 1:24pm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

yeah exactly, they're a fastfood outlet, not a creche

They're a fast food outlet that has pitched themselves as being family friendly both in terms of facilities,food and value. Arguably their biggest business is families going in and buying over-priced happy meals with cheap bits of plastic. They make a big deal of helping local children through their Ronald McDonald House thing.

It's not a creche,the OP wasn't looking for Maccers to mind his child,just somewhere where he could change a nappy in relative comfort and privacy. It's not too much to ask for imo from a supposedly family friendly establishment.

stupidusername · 01-06-2012 1:27pm

Here's a link to the contact page of McDonalds Ireland. you can phone them or email them, or post a hand written letter. Their head office is in Clonskeagh in Dublin.

Medusa22 · 01-06-2012 1:28pm

Perhaps if you read my posts correctly then you would understand them, but thank you for being very patronising. Let me try this once again so you may try to understand it. I do not believe that being unable to access baby changing facilities is a pressing problem, in fact I wouldn't even consider it a problem at all. Plenty of people have replied to the OP suggesting that he could change the child on the counter in the bathroom, on his knee in the cubicle (which they had to do because they didn't have facilities and they also did not whinge about it). It was a terrible analogy, ridiculously dramatic and it just reinforced my point. Perhaps if the OP's parents had been murdered then he wouldn't be complaining about needing to urgently change his child's nappy.

krudler · 01-06-2012 1:30pm

pickarooney wrote: »

Why are the able-bodied toilets gender-segregated but the disabled ones not?

the only solution is this, all bars and restaurants in the interest of fairness to cater for everyone should have:

mens
womens
disabled mens
disabled womens
mens with changing facilities
mens without changing facilities for people who hate kids
womens with and without for same
mens with kids in tow who are girls who dont want to use the ladies
womens with kids in tow who aer boys who dont want to use the mens

its the only way to be fair :pac:

Paparazzo · 01-06-2012 1:36pm

krudler wrote: »

the only solution is this, all bars and restaurants in the interest of fairness to cater for everyone should have:

mens
womens
disabled mens
disabled womens
mens with changing facilities
mens without changing facilities for people who hate kids
womens with and without for same
mens with kids in tow who are girls who dont want to use the ladies
womens with kids in tow who aer boys who dont want to use the mens

its the only way to be fair :pac:

What about a male disabled person with a female carer?

krudler · 01-06-2012 1:37pm

Paparazzo wrote: »

What about a male disabled person with a female carer?

hmm, best add that to be sure, and the reverse. or what about people with gay kids?

Scioch · 01-06-2012 1:39pm

Dont forget transsexuals with gay midget children.

Paparazzo · 01-06-2012 1:47pm

What if a person was born with both male and female genatalia who was gay and they were a carer for a disabled male who was in a car crash and cock and balls came off as a result, but before the crash they thought they were a female trapped in a mans body, and they needed their nappy changed.
What about them?

krudler · 01-06-2012 1:49pm

Paparazzo wrote: »

What if a person was born with both male and female genatalia who was gay and they were a carer for a disabled male who was in a car crash and cock and balls came off as a result, but before the crash they thought they were a female trapped in a mans body, and they needed their nappy changed.
What about them?

they can go to supermacs

Scioch · 01-06-2012 1:55pm

Paparazzo wrote: »

What if a person was born with both male and female genatalia who was gay and they were a carer for a disabled male who was in a car crash and cock and balls came off as a result, but before the crash they thought they were a female trapped in a mans body, and they needed their nappy changed.
What about them?

You mean there isnt already facilities for these people ????

I feel sick, I mean in this day and age to discriminate against these people because they were:

born with both male and female genatalia who was gay and they were a carer for a disabled male who was in a car crash and cock and balls came off as a result, but before the crash they thought they were a female trapped in a mans body, and they needed their nappy changed.

I mean its just not right.

stovelid · 01-06-2012 1:58pm

Most places don't want parents/kids in basically. Give places that do your custom.

krudler · 01-06-2012 2:01pm

stovelid wrote: »

Most places don't want parents/kids in basically. Give places that do your custom.

can't really accuse McDonalds of not wanting kids in, they perfecting marketing crappy food to children into an artform.

stovelid · 01-06-2012 2:23pm

krudler wrote: »

can't really accuse McDonalds of not wanting kids in, they perfecting marketing crappy food to children into an artform.

I guess they just need to work on their strategy for dealing with the defecated end-products now.

BunShopVoyeur · 01-06-2012 2:29pm

Zhane wrote: »

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

no. i left cause i literally just wanted to get out of there

So you complain on boards.ie rather than to someone who could have helped the situation? :rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

BunShopVoyeur · 01-06-2012 2:31pm

Medusa22 wrote: »

Let me rephrase then. Most people have bigger problems to occupy themselves, I wish that a lack of baby changing facilities was my biggest problem. :rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

stovelid · 01-06-2012 2:34pm

Medusa22 wrote: »

I wish that a lack of baby changing facilities was my biggest problem. :rolleyes:

I wish it was too.

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