SF demands McDonald’s clean up drug activity at Haight location (xpost from GD)

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-demands-McDonald-s-clean-up-drug-activity-at-6259474.php

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera Tuesday sent a letter to McDonald’s Corp. complaining about its restaurant at the corner of Haight and Stanyan streets. Herrera told the multinational fast-food chain that it is “legally on the hook” for drug dealing and other illegal activity at its Haight-Ashbury store.

According 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. That’s 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 McDonald’s and in the east end of Golden Gate Park across Stanyan Street has long been a problem.

Herrera publicized the demand letter to McDonald’s via a tweet with the line “San Francisco is not lovin’ it” — a play on the chain’s “I’m 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]

1. it doesn't sound like this will be

another Summer Of Love .

[NBachers]

2. This Ain't the Summer of Love

[Auggie]

3. Absentee/multi-franchise owner issue, I'd guess

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]

4. She must have bought it recently

the earlier article about the dollar menu said the owner was Natalie Gonzales.

[Auggie]

5. Two years ago, I understand ...

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]

6. What about at 16th street?

[mackerel]

7. Think mentions Mayor Gavin Newsom LOL

[KamaAina]

8. Newsom was mayor when the same location dropped the dollar menu

because of all the icky homeless people.

[mackerel]

9. I was just wondering if it was an old article? Newson was mayor a few years back.

[KamaAina]

10. That link was to an old article.

In order to point out that that Mickey D's has had issues for years.