I like this little fast drive-through McDonald's the people always friendly when you get your food is actually hot. The service is very good. Give it a try. read more

I don't flippantly write a second negative review, but the mystery of why I feel terrible about half the time I get Diet Coke from McDonalds, and why it tastes significantly different from canned Diet Coke, appears to have been solved. On 1/29/26 at 4:59 PM, I ordered a Diet Coke with no ice. It came with ice so I politely asked the guy at the second window to give me one with no ice (after making sure the receipt said diet). I watched him press the regular coke button, so I told him I ordered diet, and he instantly said that they don't have Diet Coke. As in they just told people it was diet when it isn't, as a matter of course. Nonplussed, I told him that that silent substitution could seriously injure a diabetic, and he and his female manager, who was in the take out window at the time, rudely cut me off and said "ok bye sir" as the window closed and laughed. So they substituted a sugar filled product without telling anyone, and then laughed that they got caught. This place is comically, insanely, and dangerously run. And to think that I had been hopeful when they repaired the menu screen that had been blinking and blacked out for seconds at a time for A YEAR OR TWO. That McDonalds doesn't close this location and refund the franchise fee is unfathomable. read more

This place has gone down hill. We've gone to this location a handful of times, and things were good before, but the last two times we ordered food here, the workers were unfriendly and messed up our order twice. The food today (dinner) was gross and we ended up throwing it away because it tasted old, like it was food from lunch and not freshly made. See picture as an example of what the Filet-O-Fish looked like. read more

McDonald's - Filet-O-Fish - Fast Food Near Me - Salem, Massachusetts

This place is okay. The kiosk I try to use was frozen so I had to try another one. Tried ti ask for assistance but no one ever went to help me. But oh well. I got a simple happy meal for my son and just waited. It seems to be quiet and it wasn't too busy inside. There's a good amount of seating inside too. read more

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I'm so tired of people not only being super cheap, but also rude when you called them out on it. Charging me $.50 for an extra cup of sauce and then giving me a quarter size amount is absolutely ridiculous. And then to tell me I'm being rude when two other employees of yours ignored what I said, and had me waiting 20 minutes in a drive-through that should've taken five. Not for nothing, it takes forever for anyone to understand my super simple request because they hire people that don't really speak English that well to be working at the Windows talking to people. And I do think that everyone deserves to be able to work but how crazy is it to have people that can't even understand those at the window, taking orders. Do better you losers. read more

Everything could improve. The workers are unbelievably rude and they serve me things i wouldn't even feed to hitler. They need to shut that bitch down. If you want your food to taste good you should go literally anywhere else but here. read more

Serves raw food, doesn't answer phones. This is ridiculous. I need to enter 85 chars in here but what else can I saw other than unsafe for human consumption. read more

McDonald's - Raw burgers - Fast Food Near Me - Salem, Massachusetts

Will not allow you to pick up a mobile orders in the same car and get a drive through order. If you forget something on a mobile order, ORDER THE FORGOTTEN ITEM FIRST !! Get your order total and them tell them about your mobile order. This women specificallt would not add a happy meal to my order today or do a seperate order for my screaming 2 year old because "they won't allow 2 orders per car". Next time I plan to just refuse to move my car in the drive-through until the second order is made. the mobile order has ALREADY BEEN IN AND MADE AND PAID FOR an additional drive through order would take NO ADDITIONAL TIME. read more

