Mcdonald's Restaurants - Gateshead

Is it normal to walk into a McDonald's restaurant and be bombarded with loud alarms and sounds? Everyone had to raise their voices just to place an order, and the noise continued even while sitting down to eat, with no background music to help drown it out. I spoke to the manager, who explained that the loud noises were from the oven alarms indicating when orders were ready. He had been listening to them for 10 years and claimed to be able to block it out, but that didn't make the noisy atmosphere any more pleasant for me and my grandchildren.

I don't know how they pulled it off, but the cheese slices were huge and tasted like plastic. If my double cheeseburger hadn't been perfect, I wouldn't have given such a high rating.

The soft drink was overflowing into my McFlurry and burger, and it was so cold.

This is pretty standard for a McDonald's. It doesn't stand out in any way, good or bad. We were happy with our breakfast.

Fast food wasnt. A saturday lunchtime and the queues were slow to move. I tried the new order machines but as expected it crashed while I was ordering so I queued to speak to a real person. The young lady was lovely, very pleasant despite the clamor and pressure. Eventually we got our meal and found somewhere to perch on stools. The food was, as usual, ok.