McDonald’s

Ok always check your order. They always miss something. Always check your coffee before you leave that it’s made right. Always ask for napkins, they won’t automatically give you any!
Good news — everything tastes like McDonalds!

Wowza is the only way to describe my McDonald’s experience this afternoon. This location always has service with a smile and is quick to get me my order. Food is always hot and fresh, just the way I like it. McDonald’s at it again.

Ah, the joys of downing pink goop with watery Sprite at 1am in the morning.
I thought I saw some really bad reviews of this McDonald’s. Something about the terrible service, lack of sanitation, bad food, etc. In general, I can see why those reviewers said those things.
Coming here is like walking down memory lane. Back into your dirty, smelly old college dorm room that you shared with two equally weird, obnoxious roommates. The garbage can is overflowing with trash because everyone is too lazy to take it out. There is a constant stream of people from all walks of life (although mostly college age).
The food really isn’t that spectacular. It is quite mediocre. I didn’t get sick though. And eating McDonald’s is always a fascinating experience to me. This is the cutting edge of food technology in 2014. Probably a hundred PhD’s with a combined century’s worth of training and knowledge designed this food. Every single variable was considered. The level of sodium, the amount of chew, the crispiness of the batter, the softness of the bread. Engineered to survive the hands of underpaid service staff and be produced at the cost of pennies to dimes. Astonishing. The corporate food scientists deserve Nobels for perfecting the delivery of calories to the lower-​middle class of America and the world.
And the marketing, oh the marketing. Exact, precision marketing. The color of the menus, the ads, the promotional merchandise. The fonts. Spectacular. World class. Only a few brands in the world have this level of attention and care to the essentials of their product and marketing.
I visit McDonald’s to witness the purity of the corporation at its highest, most refined, immoral, performant peak. Beautiful.

Let me preface this by saying I am a huge foodie. The proof is in the pudding, or rather on my Instagram account, which you can check out at @rehlakhani. Thanks in advance for the follows!
It was a calm, summery night, and some friends and I were hungry after a long night of various activities. After consulting with different groups of pedestrians, we were recommended a restaurant named «McDonald’s», which I had never heard of, but seemed to be some sort of Irish fast food restaurant.
I ended up ordering the chicken nugget combo, which came with 6 chicken nuggets, fries, and a drink. I also added two McDoubles and two junior McChicken sandwiches for good measure. Needless to say, I was quite hungry. The food took a while due to the high number of customers, but I took it as a good sign of the quality of the food of the restaurant, as they kept the customers coming in even into the wee hours of the morning. Who knew Irish food was so popular?!
The food was exquisite. The chicken nuggets were light, warm, and crispy, and ever so delicately fried in a golden brown batter. Simply marvelous. The McDouble was an excellent take on the traditional American hamburger, with a juicy beef patty topped with the finest cheddar cheese, fresh diced onions, sweet pickles, and the usual ketchup and mustard. The junior McChicken sandwiches were also delightful, providing a more conservative sandwich alternative with their warm, crispy chicken and light, airy mayo. I imagine this sandwich is more in line with the Irish roots of the restaurant. My only qualm about the sandwiches was that I would’ve preferred a nice brioche instead of the buns they prepared for us. And that brings us to the french fries. Oh, the fries! Golden brown sticks of joy sent down from the heavens for only $ 1.39! (Or maybe less since they came in the combo, honestly I’m not 100% sure of the exact price) The fries were absolutely delectable, especially when dipped into one of the many sauce packets offered by this thoughtful establishment. My personal preference was a sweet mesquite flavor, which they called «BBQ». Overall, the meal definitely exceeded all expectations. Oh yeah, and I got a coke to drink.
Final rating: 5/​5, I would definitely return and recommend this restaurant to my friends. This restaurant has definitely opened my eyes to Irish cuisine, and I can’t wait to sample more Irish delicacies.

It’s a McDonald’s — which is uniformly consistent as far as food goes everywhere around the world, and at least the same throughout North America. So this will be more of a review around the location versus the food/​ambiance. This is not one of the newer renovated McCafe locations but it does have the cheap coffee which my parents and their little friends love as they get the senior’s discount.
While there’s plenty of parking, the space between the parking lines is a bit tight. At lunch this place is overrun by local highschoolers from Resurrection and Waterloo Collegiate Institute. Later at night, because there really aren’t too many places open late in the area, it’s a bit of a popular hangout for students (high schoolers and university students). This location is open ²⁴⁄₇ — or at least its drive thru is which is perfect for a burger after a hard workout at night.
(Oh and a universal McDonald’s tip — I always order my burgers with extra pickles — not only because I like pickles but it means that the burgers are always freshly made).