My daughters and I were heading to the Major League Pickleball in San Diego last weekend. On our way there, we stopped at this McDonald's for a quick breakfast in case food options aren't great at the Barnes Tennis Center. Tables were clean. Lots of outside seating. Adequate inside seating. Benches and stools had signs of wear and tear. Tears on the seats had clear tape over them. I have never seen taping of seats at any McDonald's until now. We used one of the self-ordering kiosk. There are 2 of them. Got one Breakfast Platter and one Bacon McGriddle plus one large Iced Coffee Caramel drink to share between the 3 of us. Food was fine. Drink could be better... it lacked some coffee flavor IMHO. Btw, if you want certain condiments like pepper, you'll need to specify it in your order. Otherwise, you'll have to ask for it after the fact. Staff was friendly and very hardworking. Just one lady working the front counter. They were very short staffed unfortunately. Hope they get more staff especially during lunch time. Good luck McDonald's! read more

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Very disappointing experience. We were order #717 on May 24 and placed our order around 12:40 PM: three cheeseburger specials with nuggets and fries, plus four drinks. We did not receive our food until about 1:03 PM. At least 23 minutes for a simple order. While waiting near the drive-thru area, we could see several order receipts being worked on, including #618, #717, #1024, and #5. The customer for order #618 had ordered before us and was still waiting even after we finally got our food. Meanwhile, I counted at least 10 drive-thru cars being served while lobby customers continued waiting. Around 12:50 PM, my 10-year-old daughter politely checked on our order and was told they would "start working on it now." By 12:55 PM, we still had no food, so I calmly asked if there was a problem with the order and was barely acknowledged. Another customer who had just walked in became verbally aggressive toward me in front of my 10-year-old daughter and her friend. Staff did not appear to notice or do anything to de-escalate the situation. When we finally received our food, the fries were cold and the ice in our drinks had melted. This was clearly a management and operational issue. A 20+ minute wait for fast food, poor communication, cold food, and an uncomfortable lobby experience in front of children is unacceptable. read more

The cashier today was very rude at the drive thru . It's bad enough you can't hear them speak due to the freeway Nextdoor then the staff has attitude because of it . No wonder this McDonalds has bad reviews. They are all right about it . read more

McDonald's - These owners need to do something better regarding their rude staff and noise reduction. - Burgers Near Me - Escondido, California

Absolutely terrible service. Again. Ordered at Kiosk. Done in. They called my number instead of delivering to table like they said. Fine. Then when I went to pick up from counter, was ignored by 2 people. Eventually managed to get the attention of the manager to ask for salt. She basically grunted and asked a co worker to get it. He didn't talk either. She grabbed the number off my table. This is the worst service I've ever seen from McDonalds. This will make it to corporate. Friday evening today at 8.05pm. Should be ashamed to be employing such rude staff. Won't be coming back read more

I sent my teenage kids to get McDonald's. They went inside the lobby to order at the counter and they had $40 in cash to buy food for the family. NOT one employee asked to help them. They stood inside at the counter trying to request help from the staff. The staff completely ignored them for 25 mins. They raised their hand for help, They called out politely to get help & NO ONE helped them. The STAFF IGNORED them at counter. My kids didn't use the kiosk because they thought they would need a credit card to pay. My kids called me & asked me to pick them up & to eat somewhere else nearby & that's exactly what we did. I have been inside this McDonalds a few times & unless you are Harsh and Rude they DO NOT pay attention to you. They only want to deal with automated orders & avoid contact with humans. They don't even want to say thank you when you pickup at the drive thru read more

Order a cheeseburger and got a bun with cheese and ketchup. So no dinner for me last night.

