Customer nightmare III: Torturing Ronald McDonald
Regardless of what the public may think of McDonald’s, it’s hard to find fault with franchisees’ most visible charity, Ronald McDonald House. The program provides families with a homey, inexpensive place to stay when they have to travel for a children’s medical treatment.
Some residents of Vermont apparently have a problem with that concept. It’s an understatement to say they savaged the Ronald McDonald icon standing outside a House near the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital in Burlington. The statue’s head and feet were lopped off and the whole thing was burned. A replacement was dispatched by car from Springfield, Miss.