Guns in McDonald's....Getting the Unwelcome treatment

[chicowoodduck]

Just coming from the McDonald's located at Royal Garden Plaza in Pattaya.

Went in to read the Sunday Nation newspaper, was confronted by store who said, "You come in here all the time (once or twice a month), you just read newspaper, not buy anything! We have you on camera!" I tell her that I'm waiting for my friend and that I do not come in all the time. She leaves and 5 minutes later in walks a police officer with hand on his gun and he says, "Buy, buy, buy or maybe bye, bye, bye?" So I get up to leave and he sits down at a table...I go over and ask him, "Are you buying anything?" He was not amused and got up to move as I left the place. I figure it must be a new policy.....buy something or they will shoot you? I've never had this happene to me at any other spot in Pattaya, Bangkok, or the rest of the world for that matter. Sort of makes you love the world a bit more, eh? ??

[keestha]

On previous occasions, where you also waiting for a friend who came later and ordered something? No restaurant/bar would allow you just to sit there and not order anything.

[NeverSure]

If you came into my business and just sat there using expensive real estate for free I'd shoot you too 55555.

I don't know of a culture where you can go into a restaurant and use it as your private meeting place without buying something. Even if they let you do it they don't like it.

[chicowoodduck]

On previous occasions, where you also waiting for a friend who came later and ordered something? No restaurant/bar would allow you just to sit there and not order anything.

As a matter of fact my friend show-up late, but by that time the moment was over....just an FYI...there is always a few folks in there just chatting away...motor bike, taxi guys.....oh, and the rest of the lazy staff working there...?

[chicowoodduck]

If you came into my business and just sat there using expensive real estate for free I'd shoot you too 55555.

I don't know of a culture where you can go into a restaurant and use it as your private meeting place without buying something. Even if they let you do it they don't like it.

Lock 'n load for you as well....55555?

[lust]

Maybe it's your appearance.

[scubascuba3]

You need to buy something, it's obvious, same with other restaurants

[chicowoodduck]

Maybe it's your appearance.

Best dressed dude in the joint...just saying...??

[chicowoodduck]

You need to buy something, it's obvious, same with other restaurants

Or be a with the police....?

[draftvader]

McDonalds is not a library. It is a "restaurant" (quotation marks as I don't like to define it as such...I would rather eat rubbish from a bin). Please google 'library' then 'restaurant'.

[WitawatWatawit]

Next time, buy a packet of Mickey's fries. Eat one while waiting and take the rest home and store in the fridge. When you return, take the fries with you, place on table like you have ordered something. Do this evetytime you go there - the fries will last for months as they never seem to go mouldy. I hope you like this valuable tip. :)

[draftvader]

Next time, buy a packet of Mickey's fries. Eat one while waiting and take the rest home and store in the fridge. When you return, take the fries with you, place on table like you have ordered something. Do this evetytime you go there - the fries will last for months as they never seem to go mouldy. I hope you like this valuable tip.

That is almost a Viz "Top Tip"

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Cultural reference here

Edited November 23, 2014 by draftvader

[Kaalle]

Jesus Christ and his friend Buddha!, How much is a cup of coffee?

Edited November 23, 2014 by Kaalle

[Ulysses G.]

Kudos to the McDonald's staff for confronting the wastrels that take up seats for paying customers. It is about time.

[chicowoodduck]

McDonalds is not a library. It is a "restaurant" (quotation marks as I don't like to define it as such...I would rather eat rubbish from a bin). Please google 'library' then 'restaurant'.

Pardon me it McDonald's is NOT a restaurant....a restaurant serves food, not crap....go check it out and not in the library..?

[Briggsy]

You obviously, chicowoodcuck, have no idea of the history of Thailand's McDonald's and the change in policy about 2 years ago.

It had become normal for McDonald's to become hangouts for schoolkids, often buying one drink between 10 kids and staying there for 2 hours doing their homework. Unbelievably people set up businesses inside McDonald's using McDonald's property to conduct meetings and tutor sessions without buying anything at all. This was commonplace all over Bangkok. The suspicion fell on branch managers. Were they receiving kickbacks, hard to say.