First I know it's McDonald's. But the place is under staffed or the employees don't care. I got cold food. Double cheese burger, fries and a coke. Burger was cold fries were cold. I walked up to the register to ask for fresh fries and stood there a minute. I was ignored. I raised my voice and asked can I have hot fries? The lady said yes it will be 3 minutes. The lady was nice. But come on. Fast food. Hot fries, hot burgers and cold coke. I get that it's fast food. I get that it's McDonald's. But with increased prices come increased expectations. read more

I mean, I don't get all the bad reviews. It's MickeyDs! You're gonna get food you're used to and you're gonna get it quick and relatively cheap. I got my fav meal there the other day, service was friendly and fast, food tasted as it always does, great! read more

The staff was very distracted. They either had friends seated in the lobby or they were employees who had just gotten off of work. We waited an extremely long time for our order: 2 cups of coffee and 2 apple pies. We saw an employee give a large iced coffee with ice cream on top to one of their friends while we waited. After seeing this we approached the counter to ask about our order. We were told that they were brewing the coffee. So... very poor communication, and a lack of professionalism. And to top it off, the employees got our order wrong. I'm disappointed to say the least. read more

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Attention Owner!!! I keep giving this McDonalds location another chance but tonight was the last time I'm going there. Long waits, unfriendly employees, and horrible food. Got old fries with a ton of ketchup packets dumped on top, almost to say, take your fries and shove them. Owner, you've got to get a grip on this place. read more

Went through the drive thru about 6 am. There were 2 cars head of us and it took about 15 minutes. In my opinion, the slowest McDonald's ever. I would definitely avoid this one! read more

Very gross. They had over 3 workers dead in business and they can't find the time to clean? Restrooms were dirty nothing stocked or clean had to ask for hand soap and they put in a a cup for us to use rather then changing or stocking the restroom. Drink/ice cream machine was unbelievably gross. Made me gag, Thai alone made us leave. I can only imagine how the rest of the establishment looked like. I hope no one gets sick here. @osha @healthdepartment @mcdonaldscorporate @publichealth NEEDS TO VISIT this McDonald's!!! read more

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Wow, at the drive-through waiting for 15 minutes and I thought something is up. Went to go look at Yelp and should've saw it before I got stuck. 1 1/2 stars and totally made sense. Finally got my food, it was cold and when I asked for ketchup and got home, I got ketchup all right one. Never this one again. read more

They took forever to take the orders. We ended up leaving because they took so long. Everyone waiting was obviously annoyed and the workers could care less. Didn't even try the food. read more

NEVER EVER go here! Ray Kroc would be miffed that his legacy of the best customer service with perfection in food has turned to the worst of the fast food restaurants! ALL the Escondido McD's are 1.5 to 2 stars!!!! Most other locations are too. But this one was the worst! We were in line before ordering about 20 minutes. We got to the menu board like a TV screen that changes through things. And it wasn't showing the menu, instead stayed on the car before us's order. When asked what we wanted, we asked for them to bring up the menu board. Nothing...crickets! He asked again, we asked again. Then he says pull up and we'll hand you a paper menu. We drive up and get to the 1st window and he asks what we want to order again. Explained 3rd time, the menu board was stuck on the receipt of the person before us & asked the same, can we have menu!? Stares at us with a blank face and then finally says I think we have a paper menu and goes to look left & right with no menu so finally just ordered something we knew they had. After ordering 2 cheeseburgers & a 1/4 pounder medium combo, it came to $17! Seemed high so wondered if we were over charged & asked for a receipt, asked for it again, nothing, so sick of waiting, moved up to ask the 2nd window person for it. The person in front of us, since we could only see their receipt vs the menu board, had ordered only 2 things - sundae and an iced coffee. They sat there for over 15 more minutes more (35min now in drive-thru waiting for orders). They were given their 2 things, passed it back to the girl at the window. Got it again and returned the 2 things and the girl giving a spiel for 10 minutes more. Then gets it again, opens the top of the sundae and dumps out on the pavement, melted icecream, but kept it. I guess the 3rd time McDs got their coffee right or by this time the customer gave up. We get up and are finally handed our bag. Checked it and it was short a cheeseburger. Waiting longer, wait more, finally get that. Asked for a receipt 3 more times and finally get it. Guess McD's $ have gone up, that was the cost for our order. We get to the park, no straw in the bag for the drink, my wife's cheeseburger was totally cold & the fries tasted old. So 40 min drive-thru wait, can't see a menu board to order from, asking for things multiple times to no avail, missing food & straw, cold food = $17. NOPE! Called the owner's customer service number and gave our complaint & the McD's corporate customer service giving our complaint. No one bothered to call us back after saying the Mgr. of this location would be notified. read more

