[csours]

Kinda OT, but that's why I never buy physically large food items at McD's: the quicker you eat it the warmer it is.

Also, the quicker you eat it, the less you have to think about it; and most of McD's food items do not bear much thinking about.

[freeflight]

Just customize your order in such a way that they have to make it fresh. I don't eat raw tomatoes, so if I tell them not to put those on my burger/wrap/whatever I end up getting freshly made food that's even hot.

[omegaham]

You can specifically ask for them to make it fresh; you just have to be willing to wait around for them to make it.

On a similar note, I hate the "exploit" of "Ask for fries with no salt to get them to make you a fresh batch of fries" when you can just ask them to make you a fresh batch of fries. Potatoes are about $6 per hundred pounds; they could not care less about making you a fresh batch if it means chucking the old fries out.

[jon-wood]

The other thing to hate about asking for fries with no salt is that making them has a fairly high chance of flinging hot oil on yourself. Usually the addition of salt causes the oil to soak in a bit, without the salt it doesn't soak in and gets thrown around the place.

[mpeg]

YMMV too.

Personally, in my local McDonald's I can put an order without talking to a human, pick it up and buy some weed on the way out.

Is that representative of every McD? No.

[pc86]

Other than the lack of human interaction I'm sure it's representative of a fair number of them.