In the end, Head Office cracked down and no you can no longer hang out in McDonald's without buying stuff.

[Briggsy]

You obviously, chicowoodcuck, have no idea of the history of Thailand's McDonald's and the change in policy about 2 years ago.

It had become normal for McDonald's to become hangouts for schoolkids, often buying one drink between 10 kids and staying there for 2 hours doing their homework. Unbelievably people set up businesses inside McDonald's using McDonald's property to conduct meetings and tutor sessions without buying anything at all. This was commonplace all over Bangkok. The suspicion fell on branch managers. Were they receiving kickbacks, hard to say.

In the end, Head Office cracked down and no you can no longer hang out in McDonald's without buying stuff.

Just the price one has to pay for having fun...?

No, it is the price you have to pay for trying to freeload off a business set up to make a profit for its shareholders.

[BuddhistVirus]

Jesus Christ and his friend Buddha!, How much is a cup of coffee?

Rather drink the water from Pattaya Bay....maybe safer???

McDonalds is not a library. It is a "restaurant" (quotation marks as I don't like to define it as such...I would rather eat rubbish from a bin). Please google 'library' then 'restaurant'.

Pardon me it McDonald's is NOT a restaurant....a restaurant serves food, not crap....go check it out and not in the library..

Are you serious?

Yet there you were, sitting comfortably reading a newspaper... Maybe wait for your friend by the Pataya Bay next time around?

[chicowoodduck]

another freeloader bitching because a restaurant expects him to buy something to use their facilities, talk about cheap charlies. Pretty pathetic expecting to be able to judst bludge on maccas, what a drop kick, you could spend 50 baht on something and just leave it on the table and sit there as long as you want without any problems or do you let anyone just rock up to your place and sit in there, you are a joke and the type of poster that gives others a bad name

Hey, and don't use the bathroom unless you buy something...jokes on you...?

[NoshowJones]

Buy, buy, buy or maybe bye, bye, bye

Or more likely ไป ไป ไป (go, go, go)

Bye is the Thai word for Go

[wooloomooloo]

...in walks a police officer with hand on his gun and he says, "Buy, buy, buy or maybe bye, bye, bye?" So I get up to leave and he sits down at a table...I go over and ask him, "Are you buying anything?" He was not amused and got up to move as I left the place.

100% troll.

[jdinasia]

McDonalds is not a library. It is a "restaurant" (quotation marks as I don't like to define it as such...I would rather eat rubbish from a bin). Please google 'library' then 'restaurant'.

Pardon me it McDonald's is NOT a restaurant....a restaurant serves food, not crap....go check it out and not in the library..

So you never intended on buying anything...

I would have told you to get out too.

[chicowoodduck]

McDonalds is not a library. It is a "restaurant" (quotation marks as I don't like to define it as such...I would rather eat rubbish from a bin). Please google 'library' then 'restaurant'.

Pardon me it McDonald's is NOT a restaurant....a restaurant serves food, not crap....go check it out and not in the library..

So you never intended on buying anything...

I would have told you to get out too.

Actually in there to buy the place..but on second thought....??

[bobbin]

Chico, you da man!

Sheesh, the people that get their hands on a computer these days...

[chicowoodduck]

Chico, you da man!

Sheesh, the people that get their hands on a computer these days...

Yup, just look in the mirror..?

[transam]

Ridiculous topic.............

[h90]

if you would stay in my company, not even pretending to be interested in buying something I would kick you out as well....

[chicowoodduck]

Clearly you deserved to be shot

Time for the Hunger Games....?

[chicowoodduck]

if you would stay in my company, not even pretending to be interested in buying something I would kick you out as well....

Most likely get the electric chair if I did something stupid like that...?

[chicowoodduck]

Ridiculous topic.............

So don't read it....simple...?