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(Message started by: TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 18^th, 2007, 2:20pm)

Title: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 18^th, 2007, 2:20pm

hi just like you all to be aware that if you go to some fastfoods outlets, that your number gets recorded and if you need to return within 90 minutes that you will be charged an additional £125 for the pleasure :o
in july I stopped to get my daughter a burger at 16.28 and had to wait in a bay while the order made up this was a drive through. at 18.40 they have got me as leaving. that was the second time when i got my son a burger the time i spent there on the first time could have been no longer than 15 minutes and the second for ten minutes so how do they work that out as, 90 minutes also if you drive through how can you be parked

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by Baz on Aug 18^th, 2007, 4:15pm

OK.... I am a little lost on this one!!

Where does the £125.00 come into it? Have McD's charged you this, the police?... who?

As for parking on a drive through order, I always get told to park up because I always order a burger with just onions and they have to make it up specialially so they ask you to park up while they cook it and not hold up the queue. Also means I always get freshly cooked food!!

Baz

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 18^th, 2007, 10:03pm

hi it came in the post they now have 75 minutes max parking and no return within 90 minutes so how they work it out beats me its now with the branch who have said this is the first time this has happened and they will try to sort it. it was posted as a civil parking notice.
i will probably get another one for today went today to read the notice on the car park at 9am and took the notice to the manager at 10.20 for him to sort out. it doesnt seem to matter how how long you spend in there its if your in there again before the 90 minutes are up. got to go back tomorrow to get picture of sign because that has nothing about no return within 90 minutes

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 18^th, 2007, 10:06pm

you do not need to park it gets your number on the way in on camera and on the way out

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by Highlander on Aug 18^th, 2007, 10:23pm

so it was sent from the fast food branch?? surely they can enforce that ;D

do they have number recognition cameras or was it someone checking manually?

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by peteHull on Aug 18^th, 2007, 10:32pm

People ought to stop using the places then they'd maybe think about their parking problems a little more.... >:(

Pete

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by bertie on Aug 19^th, 2007, 1:18am

Tracey limo

try this site, http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?s=13c974fe44826f9fc60653acd95d63a4&showforum=30

BP at Gatwick was doing exactly the same thing using APNR cameras.

anyway, the short of it was the guys on this forum got the loop holes out and people got off fine free, something to do with the driver is responsible not the reg keeper of car and also the wording of the ticket.

It makes for some interesing reading and I certainly won't pay the ticket until you contact these guys above.

simon

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by mr._floppy on Aug 19^th, 2007, 1:22am

That's why, instead of greasing the palms of the nefarious capitalist Multi - Nationals, you should support your local chippie, all parking is gratis ( it's free too !!! ;D )

No poncy French Fries and Skinny Latte Mocca there, just good old fashioned fine upstanding British stodge with chips.

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TiberiuS on Aug 19^th, 2007, 12:07pm

Not with the sort of chippies you get around here it ain't :-X

Sounds like when the motorway services started charging people to park up for a nap. These big companies don't give a cuss for the customer or the workers anyway :-/

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by Scorpio_Mike on Aug 19^th, 2007, 1:09pm

Politely ( or otherwise ! ) tell them to 'Burger off !'

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by Danny_R on Aug 19^th, 2007, 2:03pm

I could see that going down really well over this side of the pond. Hell they even tried copying the brits with the speed camera's on local roads and highways, that lasted a few days until all the local builders and red-necks went out with circular saws and cut the lot of them down. Needless to say they soon scrapped the idea of speed camera's

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 19^th, 2007, 7:11pm

it was sent by a debt collection agency working for mcdonalds. hopefully it wont get sorted out by the manager and then i will be able to go to court. and it does work by number plate recognition. never did i think i would get a ticket going to the same place twice, i will keep you posted >:(

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by jonnycab on Aug 20^th, 2007, 10:30am

Fined for going there twice :o....they should be rewarding their regular customers, not fining them ???

This is outrageous & hopefully MuckDonalds will realise that they are in the wrong & offer you compensation for causing you grief & wasting your time....good luck ;)

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by cueball57 on Aug 21^st, 2007, 8:27pm

I know this might sound odd, but how did macdonalds get your details.

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 11:31am

they take all numbers on cctv which are timed in and out and a company monitor the results are issue the tickets, the time i was in both times could not have been more than 20 mins eachtime but you are not allowed according to them to return to the site for 90 mins after your first visit :P not that i eat the stuff any way :-X still waiting to hear back from them

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Aug 22^nd, 2007, 11:32am

oh dvla give them the details from the numberplate

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by v4-max aka Cheekyboy1 on Sep 2^nd, 2007, 4:28pm

obviously the data protection act does'nt apply to these companies, they must be getting your details from the dvla. just makes me wonder who is entitled to access this information.