It was a bit too loud, but the food was pleasant. Great service, was there with my daughter and she loved it. Would recommend and come again. read more

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Ordered a special egg McMuffin no ham add bacon $8.79 top of Egg McMuffin bread hard as a rock already getting on the freeway, it's really hard to turn around and I think they know it. That's why they give you garbage thanks McDonald's thanks this is why reviews are so low everywhere you stink. read more

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Stopped by on way home. Very disappointed. The bathroom was so disgusting I couldn't order food. This place needs to be closed down and start training. read more

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Toilet out of stock and staff ignored us, after a while they gave us paper napkins. Customer service overall is horrible. Place is filthy. Food was fine I guess. read more

W food really hot and fresh good customer service at drive thru we're out of some items but other then that this good read more

McDonald's - Burgers Near Me - Escondido, California

Staff was very helpful and pleasant & the food was good & hot. Needs more tables to eat in but unless you are a small group or want take out you will b pleased. read more

BEWARE! FOOD SAFETY ISSUES. Employee, carrying cleaning solution and scrub, was seen scubbing right above food. Store manager was standing right next to him observing. Concern brought to cashier. She said they use "food grade" cleaning solution. Yeah, aha, right. Report submitted to corporate. read more

Located across from the Westfield North County mall, this is one of the worst McDonald's I have visited. Whereas normally store layouts allow plenty of room in front of the registers, at this McDonald's people are squeezed into an awkward space between the entryway and the counter. There are a few tables in this same area where people normally wait, making the situation even worse. Overall, it's very hard to line up especially when it's busy here. What makes the location the worst for me though was the customer service. I had to talk back and forth with the crew member at the register after already paying and waiting. The crew member at the register seemed like she was new. She took our order and then there was no follow up with delivering the drinks and ice cream to us (the usual protocol is for the cashier to make the cones and sundaes immediately after ordering and then handing it to the customer). I had a simple request which was to put the caramel on the bottom of the sundae, and the register person did not note the request on her machine and it was not delivered as requested. Things got better when another worker stepped in (probably a crew trainer) and corrected all the mistakes the other person had done. read more

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Whoa. The employee operating the self order kiosk was not only absolutely unnecessary but extremely rude and abrasive. I walked in and she immediately goes WHAT DO U WANT. The whole reason I wanted to use the kiosk was so I could browse without pressure. She was super rushed, rude, impatient, and was clearly getting irritated with me when I mis spoke and had her click the wrong item because I felt so awkward and rushed. If you have self use kiosks WHY are you staffing it with an employee and a rude one at that. read more

Drive-thru Monday after Christmas- terrible customer service at the windows. No eye contact and slammed the window shut as I was about to ask a question. I waited and had to honk to get her attention. Second window didn't offer sauce for nuggets. After I asked, abruptly handed me the 2 packets, dropped one, said nothing and rudely handed me another one. Long blue finger nails scraping my hand when handing over the sauce - not very hygienic, yuck. Really awful experience! read more

I came during a rush hour and didn't have to wait long at all. The line moved consistently. Their drive-thru menu does need to be repaired though. It is unreadable to the customers. The cashiers and servers were very kind and worked efficiently. I was greeted with a warm welcome all throughout the service. I ordered the 10pc Nuggets w a medium fries. The order was just as I expected and tasted just like a good mcdonald's meal. read more

Terry is outstanding! I have never been to aMcdonald's where someone serves us, so professional, takes pride in her job, initiative, and has fun while doing it. She has a smile on her face and truly enjoys her job. My daughter said that she thinks Terry is so kind and fun! Thank you Terry! You are one of a kind, an amazing employee, and person! McDonald's is lucky to have you and should give you a big fat raise. Also, others should learn from your example! read more

Maybe its that ive had a long work day and i just wanted food. I sat in this line for 20 mins to get the el whatever with the purple shake. The lady did not understand what I was trying to describe what it was saying the meal with a big mac, 10 chicken nuggets, fries and the purple skake. She thought i was talking about the bigmac bundle. Also the screens are destroyed and if i have 20/20 vision and cannot see because there are black spots on the destroyed menu screen, that is a problem. You cannot read #1 or #2. read more

