- The department in Newhaven, East Sussex was shut for a number of hours on Friday
A McDonald’s was compelled to shut after a buyer introduced in stay bugs to feed a pet snake.
The department in The Drove Retail Park, Newhaven, East Sussex, was shut for a number of hours on Friday as pest management specialists had been introduced in.
It is at present unclear if the pet snake was additionally taken into the department within the seaside city.
Users reacted to the occasions on social media with one saying ‘it is the worst McDonald’s we now have ever been in earlier than the insect incident, we used it a few occasions earlier than catching the ferry.’
Another added: ‘Who decides ‘I’m going to take my snake out with me to a restaurant to feed it its personal meals.’ But then once more it is Newhaven.’
People had been additionally confused if snakes must be consuming bugs in any respect.
One person commented: ‘Pretty positive snakes do not eat bugs?’
Another added: ‘Snakes do not eat bugs so did the person take the snake in maccies?? no matter went In there’s not hygienic.’
A spokesperson for McDonald’s mentioned: ‘On Friday night, we had been made conscious {that a} buyer had entered our Newhaven restaurant with stay bugs to feed a pet snake.
‘As quickly as we had been made conscious, we closed the restaurant and requested the client to go away.
‘We reopened later within the night having carried out a radical clear of the restaurant.
‘Pest management specialists have been referred to as to the restaurant at this time to hold out precautionary checks.’
MailOnline has contacted McDonald’s for additional remark.
This shouldn’t be the primary time {that a} McDonald’s department has had a run in with a snake.
In August 2022, a 5 foot boa constrictor was discovered roaming round a restaurant in Bognor Regis, West Sussex – only one hour from Newhaven.
Restaurant staff boxed up the snake and referred to as the RSPCA.
They thought the snake was a local British adder which had been injured in a highway accident nevertheless it turned out to be a boa constrictor, a big, non-venomous snake present in tropical South America, in addition to some islands within the Caribbean.
RSPCA inspector Hannah Nixon mentioned on the time: ‘Based on the report that was phoned in, I was expecting an adder, which is a fairly common native British snake.
‘But when I peeked in the box, I was confronted with a full 5ft of boa constrictor – a full, non-native snake and not what I was expecting at all.
‘The poor animal did look like he had been in the wars a bit, with a few scratches and cuts, so I have taken him to our Stubbington Ark animal centre in Fareham, Hampshire to get him checked out.’
