Yelp on Sunday posted a review of former President Donald Trump's McDonald's franchise in Pennsylvania, where he operated a french fryer and a manned drive-thru counter, as the app was flooded with negative comments from political opponents. As a result, it has been temporarily disabled.
Supporters of the former president wrote in praise. One of them commented: “This is the best McDonald's I've ever been to in 47 years. The senior employees were very kind. Let's make McDonald's great again! Please bring back the dollar menu!”
But other people The page was flooded with 1-star reviews Comments that are unrelated to the restaurant's food or service.
“The fries were salty, like someone who lost a major election had been crying over their fries for an hour,” one reviewer wrote in a post Monday.
Another reviewer wrote, “The person in the drive-thru somehow resembled someone I had seen on the news as a convicted felon.”
“Customer service was a joke. The old man put bronzer on my fries and wasn't wearing gloves. Repeatedly, Donald in the shower with a golf club. What about McDonald's?'' another Yelp visitor wrote.
When you visit this page, you will see a pop-up window titled “Unusual Activity Alert.”
“This business has been in the public eye recently, which means people often visit this page to post their opinions about the news,” the warning says.
“While we do not take sides on this incident, we have posted content on this page to investigate whether the content you see here reflects actual consumer experience. Posting has been temporarily disabled” Recent Events. ”
It is common for businesses mentioned in the context of political events on Yelp to receive an overwhelming number of negative reviews from customers who do not legitimately utilize the establishment in question.
Recently on Yelp We have published a report on trust and safety. This shows that 112 business pages in the US received unusual activity alerts regarding politics or incidents related to politicians in the last year. The app ended up removing more than 5,000 reviews.
“For Yelp to remain a useful resource for our community, reviews must be based on authentic, first-hand experience with businesses,” Noorie Malik, Yelp's vice president of user operations, told The Post. Ta.
“If activity significantly decreases or stops, moderators will clean up the page to ensure that reviews only describe consumers' direct experiences.”
Derek Giacomantonio, a franchisee who owns the Feasterville store, said: issued a statement “As a small independent business owner, it is a core value of my organization that we proudly open our doors to all who visit our Feasterville community.”
“That's why I accepted former President Trump's request to observe a transformative work experience that one in eight Americans has had: working at McDonald's,” Giacomantonio said. .
The fast-food chain's executives on Sunday sought to distance themselves from the controversy, saying, “We do not support candidates for elected office, and this campaign will continue to do so.”
McDonald's comes after President Trump and his supporters questioned whether his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, was telling the truth when she said she worked at a McDonald's in the Bay Area in 1983. It was featured in the news.
McDonald's said in a statement on Sunday that it could not necessarily confirm that Ms. Harris worked at one of its burger shops, but that it had heard that she had “fond memories” of working there as a teenager. “I'm proud,” he added.
The fast food giant asked Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, to explain how McDonald's provides meaningful pathways to economic opportunity and nourishes and nurtures communities. We invited them to visit one of the company's restaurants to share their experiences.
