McDonalds: Don`t Go There

It is very well know to most people that McDonald's is not the best of places to go out to eat unless your in a hurry. What people might not understand though is how bad of a decision it really is to eat there. How would I know such things then? Well the answer is easy, i work there myself.

Cleanliness: I rated cleanliness on the condition of the lobby, the bathrooms, along with the tables and seating. Usually the lobby can be found in a mess, with crumbs, straw-paper, and frys litered through out the lobby. It is also common to find the tables and seating coated with spots of spilled soda, which eventually dry and leave a gross and sticky residue. The bathrooms i wont even decribe out of consideration of your mentality and health, just know that it is bad. With the sorry shape that everything is in, I would give it a rating of 1 out of 5.

Service: I rated service based on employee attitudes towards the customers, how well, and how fast they completed orders. While most of the time your food will arrive in a relatively short mount of time, it is also likely that it has been either made wrong or the person bagging the food grabbed the wrong thing. Employees that interact with customers usually start out nice, but slowly as their shift goes on they get less and less polite and can end up being flat out rude. Therefore i give service a rating of 3.

Presentation: I rated presentation based on how the employees and managers are dress, grooming, and hygiene. This is probably the highest rated topic i will give to the store seeing as how all the managers are of course always dressed in clean clothes, well groomed, and lack of body odor. While most crew members also follow as the managers, usually there can be at least a couple employees that can be found with stains of god-knows-what on their uniforms, greasy hair, or some type of stench. Based on this i would rate presentation with a generous 4 out of 5.

Food Quality: Food quality was obviously rated based on the condition and appearance of food as it arrives to the customer. While all fast food never looks like what it does on the commercials, McDonald's take it to an all time low. On a good day there is a minimal amount of customers returning food either because it was made to sloppy, squished, or torn in some way. No matter how many times you can tell a young employee to be more careful with someone else`s food, they can never seem to remember for long. This lands my ranting on a 2 out of 5.

Ambiance: The ambiance in the store is not a good one. with the sound of many different machines in the kitchen making loud beeping noises 24/7, customers also must deal with the annoying music selection the owner of the store has selected. While the managers would tell you that the music selection was made the way it was so that everyone would have something to listen to, they are sadly mistaken. Songs from many decades ago are played through out the store constantly, only less than a handful of which i could accurately recognize. This puts ambiance at a rating of 1 out of 5.

With all the conditions of the subjects above averaged together, i would rate the store as a 2 out of 5. If you suspect that i may be to harsh on my criticism of Traffic Circle McDonald`s, located in Parkersburg, go down and have a look for yourself, you will soon change your mind.