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  I am going to be a  connoisseur of everything McDonald's very soon!  
  
  I didn't realize how many I have been too until they kept popping up in my feed!
  
  Okay, that's not why you came to this review to read me ramble on about nothing!
  
  Now, this McDonald's is clean and although there is sometimes a language barrier when I go I still go back because the food is always fresh and hot!
  
  The last time I went though they ran out of Canadian bacon for the egg McMuffin which was on sale buy one get one free and instead of allowing me to get another sandwich in its place I was just told I had to order something else.
  
  I thought that was wrong since they are the one that couldn't keep up with demand!
  
  Other than that I have no complaints and I have never had a problem with this McDonald's
  
  I noticed all the other review were from years past so as a customer that comes to this one a lot...This McDonald's is A-Ok for me!

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  Posted on 11.19.12 La Tonya G.

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  Never thought I'd write a review about a McDonald's, but I feel compelled.  This one was just re-built, replacing a perfectly servicable old one.  Whatever, it's their money.
  
  My problem with the new one is that its parking lot configuration and ease of ingress/egress is even more stupid than the old one, if that's possible.  You see, if you're coming from the east, entrance into the lot, either via entrances on North Avenue or Lowell (one way north), is no problem.  If you're coming from the west on North Avenue (or from the south on Kostner), you literally cannot enter the parking lot.  At all. I thought by turning left onto Kostner (a fairly main-drag kind of street), I could enter (as you could with the old one).  Nope.  No entrance any more on Kostner.  And you cannot turn left from North Avenue to Lowell because there's a median (I think: either way, you're risking an accident or a ticket).  There's an alley directly behind the lot, which is not only fenced off from Mickey D's, but 'one way' going out.  So I drive AROUND THE BLOCK, past Lowell (the one-way street next to McDonald's), to Kildare, back to North Avenue, then enter.  Jesus.  The entrance has one of those divided-curb thingys, which was barely wide enough for my compact car.  There are TWO drive-thru lanes from which to order food, but then they merge into one waiting line, so you can end up in this single line ahead of someone who's been waiting longer, or vice-versa, so why bother?  The rest was standard McDonald's (WHY can't you at least offer me salsa for my breakfast burrito?)....I got no sauce, no ketchup, no napkins, nuthin'.
  
  OK, then to get out and go back east on North Avenue, you must basically repeat the maze-bullshit from above, only in the reverse.  You used to be able to exit onto Kostner, then turn left on North Avenue.  Now you are forced to either go west on Grand or North Avenue or go to Lowell, north  to Wabansia (past a high school) to Kildare to North Avenue.  Got all that?  Apparently the city thinks it's more desirable for us to drive around an entire neighborhood than to use the only (inexplicably) one-way alley in the entire neighborhood to get home from fucking McDonald's.  I felt like rat in a ghetto-maze, only with a soon-to-be-cold Egg McMuffin.
  
  So in a nutshell, if you live west of here, you can't get in.  If you live east of here, you can't get out.  And ya can't really go north, either.  It's maddening.  If you must go to THIS McDonald's, walk or take the bus, seriously.  From my house (at the halfway point between the two), I will just go down to the one at Kedzie/North.  I realize McDonald's and/or the city are trying to protect themselves from lawsuits from our shitty driving, and that badly designed intersection, but if it's that dangerous (which it is) then just DON'T BUILD IT THERE.  It's a square lot, yet needlessly complicated.  Grrr.

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  Posted on 08.26.09 Geoff H.

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  At a time when people are finally realizing that we must eat healthy to be healthy McDonalds makes no moves away from their overly processed junk food. This McDonalds is focused on cars and its parking lot is twice as big as the restaurant. Go to the La Perla Tapatia which is right next door.

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  Posted on 11.22.08 Michael Y.

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  So my first experience with this McDonald's was the day that I moved in. I had a couple friends helping me. This McDonald's is directly across the street from my apartment.
  
  So, after witnessing a guy smash his van (we later were told by the
  po-po that it was stolen) into the light pole right at the corner, then watching him exit the vehicle and run maniacly down North Ave., away from the scene, we decided we were hungry. We thought "why not go to McD's".
  
  Seems logical. I mean, McD's is always the same no matter where you go, right? And it was certainly conveniently located. At least it appears conveniently located. Oh, its not.
  
  Attempting to cross North Ave. at my intersection is really a situation where you are taking your life into your hands. This is a 4, 5, 6, oh hell, I don't even know how many corners there are here, intersection. And one of the lights is only green for one side of the street, but has no sign indicating that anywhere, so people either don't stop or just stand there. You feel like you are playing Frogger. Except not with a pixellated frog, but rather with your own skin and organs.
  
  If you make it into the building with your spinal cord still attached to your body, you will see they always have at least 15 people working here. Yet, there are never more than 2 registers open at once. And the only people working those registers are either a. ancient, non-english speaking women b. mentally handicapped. Hey, I appreciate their sense of social responsibility to hire the old and degenerate. I do not appreciate the game of charades I must play with the cashiers to get my order right.
  
  While you are waiting the 15 plus minutes it takes to get your food here, you may notice that this McDonalds is a bit different from the rest. Ricky Martin pictures, signed Selena CDs and gigantic Enrique Iglesias are the decor of choice here. Apparantly, this is the Latin Rock n' Roll McDonalds. Couple that with the fact that its the only McDonald's I have ever seen that has Jalepeno's as a condiment and the fact that they look at me as if I am lost every time I walk in there, I think its safe to say the clientele here is pretty set.
  
  Overall, the location, service and neighborhood sucks. I would give it only 1 star, but hey, its open 24-7 and its McDonalds.

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  Posted on 07.01.08 Heather Z.

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