i have ordered here McDonald's Daniel St, Manteca once or twice a month since it opened. The Iced Hazelnut coffee is to die for with xtra cream. I love !. They recently changed their small and large salad containers to crystal clear see thru types which makes it easy to spot if your lettuce is fresh or slightly turning brown from being kept past expiration sale date. I always check mine before i leave the Drive thru window because past experience was by time I was home and started putting away my salads, I noticed the lettuce was brown on the edges. Not good. So always check before I leave the DT.
I also noticed the salad portion sizes of the small salads has shrunk in portion size as opposed to what it was a few months ago. Salads look as if there is not more than a handful of lettuce in the container. Come on.. why do they have to short the salads? Lettuce is cheap. It just makes one think poorly of McDonald's that they would stoop to such tactics as to short the lettuce in the salads as if that is going to save them big time and the fact that we the people are not going to notice it??? Really?. I have asked the DT clerk to put more lettuce and she/he will always say I will have to check with my manager first and let you know. That undoubtedly leads to a visit from the shift assistant Manager, which result is sometimes they will put a little extra lettuce filled up to the lid and sometimes result leads to a comment by the assistant Manager "That's the way we make our salads here at McDonald's on Daniel St, Manteca, Ca." Same comment from Assistant Manager at the W Yosemite Blvd, Manteca location. So I do not even ask anymore. I just get my salads as the other McDonald's on E Yosemite because they DO fill the salad container all the way full to the lid with lettuce and spring mix like it is suppose to be. And always fresh no brown lettuce either.
One late nite visit this past month to McDonald's Daniel St., I had asked for xtra mayonnaise in separate small cup for my McChicken's as they are always to dry. They wanted to charge me xtra 25cents for that. I said no thanks I would rather not pay xtra for something that other McDonald's are giving out free.
Another visit early this past year to McDonald's Daniel St, I ordered a large fry with my chicken wrap sandwich as part of the meal. I checked my order at the DT as always before leaving the window. And low and behold the large fry container was HALF FULL. I asked the employee to fill it up to top of container and she said I will have to run that by my Manager. So next thing, the shift assistant Manager, Janet, comes to DT window, she says that is the normal amount we put in the large fry container. I ask why? Most other McDonald's around here fill the fry containers full? She said its a management/corp decision. I said.. just like the up-charge for the xtra mayonnaise? She said...Yep!.. I am thinking... WT**F? is wrong with you people in Corporate McDonald land? Do you think we the people will not notice such portion shorts and protest? Which will lead to us not ever wanting to return to this McDonald's location again in this lifetime. And also will lead to us finally get so fed up that one has to speak out about it on not only at Yelp but several other social media sites to air our discontent of such one sided selfish greedy corporate tactics?
Other visits to McDonald's Daniel St later this year yielded the following:
Early 5a morning run to McDonald's Daniel St, for fast food before the morning breakfast rush yielded some very strange exchanges.... I asked for two items... an egg white, bacon biscuit with no cheese and a big breakfast with egg white, bacon and biscuit sub for the English muffin. I did not check my order and assumed that they would have gotten it right because I went over the order two times with the DT Window clerk to make sure she put in my order correctly. When I got home and took out my two items..I could not believe what they did to my order. The egg white, bacon biscuit had white cheese on it. The big Breakfast, the egg white was so minuscule and burned it was not edible and the biscuit was a miniaturized size of the normal biscuit size you get when you order an egg bacon biscuit DT takeout. I wished I had taken a picture to upload. Next time.
Summary: I would have to say that there is some downsizing of food portions a miss here at corporate McDonald land on Daniel St and West Yosemite Blvd, Manteca, Ca.. Wouldn't you? Not only that but several of the run in's with the Manager's here at these McDonald's tells me that they are playing it up to the upper Management and indoor security cameras as they are being recorded and monitored daily by whomever is assigned to review those security taped files. Probability RE: because the more up charges these Assistant Managers can score for their locations the more points they acquire in the process of moving up the Corporate ladder to upper management wouldn't you think? . read more