Been here a few times and the customer service has always been so so. It's hard to get in and out of and the dining area is always a mess. I prefer to go drive thru when passing by. They do have a play area for children, which is good if you have kids but the PQ location seems like a better choice and isn't much further down the freeway. read more

This place is basically run by teenagers, the place is completely filthy! Nobody comes out to clean floors or tables. I can't believe I ordered here even after I saw what it looked like inside!! No napkins or straws and when you ask them they give you a stare. And they got my order wrong but I didn't ask them to Fix it because I don't want them messing with my food. I won't be back here ever! read more

I just wanted a Large Big Mac Meal and 2 apple pies. Instead I got a Big Mac, Large Fries and a Medium Coke. 2 apple pies. I looked at my drink and looked like a medium i asked him nicely, this looks too small for being a Large, he offered to give me the LARGE CUP for an additional charge but i had it and didnt want to pay more. I said it's ok I drove off but when I got to the stop sign i looked in my bag and it was a LARGE FRIES. So basically i asked for a LARGE BIG MAC MEAL with a MEDIUM COKE AND A LARGE FRIES. I didn't know you had to specifically say what size drink you want when you specifically ordered a LARGE MEAL. I've lived down the road from here for the past 20 years, i feel the people here are just young or just fed up with the mall rats that come and act a fool at their McDonalds. read more

McDonald's - I ordered a LARGE BIG MAC MEAL got MEDIUM COKE, LARGE FRIES...confirmed my order was a Medium. So additional charge if I wanted a LARGE COKE - Burgers Near Me - Escondido, California

Today I ordered a 6 piece happy meal with apple slices. Happy meal contained NO apple slices, five chicken nuggets, half filled French fries. This mistake made for an annoying ride home as my toddler cried in the backseat for her apple slices. I tried calling the location about 10 times and no answer. Twice someone picked up and I could hear background noises then was disconnected. I also realized they charged my credit card but gave me no receipt. I've been here many times as it is conveniently located on my way home and I've noticed the employees are severely lacking in customer service skills and can be rude at times. This is the last time I will patronize this particular location. read more

So I ordered with a manager and she new what I wanted and the thing is a worker there was making my order and again she made it wrong on the frappe and I asked her nicely if you just put chocolate in another cup and pour it in there it will be fine and instead she copped and attitude and decided to mess it up more and dumped about half the bottle of Carmel and half the bottle of chocolate in my frappe I was so discussed with her attitude that I kindly said no that's not it either and I said it light Carmel and Extra chocolate but that was a tantrum she finally made it right and I left it's crazy to me that these workers can be this way and not get any repercussions with these reviews I mean it's crazy to me that there not training these people over and over again on treating people how you want to be treated... read more

I waited in a ridiculously long drive thru line, only to find out that my order was wrong (ordered a plain cheeseburger and what I received had all the condiments) after I had driven away. Since I was already on the freeway, I stopped at the next McDonalds, waited in that long drive thru line, only to be told there was nothing they could do because it was a different location. I am livid. By now, my entire order is cold and partially inedible. I cannot believe what shitty customer service this company provides. Having spent nearly 20 dollars on a meal and a cheeseburger was ridiculous, but I expected the order to be accurate. Also, the employee in the drive thru didnt give me a receipt, so I cant even go back tomorrow or call to get a refund. So I am not out 20 dollars and still hungry. Thanks McDonalds. We wont be returning. read more

