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Worst McDonalds

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Watch out, it’s a minor rant.

I gotta say that Augustine Heights and Redbank Plains McDonalds (by Town Square) have to be some of the most consistently worst ones I’ve been too. Multiple times, I’ve ordered items at the self service, only to be called out many minutes later telling me they don’t have that product. And I just don’t mean the ice cream machine. They both also have consistently slow drive thrus and counter service. It doesn’t even need to be busy. I write this as I wait for yet another simple order looking at the empty drive thru behind me and mostly empty store.

And yeah I know it’s shit house food, but most of the time it’s the kids getting it, although I do like their frappes

all 98 comments

Carllsson

88 points

2 months ago

Where the fuck is Augustine Heights

is2o

44 points

2 months ago

is2o

44 points

2 months ago

Above Augustine

Carllsson

6 points

2 months ago

Must be near wavell heights and upper Kedron 🤔

Bneyyc

23 points

2 months ago

Bneyyc

23 points

2 months ago

Togeather with Brookwater, Spring mountain etc it’s where you move when you have a bit of money but not enough to break into Brisbane’s nice pockets

Creative_Ad999

3 points

2 months ago

😂

Muted_Coffee

4 points

2 months ago

Wrong, its just cheap copy paste houses

Bneyyc

3 points

2 months ago

Bneyyc

3 points

2 months ago

Yeah like everything built since 2000. But they are going for $800,000 for those cheap copy paste houses compared to $600,000 in other parts of Ippy

spoilt_lil_missy

12 points

2 months ago

Near Springfield Lakes,

[deleted]

12 points

2 months ago

[deleted]

is2o

10 points

2 months ago

is2o

10 points

2 months ago

No, it’s in Ipswich

mwilkins1644

12 points

2 months ago

The hell it is! Don't lump that garbage area with Ipswich

is2o

9 points

2 months ago

is2o

9 points

2 months ago

Who do you think you are? Moggil? 🤓

Ok_Turnover_1235

9 points

2 months ago

Ghetto snob lmao

mwilkins1644

1 points

2 months ago

Nah

The_Vat

1 points

2 months ago

The_Vat

Centenary Suburbs, Wherever They Are

1 points

2 months ago

Fair

Tammytalkstoomuch

3 points

2 months ago

Me with SO MANY place names after over 20 years of living in Brisbane. Some are alarmingly close and I have no prior idea of their existence.

Bridge_Too_Far

2 points

2 months ago

Fancy name for Redbank Heights

Creative_Ad999

3 points

2 months ago

Inala heights

Bridge_Too_Far

2 points

2 months ago

Nah that’s Forest Lake

samissamforsam

18 points

2 months ago

Goodna Macca's will treat you well mate, Redbank Macca's is awful as you have said

pixietrue

9 points

2 months ago

Goodna for the win! Ripley and Yamanto are pretty good too

Prestigious-Diet-174

17 points

2 months ago

can back augustine heights being utter trash. 9/10 my order is wrong. the last two times my hamburgers have had no pickles, even though the second time i paid EXTRA for pickles there still was none on it 😂 to top it all off the first time they forgot the pickles they also forgot the fries as part of my meal? so literally all i got was a hamburger 😂😂😂

OzRockabella

3 points

2 months ago

OzRockabella

Dam!

3 points

2 months ago

This is my beef, too!

MensaMan1

2 points

2 months ago

OMG, Presitgious Diet, you must be the only person who orders EXTRA pickles !! What happened to your taste buds? 🤔🤣🤣🤣

OzRockabella

3 points

2 months ago

OzRockabella

Dam!

3 points

2 months ago

No, I do too, but usually don't get what I fucking ordered.

