McDonald's — Restaurant in Stafford

Worst McDonald's meal ever. Wasn't sure if I was in McDonalds for a bite to eat, or Timpsons having a boot re-soled, the burgers were that overcooked. No joke, you resurface a motorway with these, would last lo ger than tarmac. Banks take note: the sauce dips are impenetrable. Build your vaults out of these, it would defeat the Hatton Garden mob. Seriously, Superglue has serious competition. It even defeated my Leatherman mulitool. Yes, I could have stabbed it with a knife. No, I wanted dipping sauce not wearing sauce. I spent so long trying to get sauce, the cheese bites had solidified to the point of perrification. I thew them in a Bush, where they will baffle some future archaeologiat, trying to determine what manner of beast left hese droppings. And what on earth its diet consisted of.

Tables not cleaned between customers, unsurprisingly I could have eaten for free from the leftovers from the last customer. Leftovers? More like an entire meal untouched... not so much "one bite and its gone" as "one bite and the customer has gone".

Still, the staff were friendly. There again, it wasn't busy... I can't imagine why. @#Gordon Ramsay... please visit. Even you would be challenged to possess sufficient profanities to do this place justice.

Avoid....

DONT GO. We decided after a journey from Manchester that we'd stop for a bite to eat. So we placed our order of £28.02 plus the pound for charity at the automated screen, but the machine didnt print out our receipt. After telling the staff they basically thought we were lying until the items appeared on their screen. My sons mcflurry was done first which started to melt, while our hot food was being cooked. They refused to accept that the flurry would be melted, when we got our food it wasnt very hot, there was no napkins and when my daughter went up to ask, she was ignored. So if you want bad service, cold cooked food, melted ice cream then this is the place. There was only one bonus the hot apple pies were hotter than the burgers. I will be making a complaint to McDonald's but Iwill never go back to that particular...

I much prefer services with fountains, even if the ponds tend to be green and scummy, with a single, solitary, somewhat greasy duck dabbling hopefully among the beer cans,and crisp packets.

The muffin for the egg and cheese muffin was the smallest muffin I'd ever seen, the "cheese" was a rectangle of orange plastic, and even the egg seemed prefabricated. The coffee at least was hot, and not unpleasant, but lacked any actual taste.

The hash brown was the triumphant hurrah though - golden brown, light and crispy, any actual taste hidden by a sackful of salt.

But when you've been travelling South from the lakes in heavy traffic, it's all good for those of us too desperate for a toilet to venture...