After getting off the 200 bus from our day trip to Antibes, we decided have a late lunch at McDonald's because of its convenient location near the Meridien hotel. After ordering at the kiosks, we patiently waited for our food at the pick-up counter where there were 4 crew members assembling the orders. We waited, and waited, and waited. After around 10 minutes, we stepped up to the counter and calmly asked when we could expect our order to come out. The manager grabbed our receipt and took a brief looked at it. She then forcefully gave it back to us and proclaimed that they had to cook a lot of burgers in the back so it was expected that orders would take a long time. Right after speaking to the manager who seemed to be lacking in respect for her customers, one of the workers who was delivering food to people with table service kept telling us to step back quite forcefully. I mean it's not like we were going to bomb the place. But sure. You could have easily said something else and not aggravated us and others but all was still well. After calmly watching the assembly crew do absolutely nothing, one of them started to move one of the trays that had two large cokes placed on it. But as she was lazily dragging the tray across the counter, one of the cokes fell to its side and hung by a couple threads on the edge of the counter. No worries right? If she didn't move at all, she could have easily saved a spill and mess. But no. She kept on pulling the tray and watched the coke as it splattered on the kitchen wall. At the exact time, it seemed as if she did not give a s***. 20 minutes in, getting pissed, we saw part of our "grill" order given to another customer who opened it and gave it back to the crew, who promptly put it back on the warming rack (I used to be an assistant manager at a McDo--this is a no no, if a sandwich is returned it needs to be thrown away immediately). When I started to make a stink about waiting for our food for 25 minutes, they said that this is normal ( I wanted to say on what planet does it take over 25 minutes to get a fast food order right!). The manager then finally came up to see what the ruckus was about. She said that grills take longer and that we should eat our order and she'll give it to us. I sarcastically replied "that would be nice if we had our order given in the first place!" She screamed to the crew at the back to prepare our "grill order of 2 hamburgers plain" I guess you need a PhD to make 2 hamburgers plain--hmm we need to kill the cow, grind the meat, harvest wheat and grind it into flour and bake 2 buns, butter the grill, wait for the right temperature to cook the meat. Walla~~~!!! A perfect hamburger plain with nothing on it!!!!! It's not like we were asking for a stupid wedding cake! All we wanted was our nuggets, fries, drinks and plain burgers. Pretty simple for a fast food that has created these numerous times everyday. Wait 2 of them, guess need to do it all over again. The manager had to go back and cook the damned things herself. We finally got our food, 35 minutes after we paid, of course the fries are cold now, but too hungry and pissed off. Well s***, no condiments for our fries, only 2 barbeque sauce packs for our 40 pc nuggets--had to go back (20 cents please for extra sauce--@#$% we only got 2 and had to argue for 5 minutes to get 3 more packs(really???)). This is only about the food, let's not get into the attitude of the crew who all pointed fingers at each other about who screwed up this order, the manager who was rude about the whole incident, but finally did offered us a free coffee. All this time the other customers were waiting for their orders for a long time as well. There were 5 of us spread into 2 tables because the Italian couple beside us who wouldn't move one table over so we could sit side by side. These 2 idiots finished eating when we got there and were still there after we finished--easily 1 hour of hogging a table. The man was contemplating on the meaning of life and the woman was browsing on her smartphone (free wifi--whoop-de-doo which was not working at all). read more