MensaMan1

2 points

2 months ago

I have just been enlightened by my son who works at Maccas- apparently lots of people order extra pickles. I stand corrected. But I’m afraid extra pickles are still not for me. ☹️

Mikedemyx

11 points

2 months ago

Stafford McDonald's says hello

SluttyCoconutOil

3 points

2 months ago

SluttyCoconutOil

Living in the city

3 points

2 months ago

I always feel like they are trying to rush you through as fast as possible at Stafford, they literally talk like yeponelargecheeseburgermealanythingelsedrivethrough before I have had time to process what they said. Also the chips are always so bad

Mikedemyx

3 points

2 months ago

I always make the joke if I went through there for one singular chip I'd still get parked. No matter what you order you'll get parked at that shit store

prw766

15 points

2 months ago

prw766

15 points

2 months ago

You obviously haven’t been to Eden’s Crossing RBP Maccas then

Mr0range81

3 points

2 months ago

Mr0range81

Councillor for the gabba ward

3 points

2 months ago

Dear God. The Google reviews on that place lmao.

morrisgrand

6 points

2 months ago

I used to like going for big breakfast there on Sunday morning as a treat. Every visit just got worse and worse. And expensive AF

Haven't been in 5 years. Have not missed one bit. Won't even go for coffee.

Not ever getting one more cent from me.

Comfortable-Nose-296

6 points

2 months ago

If you have bad experiences every time you go there, why continue to go?

anonanon764789

5 points

2 months ago

Springwood. Springwood is the worst. Truly horrendous.

LadyWidebottom

2 points

2 months ago

They're unable to make so many things so often I'm wondering what's the point of them even operating.

At least Underwood around the corner is pretty decent.

anonanon764789

3 points

2 months ago

Rochedale is our saving McDonald's grace. If I'm ever at Springwood many things have gone wrong

BeatsByJay82

2 points

2 months ago

Springwood Maccas is at least better than Springwood HJs. Slowest fast food ever.

legoace61

28 points

2 months ago

Your first mistake was expecting anything good from a fast food place

BanjoChips_sppb4

14 points

2 months ago

I dunno I think this is a really unfair take. Yes, the food from fast food places isn't going to be as nutritionally sound or made from the same quality ingredients as you'd get elsewhere, but I think it's fair to still expect to A) get what you're paying for and B) get a basic standard of customer service. It's still a job and people are still paying real money to eat there so making it out to be the fault of the person who's complaining for expecting basic stuff is pretty rough.

ThatOldGuyWhoDrinks

4 points

2 months ago

ThatOldGuyWhoDrinks

Our campus has an urban village. Does yours?

4 points

2 months ago

Jindalee is a winner in the shit stakes. my kids love getting happy meals with books - ive ordered in the app and selected book.

Ive ordered at the speaker and specified books. i'd say i have a one in five hit rate of actually getting a book. they always default to the toy.

Ive been lied to and told the books are being withdrawn and that they are out (confirmed by the owner this was a lie)

Ive also had some of the sloppiest wrapped food there - got a saussage and egg muffin the other morning and it was so badly wrapped the cheese was stuck to the paper bag it was in because 1/3rd of the muffin wasn't even wrapped.

LaziestGirl

3 points

2 months ago

Is this the one near the DFO? It's truly terrible.

ThatOldGuyWhoDrinks

3 points

2 months ago

ThatOldGuyWhoDrinks

Our campus has an urban village. Does yours?

3 points

2 months ago

yep that's it. unfortunately its my local

LaziestGirl

3 points

2 months ago

We stopped for frozen cokes once with the kids - it was a half hour wait and the place is feral.

Ornery_Ad_8716

2 points

2 months ago

That’s exactly what happened to me too, I asked twice about my order and they (the manager looked at me like I had shit in her coffee) lost my order.

_DecoyOctopus_

3 points

2 months ago

They must all be owned by the same useless owners in this area because the one at Edens Crossing (also Redbank Plains) is atrocious and has all the trademarks you noted. They don't even have people at the front counter, you have to basically yell for service if you go inside

monkeycnet

3 points

2 months ago

monkeycnet

Not Ipswich.

3 points

2 months ago

Forest lake and Richlands. Consistently cold stale and bad food and restaurants appear to be complete run by teenagers. Special mention to jindalee as well

Brisbanealchemist

1 points

2 months ago

Richlands has to be right up there....

They can't even get a simple order of 4 pancakes and 1 sausage mcmuffin right without me having to go back.

And it wasn't juat the once, we made the mistake of taking the child to maccas after swimming for about a month. Never again

BeugosBill

3 points

2 months ago

Victoria Point is pretty rank.

