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Related: About this forumSF demands McDonald’s clean up drug activity at Haight location (xpost from GD)
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-demands-McDonald-s-clean-up-drug-activity-at-6259474.phpAccording to the letter, the police have received 1,100 calls since Jan. 2012 for everything from drug sales, fights, assaults and auto burglaries at the store. Thats more calls than for any other business in the area, Herrera said.
The drugs confiscated by police at the property include LSD, psychedelic mushrooms, hashish and marijuana. Drug use near the Haight Street McDonalds and in the east end of Golden Gate Park across Stanyan Street has long been a problem.
Herrera publicized the demand letter to McDonalds via a tweet with the line San Francisco is not lovin it a play on the chains Im lovin it slogan.
That's the location that refuses to serve the dollar menu because too many homeless people were ordering from it!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9084653
So druggies are okay but homeless people aren't?
h/t steve2470
olddots
(10,237 posts)another Summer Of Love .
NBachers
(17,146 posts)Auggie
(31,194 posts)The Chronicle reported the franchise is owned by Betty Lin. She is daughter of McDonald's franchise kingpin C.C. Yin, who reportedly owns as many as 17 to 20 McDonalds restaurants in Northern California. Lin owns several others, including the problematic Stanyon Street location in San Francisco.
When you get into numbers like this it becomes a big business (according to the links, each of C.C. Yin's franchises are worth $3 million!), and owners can shift their attention from actual day-to-day restaurant operations to simply making as much money as they can -- whether through franchise expansion or bean counting down to the last pickle.
Years ago I worked with a super asshole who owned over 200 Burger King franchises in California and Louisiana, and he did just that -- counted pickles in order to save every last penny imaginable.
Looks like Ms. Lin has some real work to do.
http://www.apapa.org/contact/cc_yin.aspx
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-24/features/sns-mct-from-a-mcdonalds-empire-and-a-drive-to-succeed-20120624_1_yin-happy-meals-filet-o-fish
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)the earlier article about the dollar menu said the owner was Natalie Gonzales.
Auggie
(31,194 posts)but I was wondering just how well she could have vetted the purchase. Would you knowingly buy a business with such seemingly unsolvable, on-going issues?
mackerel
(4,412 posts)mackerel
(4,412 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)because of all the icky homeless people.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)In order to point out that that Mickey D's has had issues for years.