🍟 Remember the Sign in the Westwood McDonald's Allotting 20 Minutes to Eat? 🍟 (Santa Monica: 2014, buying)

[Exitus Acta Probat]

When I was a kid, I distinctly remember a sign in the Westwood Micky D's stating that patrons had 20 minutes to consume their food, after which their presence would be considered loitering, and hence not permitted.

However, I haven't seen any such signs recently, though I don't know why that is. Is there some sort of legal reason why places that serve food can no longer limit for how long people are allowed to sit on their property?

[Kings Gambit]

There is a McDonalds in Westwood Villiage? I dont think there is one, so why are you concerned about the Westwood McDonalds having some sign?

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Kings Gambit

There is a McDonalds in Westwood Villiage? I dont think there is one, so why are you concerned about the Westwood McDonalds having some sign?

There was a Mc D's in Westwood Village -- don't know if it's still there.

The point is that I'm wondering why there are no more signs like that. I see a lot of people living at fast food joints, sometimes even inside such as at the Carl's Jr. on Santa Monica and Yale or thereabouts. This incessant loiterer even has a DVD player he plugs into a ceiling outlet and he watches movies while making weird noises, or sometimes he plays some war game on his phone without using earbuds and the rear part of the restaurant sounds like WW III. And then there seem to always be creepazoids camping out at my local Ralph's or Bristol Farms in an area intended for paying customers to consume recently purchased food. So that's why.

[Kings Gambit]

I heard Allie Mackay on KROQ talking about this a few weeks ago. Seems that it is an "unwritten" rule at some upscale restaurants where there is a "time limit". She was pretty peeved about it. Seems its more prevalent at "upscale" places instead of fast food eateries like McDonalds.

[(901)]

The bum doubles as security?

Not sure if it's because I leave and come back often but this situation is getting WAY WORSE. Not sure that I would notice it otherwise

At this point it honestly wouldn't shock me to see a tent inside a fast food establishment

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by (901)

The bum doubles as security?

Not sure if it's because I leave and come back often but this situation is getting WAY WORSE. Not sure that I would notice it otherwise

At this point it honestly wouldn't shock me to see a tent inside a fast food establishment

Maybe today as bum security. back in the 70s it was more to prevent the place from becoming like Arnold's on Happy Days a teen hangout where nobody was buying. In my case it was the Burger King, who relaxed the policy on Friday Nights after the high school football game. On those things folks would see the parking lot and drive the five more blocks to the McDonald's

[jm1982]

I’ve seem some signs at ones in the valley stating 30 mins. Not sure if it’s actually enforced or not .

[goodheathen]

According to an article, McDonald's was enforcing a 20-minute limit in 2014 in a NYC location. I think a Westside Burger King location has a 1/2 hour limit. I highly doubt it's enforced late at night, judging by the homeless types I've often seen there and the lounge design. A mall location probably would enforce a limit, due to security on the premises.