Yelp disables reviews of Pennsylvania McDonalds where Trump cooked fries after flurry of 1-star reviews
Yelp temporarily disabled the reviews for the McDonald’s franchise in Pennsylvania where former President Donald Trump manned the french fry cooker and drive-thru window on Sunday after the app was flooded with negative comments by his political opponents.Supporters of the former president wrote rave reviews.One of them commented: “The best McDonalds I’ve ever been to in 47 years.
The older employee was extremely nice.Make McDonalds Great Again! Bring back the Dollar Menu!”But others flooded the page with one-star reviews and comments unrelated to the restaurant’s food or service.“The fries were too salty as if someone who lost a major election had been crying over them for an hour,” one reviewer wrote in a post on Monday.Another reviewer wrote: “The person who was at the drive through vaguely resembled someone who I saw on the news for being a convicted felon.”“Customer service was a joke.
Senile old man got bronzer on my fries, didn’t wear gloves.Repeated himself several times, something about Ronald McDonald in the showers at the golf club?” wrote another Yelp visitor.A visit to the page yields a pop-up window titled “unusual activity alert.”“This business recently received increased public attention, which often means people come to this page to post their views on the news,” the alert reads.
“While we don’t take a stand one way or the other when it comes to this incident, we’ve temporarily disabled the posting of content to this page as we work to investigate whether the content you see here reflects actual consumer experiences rather than the recent events.”It is common for businesses listed on Yelp that have been mentioned in the context of political events to receive an overwhelming number of negative reviews from customers who did not legitimately patronize the establishment in question.Yelp recently published a trust and safety report indicating that 112 business pages in the US received an unusual activity alert ...