DELIVERY drivers are clashing violently as they use apps to hog McDonald’s takeaway orders. Tensions are flaring over the scam and police are investigating a mass brawl outside one branch. The apps enable drivers to change their GPS setting to a spoof location pretending they’re at a branch of the fast food restaurant — when […]
DELIVERY drivers are clashing violently as they use apps to hog McDonald’s takeaway orders.
Tensions are flaring over the scam and police are investigating a mass brawl outside one branch.
The apps enable drivers to change their GPS setting to a spoof location pretending they’re at a branch of the fast food restaurant — when they’re miles away.
It leaves them in prime position for new orders as Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat give deliveries to those closest — but it causes delays for customers.
Couriers say violence and intimidation has erupted — as well as motorcycles being set on fire.
Police were called to a fight involving numerous drivers outside a branch in Tooting, South London, amid all-out warfare in the capital between clashing workers.
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Delivery driver Carlos Domingues, 44, said: “Some McDonald’s are no-go zones now.
“Aggressive drivers intimidate anyone coming on to their patch. So many fake their GPS and take multiple orders with different accounts.”
McDonald’s is cracking down on “clearly unacceptable behaviour”.
The delivery companies pledged “zero tolerance to violence”.
