McDonald’s success is built on speed,affordability, and that odd blend of sugar, or salt and plump that leaves you wanting more. Surely table service is a misdirection?I know what I want at 5am,sauntering home at a time when even the last kebab shop has closed – a McWaiter bringing me a wilted burger. There, in a strip-lit McDonald’s, and I’ll sit despondently at a bolt-down chair,unknowingly running my sleeve through the remnants of a tomato ketchup sachet.
McDonald’s calls itself a restaurant. And now it will offer up table service and call some of its burgers “gourmet” – a word that should never be associated with the humble patty, even whether seasoned well and made with fine beef.
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Source: theguardian.com