McDonald's To Close All Restaurants In UK

Over the weekend, McDonald's had had said it would reduce overnight hours, with individual restaurants having varying opening hours.

Earlier last week, the company had closed seated dining areas at its restaurants and kept open Takeaway, Drive Thru and McDelivery only in support of the Government guidelines on social distancing.

They introduced new Drive Thru and McDelivery procedures to minimize contact between employees, customers and couriers. Floor guides were provided to ensure customers coming to collect food and drinks keep a safe distance from one another.

However, it become clear after 24 hours of this procedure that maintaining safe social distancing whilst operating busy takeaway and Drive Thru restaurants was increasingly difficult, and therefore it took the decision to close every restaurant in the UK and Ireland.

McDonald's U.S. company-owned restaurants have until now only closed seating areas, including the use of self-service beverage bars and kiosks, and shifted its focus to serving customers through Drive-Thru, walk-in take-out and McDelivery. (dpa)

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