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McPassport: American citizens in Austria told to seek consular help at McDonald’s

Lost and hungry for help? American citizens who find themselves in distress in Austria can now seek support at an unusual address - McDonald's.

Published: 15 May 2019 09:53 CEST
McPassport: American citizens in Austria told to seek consular help at McDonald's

Under a new partnership, outlets of the US fast food chain throughout Austria will help American citizens from Wednesday to get in touch with their embassy, it said on Facebook.

“Staff (at any McDonald's in Austria) will assist them in making contact with the US Embassy for consular services,” the embassy wrote.

Consular services include reporting a lost or stolen passport or seeking travel assistance, the post said.

The US embassy did not immediately return a request for comment if Austria was the only country offering such services at McDonald's.

Facebook users commenting on the post wasted no time in coining terms such as “McVisa” and “McPassport”.

While some hailed the move as “awesome”, others seemed less impressed.

“Because apparently we are too incompetent to look up the us embassy online??” one user wrote.

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Swiss McDonald’s serves up pornography (again)

Customers at a McDonald’s in Switzerland were taken aback recently when a television in the fast food restaurant showed pornographic content.

Published: 6 November 2018 10:14 CET
Swiss McDonald's serves up pornography (again)

Around 30 guests were eating at the McDonald’s in the canton of Schwyz at the time, a reader of Swiss tabloid Blick told the newspaper.

The television screen displayed explicit ads for chat sex websites and then even showed a soft porn film, the diner said, adding other customers must have ignored the situation out of embarrassment.

Staff were informed but clearly nothing was done, the reader said.

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This is not the first time a McDonald’s restaurant in Switzerland has shown pornography on a television screen. A similar 2014 incident in Zuchwil in the canton of Solothurn went global after international media outlets picked up the story.

To prevent such incidents, staff at Swiss McDonald’s restaurants are instructed to only select channels such as Eurosport which do not run pornographic content.

But during the recent incident in the canton of Schwyz, the television was tuned to German sports broadcaster Sport1, which does show pornography late at night. 

The incident was “highly regrettable” and staff would once again be made aware of the rules,” a McDonald’s spokesperson told Blick.

Read also: Switzerland STILL has the priciest Big Macs in the world