After more than three months of trying to get my money back, I am here to warn others. I used McDonald mobile app for the first time to order, this was the closest location to my friend's family that just moved to the area and I was visiting her family of four with two of my kids. They had just moved into the house, so we didn't really want to cook with boxes everywhere in the kitchen. With food allergy among us, certain menu on McDonald was okay for the allergy kid to eat, so I ordered. Around 11:27am. The location was about 10-15 min away and being lunch time, I figured it would take some time to make and I'd set off to pick up in about 10 min. I ordered enough food for six of us (four kids) and extra in case someone changed mind. About 20 min later of chatting, I realized the app didn't ding me (like my domino app) to remind me, I went on the app and my whole order disappeared. But I still had email receipt that I ordered and venmo also charged me. I called but no one picked up. After giving a few minutes to call the store a couple of times and no one picking up, I decided to just drive over. When I drove over, it was about 12:15-12:20 time frame, I talked to worker and they didn't have my order. I asked to speak to the manager. She didn't find it at first, but she looked through her internal system and found the order! But for some reason she couldn't get the order ticket to print out from it, she couldn't do anything. So she said she would just cancel the order and I can just make new order. I asked if she could print out something to show I canceled, but she said it is an internal system and it cannot be printed out if it won't even print out to order. But she assured several times she canceled the transaction. So I went on their self-order screen (the long thing) to order. At this time, my friend called, worried why I was taking so long, so I let her know I'd be there soon - kids were very hungry and she didn't have a car at the time when I left. Then as we were speaking her husband came home from work. So I decided to add his order as well (we didn't expect him to come home till 3-4 pm originally). Then I remembered they don't really have any drinks other than soda, so when I made this new order, most of the items stayed the same except I upgraded a couple of items to a meal size to include sodas and fries, so i subtracted some individual fries order from the original order and added fish burger. Then I paid for it with credit card in person because I didn't trust the mobile app or venmo payment at the time. Since the manager assured me that the previous order was canceled, I didn't worry much. I put venmo through the claim that this order was canceled at the time. The rep came back to me and said the payment is still pending and cannot be canceled... I wrote, how can payment still be pending for fast food, it isn't like I am planning to pick up food after 3 months! They wanted me to submit the receipt to show I paid for the food in another means. I dug out all my receipt to organize but realized that I lost it during the whole ordeal. HOWEVER I had taken a picture of it for the survey app for shopping, so I had a picture of that order and submitted it along with my original order receipt (email, since it was mobile order). The venmo said they are denying my claim because the orders weren't same!!! But my $53 is still stuck in venmo because it is still pending to become McDonald's Money, even if I never received food for this particular order since it was canceled by the manager and I made a new order. I mean, this could've been easier if I made exactly same order again, but who thinks, 'hey, they aren't going to give my money back even if the order was canceled, so I should make it look exactly the same then add another Burger and some soda for one more person on the separate check'?? Anyway, I tried calling the location but as it happened to me before, they don't pick up. Venmo Rep says I need to get a written statement or cancel receipt from the McDonald. How is McDonald going to print cancel receipt they couldn't print three months ago? It isn't like they upgraded system for that. How am I supposed to get a written statement from 10 hours of drive away (and the return trip)? I don't think $53 will pay for my gas to drive there in expensive California. So McDonald system is still holding my money hostage by 'pending' and I can't get anything from the McDonald for the proof, and venmo wont release my fund. Meanwhile, it accrues interest on my credit card for money I didn't even spend. read more

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I have never been to a worse McDonald's in my life. I have never once been here and had them get my order right. Every. Time. And the line is always a mile long and so incredibly slow. read more

The girl taking ordering in the drive thru absolutely rude. And the young male handing me the food was mean I don't recommend going.

They NEVER have ice cream/soft serve or milkshakes or anything like that and when you ask they are super rude about it. It's not my fault your stuff is broken. read more

This McDonald's is the worst! Don't expect this fast food place to be fast. EVERY single time I've been here, which is maybe 3, it takes at least 30 mins to get through the drive thru. Apparently their system is never up and running properly. Whoever owns this McDonald's need to update your system and get a better staff. read more

We were stuck in the drive thru line for almost 20 minutes before getting to the ordering menu. We get to the ordering window and no greeting. We had to say hello 3 times before anyone greeted us. Yes, there was a passenger van in front of us but they were at the window a whole 2 minutes. They didn't even bother parking the passenger van who had a total of 8 bags. Then there was a problem with one of the bags and they gave it back. Part the large orders fault but bad management on the drive thru crew. They should be able to handle large orders. Hell they have parked me before in the past for well done fries. Then they hand us a bag of food and it wasn't ours. While they tried to figure out where our food was they laughed and giggled and complained about the passenger van that was 2 cars ahead of us. Finally got our food and the fries were cold, they forgot our iced coffee and struggled to get us our sundae. After reminding them about the McFlurry we ordered they spent a few seconds verifying. At this point it had taken 34 minutes to get our food. Never going here again. This isn't the first time it took a while to get thru drive thru. Stay away if you are smart. read more