A number of stories have recently come to light, showing that McDonalds allegedly has a new policy which is preventing customers from buying food for homeless people. In the UK this month alone there have been two separate incidents to make international headlines, where homeless people were denied service at McDonalds.
The first case involved a 27-year-old landscaper named Daniel Jackson who was almost denied service at a McDonalds on Oxford Road in Manchester because he was wearing dirty clothes and according to the staff he “looked homeless.” Jackson had to explain to the staff that he was actually just coming from a hard day’s work and was not homeless.
“I’d just clocked off work and I was absolutely ravenous. I’d not eaten since breakfast so I thought I’d go to McDonald’s for a quick meal. But when I got to the till the cashier went to get the manager from the back. He then said he wasn’t going to serve me because I looked homeless. I explained to him I had been at work all day but he said they had a zero tolerance policy on serving homeless people,” Jackson told Manchester Evening News.
“It took some serious persuasion to convince them I wasn’t homeless. I admit I was wearing scruffy clothes because I’d been working outside all day. That’s no reason to assume I live on the streets. I’m angry that I had to justify myself in front of a massive queue of strangers. Yet what I find most disgusting is thatpolicy like that even exists. It completely victimises homeless people. Surely if you have the money in your hand and you want to purchase a meal, you should be treated like any other customer,” he added.
McDonalds apologized for the humiliating ordeal, but the corporate headquarters insisted that this was not an official story policy.
Just weeks later, a 19-year-old girl named Charlotte Farrow visited that same exact McDonalds in hopes of purchasing some food for a homeless man who she saw on her walk to work. She was also denied service and told that it was their policy not to serve homeless people.
“We queued up and the homeless guy tried to get some money out before I told him I was paying. Then the supervisor said ‘we don’t serve homeless people’. He said the business manager told them they weren’t allowed to serve homeless people. They said it was a new policy,” Farrow told Manchester Evening News.
“It was his attitude towards the guy – we were both customers so there shouldn’t be any difference. I think it’s absolutely awful and completely immoral. We’re all human beings. I wouldn’t expect to be treated like that. If they’re refusing to serve homeless people it’s extremely judgemental,” she added.
When questioned again by the media, McDonalds has continued to insist that this is not an official policy at any of their stores.
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F”@k McDonalds!
I’d never eat their slave rations as it is.
Hearing that they are no longer going to publish their earnings statement further confirms my suspicion that they are failing due to the non-food properties of the junk they sell. If you’ve ever found a petrified french fry from there years after it was purchased or seen the “12 year old hamburger” on youtube, you know what I’m talking about.
I pray the company goes belly-up.
My thoughts on this subject parallel yours Darzak .
Another reason to avoid this company like the plague.
When I was in high school the first McDonald opened in my town. We were awed really. The burger was ten cents cheese add a nickel, fries only one size ten cents also, large came later. If I remember well frosts were twenty cents or a soda also ten. You could eat a whole meal for under fifty cents. I do not believe the Happy Meal was invented yet. There were no deserts and the food was simple and tasty. I loved the McDonald as many did.
I do not remember when the food became crap but I parted ways early on and never returned. To me the quality changed and that was that. I think that money still talks and as companies lose sales due to the enlightenment of the people who patronize them, pull away they will have to change or fade away.
Saving lives.
Unintentionally, however.
How ironic, but true.
Can I have three quarter pounders with cheese, one in a separate bag for Joe on the corner of the street thank you. ” Sorry we don’t sell food for the Homeless”. OH ok I’ll have three quarter pounders with cheese, one in a separate bag for my Dad at home Thank you.
1. Why would you want to eat at McDonalds, the second most poison food capital of the world behind Monsanto?
2. Every McDonalds can burn to the ground for all I care.