I’m not a fan of McDs. Aside from their flirtations with things like the McPlant, the only thing I can eat from there is fries. They’re invariably cold and soggy unless you go at peak times and one could hardly describe them as filling, but at least they’re overpriced.
But, the coffee is decent. It’s as good a bean-to-cup as you’ll get from any of the usual suspect high street chains. I was talking to a Store Manager about it way back when McD’s realised that the UK palate didn’t care for the rusty puddle water preferred in the US and so were refitting stores with proper coffee machines. He was dead excited about it.
I was probably one of the first people in the UK outside of staff to try it, it’s good stuff. I had a standing order with the McD’s across site back when I worked at a bowling alley as a student. They saw my car arriving, they’d pull a coffee. I was always on the edge of not quite being late for work so I’d grab it and run then go back and pay for it at lunchtime. We had a coffee machine in the ‘bowl but I’d have to reassemble it from last night’s Close and in any case a) the ‘bowl managers were fascists who took a dim view of, well, everything, I once had one count how many chips I’d served myself for lunch, and b) it was crap and I knew how grim the inside of the coffee machine was.
