A McDonald's Wedding (almost)

Friends of The McChronicles, Beth and Greg, recently celebrated their wedding. It was pretty much your typical protocol up until the junior bridesmaid announced that she was hungry.

You guessed it! On their way from the ceremony to the reception, the entire wedding party swooped into the North Utica, NY McDonald's for a little nutrition.

This store features a rockin' '50s theme, complete with neon lights and a juke box. What a cool place for a post-nuptial pit stop.

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Images: The groom.

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Taipei McDonald's Cleans Up (side down)

Chinese New Year is a time for renewal. People clean their homes and businesses in preparation of a fresh start. The Taipei, Taiwan McDonald's is no exception.

Flickr member Katong posted this image of upside down arches recently. He explains on his posting:

"Two days before Chinese New Year in Taipei, Taiwan. Part of the New Year ritual is a spring cleaning before the first day of New Year. Everything gets cleaned, including signboards! The crew cleaning this McDonald's sign
was on a break."

Great image, Katong, and very interesting. Thanks.

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Image: Katong on Flickr

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A McDonald's Valentine's Day Proposal

According to an excellent report by our friends over at A Hamburger Today (such great writers):

"For the 16th year, White Castle will turn hundreds of restaurants into love dens. Instead of spending hundreds of dollars on a night you'll likely forget in a week, go to White Castle and be seated by a well-dressed hostess at a table, complete with candlelight and tablecloth. At this point, you can feel free to stuff your faces. Even better, you could stuff each others."

According to the report, this event is so popular that customers have to make RESERVATIONS! For a White Castle!

The McChronicles proposes that McDonald's copy this practice and turn up the heat on February 14th. It would be great fun and it would give a lot of people something cool to talk about on the 15th. Heck, you'd give SOME people a story to tell the rest of their (soon to be) married lives. Come on - loosen up a little!

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Multiple Arch Cards

The McChronicles combined two McDonald's Arch Cards today. It went off without a hitch.

First we asked the crew person if this was possible (we'd heard it was - wanted to see if they were confident of the fact). They were 90% sure it would work.

We gave them one of those free $1 cards from Christmas - it worked - then our regular Arch Card. We all watched with expectation until it, too, worked its magic.

The receipt told us that card #1 was empty and that card #2 still had a balance available.

Excellent!

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Image: The McChronicles.

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Washington Mills McDonald's Funky PlayPlace

OK, it's not really an official PlayPlace, it's more like a Kids Arcade. But it is kind of cool.

The Washington Mills, NY McDonald's used to feature a real fenced-in pit that contained playground-type fun, including cool balls to whip around. It was surrounded by railings that protected parents from the antics occurring below. Today the pit is filled in but the kid-friendly attitude remains - now in the form of an arcade.

Store #: 2454
Time: 12:24
Line
Wait: 0 seconds
Order Wait: 30 seconds
Service: Great
Quality: Very good
Cleanliness: Fair (wintry mud tracked in)

The arcade offers up air hockey (out of order at this visit), foosball, a video game console like you find in the stores that sell video games, and a handful of little kids games. It's a pretty cool place - and the perimeter is lined with tables from which watchful adults can survey the situation.

This restaurant is worth the trip if you've got kids, or if your inner child is still rattling around unfulfilled.

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McChronicles Views Official McDonald's Blog

"Open For Discussion" is the title of McDonald's official blog. We don't know when it launched but (as of this posting) it appears to have only one posting.

The description for the blog is: Perspectives on McDonald’s aspirations, activities, and challenges as we work to make a difference on corporate social responsibility issues that matter.

So, they have taken an interesting path for their first known public blog venture.

It's a very professional blog - in appearance and in structure. The McChronicles is very interested to see what comes forth from this interesting endeavor.

Many thanks to the McChronicles followers who brought this to our attention.

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Image: Screen grab from: http://csr.blogs.mcdonalds.com

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NBC Today Show Losing Weight At McDonald's

NBC's Today Show is running a daily story on how to lose weight. Their expert has guided Al Roker to losing 12 pounds while eating at McDonald's (among other places).

Here is a crude screen grab from today's show. Al is chatting from the Times Square McDonald's about the diet with McDonald's ORIGINAL Ronald McDonald, Willard Scott.

Go Al!

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Image: The McChronicles.

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