Fast Food Contest

Until I can get to a cool location like Hogle Zoo, The Natural History Museum, or Orchard Lanes Bowling, I might as well do something with the boring locations that are all over the place. So among fast-food restaurants of a similar geographic region, which one rates the best?

I am about to find out...

Who could resist blogging the McDonald's restroom? Probably a lot of you... probably all of you. At least all four stated followers, and the blog-wraiths who may or may not be watching as well.

(By the way, thanks to the four who've been bold enough to follow this blog. Whether you care or not, I'll pick randomly and get you out the first restroom rater give-away soon. I know you all can't wait. All four of you. :)

Good or bad, the restroom fit into the crazy new facade that McDonald's is implementing to scale up their fast-food restaurants more from "fast-food" to the "restaurant" side of things. (I wonder who started this... because I know Taco-Bell leaves me feeling a little weird as well... and Arby's, and probably others are doing it as well.)

How is McDonald's doing?





I have to admit, it felt a little weird to sit with our fast-food tray and value fries in this kind of setting. I think they chose a nice look, but it seems like out of going toward appealing more to adults or to children, they went the wrong way. They still have the big play-place for kids, but where's Ronald and where are all those other wacky characters that made McDonald's so fun for me as a kid? Their presence is getting smaller and smaller.

It is however, a very nice, upscaled feel, which the adults among us (I'm not presuming to include myself... maybe someday)will appreciate.

The bathroom was nice as well, even if I experienced one of my biggest pet-peeves while inside... (I'll try not to let it affect my judging... But honestly, why is it that so many men buzz in and out of restrooms without washing their hands? I hear these people all the time! What are you touching in the world beyond the porcelain with those unwashed hands? I'd just like to know so I can be sure to avoid it.)

No sani-covers, but nothing a little toilet-paper on the seat won't mend, right? Wet floor too. That's hard to account for when it's that far from the sink, and that limits the imagination on just where else it could have come from. But it is still McDonald's, and McDonald's has a customer base of kids (I think... although I'm confused with the decor).

The aesthetics were altogether good, the environment clean, with a very private stall. It was like a separate room, with a nice big wooden door, and a locking lever-style doorknob.



The rating is good, with kudos for the new aesthetic, which really is a good change where the restrooms are concerned. My parting thought from this experience... Never trust wet floors in a bathroom, and never touch a bathroom doorknob with your washed hands on the way out. Hopefully the ladies' room is safer, because I know the men's room is not.

Next stop... Taco Bell!