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Mendalla said:

Well too f-ing bad. I'd rather have Restaurant Brands' sales hurting than hospitals full of COVID patients.
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I think that TH is actually more of a meeting place in Canada. Not sure about the US, but I know of lots of seniors who are at TH every morning for the company. Which of course is much reduced now as people are staying in.
 
Mendalla said:
Well too f-ing bad. I'd rather have Restaurant Brands' sales hurting than hospitals full of COVID patients.
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It’s so easy for you to tell people to be patient for up to a year and a half when you’re financially secure and live in a house (or houses), surrounded by neighbors on an equal footing.

Not so for those who are living week-to-week financially, or were already socially isolated, clinically depressed, or confined to small apartments, before government mandated shutdowns.

I had such a friend who worked at Tim Hortons's for over 15 years and was barely making over minimum wage ... I now consider her fortunate to have died suddenly a couple of years ago ... she dropped brain dead right at the Tim's she was employed by which happened to be in the Health Sciences Center Hospital in Winnipeg where she was kept breathing for 2 days in hopes of harvesting her organs ... before this SHTF.
 
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I imagine the fact that quality of products has something to do with TH reduced revenues as well.
 
Their coffee has really deteriorated.

I do feel comfortable eating out in select places around here. Tim's does not meet the standards for me on many levels. We just ate at Brown's Social House and it was excellent. Great good, spaced seating and staff wearing masks. Plus they took a name and phone number as required by the province. The province is asking for that in case contact tracing becomes necessary
 
Even during my trip out west and back a few years ago, I honestly had no preference between Tim's and McD's when it came to "predictable fast food on the road". For the record, rarely had coffee, so can't rank that. If a kettle can be boiled anywhere to do a plain 1-cup Melitta pourover of a plain decent dark roast once a day, black, my coffee fix is set.

Takeout/fast food doesn't deteriorate like a real restaurant meal does, though. It's really hard to keep fries from going limp, salads from getting a bit soggy. Japanese food, particularly tempura and sushi, reallly suffers. I have not yet tried eating out.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
I think that TH is actually more of a meeting place in Canada. Not sure about the US, but I know of lots of seniors who are at TH every morning for the company. Which of course is much reduced now as people are staying in.
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That plus the pickups for the meetings. Donuts & coffee would be common for meetings, training sessions, etc. for work and for school. The communal donut box isn't much of a thing right now.
 
Waterfall said:
Hate to spoil your appetites, but just read about a little six year old girl finding a face mask baked into her chicken mcnuggets and choking on it. Yikes! How does that even happen?

www.bbc.com

McDonald's: 'Face mask' found inside Aldershot store's chicken nugget

A six-year-old girl "nearly chokes" on Happy Meal from the Aldershot branch of the fast food giant.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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Eew! Wow... I think I found my perfect vice. I'm going to McD's once a week - and I'll buy a box of Chicken McNuggets. I won't eat them though. I'll just break them apart and see if I find any mask in any of them. I have 6-12 chances to open them per box. It's like pull-tabs!
 
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That should be a new trend! People would probably find all kinds of grossness to report and document (legitimately)! What a great way to exercise/ exorcise the inner "bitch/ Karen" that I know I have some of!
 
Seriously, if that happened, I'm more inclined to wonder how it is that McDonald's became an essential service in a pandemic while hospitals are underfunded and under-prepared, so many people in the US have no healthcare and have poor nutrition leading to underlying health conditions, which are dire problems - what the working conditions and hours are like - why can't the wages pay the bills - and who gets most disproportionately negatively affected all around. That's what the above jokes were about - to raise those questions and turn attention to those problems with McDonalds.
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Seriously, if that happened, I'm more inclined to wonder how it is that McDonald's became an essential service in a pandemic while hospitals are underfunded and under-prepared, so many people in the US have no healthcare and have poor nutrition leading to underlying health conditions, which are dire problems - what the working conditions and hours are like - why can't the wages pay the bills - and who gets most disproportionately negatively affected all around. That's what the above jokes were about - to raise those questions and turn attention to those problems with McDonalds.
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Ego Gnome IHC's? Gnome attic ... they wander as well ... a deep place!
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Seriously, if that happened, I'm more inclined to wonder how it is that McDonald's became an essential service in a pandemic while hospitals are underfunded and under-prepared, so many people in the US have no healthcare and have poor nutrition leading to underlying health conditions, which are dire problems - what the working conditions and hours are like - why can't the wages pay the bills - and who gets most disproportionately negatively affected all around. That's what the above jokes were about - to raise those questions and turn attention to those problems with McDonalds.
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Have you found out that story was fake news? I was more concerned about our ever increasing carelessness with disposing of used masks (eg. I find them thrown on the parking lots and other places) and now maybe needing more secure masks on assembly lines?
 
Waterfall said:
Have you found out that story was fake news? I was more concerned about our ever increasing carelessness with disposing of used masks (eg. I find them thrown on the parking lots and other places) and now maybe needing more secure masks on assembly lines?
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No. Did you find out it was fake news? I do see the story was picked up by Daily Mail and NY Post so it could be that the BBC didn't fact check, but they're usually pretty good.

I'm still more concerned about what I mentioned - McDonalds working conditions. It'd be hard to breathe in a steamy kitchen standing over a deep fryer. How effective would a mask even be in a greasy humid kitchen? Maybe someone took it off and had it hanging off one ear for a second and it fell in. Maybe an ear elastic snapped or came unstapled (happened to me with a couple of the blue paper ones - elastic came unattached), and fell into the deep fryer while they were hustling to get orders out as though it were an ER. At least, regarding germs - it was deep fried in hot oil, and so disease wouldn't have been the hazard. Choking on it would be the danger, though.

How likely is it that someone would get covid from a littered mask? Probably just as likely from a littered cup or straw.

Think of how McDonalds plastic garbage has been filling up landfills and how much garbage gets strewn about in general. At least paper masks will eventually break down, won't they?
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
No. Did you find out it was fake news? I do see the story was picked up by Daily Mail and NY Post so it could be that the BBC didn't fact check, but they're usually pretty good.

I'm still more concerned about what I mentioned - McDonalds working conditions. It'd be hard to breathe in a steamy kitchen standing over a deep fryer. How effective would a mask even be in a greasy humid kitchen? Maybe someone took it off and had it hanging off one ear for a second and it fell in. Maybe an ear elastic snapped or came unstapled (happened to me with a couple of the blue paper ones - elastic came unattached), and fell into the deep fryer while they were hustling to get orders out as though it were an ER. At least, regarding germs - it was deep fried in hot oil, and so disease wouldn't have been the hazard. Choking on it would be the danger, though.

How likely is it that someone would get covid from a littered mask? Probably just as likely from a littered cup or straw.

Think of how McDonalds plastic garbage has been filling up landfills and how much garbage gets strewn about in general. At least paper masks will eventually break down, won't they?
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I believe McDonalds get all the chicken nuggets premade and they just heat them up....so it would have been at the nugget manufacturing plant it occurred. Even though they masks might eventually break down, it did cause a choking incident and I doubt a mask would break down that fast.
 
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