McD’s have been going through a bit of a shift – clientele wise. The used to be bright, red, noisy, hard surfaces, buy the food, eat it and **** off and make room for someone else.
Slowly they’ve been refocusing on business travellers (particularly in their out of town / edge of town sites) and everything is getting earthier coloured, calmer and and quieter and they’re encouraging people to stay for longer – free wifi, tellys tuned into a rolling news channel with the sound turned down and subtitles and so on.
Maybe table service is part of that refocus. Theres alway more profit in the drinks than the food so if table service just yields a second coffee purchase its probably worthwhile