McDonalds still closed for walk ins

GT89

I was walking up Grafton Street today and somewhat to my surprise McDonalds one of main landmarks on the street was still CLOSED not even open for takeaways whilst almost every other retail and food establishment is now open. In fact the vast majority of shops that are still closed are those that have gone out of business during lockdown. Why is this?

py2006

Ok

Blush_01

GT89 wrote: »

I was walking up Grafton Street today and somewhat to my surprise McDonalds one of main landmarks on the street was still CLOSED not even open for takeaways whilst almost every other retail and food establishment is now open. In fact the vast majority of shops that are still closed are those that have gone out of business during lockdown. Why is this?

They went out of business, you just didn't get your hand delivered letter from Ronald yet.

Keep an eye out, he's doing the rounds.

joeharte123

py2006 wrote: »

Ok

Insightful comment. You made a great contribution to the discussion.

freshpopcorn

From my understanding McDonald's did a trial at a handful of Drive-thru's before expanding opening all of them.
They are probably doing the same with the walk in Restaurant's!

pleasant Co.

joeharte123 wrote: »

Insightful comment. You made a great contribution to the discussion.

Ditto.

Leg End Reject

It's probably harder given the volume of customers they have and the fact that there's a shared entrance and exit.

I wouldn't fancy manning the doors there.

GT89

GT89 wrote: »

I was walking up Grafton Street today and somewhat to my surprise McDonalds one of main landmarks on the street was still CLOSED not even open for takeaways whilst almost every other retail and food establishment is now open. In fact the vast majority of shops that are still closed are those that have gone out of business during lockdown. Why is this?

It's a sad state of affairs when McDonald's is considered a landmark

Dravokivich

Deleted User wrote: »

It's a sad state of affairs when McDonald's is considered a landmark

It's a good thing we weren't struck with the predicament of which Burger King?

Kintarō Hattori

I'm surprised Costa is still closed when lots of small coffee shops are open, Starbucks etc are open.

whisky_galore

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It's a sad state of affairs when McDonald's is considered a landmark

Fun fact. It was the only fast food joint that wasn't burnt out in 1916.

Zebra3

Are they still open for drive-bys?

Strumms

It’s a small narrow entrance with a relatively narrow aisle leading up to the checkouts which are usually crowded. It’s also got to be I’d imagine one of the busier shops in the city and country by the nature of where it is so I can’t imagine enforcing distancing is going to be possible.

cml387

I would guess that McDonald's decision to install self service order screens, previously smeared with all kind of muck and now smeared with C-19, would be a reason for caution.

Ubbquittious

Wht about blowin?

Carfacemandog

Don't know if it was burger king or McDonalds but at least one of them was open on oconnell street two days back.

For Forks Sake

whisky_galore wrote: »

Fun fact. It was the only fast food joint that wasn't burnt out in 1916.

Padraig Pearce was partial to the ould McNuggets

corner of hells

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Padraig Pearce was partial to the ould McNuggets

Legend has it , that there was a tunnel from the GPO to McDonald's in O Connell street.

Strumms

Strumms wrote: »

It’s a small narrow entrance with a relatively narrow aisle leading up to the checkouts which are usually crowded. It’s also got to be I’d imagine one of the busier shops in the city and country by the nature of where it is so I can’t imagine enforcing distancing is going to be possible.

Worked there for a few of years in the late 90s. At the time, management claimed that, based on single-day sales, it was the busiest in Europe due to the volume of sales on Paddy's day. You're talking 10-15 deep queues, all day (from 10am til about 6.30pm).

Second busiest day was always the mini-marathon, ironically enough. We'd run out of diet coke every year I worked that day.

Carfacemandog

Carfacemandog wrote: »

Don't know if it was burger king or McDonalds but at least one of them was open on oconnell street two days back.

Burger King at the top of Grafton St. is open for takeouts if yiz want burgers.

joeharte123

Zebra3 wrote: »

Are they still open for drive-bys?

It doesn’t need to be open for you to drive by?

Muahahaha

Deleted User wrote: »

Worked there for a few of years in the late 90s. At the time, management claimed that, based on single-day sales, it was the busiest in Europe due to the volume of sales on Paddy's day. You're talking 10-15 deep queues, all day (from 10am til about 6.30pm).

Second busiest day was always the mini-marathon, ironically enough. We'd run out of diet coke every year I worked that day.

Yeah the Grafton St McDonalds is absolutely mobbed all day long every day, the amount of people they serve is incredible. Whoever owns it has made serious money out of it over the years.

Had heard before about 10 years back that the Dominoes in Tallaght is the busiest in Europe, think it was Andrew Maxwell who joked it was because people in Tallaght are afraid to leave their houses