Mcdonald’s

Ordered medium fries, filet o fish and chicken nuggets. While the chicken nuggets and filet o fish were hot and yummy, the fries tasted as though they had been fried a couple hours ago… It wasn’t hot at all… Barely lukewarm. Also, they only served water, orange juice or beer. No soft drinks available. The servers seemed nonchalant and didn’t seem to care much about the customers but since I got my food it was all good haha.

McDonald’s and the Louvre I guess you could say are some of the most recognized icons in the world. Put the two together and you get a huge crowd of people waiting in line for hamburgers just a short distance away from the Mona Lisa. It’s quite a jarring juxtaposition. The McDonald’s in the Louvre suffers from a lot of the problems you would get for being in the world’s most-​visited museum. In the summer, you can expect the place to be very hot, poorly air-​conditioned, and full of tourists. The lines are long and slow-​moving. It’s not even really a line, just a chaotic jumble of people standing in front of the counter. And being in the Louvre, you can of course expect the prices to be high.
The only reason I stopped at this place was that after gaining entry into the Louvre, I didn’t have much more money to spare. What cheaper place than McDonald’s could you possibly find? Sure, there were a lot more people waiting at this restaurant than the other ones, but they were probably all thinking the same thing I was. When you’re in the Louvre, you’re probably there to see many works of art, so you might as well see how they’ve treated America’s largest chain of restaurants. The items on the menu didn’t really contain any surprises. But the staff was terribly slow to take the customers’ orders, which is only made worse by how impatient everyone there must be. I imagine that a lot of it probably had to do with language barriers, but even then, there was just a huge throng of people that didn’t seem to be getting any smaller at a reasonable rate.
When it finally came to my turn, I ordered a «double cheese» for 2,00 € and a «frappé saveur cerise» for 1,95 €. The prices could conceivably have been a little lower, but I was already in the Louvre and wasn’t going to complain about my situation. What might be worth complaining about, however, is the haste with which the double cheeseburger appeared to have been put together. Between the two buns, there were the beef patties, cheese, pickles, and sauce. They looked like they had been assembled too quickly, even though the ingredients were so simple that they probably shouldn’t have needed to perform the job in such a hurry. The frappé was basically just a thick cherry-​flavored milkshake and was admittedly okay considering the price. The problem was that after eating all this, I was almost as hungry as I was when I had started. 3,95 € later and it was like it had all disappeared and never happened.
Still wanting more, I walked back in line again and waited for my turn. I ordered a McFlurry for 2,90 €, and it’s basically just vanilla ice cream with chopped nuts. I think that adding extra stuff to it is thirty centimes extra, but because I had waited in line for so long, the guy was kind enough to let me have chocolate syrup on top for free. He even mentioned it in English after I had spoken to him in French, which was nice of him. This didn’t actually satisfy my hunger any more; I was still starving after having strolled around the huge museum that August afternoon. I thought I had spent enough time and money here, so I promptly departed. A note to anyone visiting the Louvre: if you plan on staying for a meal and don’t want to shell out a lot of money or wait a long time for it, it’s probably best to bring your own sandwich or something and eat it there instead. You could look around the stores there for food, but then you’d be looking at prices like 2,60 € for a half-​liter bottle of water.