McDonald's - Fast Food Near Me - Salem, Massachusetts

This is the absolute worst McDonald's I have ever been to. The employees avoid the register like the plague and will look directly at you and walk away if you're waiting to order at the register. One of the times I came here with two friends, one of their sodas had a hole in the cup and we didn't realize until she picked it up and half of the soda went rushing out. I went to the counter to try and get another cup and was ignored for a couple minutes until an employee finally acknowledged me and gave me a cup. But by the time I came back to the table her soda had already completely soaked into the paper of the tray. That same day I had ordered a bacon cheeseburger that came without the bacon and instead it was on my friends chicken sandwich a which wasn't supposed to have bacon on it. However today, I ordered a bacon QPC without mustard. Immediately when I got my sandwich, because of my past experiences I checked for mustard not because I don't like it- because I'm allergic. Thankfully there wasn't any mustard but the bacon on the BACON QPC was missing and I also never got the ranch I asked for. The only reason an employee came to the counter was because of mobile order pickups but when it was my turn the employee looked absolutely annoyed at the fact they had to talk to me. After I told them what was wrong they said they'd go get me my bacon. When they came back with my bacon and a single ranch I asked about the other ranch because I had ordered more than one and was told I had to pay if I wanted another one even though I showed my receipt/order ticket. Walked back to my seat to put my bacon on my burger and it was stone cold at least it was cooked I guess. Didn't feel like complaining again since I knew I'd be ignored and the rest of my food would be cold by the time I got to eat it. read more

Absolutely awful I get there at 6 in the morning with no line and I order just a breakfast burrito. It takes 5 minutes and when I finally take a bite of the burrito it's ice cold. It was clearly not heated up and I couldn't even eat it. When I went back and told them the workers were extremely rude and very disrespectful. I will not be going back! read more

Worst McDonald's in the North Shore. Incompetent. Slow, rude, illiterate. Absolutely horrible !! This location will get your order wrong 90 percent of the time. Employees barely speak English and the only English they other use it to argue with you. Latest scenario was I ordered on the mobile app and when I got to drive thru, she said they gave my food to wrong person. My card was charged and I did not receive my food. Stay away from this location!!! Totally incompetent and clueless employees who will screw up your order 9 out of ten times. read more

Very confused. Placed online order. Showed it to person at drive thru who had no idea what it was and gave me someone else's order. When asking she basically stated that their system was down, so they could not make the order. So basically paid for no food. Her manager was not helpful either and basically ignored the problem. read more

I'd give it no stars but that is not an option. Ordered a large sweet tea and large fries and they said they never got my order but I literally had proof that I paid it. So instead of helping me the workers just continued to ignore me for over an hour till I got my food. The workers were rude and I noticed they kept messing up other people's orders or ignoring them as well. Very bad customer service and very frustrating. :( read more

The food at McDonald's will always have a special place in my big heart. From Big Macs, to fries, Nuggies, etc. BUT BOY OH BOY, when the Shamrock McFlurry came out I was so excited. Little did I know when I hit that drive through with my husband would I get a cup full of toothpaste and SPIT. I was starving so I slurped it anyway, but this was garbage and put me on the toilet till 2am. The service is buns as none of them speak English. The ambiance I do not even know because I cannot even go inside after 11pm. I'll be back for vengeance. read more

This place serves me cold food. Every. Single. Time. Really no excuse. It's cold when it's busy, it's cold when it's slow. It's cold when it rains, it's cold when it snows. This is one McDonalds to which you should never go. Unless you like to pay $20 for cold fries and sandwiches these geniuses didn't even take the time to melt the cheese on. Inexcusable. So many better food options in the area. read more

Have went again, and the fries have not improved I have heard many people who have been recently saying that the burgers and fries taste horrible! Please do better!! Adding onto this the service was not good! The employees aren't nice and sound rude when you are just trying to get your meal and enjoy your food! read more

This review is for drive thru only. Ordered a iced coffee at the drive thru. My order was taken quickly and filled promptly. My iced coffee arrived cold and with exactly the amount of milk I requested. This location has a great drive thru crew, unlike most McD's. I give this location a Solid 4 Stars. read more

McDonald's - the front of the restaurant - Fast Food Near Me - Salem, Massachusetts

I honestly don't know how it's possible to get a quarter pounder w/cheese and not have bottom bun on it. And the patty was basically crumbling apart. But it happens here. Prices have sky rocketed while quality has plummeted. Shame. read more

McDonald's - Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe with no bottom bun. - Fast Food Near Me - Salem, Massachusetts

