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| - One of my 2016 Yelp goals besides trying to hit Landmark Review #1,000 is to participate in 25 National Days off the National Day Calendar (http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com). Yesterday, National Vanilla Ice Cream Day led me to this very Golden Arches.
The McDonald's cone of soft vanilla ice cream is a treat that brings me back to when I was a little kid in the late 1970s when my grandfather treated me to this ice cream in the Whitestone Expressway McDonald's (Flushing, New York City). Somewhere along the way I grew tired of vanilla ice cream. This cone of soft vanilla ice cream that I celebrated on National Vanilla Ice Cream Day was the first in at twenty years. You know what? This soft vanilla ice cream in a cake cone tasted delicious and changed my negative opinion of vanilla ice cream onto a positive one. It is only $1.08 after tax and one of McDonald's best kept secrets.
It was more than vanilla ice cream that led me here. I had been hiking for hours up in Mount Charleston and was going to meet up with my brother. I was in the mood for quick, convenient, and inexpensive fast food. After hours of hiking in Mount Charleston my tired brain was in a state where McDonald's was as good as Bachi Burger. Before participating in National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, I ordered a Quarter pounder with cheese meal that came out to around $6.40. After hours of hiking in the mountains, it really hit the spot.
As far as McDonald's this is a modern location. They have the computerized menu and the screen showing the orders that are ready. There is also a mini lounge with two plush chairs.
There were some opportunities in cleanliness and service. There was one very young woman that was taking orders. From my observation she seemed to be brand new which caused her to have to call the shift manager about a credit card and a customer mentioning that he waited twenty minutes for his cookies. When I left, what seemed to be an off the clock McDonald's employee was joking with an employee that he is not supposed to use that language in front of customers. As far as cleanliness, the trash buckets at the Coke machines were also overflowing. In reality this is the quintessential McDonald's.
In my opinion McDonald's is solid but not great fast food. However, childhood memories of the McDonald's cone of soft vanilla ice cream led me to this location that is between Mount Charleston and my brother's house to celebrate National Vanilla Ice Cream Day. Preceding the vanilla ice cream cone, I enjoyed an inexpensive, fast, and convenient post-hiking dinner.
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