A reader said that when she went into McDonald’s at 24th and Mission streets on Friday afternoon to get a frappé, a commotion broke out. She looked, and saw a mouse sitting on the monitor near the counter. The manager pursued it with a plastic bag, but the mouse ran — right across the french fries.
Diners wondered why the manager didn’t use a cup to catch the mouse. “I was wondering why they didn’t ask for their money back,” the reader said. No one did. Before walking out, the reader said she saw the manager in the back of the kitchen, still pursuing the mouse.
Javier Montesinos, the manager, said Saturday that he thought the mouse came in from the outside. “I’ve been here many years and it’s the first time,” he’s had a problem with a rodent, he said. He called the pest control company to get rid of it and his staff cleaned up everything before serving more food.
When asked how he knew it had come in from the outside, he said that one of the diners saw it first in the lobby.
McDonald’s was last inspected on April 24, 2009, and received a score of 96 out of 100, according to the Environmental Health Department’s website. It is more than three months late in getting an annual inspection.
The 24th and Mission Street McDonald’s earned a Symbol of Excellence in 2009 for receiving scores above 90 for three years in a row. Previously, its generally excellent scores fell to 76 in April, 2007, and 86 in October, 2007, according to the history of its inspections on SFEveryblock.
There’s never a solo mouse. They have family and lots of friends. Maybe they gotta have em.
These rodent stories have a repulsive attraction. It makes my grimace as I drink my morning coffee, but also, yeah, we are interested to know.