Welcome to Adelaide, home of the grotty Hindley St McDonald's
ADELAIDE has found itself in the international spotlight this week - not for our fine wine or weird murders, but for a filthy McDonald's on the city's nightclub strip.
ADELAIDE has found itself in the international spotlight this week - not for our fine wine or weird murders, but for a filthy McDonald's on the city's nightclub strip.
Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have now reeled at a video taken at the McDonald's restaurant on Hindley St at about 3am on a Sunday earlier this month.
The story accompanying the video, filmed by a 22-year old student from Hawthorndene, has become one of AdelaideNow's most popular stories ever.
Images of fast food wrappers piled over the restaurant floor have been watched more than 170,000 times on AdelaideNow and other sites including YouTube.
The story and video also appeared prominently on the US website the Drudge Report - sparking nearly 200,000 hits from overseas users as Adelaide slept last night.
It has also been rated the second-most read international story today on the UK's Daily Mail website - behind a story about surgeons finding a fir tree in a Russian man's lung.
McDonald's state manager Josie Mangini said staff at the Hindley St outlet had been "counselled" over the mess.
"We have been working closely with the team at the restaurant to ensure they completely understand and consistently implement the procedures that McDonald's has in place to ensure restaurant cleanliness,'' Ms Mangini said.
"The crew at Hindley St restaurant has also been concerned about this issue and has been working extremely hard to ensure the correct procedures are followed at all times.''
Others described the scene as being from the "third world" while independent MP Bob Such said it was a "health hazard".