To bad they couldn’t have just built a small sit down area for seniors. Like instead of the children’s play set, they put in senior play sets.
If its the pic someone posted, the place is tiny
Yet there seem to be no shortage of facilities that cater to the elderly in the neighborhood. Civic centers dot the blocks, featuring parlors for baduk, an Asian board game, and classes in subjects from calisthenics to English. Mr. Lee, who comes to the McDonald’s from Bayside, passes several senior centers en route. One is a Korean Community Service center in Flushing, which recently changed a room in the basement into a cafe with 25-cent coffee after its president, Kwang S. Kim, got word of the McDonald’s standoff.No one has come.
“I think I have to go to McDonald’s and ask why they’re there,” Mr. Kim said.
Except parents who bring kids to the play areas tend to spend money, and then spend more money, as they wait, so the play area makes money for the restaurant.
A senior area where old people can sit while not buying anything would not be that good for business, in a store like this that appears very constrained by the environment.