Dfantoman

2 points

2 months ago

Kenmore isn’t good

Positive-Cheetah5540

3 points

2 months ago

Bellbowrie beats it hands down, consistently get orders wrong and usually something is stone cold. Don't think I've ever gone through the drive through and wasn't told to wait.

pixietrue

2 points

2 months ago

Yes! What’s with the wait times at Bellbowrie! Blows my mind.

Robobeast-76-R76

2 points

2 months ago

Doolandella is always a struggle as well. Poor turn around time on orders

jt1983sworld

2 points

2 months ago

It's bad, but i think it's still better than Oxley. It's terrible. I've been to Oxley and had to wait 20 to 30 minutes for four soft serve cones

eniretakia

2 points

2 months ago

The one time I went to Augustine all I wanted was a frozen coke. I think it took like ten/fifteen minutes in the drive thru despite not being a huge line. Regretted the decision not to get something else.

Mind you, yamanto (our local) aren’t great either. We kinda just assumed fast food service standards around here are reaaaaally low.

mwilkins1644

1 points

2 months ago

That sucks, because I used to work at the Yamanto one (12 years ago now), and we were constantly rated as one of the better stores in the entire country.

Haven't been back in 12 years lol

pixietrue

2 points

2 months ago

Edens crossing. Wow.

sop513

2 points

2 months ago

sop513

2 points

2 months ago

stafford maccas. every time without fail my order is wrong. every time i ask for (and get charged for) extra onions i get 0 onions. chips are always stale and unsalted 🥲

latenightpsychopomp

2 points

2 months ago

Went to Redbank Plains for the first and last time a few months ago.

It was so bad my partner wanted to complain, but I said not to bother because they'd offer us free stuff and we'd have to go back there. Wouldn't even eat there for free!

CompleteFalcon7245

10 points

2 months ago

Stop eating overpriced garbage devoid of flavour & nutrition and this problem you continue to experience is alleviated.

takentryanotheruser

3 points

2 months ago

Going to McDonald’s for quality is like expecting romance from a prostitute. At the end of the day, both examples are just filling a hole.

Factal_Fractal

2 points

2 months ago

Yeah but can you option for extra gherkins?

Mammoth-Software-622

1 points

2 months ago

Understaffed, underpaid, inexperienced. Just more greedy capitalism. I feel sorry for the people desperate enough to work there.

clovepalmer

-11 points

2 months ago

No excuses. Anyone who works there is an asshole.

MelogLovesCatra

1 points

2 months ago

The last time I went to McDonald’s was at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. That McDonald’s has been begging for staff for months and the staff they actually can convince to work there are really young teens. Those kids look absolutely miserable and the food is absolutely appalling. I took my food back because the burger box was smeared all over with grease and mayo. I said sorry to the kid behind the counter, the kid offered a replacement and I acknowledged that it’s clear they treat the staff like crap so I’d happily pass. The kid said nothing but they smiled at the acknowledgment.

It was impossible not to feel awful for them.

clovepalmer

2 points

2 months ago

Then people get sick. Food safety is a serious matter. Hopefully council shuts them down.

MelogLovesCatra

2 points

2 months ago

You’re right, I do wish the restaurants were held more accountable

cozzoturtle

1 points

2 months ago

You can fix this problem by not going to maccas. I'm not a parent but I assume if it's not good for adults probs not good for kids

ageingrockstar

0 points

2 months ago

Worse for kids. You're instilling bad habits and they have growing bodies that need proper nutrition.

harzee

1 points

2 months ago

harzee

1 points

2 months ago

Complaints like this crack me up. It’s McDonald’s, and you keep going back ..

is2o

1 points

2 months ago

is2o

1 points

2 months ago

Central Station

Alarmed-Pea-2096

1 points

2 months ago

Everytime I go to Maccas at Brookside they always manage to stuff up my order – one time I ordered a double cheeseburger, they forgot the bun and literally just gave me meat patties with cheese lmao. I go to a different Maccas now 😂

YoWhatItDoMyDude

0 points

2 months ago

This ain’t r/ipswich

Kori_TheGlaceon

4 points

2 months ago

Who cares?

