McDonald's — Restaurant in Spring Township

McDonald’s is not a mystery. It is not a revelation. It is a franchise—like a game series that has released for decades, each entry familiar, each menu predictable. Walking into this location in Wyomissing is like booting up the latest sequel. You know the title screen. You know the controls. You know exactly what you will get.

The fries arrive hot, salted with the precision of military rations. The burgers taste engineered, like mass-produced clones from a genome project—identical to their brothers in Tokyo, New York, or Los Angeles. The soda machine hisses like a codec line breaking through static. Everything is… average. And that is its strength, and its weakness.

The staff are efficient. Not unkind, not exceptional. They move like background NPCs programmed for function, not for story arcs. The pricing is what you expect, no twists, no hidden DLC. This is not fine dining. It is fuel. It is rations in the middle of a campaign.

But average can be comforting. Average can be survival. In Metal Gear Solid 2, Raiden entered the Big Shell expecting one thing, only to find layers of deception. Here, there are no layers. No deception. Just the same Quarter Pounder you had in 1999.

Three stars. Because sometimes you don’t need a cutscene. You just need calories. This McDonald’s is a save point on a long highway. Reliable, but never...

I'm not sure how the most simple order could get screwed up, but it was the worst I've experienced at a McDonald's. It wasn't even busy! I sit at the order menu for several minutes saying, Hello? Hello? Finally was greeted. I order a cheeseburger (only ketchup) a large sweet tea, and a 4pc chicken nugget Happy meal with chocolate milk. The employee asks if everything is right on the screen to pull through to 2nd window. I notice that she put in a large fry instead of the sweet tea. Again, I sit saying, " Hello? Hello?" She responds by saying, "Sorry for the wait. Can I take your order?" I explain that she just took my order and it was wrong!" She says, just pull through and I'll fix it." I pull through and am given the Happy Meal and the Cheeseburger, but no sweet tea. I tell the girl that my order was wrong. She goes and gets the person who took my order and she fixes it in computer. I am handed what I thought was a large sweet tea. I had handed my debit card to pay, but had to ask for it back and also ask for a receipt. She says, "oops sorry!" I then realize I wasn't given the chocolate milk or straws. I ask for those. Finally, I pull away. I drive 15 minutes to my destination and discover that the cheeseburger has onions and pickles on it, and my tea is unsweetened! Very...

Wish I could give it no stars!

My family and I were in this location February 3 around 3 PM. We placed our order with ease and went to find a table to sit down and wait for food. Every single table in the restaurant was filthy. I had to go up and ask to have a table wiped off as we stood there waiting our food was getting cold. I ordered a mushroom Swiss burger which when I took a bite had no mushrooms on it. I took my burger up to a manager and told her that there were no mushrooms on my burger. She took my burger that I had taken a bite out of to the back and had them put mushrooms on it And then returned it to me. My fries were also cold at the time I want to sit down. I told her that I had taken the serve safe course and that it is cross-contamination to take a bitten piece of food back to where everyone else’s food was being prepared. To this she said absolutely nothing she did not apologize she didn’t ask if I wanted another burger or if I wanted more fries nothing. I went and threw my burger and fries out and told her I wanted my money back. She return my money with not a word said.

My family and I will never return to this...