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Nottingham Post
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Corey Bedford

McDonald's customer handed £50 parking fine despite being in restaurant

Being handed with a parking fine is probably the last thing most customers expect during a trip to McDonald's. But one customer says he was fined £50 for parking at his local restaurant despite spending the full two hours of his stay eating inside.

The fast food fan said he enjoyed an extended stay at the Midlands restaurant to eat his meal before heading home. But he was shocked when he later received a £50 fine for breaching the parking restrictions.

McDonald's responded to a social media post about the fine by saying limited time parking is in place at most branches in order to ensure there is adequate parking for all of our customers, Leicestershire Live reports.

Posting anonymously online the disgruntled customer said: "So annoyed just had a fine for parking at McDonald’s for nearly two hours, we was there all that time eating and extra drinks have now got a fine. Anyone else had this?"

Many McDonald's stores have a time restriction on parking, which is usually between 90 minutes to two hours - but the parking is operated by a private company. The store in question in Coalville, has a 90 minute parking restriction.

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"Parking restrictions have proved necessary because of problems ranging from minicab drivers using our car parks as waiting bays between fares, to people leaving their cars for several hours while shopping or using nearby amenities."

Some commenters offered support to the customer, giving them advice, including one person who said: "Appeal it will probably get cancelled." Another wrote: "Go in and speak to McDonald's, they might be able to cancel it if you can prove you were in there the whole time! Worth a try."

A third said: "Call and ask to speak to a manager, they can have the fine cancelled at their discretion (I'm a previous employee)"

Meanwhile some were quick to laugh at the poster's misfortune, asking how they managed to spend such a long time at the restaurant. One joked: "2 hours??!! Did you slip into a coma?", while another added: "Not so fast food. Still if you do order the slow cooked mcpork burger you only have yourself to blame."

A third said: "Two hours in a McDonald’s? What did you order? There are signs all over the place about parking limits," while another asked bluntly: "What the hell did you order?".

A spokesperson for McDonald's said: "We have parking restrictions in place at a number of our restaurants, with a time limit to ensure there is adequate parking for all of our customers.

"At this restaurant the time limit is 90 minutes and we make this clear to our customers with signage in the car park. If a customer feels they have been wrongly ticketed, we would encourage them to get in touch with the third party contractor who issued the ticket by way of appeal.”

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