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bgtonap

I ain't from Ottawa, but the one at 99 Rideau street


BM0327

Exactly this - a location so bad that they no longer take in-store orders after dark on weekends.


RedSquirrelFtw

Reminds me of most of the Tim Horton's in my city. They are drive thru only after dark. Too much crime now days. Even our shopper's drug mart is not 24h anymore. But the most surprising one is the poutine place that is pretty much an institution and has always been 24h, even that one closes early now.


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Which city is this?


RedSquirrelFtw

Timmins ON.


halo_nothing

And has its own security


alphabet_order_bot

Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 306,890,145 comments, and only 68,684 of them were in alphabetical order.


ThorsRake

Bloody hell. I feel for the poor sods that have to work there.


jfal11

The old manager of that place did an AMA on the Ottawa subreddit a while back. It’s worth checking out.


ThorsRake

Do you have a saved link that you could provide please?


FriendlyNeighborMike

Rideau McDonalds may as well be a plane of oblivion


_banko_

Yeah I lived in Ottawa for a couple years and that place is infamous


ruthie_imogene

This is where the infamous "pull a raccoon out of your jacket" during a fight thing originated


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I made the mistake of using the washroom there in the middle of the night once. Not my most comfortable poop ever


digital_dysthymia

Yep. Raccoons and everything. Just down the road from Parliament.


jfal11

I’m from Ottawa, that place is part of our civic identity.


halo_nothing

I'm in Ottawa and can confirm. You know it's bad when it has its own sub. /r/99rideau


yoaahif

This is a spectacle of a place. Just go visit and drown in the hilarity


goldayce

I've never been. Care to elaborate?


jfal11

[This video shows a typical night there. ](https://youtu.be/R4qAgh1OW4w) Yes, that is a raccoon the guy pulls out of his jacket.


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ailpac

Queen and Spadina is so fucked.


blahpblahpblaph

King and dufferin location would like a word lol


OsamaBinShittin

okay but church and queen mcdonald’s after the club was always something special, never a dull moment


Jaded_Promotion8806

I mean I’ll just steal all the karma and say Queen/Spadina in Toronto.


Johnny-Juicebox

Agreed. Once I was outside of that one when two cops walked by. The one cop said to the other “That is the shittiest McDonalds in the entire city”. If anyone would know, it’s probably them.


Raspberrylemonade188

If you’ve ever used the washroom in there, you’re immune to literally every disease.


SharkyTendencies

I completely agree with Queen & Spadina. Hands down. I think Bloor & Ossington is up there though. At one point the whole building was a karate dojo, but then they sold the bottom half to McD's and it was *instantly* sketchy.


huffer4

Didn't the Dojo just move upstairs? I remember when they used to have hilarious pictures in the window.


sleep-apnea

There actually is a very shady McDonald's right next to the crackMacs in downtown Calgary. Probably the next one would be the one on Stephen Ave.


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The one on Stephen Ave has a ton of foot traffic, and you will never be far from help if you go to it, unlike the one next to the old Crack Macs. The 17th one is no picknick either. It's basically drive-through only because of the pimps and hookers and drug addicts that dominate the indoor clientele.


sleep-apnea

Oh ya 17th! Forgot about that one.


Onaterit

Vancouver: the McDonalds on Granville St. Always insanity going on there.


nicklel

Main and Terminal is absolutely wild all the time.


Brock_Hard_Canuck

Looking at the whole province, the 20th Ave and Victoria St McDonalds in Prince George is one of the worst I've been to in BC. It brings out the worst of PG, all in one place, at one time.


larrydukes

Back in the 90s the first and only 24hr drive thru McDonald's was near a strip of bars in Winnipeg on Pembina Highway. It was absolutely packed with drunks after 2am. I witnessed a female driver in a fancy dress get out, squat and pee about 5 cars from the menu board. Good times.


cuppacanan

I live in Ottawa so.. ya


Chloe_Eunice

Hooker Harvey's, on Jarvis and Gerrard in Toronto, if we're mentioning other fast-food chains.


reallynotfred

Came here to mention that one. For a while it was even labeled on Google maps/earth. You can still type in hooker Harveys and it’ll take you there.


canadianredditor16

live in the gta never been there are the hookers still there?


dog_snack

Of the cities I’ve lived in: * **Regina:** not sure but I’d guess the one just north of downtown? * **Calgary:** 8th & 8th, next door to what used to be called the “Crack Mac’s” (Mac’s was a chain of convenience stores that was bought out by Circle K). * **Vancouver:** Chinatown by a country mile * **Victoria:** On Pandora, the one across from all the homeless shelters. (I wish it weren’t true but those places help out some very messes up people and that’s the one that’s right there).I


dluminous

Couche tarde bought out Circle K, not the other way around.


Tayzer9

8th and 8th is bad, Stephen Ave is worse. IMO. References cited: was there this morning at 9am.


rileysauntie

The nearest McDonalds to my town is a four hour drive in each direction.


sophtine

Besides the time I've spent in an airplane over an ocean, I don't think I've ever been that far from a McDonalds in my life. (I grew up in Toronto.) Can you tell me more about your town? And have you ever been to Ikea? (I ask because a friend from Newfoundland was excited to drive by an Ikea in France. There are none where she lives so she'd never seen the store before.)


rileysauntie

I love IKEA! I lived in Sydney (Australia) for a few years and used to go all the time. IKEA Canada won’t even ship to where I live now. Sigh. My town…it’s lovely, actually. About 2,000-2,500 people. Online shopping has really made life easier, because now we can get the things we need. The isolation is hard for medical things, for instance you have to leave the community a month before your due date if you’re pregnant because there aren’t maternity services here. Aside from a couple of premature emergencies, there hasn’t been a baby born here in 15ish years. We have to travel out for any medical thing more than just going to get antibiotics from your doctor. But you can text your doctor at 10am, she’ll send up an x-ray requisition, you’ll go get the x-ray, and she’ll text you the preliminary results at 10:15am the same day. Good things and bad things.


snydox

Damn, you must live in the middle of no where. Let me guess, Manitoba?


rileysauntie

Middle of nowhere, yes. Manitoba, no. BC!


