McDonald's — Restaurant in Gharghur

My Updated Review 2020: Don't use this McDonald's. My recent visit they overcharged me, I spotted immediately so rectified. I drove off, yet again had the incorrect order, so I drove back. THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH!!! If you do not speak Maltese, do not order from the drive thru. This is not my reason for one star. The two large fries in my recent order in April 2020 were disgusting and stale. They were 'make you feel sick stale'. Note I had already drove back once to get the correct order, so not going to do so again. This points out that they have no attention to detail or understanding of food preparation. I emailed them and the manager phone me. He made it clear they do not give refunds under any circumstances. He offered two free fires next time I go. I am not going again and would suggest this to others as well as I have concerns over hygiene at this store. It's run by a load of 'kids' with no idea on how to runs things. It's a concern as they are open and busy in the height of COVID-19.

My Review 2019 given 3 stars: Food was decent, tend to never really get a bad McDonald's. Amusingly they are paid really well in Malta, and the staff in this one are always terrible. I ordered the food, two standard meals, gave her my voucher and she asked what 'boogers' I wanted. She thinks burgers are called 'boogers'. If you work in a burger restaurant, and only have to learn to say one word correctly, I would make that word burger. So she had to get help to input the order with my voucher, as I clearly wasn't going to order another two meals with my '2 meals for €10' voucher. So after this, I wanted to pay with my mobile, as I always do, and she disappeared, came back, and said I can't pay that way. I touched my mobile, and ping, it went through of course. I'm being harsh but I've had loads of staff issues at this particular McDonald's in the past. They really are hopeless. The food was quick, I will say, my boogers arrived on time. When leaving the restaurant, they were mopping, and unlike my wonderful cleaning lady, these young staff members where using too much water, and I slipped, though didn't fall. In Malta when English is an official language and they are all British Subjects, and work in an American restaurant chain, it's essential they understand and...

Never a good experience - starts at the drive-in order window, staff can never understand what I want to order, whether I speak in Maltese or English ! So you have to repeat it when you get to the payment window. Invariably the food received is wrong, food item's missing, someone else's order, food (especially the breakfast muffins) are damaged and have half the sides missing . . WTH? How does this happen, other than poor food handling! Breakfasts and burgers bear NO resemblance to the glossy images on the menu board. My other bug-bear is the so called "Butter" on the breakfast muffins. The interactive menu board, shows a lovely knob of butter, delishiously melting on the perfectly formed golden muffin. In reality this is NOT what the customer gets, what we get, if anything at all, spread on our crumbling and barely toasted muffin is some greasy concoction that is in a plastic sauce bottle - think rough roadside truck-stop, red sauce bottle. No difference in McDonalds, other than its yellow. This is then either squeezed on with oily gay abandon, or and more usually, it's slowly squeezed out as if it's liquid gold and it's coming out of the salary of the "squeezer" ! This I know from personal experience when eating-in recently, as I returned to the counter, presenting my "un-buttered" muffin and asked for a butter portion, which is standard across the UK outlets. Complain as indeed I do, frequently - the response, is as always an excuse, even the "managers" if you can call them that, frankly don't give a monkey's!! Nothing changes, but that won't stop me taking issue with their inadequate responses and opinions. I'm paying inflated prices for this food and their wages. Enough said I...

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