McCafe $5 coffee and cake deal

Mc Cafe offers $5 for coffee (regular size) and any cake.
Pretty cheap! Free wifi and no pressure how long you'd stay.
McDonald's Queenstown has a fantastic location at Frankton. Great view of the mountains and you get to walk along a beautiful lake on your way.

The coffee is pretty good - this is a mochaccino. I probably would have a plain coffee next time.

The carrot, walnut muffin is nice. That's the only nice muffin though and it's a terrible 471 calories, with 36g sugar/carbs and 28g fat. :-( Not a good decision.

The bigger cup is $5.5 for a coffee so you have to pay a dollar to "supersize" your drink.

I visit Mc Cafe regularly when I need a break from working. Good value. Just need to choose the meal.


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McDonalds Queenstown NZ

 

Currently, Mcdonalds has a very tempting promotion: $5 for coffee and cake

Essentially it's $5 NZD for coffee and any cake or pastry on their cafe menu.

I ordered this rather healthy alternative from my favorite - Mc Cafe Shop - Queenstown NZ, Frankton Road.

For $5, I got 2 rolls of chicken salad in a simple wrap (cold). Chicken was tasty. I also got a cafe mocha.

That's really good value.

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Mc Cafe Queenstown NZ

 

 Mc Cafe - McDonald's posh version to compete with the very lucrative niche cafe businesses in the west. I had to try it.

Mc Cafe offers free wifi - 30 mins sometimes, sometimes up to 1 hour in Queenstown New Zealand. In other places in NZ, the free wifi is up to 2 hours - like in Mc Cafe Hornby.

Currently, there's a $5 coffe and cake promo in all NZ Mc Cafes. It's a good promo. There's less risk for me.

So one morning, I walked to McDonalds through the Frankton track. Fantastic view of the Wakatipu lake.

I ordered a carrot cake with coffee for $5.

LOVELY. I was surprised.
Great Value. I was surprised!

Obviously since I tried going to Mc Cafe for a quick coffee break, I have been there more than 5 times :-)

Mc Donald's good for you.

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McDonald's, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City

So I have nothing much to say about McDonalds except that they are good to be around for breakfast. They have rather cozy place for reading newspapers each morning and they have wifi. Sometimes, I'd spend a few hours working in McDonalds.

McDonalds staff are well-trained in customer service. It's very hard to get upset. You can see the staff trying hard to be friendly.

Today, I had a quite funny experience. The waiter took my order so I said, "I'd like an egg mcmuffin please". Then the waiter said, "Ok Ma'am, is that egg mc muffin with egg?" I was shocked with the question but I burst laughing afterwards. Sorry, I didn't want to be rude but I couldn't help it :D.
This was my breakfast one time. As usual, I get sausage mcmuffin, orange juice.

Mcdonald's Branch, Meralco Ave, Ortigas Pasig

Well I will get pictures later because I eat at Mcdonald's for breakfast almost everyday I wake up early anyway. So I usually get sausage mcmuffin for Php52. Sometimes I get coffee if I am too sleepy. This branch is close to where I live. Every early morning, a lot of call center agents show up on this store to have some breakfast. So the queue to the cashier is pretty heavy. I wish Mcdonald's would put more staff:
1. Agents are probably starving over one night's work
2. People are in a hurry to have breakfast for the day's work

Anyway, service here is ok. I always hear from foreigners how friendly the staff members are. For some reason, I never really experience that.

I don't know if you notice but I am particular about the smell of the spray that Mcdonald's use for disinfecting the floor or whatever liquid soap they use to mop the floor or clean the tables. It's nauseating... I hope they'd change that too. It makes me have less apetite.

So I go to this branch every morning mostly due to the promixity to the place I live. I'd give this restaurant around 2. Reasonable breakfast value plus if I eat the right food, I won't consume so many calories. I'd go back to this restaurant of course. So location helps.

Had I a different and closer choice, I would have Mcdonald's breakfast once a week only.