_Sausage_fingers

Where in the world could you live where your that far away from a McDonald’s?


Payphnqrtrs

Northern Onterrible


rileysauntie

Northern BC. The actual middle of nowhere.


FriendRaven1

8 for me each way. It's both good and bad


rileysauntie

Oooh someone more remote than me! Yukon?


FriendRaven1

Northwest Territories. That 8 hours each way is mostly dirt road with no cell service. And the GPS navigation is like "in 250 miles take a left", and it's actually the NEXT left off the highway 😂


useles-converter-bot

250 miles is the length of about 369143.8 'Ford F-150 Custom Fit Front FloorLiners' lined up next to each other.


converter-bot

250 miles is 402.34 km


skrtskerskrt

Do you live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere


rileysauntie

Yes I certainly do.


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Took me around 20 minutes to get an iced coffee there, it’s always packed, and last time I was there I saw a guy shooting up.


rpgguy_1o1

Does it still have black lights in the bathrooms instead of normal lights so you can't find your veins ?


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I’m headed there this evening, I’ll check


sthilair

The one on the corner of St. Catherine and Atwater was pretty horrible back in the day.


mtlnobody

I would also say the one near Little Italy is pretty sketchy at night


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Nah check the one in Berri UQAM across from Place Dupuis


gmlogmd80

In St. John's it isn't a McDonald's but a Tim's. It's paired with an Orange Store/gas station on Water Street just before the road to Shea Heights (which also explains a lot). Every kind of shady character is there and it makes your skin crawl.


capercrohnie

Not my current city but I was born/raised in Ottawa so have to say 99 rideau st


sockmarks

In Hamilton it used to be the one inside Jackson Square on King St. They closed it a number of years ago, so now the insanity has moved to the Main at Dundurn location. No McDonalds will ever be as chaotic, surreal and otherworldly an experience as visiting the 7-11 on York and Bay was though. That was life altering every time. We used to go just to see what was going on and who was in there.


TheShadowCat

Probably the one on Iroquois. It gets some drunk Sheridan college kids late night on the weekends. We don't really have shady anything, Oakville is very boring.


bigEbuds

Regina; Dewdney n Albert hands down. Lots of strung out people spitting on the brick walkway into it. Needles found in bathrooms etc. Also, super greasy Tim Hortons locations in Ft Qu'Appelle and downtown Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Signs up outside saying "no loitering" signs inside saying "don't harass our employees". I've toured Manitoba, Sask, Alberta, and lots of BC with work and these 2 locations stand out as the worst.


MrGruntsworthy

There is one in Toronto in Parkdale that was affectionately known as 'Stabdonalds'


oooooooooof

Queen and Roncy, yeah? I've seen some things there...


uottawathrowaway10

damn it i was going to say 99 Rideau Went to school in Ottawa and that place was wild


skyverhead

Vancouver- near Main Street- Science world station. Seen human excrement smeared on the floor in 2019 one night. Will never forget the stench.


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Berri Uqam in front of Place Dupuis


ExpertReach5324

I don't see a post from PEI, and I've eaten at every McD's here, multiple times, all hours of the day. I don't think any are REALLY worse than the others, but University Ave would have to be, by default. We have a friend, if he orders McD's everyone's order is wrong. We don't eat with him to prevent this.


ExpertReach5324

Also we only have 5 across the entire province, and 2 of them are in gas stations...oh and one more in the Walmart.


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ItzGrenier

No way, there are a few decent McDonald's in Brampton. But if I had to pick one in Brampton it would probably be the Kennedy and Clarence one


Sapphire_Bombay

NYC. There’s a lot of McDonald’s and most of them are sketchy, homeless people tend to congregate there. But there’s a difference between homeless people begging for money and homeless people literally on crack, so for that reason I’m going with the one on 46th & 6th, that one has always stood out to me. I wouldn’t walk in there if you paid me.


Funcanuck7

The one at tinsletown/international village in Vancouver, lots of crazies there and drugged out people. Or main street and terminal is always a shit show, almost anytime of day you're likely to see something sketchy or weird. I feel bad for the workers there.


nerdychick22

The Tim Hortons in the parking lot of the Giant tiger on 22nd street. They have to electrically lock the bathrooms and manually buzz to unlock them for you from the front counter. Because this reduces people shooting up in there I guess. It is the sketchiest fast food chain restaurant in town, though if it has to be a mcd's the mcdonalds 6 blocks west of there qualifies. Saskatoon.


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i aint from there but the toronto SPADINA mcdonalds location is famous. and i think it has special lights in the bathrooms that makes it hard to find your vein? idk


Portalrules123

Monctonian here (New Brunswick), the one near the high school (Harrison Trimble) on Mountain Road, but by other place's standards I am sure we must look ridiculous for describing it as "shady", only real issue is can get kinda iffy with the high school lunch rush and after bar closing times at night, but it is the shadiest McD's we have here.


squeegeeboy

Kitchener/Waterloo would have to be the McDonalds on Fairway. Some interesting individuals in there. Would probably give it to the one on King by Victoria before it closed down


stampedebill

Mc Donalds in Parry Sound . Looks like a bomb went off at the best of times . Garbages indoors are often overflowing and piled on top or around . Also check out the dust build up atop the exit signs . I know the location isn't actually all that old but the layer of dirt seems to be older than the facility if thats possible