{"id":20258,"date":"2023-07-25T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=20258"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:02:27","slug":"20230725-20258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230725-20258\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese McDonald’s forbids entry to entire middle school’s student body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A McDonald’s restaurant in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan has decided to deny entry to all students of a certain local middle school due to frequent occurrences of \u201cdisruptive behavior\u201d. The ban has allegedly been in place for about six months now, but the situation resurfaced after a tweet<\/a> showing a notice put up by the restaurant went viral. What kind of behavior could have led the international business to take such drastic measures?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sign mentions the disruptive behavior from junior high school students inside the McDonald\u2018s: \u201cWe feel that the behavior is disruptive to other customers and potentially dangerous to our staff.\u201d The sign states the name of the school in question openly and declares that the students are no longer allowed entry in the restaurant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many users of social media sites such as Twitter weighed in on the situation, the majority seemingly sympathetic to the restaurant’s decision. One user expressed their support<\/a>, saying, \u201cThere are people who will look at this and say \u201cLumping the students all together is wrong! Only ban the people who did it.\u201d But the restaurant can\u2019t identify every single person, so there\u2019s no choice but to ban everyone.\u201d Since the majority of junior high schools in Japan require students to wear uniforms unique to their schools, a student could be easily identified were they to visit the restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Twitter user expressed their surprise<\/a> at the situation: \u201cI\u2019ve heard of junior high schools getting banned from Disneyland, but banned from McDonald\u2019s is a first. What\u2019d they do?\u201c Though only rumors, there are indeed stories of certain schools being banned from organizing field trips to Disneyland in Japan. Reasons include students pushing Mickey Mouse into a pond and similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, criticism was directed towards the school’s vice-principal for seemingly ignoring previous notices about their students’ behavior at the restaurant. In their statement<\/a> for ENCOUNT, they refused to make any comments regarding the restaurant or details of the incident, as they claimed they were instructed not to by the Board of Education. They did however mention that students of the school were receiving \u201cdisciplinary guidance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Occurrences of \u201cdisruptive behavior\u201d have been something of a trending topic in Japan recently. This week is the first hearing for a 21-year-old man who earlier this year went viral for recording himself drinking directly from a common-use bottle of soy sauce at a Kurazushi, a popular conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain. The incident sparked an outrage all over Japan, with people criticizing the unsanitary and disrespectful act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of months before the soy sauce drinking incident, there was a soy sauce licking incident in which another man trended for licking the top of a bottle of soy sauce meant for customer use at a Sushiro, another popular sushi restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many users made connections between the sushi restaurant incidents and the McDonald\u2019s one, some wondering in what direction the ban situation will go from here. One user tweeted<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s probably only a few students, but they should take them to court like Sushiro did. For now, good job McDonald\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems as though the public is mostly glad that the McDonald\u2019s has taken some actions to protect their employees and deal a blow to the \u201ccustomer is always right\u201d culture. As more restaurants become targets for similar pranks and disruptive acts, businesses in Japan may be becoming more strict in an attempt to save face and avoid losses in profits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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