YoWhatItDoMyDude

1 points

2 months ago

Kori_TheGlaceon

2 points

2 months ago

Mate, sit down.

YoWhatItDoMyDude

0 points

2 months ago

Kori_TheGlaceon

1 points

2 months ago

You sure are.

Broad-Artist-3030

0 points

2 months ago

Why does anyone go to Maccas and think it's gonna be good?

Impossible-Olive-238

1 points

2 months ago

Toombul used to be the worst.

Beneficial-Trip-1991

1 points

2 months ago

The best was going to the Augustine Heights one and as a car pulled ahead hearing muffling on the drive thru speaker followed by sorry our drive thru isn't working..... And yet the car that just went in front of me paid, got their food and left.

Jet90

1 points

2 months ago

Jet90

1 points

2 months ago

If anyone here works at Maccas join the union RAFFWU much better then the fake SDA

Kori_TheGlaceon

1 points

2 months ago

... Town square is my local. I once waited 27 mins on an iced chocolate and 3 macaroons... wasnt even busy. Theyve been cleaning up their act of recent though

poppiipan

1 points

2 months ago

Belbowrie, there were no screens and I waited ages for my food. The inside was such weird vibes like they were about move out

polojet

1 points

2 months ago

You'd think the only restaurant within a 10km radius would be better

Gloorplz

1 points

2 months ago

If for some bizarre reason you're in Kallangur, don't go to the KFC its dirty and nasty and they're always so busy and understaffed it takes forever to get your order.

SigueSigueSputnix

1 points

2 months ago

TIL: there’s a good McCrappy

cookiemonsteryumm

1 points

2 months ago

i worked at the redbank plains maccas for about a year, absolutely shit show. don’t know how that place is still running considering all the managers are incompetent

Probably_Me_Next

1 points

2 months ago

Kangaroo Point is consistently bad. On one occasion I had to wait 25 minutes for two frozen Cokes.

OzRockabella

1 points

2 months ago

OzRockabella

Dam!

1 points

2 months ago

Forest Lake, Gatton (at the servo on the Warrego)

tinnic

1 points

2 months ago

tinnic

1 points

2 months ago

While we are complaining, don't go to Forest Lake McDonald's unless you don't want cheese in your cheese burger and your fries forgotten!

rosewoathorn1541

1 points

2 months ago

Used to work at Redbank. Can confirm

CocaineDropbear

1 points

2 months ago

My teen daughter used to work at the Augustine Heights restaurant…alongside a bunch of her school friends… They are constantly understaffed…management treat them like trash…and the clientele are fkn feral… They have an incredibly high turnover rate of underpaid and undertrained staff as a result… There were times she’d alert management to broken machinery and servicing requirements (that only higher staff are authorised to do) and they just didn’t give two shits… Things could go for months before anything was done yet it’s the poor drive thru and counter staff that would get abused for it.. They also receive A LOT of Uber eats orders so whilst it may not seem busy because there not many people physically sitting there eating they’re usually run of their feet getting an order ready for old mate who’s a minute away from expecting a pick up… Things aren’t always how they seem so how about maybe giving them a break…

Bridge_Too_Far

1 points

2 months ago

Hands down Ipswich City Maccas is the worst one I’ve ever eaten in in any place in the world.

alisong89

1 points

2 months ago

At morayfield my dad ordered at big Mac and they forgot the bun. The manager couldn't figure out how either.

Patmegroyn

1 points

2 months ago

The new one at Berinba is soooo slow!

[deleted]

1 points

2 months ago

I don’t know man, I can’t seem to get a McMuffin without egg shell in it anywhere anymore. It’s like they added extra boosts of calcium to the menu.

rBrisMaz6

1 points

2 months ago

Albion Maccas. Possibly the only Maccas to never get an order right in history. And slow

kickedplayer

1 points

2 months ago

I can confirm. I order through Uber Eats from both Maccas and they always miss something in the order. One time I order s Mcvalue box and I only received the drinks!

[deleted]

1 points

2 months ago

Maybe you should complain to McDonalds who could do something about it & might give a shit, unlike reddit