Posted on 01/19/2014 8:07:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Aren’t those people at the McDonalds Korean immigrants, and mostly of the Silent generation age group?
They need to make the seats uncomfortable and remove any senior items from the menu. Playing indie music wouldn’t hurt, either.
The guy that wrote this article is a true idiot.
These are old Korean immigrants, members of the Silent generation, who gave us the 1960s, if you want to assign that to people who weren’t even in this country then.
“”Word ricocheted around the Korean enclaves of Queens, then onto the Internet, where it was picked up by Korean news media and sent in translation to the homeland.””
“”Whether the Koreans, many in their 70s and 80s, were right or wrong to spend their days at the restaurant, arriving as early as 5 a.m. and paying as little as $1.09 for a cup of coffee during their daylong stays, seemed not to matter much to the small but vocal group protesting against McDonald’s before an assortment of television cameras and photographers. “”
Put a parking meter on the seats.
...well...I met one at a McDonalds......he persuaded his mother to write up a fake BC so he could join the Merchant Marine in 1939 at age 16.
They used to call them bums. And the cops would tell them to move along.
My experience is that immature old folks tend to have been like that their whole lives. They didn't just get their AARP card in the mail and suddenly decide to become asshats.
Veterans and all who love veterans, stay away from fast food places in order to leave more space for the few life-long civilian customers still getting incomes. Tighten-up on personal spending in general, so that His Majesty (the author) and others like him can learn a lesson about economic consequences.
Well said and true.
Our bunch shows up with cribbage boards......
Installing an indoor playground would work too.
I don’t know about the guy that wrote this article, but I actually had real world experience running McDonald’s and I never thought of my Seniors as a problem! I valued them as resource, most of them were five to seven day regulars and bought two to three meals most days and I did not charge them for their friggin coffee. They were unofficial employees who always let me know what was going on in my stores, good or bad and saved the owner a lot of money by deterring vandalism by unruly youths.
I don’t think there would be an economic consqequence, at least not a negative one. It was reported in another article that these guys will buy a small order of fries to share amongst themselves, then sit there for hours.
My impression is that the seniors in the article are not a beneficial resource like the seniors you had experience with.
I meant the guy was an idiot because he didn’t even know who the story was about, he thought that it was 50 and 60 something year old boomers, and the rest of the story was also kind of mixed up on everything.
If you read the articles about those elderly Koreans, they are a problem for that store.
The one I met in line at McDonald's was on a more famous boat. Indianapolis. I saw his cap and paid for his and his friends order, and they invited me to sit with them. He was the guy they pulled onto the PBY last...because they thought he was already dead.
Yeah, these people are Koreans. How misleading can you be?
People are upset with the way the article was intended or written. In other words to make most baby boomers look lazy.
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