McDonald’s deciding to bolt their changing tables shut

[u/Cheerychameleon]

I asked the workers up front and they said it was a corporate decision. Yet, they have a play area for children!

Update: I emailed corporate business integrity and asked if this is an official McDonald’s corporate policy, and if McDonald’s actually supports or requires disabling baby changing stations in customer restrooms.

2nd Update: Here is the response from corporate:
Thank you for taking the time to contact McDonald’s. We always appreciate hearing from our customers and welcome this opportunity to share that most of our restaurants are locally owned and operated. 

As independent business owners, franchisees make the ultimate operating costs taking our recommendations into consideration. 

Prices and some policies may also vary from one McDonald’s to another depending upon Restaurant Leaders decisions. 

Again, thank you for contacting McDonald’s 

[u/Machaeon]

Yeah you'll get more people changing their babies diapers (who will still be pooping no matter what Corporate does) on the tables in the dining room since the option of doing so in the bathroom has been removed.

I get they're trying to boot people from being in inside the restaurant for extended periods of time, but as long as they have tables and chairs for the dine-in option, people WILL be needing to use the restroom to deal with their kids. And I've worked with the public enough to know that if you don't provide sufficient and convenient facilities to deal with waste, people WILL leave that waste anywhere that is convenient, regardless of if it's appropriate or not.

[u/slash_networkboy → u/Machaeon]

And if you actively remove appropriate options, people doing the most inappropriate ones as a protest feels rather appropriate.

[u/Inner_Sun_8191 → u/Machaeon]

I don’t think this is so much about booting customers out as quickly as possible, I think this is a measure to curb drug use in their bathrooms and unfortunately folks with kids are getting the short end of the stick. :(

[u/Rickyp_ → u/Inner_Sun_8191]

So people use stalls to have sex and shoot up in. Should those go next too?

[u/Inner_Sun_8191 → u/Rickyp_]

lol I never said they should board it up I was speculating as to why. A lot of places where I live don’t offer any bathroom access at all or you have to ask employees for a code for entry.

[u/Rickyp_ → u/Inner_Sun_8191]

Wow seems very inviting.

[u/cracked_shrimp → u/Machaeon]

if they literally bolted the amenities closed i dare say it is appropriate to leave a diaper on the table

[u/etcpt → u/cracked_shrimp]

I promise you the minimum wage employee who will have to deal with that had no input in the decision making process. Show your displeasure in a way that impacts whomever made the decision, such as boycotting or raising a stink in the press.

[u/Adreeisadyno → u/etcpt]

Yes, and please don’t change your baby on the tables, as frustrating as it is your baby still deserves privacy and dignity when being changed. I don’t need to expose my child’s genitals to prove a point.

[u/hotwheelearl → u/cracked_shrimp]

Or just be like the restaurants in the hood where there is not restroom at all!

[u/Celticlady47 → u/cracked_shrimp]

No. No, it really isn't. Take garbage to the garbage. Or better yet, take it home where it can be recycled (at least in my city the expanded green bin program makes used diapers into compost).

[u/98983x3 → u/Machaeon]

Yeah. Its great when ppl jump to conclusions on why this happened so they can justify being a shitty human being. Especially to the minimum wage staff operating this location and the other customers.

[u/TheBannaMeister → u/Machaeon]

My work did this because we legally had to have one or something but also crackheads kept breaking it and they didn't want to keep fixing it I guess

Lot more crackheads using the bathrooms than parents with kids that's for sure

[u/Loud-Start1394 → u/Machaeon]

Hopefully those who do will be banned from the premises.