You can register your family to a McD account and your kids below 12 get free meal coupons for birthdays. Someone I know maintains 4 imaginary kids to his family account and collects 4 free meals a year. :)

"Hi, I would like to collect these free meals for my totally legit kids, Little Bobby Tables, Asdf, Hunter123 and Admin."

Can't believe how much ; DROP TABLE "NAME"; has grown!

Thank you for the morning giggle :)

'Say hi to 'alert(1)' if you please!'

Nitpick: It's hunter2 not hunter123.

For anyone unfamiliar:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2

Presumably you knew he got it wrong because it wasn't *'d out for you?

Oh, never mind NULL.

That person you know thinks they're gaming the system, but McDonald's is the winner. They're keeping the customer hooked.

"Someone I know"

That is hilarious.

I remember when I moved to a new apartment once, two of my friends told me how to get free meals. Every time they moved they wrote several restaurants about their terrible experience, how their staff was unprofessional and how they were embarrassed brining their relatives there. They'd get like 15 free meal vouchers for Chili's, O'Charlies, Red Lobster, etc.

That's a real asshole move if you ask me. Blaming others for something they haven't done just to get some free meals.

You know that someone might get fired, right?

The use of "free" here externalizes the cost of the time it takes to write or call restaurants, which could be potentially used for more rewarding activities. And assuming that the person is not a sociopath, it also externalizes the burden of introducing a new internal dialogue that tells you that you're acting unethically.

Why would you do this when moving in particular?

Well, you can basically do it once with the restaurants in your new neighborhood. Otherwise it would probably ring the alarm bells for someone if the same guys are complaining and receiving vouchers multiple times. Anyway, it's a scam.

Why do you have to be near any of these restaurants to do this? I assume these are chains and the vouchers are valid at any franchise. Just spam complaints from different e-mails and never pay for food.

Seems like such an obvious scam there must be some reason it can't work.

For the mobile app.

They also have contests like Monopoly.

Neither of you answered the question:

> why do people need a password for their website?

Why does the mobile app need a password for the website? (Why does McD's need a mobile app?) Why does Monopoly need a password?

It worked just fine back in the days before there were mobile apps; peeling a sticker off fries doesn't require a mobile app. Heck, Coke was more fun back then because you could win a free coke or stuff. Now I'll never win a free anything, because I'll never sign up for every asinine website.

My data is either being sold, or stockpiled into a database that's waiting to be hacked.

Don't know why McD's has a mobile app, but Chick-fil-A has an awesome one that lets you place an order remotely, drive into the designated parking spot, press a button, and get the food run out to your vehicle. It's a lot of fun.

I saw this movie... I think it was called "Wall-E"?

Hehe. For what it's worth, the bugs aren't all worked out yet so you do have to walk into the building a lot to get your food. :P They also have it for dine-in customers.

Is Maccy's monopoly all digital now in the states or something?

Across the pond, we still get the little stickers and the fold out 'boards' to stick them on.

On a related note, I cleared out the zipper part of the notes section of my wallet the other day, mostly old receipts and bus tickets - but I also found a bunch of expired monopoly stickers from last year, 4 free apple pies, 2 free drinks, 1 free hot drink, 2 free cheeseburgers and 1 free fries.

Someone remind me to never put things away 'safely' when they have a use-by date on them...

You still get the physical pieces but they all have unique redemption codes printed on them. I assume if you win anything besides a free drink, they make you input the redemption codes to prevent counterfeiting.

Last time I check was for press, to get PRs before they are public (in the embargo period)

McD's has embargoed press releases? …about… what?

Yeah. Beats me too. What would an publicly traded firm with 30+k restaurants and half a million employees world wide be doing with a professional PR operation?

Maybe for delivery? I believe some McDonalds deliver, right?

They do here in Japan. But I am unsure if there is a login(from most examples I see here, I would assume they do though).

God, you live in Japan _and_ you have McDonalds delivery. I am seriously jealous right now!

I've heard delivered Maccy's isn't very good (mind, this was in Singapore, not Japan) - the food always arrives cold, sweaty and just generally gross.

I know that over the counter Mackas isn't very good. It's cold soggy and generally going to disappoint.

It's fine in Singapore, and they're always happy to replace an unsatisfactory order.

McDonald's delivers in NYC. They're even on Seamless.

Looking into the future here:

Amazon will surely deliver :D (pun intended)

24hours McDelivery in Hong Kong!

They do in Malaysia(!)

Never mind why people need a password; why does McDonald's even need to have a website of any kind in the first place?

Menus, Nutritional info, contact details, location map, franchise info, competitions, complaints, job listings and probably more.

(I've not actually checked the site to see if any of these are actually there, but.. these would be valid for nearly any fast food chain)