Canel st. Salem McDonald's has good service and atmosphere and the food is good except the portion size. The egg Mcmuffin looks like a mini egg Mcmuffin. The McDonald's corporation is squeezing the customer on portion size. Other than that , I have no complaints. Fast and friendly sservice and clean restaurant and parking area. read more

So I get McDonalds every Saturday and every single Saturday it's a problem they always get my order wrong for example Ik that yesterday wasn't Saturday but I got it yesterday ok but I got McDonalds yesterday and they had my hole order wrong and she they said if u speak Spanish why didn't u order in Spanish I said it dose matter if I order it in English and u don't understand u could of told me non of them speek English there just horrible read more

Came here at 2:25 with antonio and nighthawk and the worker was high as fuck and kept messing up, put my order on the screen then said it wasn't there and gave me a lot of attitude, after showing her my order i finally received my food. This is an abomination i would not recommend this place to anyone read more

Stopped off to the McDonald's on Salem Street for a quick breakfast ordered a sausage biscuit with cheese and a large Diet Coke. Told the drive-through guy twice but I wanted got to the window he asked me what I ordered I told him and then I found out afterwards what he gave me was a sausage egg and cheese which I immediately threw back into the parking lot and left. It's not what I wanted that's not what I want and I should realize that she's got a real breakfast place instead of the fast food places where they can't hire anyone that gives a shit about anythingAs I look on yelp I understand why this place gets two stars even though it's a good looking McDonald's. I give it one star because there's no one over seeing anything here. How can you mess an order of that bed with three cars in the line I don't know but maybe they should ask the manager at this McDonald's maybe they can tell read more

I am EXTREMELY disappointed in the service at this Salem Mcdonald's. I ordered a Large fry on my uber eats and it was not delivered. So i called about the fries and the lady on the phone HUNG UP ON ME. This is very very rude! So i called back again and she just kept saying no. I will never be eating Mcdonald's again and neither will any of my friends. Also my friends dad is a lawyer. So keep your head on a swivel. read more

McDonald's - the fries on my receipt. It's not about the money. It's about the inconvenience. - Fast Food Near Me - Salem, Massachusetts

Sent my son to pick up order via drive thru at 3:20 from mobile app on 10/28. He was handed drinks and told to pull in a curbside spot to wait on 2 - 20 piece nuggets. He waited and no one came out. He went inside and said he was missing items, no spoke English and didn't understand him. He was able to show the order number and they said no food. I was at the local university game, so I stopped in after game around 5. THEY ABSOLUTELY would not give me the missing items. They mocked me, laughed at me and completely ignored me. I asked the shift manager to review the video for the time. She said no and thay she was NOT replacing the items. She said everyone working started at 4, so they could not assist for an incident that transpired at 3:20. I asked for the manager and franchise owner information. She flat out denied. They left me standing at register and called the police. 3 cruisers showed up! In Salem the last thing the police need is to write a report of missing nuggets! Police eventually gave me a name which i am confident is not correct. Joanna Perez shift manager. I am from out of town and this was handled very wrong. Only 1 gentleman that worked there spoke English. NOT ONE PERSON HAD NAME TAGS! They literally got every pick up order wrong, they were rude to those patrons. One lady was missing a mcdouble, another gentleman was waiting in a cup, another woman was handed the wrong tea. UNACCEPTABLE! It was a complete disaster. This is a matter of principal at this point and I want the franchise owner info. If my store was being handled by a bunch of idiots, I would want to know. They need training on resolution for patrons. They should all be wearing name tags. They should be working on customer satisfaction! I called the store this morning and was sent to voicemail. They took off the stickers from the windows regarding contact information. THE REVIEWS ONLINE REGARDING THIS STORE ARE HORRENDOUS! I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED! ***To the employees, you should never mock and laugh at customers while you are working in the fast food industry. It's not for the faint of heart working in fast food. BUT, It is your job! So do your job! OR YOU ALL SHOULD BE FIRED. read more

Quick and pleasant service on the breakfast drive thru. Breakfast burrito was well stuffed. I even asked for extra picante sauce assuming that it was forgotten. To my pleasant surprise I was mistaken and ended up with double the sauce. Didn't have to wait off to the side for anything. Exactly what I hope for in a McDonald's drive thru read more

service was shitty they hung up on me mid order and called me an adopted bitch, this was the worst experience ive ever had 1 star

Always has very long lines, but the workers are pleasant. A bit more expensive than the others.

