A
group of Australians against a McDonald's restaurant scheduled to be built in their tiny
Melbourne suburb took to the fast food giant's Oak Brook headquarters
Wednesday in protest of the plan.
Five villagers from Tecoma, which has about
2,000 residents, delivered a petition to McDonald's home office with
97,000 plus signatures, essentially telling the company to "beef off"
and drop its plan to construct a 24-hour restaurant in their town. Residents are up in arms about the planned McDonald's for a variety of reasons, but mainly because it is set to be built next door to a preschool and would be very close to the Dandenong Ranges, a protected
national park.
"The McDonald's who so proudly purport on their
website that they are community-minded, that they work with
communities, they respect communities. The behavior we're experiencing
is the absolute antithesis of that," said Tecoma resident Peta Freema.
"They've shown us none of that."
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