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Sep 2^nd, 2007, 8:02pm

probably any one who pays them :o

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by FordScorpioFan on Sep 21^st, 2007, 12:14am

Hi,

This seems like complete nonesense...

.. countless examples.. never mind the obvious - the vendor wants anyone who buys a product and stays for less than 30 minutes to return as often as is humanly possible :? ... further, application to vehicle or driver? (i.e. one car - person A visits vendor goes home; person B uses same car to visit vendor within 90 minutes? - cannot necessarily know of previous visit, etc.) ... taxi, passenger A - take me to burger vendor, passenger B - take me to burger vendor...

Oh well... all good. I would imagine the contractor clearly hasn't been employing brain in any of this... else they would have observed you were only their for a few minutes (even drive through, etc.) and similarly when you returned... The objective is to stop people using it for free parking either as customers who sit in the restaurant all day or use it as free parking to visit somewhere else... legitimate customers not taking the mick are not the ones to be targeted - lol. Guess they are still learning and tuning their procedures / brains, etc. :) .

Best wishes,

Scorpio Fan

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Sep 21^st, 2007, 1:22pm

just had final demand, went back to macdonalds and apprently the company who are contracted to run the scheme for them are ignoring there e mails, they are now emailing them again to tell them it is a mistake and tell me on monday what happens, when i said ring them he said we cannot as we do not have a number >:(

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by Bren on Sep 24^th, 2007, 1:28am

My thoughts are that from now I will be asking for, and keeping the till receipts in the unlikely event of a brainstorm where I visited twice. - - Once is usually enough to put me off for a few months.

Should threatening letters then arrive from the ~~parasites~~ debt collection agency then I can send them a photocopy of the two timed receipts, unstamped of course with the envelope marked "postage to be paid by that agency.

But then again, I am an awkward sod when something gets my rag up.

Title: Re: expensive burgers
Post by FordScorpioFan on Sep 24^th, 2007, 8:58am

Hi,

Tracey ( if I have got that right ;) )... refer the original company (the contracted parking company) to the burger outlet in question.

Just explain the reality... explain that if they want to piss off their employer and potentially loose their contract (possibly nationwide!)... then they are going about it the right way.

I.e. McD's (or whoever it is) are mighty fed up.. and if you (they - the contracted parking people) don't get it sorted RIGHT NOW... they will be in xyz with McD's and not just you as well :) (you being the loyal customer of said burger company, etc. , etc. lol).

Hope that helps.

With these things, particularly in this case it seems, "tell" - means rewrite War & Peace and reundertake the building of the wall of China - i.e. write to and phone McD's (telling them what you have done and said) (branch and head office); write to and phone contracted parking company (address they have given you [and head office if keen]); you can also contact the debt collectors if you want (but people seem to take different views about this - I think it is best to get rid of them before they arrive at the door... although others say you may stir a hornets nest if you ever even so much as look at them / talk to them... ultimately they should not even be talking to you.. and McD's / the contact parking people should be getting them to stand down.. you can always show them copies of all the letters sent to McD's and the contract parking company if the debt collectors come to your door [all the better if you have appology letters from Mc'D's or whoever's head office].. that sort of thing usually turns them away [the debt collectors] - but if at your door I wouldn't advise opening the door to show them the letters ;) [based on what I have seen on TV / generally understood :) ]) (you can also show them the recorded delivery confirmation slip thing for the letter you sent them [the debt collectors] if you do decide to write to them as well - apparently not uncommon for debt collectors to "lose" letters or fail to reply to etc. letters from those they are pursuing - proof they have received your letter should also turn them away [if they haven't replied, etc., etc.]! - lol). That is the short version excluding the bits I have forgoten (one of which I nearly managed to forget is... get a written statement placed in your hand from the manager of the restaurant in question that you are not to be penalised / no penalty is to apply in this case; etc. - that will be good for showing to anyone else as well; AND [another one I nearly forgot - of many no doubt ;)] if the burger place manager doesn't know their number... take in the documentation you received and their should be a phone number on their or enough information to find it, etc. or for them to write to them .. etc... e-mail is not reliable or guaranteed [without a read receipt] and further often incompetents like these change their e-mail provider or ISP and "forget" their most important e-mail address is no longer working!!! errr.!:) :P }{ ).

Let us know how you get on, etc.

Hope some of that might be helpful :)

Best wishes,

ScorpioFan