Sux. You know us, never keeping it short. But this one will be. No napkins. Dirty tables and floor. Nice furniture but it's not clean. Sprite didn't taste like sprite. We didn't get one of our drinks. No ketchup. Boo. Weird people too, maYbe crying ? No picture cuz we hate this place so much. read more

staff seemed in a really bad mood overall and were rude imo. the ambiance is more updated but the food is very terrible and i would not recommend. read more

WORST WORST WORST mcDonalds I have ever been to in my 58 years of living . Never ever have any help , they close and LOCK the doors when they decide they don't want anyone inside - and then the drive thru gets backed up onto Canal,Street - horrible horrible read more

McDonald's Deals not available here, was told that it was because no internet. Did not eat there so review is for only this lack of availability. read more

Hot fries, quick service. Very happy with my experience. Got a couple extra sauces for dipping.

So today I needed to eat something quick as I diabetic. Ask for fries and a cheese burger. I asked for mayonnaise on her way she dropped a pack, instead of tossing it, she threw it in the bag on top of my fries. How un sanitary can you get. Disgusting behavior. Won't be a next time. read more

OK, how did they screw up the simple ordering process..... Now you have to talk to three people to get your burger and fries. Wondered why there were only 3 people there at noon time....now I know....took 20 minutes to get through the process. Wendy's has a new customer. read more

Went with my friend to this McDonalds Friday night. It's usually pretty good. (has a really excellent dining area, also) We sat for like...10 minutes at the drivethru the other night because they were severely understaffed. Wasn't their fault. Got two large combo meals, and went about my evening. Got home, and what was supposed to be a large fry was a half full medium fry. It was a very long night and I was hungry. Also strapped for cash, wasn't fair. So I went back, and inside this time. When I went in, there wasn't any wait at all. The manager, Scott, was at the counter. I showed him my drink to prove him I ordered a large since I was never given a receipt. When I pulled the fries out of the bag, he immediately asked "who gave you that?" He shook his head, and took our fries, dumped them and gave us brand new, just out of the friolator, large fries. I thanked him, and he told me to wait right there. He came out with these great coupons that my friend and I are really happy about. He was extremely nice and suggested we come back. At first I was really disappointed with the situation, but honestly, Scott's mature, courteous, excellent managerial skills have convinced me that this place will always deserve a second chance. read more

Went through the drive through for breakfast. Quick service, friendly staff, food was good. Got a sausage egg mcmuffin and it came out fluffy and warm. No complaints here! read more

stupid ladies in the drive thru charged me 14 bucks instead of 8 for the combo of mcnuggets fries and a drink. went back around to fix it and bitch told me to kick rocks. also got a hair in my shamrock shake once here last year but they gave me one without a hair when i went back to fix it. first mcdonalds i ever went to as a kid tho so i have some nostalgia, but it has fallen apart and it is a shame to see it go downhill. read more

The staff and patrons were all very friendly and chatted with us. Service was fast. There was a nice outdoor seating area but I didn't see a children's play area (don't know if I overlooked it). Restrooms were well maintained. read more

Slow fast food is very bad. The only reason I go to a Mcdonald is to get it fast. This place seems to be understaffed all the time.

This McDonalds could use a lot of work - employee wise. It's a shame how bad management is considering the building has been recently renovated. A friend ordered a chocolate milkshake, which was completely white. He told them that he ordered chocolate and they said it is chocolate - he tried it and it was vanilla. When he went back up, they made him a new one and just added chocolate syrup because they refused to simply admit they didn't have chocolate. This location has no napkins or ketchup accessible to the customer, it must be requested and then they take 5 minutes to give it to you. Also, the self order machine is not printing receipts and when I informed that I received a measly "ok". read more