How Many Order of French Fries Makes It Okay to Sit in a McDonald’s All Day?
For the past several months, a number of elderly Korean patrons and this McDonald’s they frequent have been battling over the benches inside. The restaurant says the people who colonize the seats on a daily basis are quashing business, taking up tables for hours while splitting a small packet of French fries ($1.39); the group say they are customers and entitled to take their time. A lot of time.
“Do you think you can drink a large coffee within 20 minutes?” David Choi, 77, said. “No, it’s impossible.”
Does buying a $1.39 order of french fries at a fast food restaurant give you the right to sit there all day? The Times reports that a McDonald’s in Queens, N.Y. has been exasperated with a group of elderly Korean patrons who have made the fast food restaurant their hangout space despite the availability of senior centers nearby — some geared specifically toward the elderly Korean community. When asked why they kept coming back to the McDonald’s, some of the elderly men could not explain why, though I’ve been around enough elderly people to know that they like their routines and can easily get stuck in their ways.
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