Shawarma Lounge in Portsmouth

Team always busy as restaurants is in a great spot. Lovely service, thank you

Forgot my food and didn't even give me a straw

A Mickey D’s manager once told me that ‘if’ you want fresh hot food, then please don’t hesitate to ask the order taker to make a ‘fresh drop’ on your item such as fish fingers. I’ve always done that, but still I have to check the fish fingers since they quite frequently make a mistake and put in the old ones that are well well past their freshness I visited today the 6th of Decemeber at 2232. I waited about 5mins before I asked for someone to take my order. A young man was in the middle of processing an order and appeared confused so I said please finish what you are doing I shall wait. Meanwhile a young lady came and took my order. I asked for two happy meals with fish fingers and asked for them the be dropped fresh for my order and I also clearly stated I am more than happy to wait. She told me that she would personally ensure that I would get fresh fish fingers and that to not worry. I asked her her name and she told me she was Bernie. After awhile the orders were ready and she gave them to me and I went to the car and decided to check the fish fingers as it seemed like something was not right. And to my surprise the fish fingers were not only rock hard they weren’t even like warm. I returned back to the store and Bernie did not seem as happy and as cheerful as before. I guess she has assumed I’d trusted her and that I’d be upset when I got home. I didn’t yell, I didn’t cause a scene she went and told the manager. A largish young lady with dark rinmed glasses who just looked at me casually and didn’t even bother to come and talk to me. I simply was served the fish fingers after the allotted time and this time although fresh, it seems the met were taken out before their time as they had no actual color on them. Am I being picky? Am I wrong? It’s not as if when McDonald’s tells you that you owe them £9,24 that we can pay them £8 and they’d be happy. Whatever they ask for we pay, so why is it so difficult for the staff to simply get the order right. Bernie asked me if the £11 she was making is worth people yelling at her. I said no one should be yelling no matter what the reason. Anyway needless to say this store like a few others sure needs customer service training. But hey for me, I will avoid it like I avoid a few others. Wherever McDonalds stores fails, the local KFC pickup the business. And they have so far always been on the money.

Great burger but that’s where the good story ends…. Had to wait about 10 mins after an online order on a very slow responding screen. Place looked tired and dirty, topped off by a fat/waste container with a disgusting waste pipe attachment on the counter. Food arrived in a bag despite ticking eat in - no big issue here. Self service coke machine broken , second one out of coke. Third no ice and a very warm non fizzy drink was dispensed. Finally found the ice in the second machine worked. Back to meal, whopper was actually very good. The loaded fries were terrible and literally grease was pouring out the bottom of the box. Whopper was £4.99 total bill was over £10 so the fries and drink raised the price and I felt totally conned. Wasn’t worth complaining as by looking at the staff they couldn’t give a monkeys about the place.

The first time we came here, the workers were busy making tik toks instead of our order. The second and final time , the workers said they were out of ingredients because the refused to prepare them. Whoever manages this location is irresponsible for letting teenagers run a store into the ground.