Calling the police is unwarranted. The police are to be called for crimes. This is not a crime. If you call 911 for this, you should be arrested.
The restaurant owner can ask them to leave, and hope that the Koreans don’t tell other Koreans who then avoid your restaurant altogether.
You call the cops on me for sitting too long in a restaurant, and I’ll make sure that you wind up begging for customers.
Doesn’t look like they are splitting a small packet of FF.
I know Flushing Queens and have been to that McDonald’s many years ago.
I recall one on Main Street a few miles away had a shooting many years ago.
I assume they hang out there because its cold outside this time of year.
Whatever happened to hanging out in the mall, that’s what oldsters used to do. Had a neighbor that did it every day, go to the mall around 9:30 and just sit on one of the benches and stay there until 3 or 4. Malls have a bit more space to spare.
Next they will claim the “American’s with Disabilities Act” was violated and collect huge sums of $$$.
Just another example of the mindset that there really isn’t or shouldn’t be any concept of private property — those booths are for the public, just like in a park or in front of the county library.
Isn’t that loitering?
I remember years ago in Taiwan, because peoples’ homes were so small and cramped, high school students would go to McDonalds to study. As in this artice, they would buy the cheapest item on the menu, and stay for hours.
MCD’s there would put up signs “NO STUDYING ALLOWED” - something you certainly never see at an MCD here. I wish I had taken a photo....
I usually drink a cup of coffee in 10 minutes. It is possible.
A lot of times more upscale sit down restaurant hurry customers along. They can't afford to have customers sit there for hours.
Put a butt parking meter at each seat.
The McDonalds in my area all have WiFi which would lead me to believe some want people hanging out.
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I grew-up not too too far away from there.
All the signs are Chinese.
Click the A for a street view. Not real large so I can understand needing to keep the clientele moving.
Our Mc D’s is right across the street from our High School. They have signs everywhere that you must buy something to enter the store, loitering will not be tolerated, and you must be eating to use the Wi-Fi.
A few years ago, the HS kids would all hang out here, buy a coke, and just loiter around on the internet in large groups.
Not anymore.
Wonder how many of these bums are here on family immigration visas and are sopping up Social Security payments they never paid for. We were inundated with these in CA.
My neighbor, rest his soul, who used to travel to Florida for the cold half of the year, used to complain about the other seniors abusing McDonald’s senior coffees by turning their restaurants into senior center community space. He actually cared about not taking unfair advantage of their largesse.
I’m retired....but once a manager asks you to leave you should get off your dead ass and leave!!!!Being old doesn’t give you any more rights than the next guy....getting benefits for being elderly are... GIVEN....not demanded!!!
BS. I have a 30oz. mug of coffee every morning. That sucker goes down in 5 minutes or less. But I'm pretty well under 77.
“Homeless” and all the visual and odor pollution that comes along with that.
Libraries have nicer chairs if they want to sit.
Want to chat for hours, great, the park is good for that.
Slip ‘em some roofies and see how they like waking up in a dumpster some where.
Simply remove the tables and chairs for a week. Bet they wouldn’t last more than 20 minutes.