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    Default Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    ....they have treated the corner restaurant as their own personal meeting place for more than five years, they say, the situation has escalated in recent months. The restaurant says the people who colonize the seats on a daily basis are quashing business, taking up tables for hours while splitting a small packet of French fries ($1.39); the group say they are customers and entitled to take their time. A lot of time....a revolving group who shuffle into the McDonald’s....on walkers, or with canes, in wheelchairs or with infirm steps, as early as 5 a.m. and often linger until well after dark....“They ordered us out,” Mr. Lee said from his seat in the same McDonald’s booth a week after the incident, beneath a sign that said customers have 20 minutes to finish their food. (He had already been there two hours.) “So I left,” he said.

    “Then I walked around the block and came right back again.”


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    Default Re: Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    Jesus Christ that would be hell on earth, sitting in a McDonalds all day.

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    Default Re: Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    Are those people bothering anyone?





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    Default Re: Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    Hahahaha! I used to do that at Denny's when I was in High School. We got tossed out all the time for only ordering coffee and staying there, sometimes all night.

    There are about 30 people who monopolize the restaurant every day while only spending $1-2.

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    Default Re: Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    Hire off duty police as security and serve the squatters with no trespassing notices.

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    Default Re: Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay12 View Post
    Are those people bothering anyone?
    They're taking up space that can be used by additional paying customers, thereby reducing income for the business. If there's no place to sit and eat, customers are likely to leave and go elsewhere, both immediately and in the future.

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    Default Re: Tip Rail Freeloaders have PARENTS!

    I don't get spending hours at McDonald's but they are old and nothing better to do. I don't really think it's the same thing in theory. If anything I would compare tip rail freeloaders to people who sit for hours at a restaurant, keep getting free refills from a waitress then don't tip her. This sounds like a bunch of old people who almost want to be annoying.

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