Double FoF is available in Baltimore and environs. Just checked. lol 
I guess everybody is “participating.”
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I saw today it’s available in the app in Western North Carolina.
ETA: today I had the spicy McCrispy deluxe, and didn’t think it was all that great. The spicy mayo was good but the breaded chicken breast was worse than I remember, and definitely worse than what I remember of Chick-fil-A. Very salty, too. I was given a mistakenly made milkshake and also found it lacking (yes, I still drank the whole thing ). Kid’s fries were cold. Service was super nice; I overheard that a bunch of new people started.
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Curiosity killed the cat, and thus we ask: Did the protestors not succeed running Subway and Taco Bell out of town, or did they embrace those practitioners? Or weren’t the banished MCD fries (even without beef suet flavoring) an Ashland must-have? “Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
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I had a regular MxCrispy last week and it was underwhelming Not a lot of food options after our flight arrived. It was overly browned and soggy at the same time
Fries were excellent
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I work in children’s medicine and one of the reasons I sort of feel in favour of McDonald’s is that in the UK, it runs ‘Ronald McDonald Houses’ adjacent to some big hospitals. These are essentially basic hotels where parents and siblings of hospitalised kids can stay for free for extended periods of time. They even get free food provided (not McDonald’s, but leftovers from local Pret-a-Manger branches). For children who get transferred to hospitals far from home for specialist care, these Ronald McDonald houses are godsends for the families.
I also quite like an occasional McDonald’s meal. I know it’s unhealthy, but it’s an occasional comforting indulgence.
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No. No other chains protested. We have 2 Subways, a Wendy’s, a Taco Bell.
And another bank. 
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Yes, thr Ronald McDonald house is one of better charities put there. Its been in place in the US for as long as I can remember.
I will slag on their food (because it just really isnt very good in rhe US any more) but I’ll never say a cross word against the houses.
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I worked at a trophy/award shop for 20 years 1999-2019 & one of my fav customers was the local Director of the Portland Ronald McDonald House. It’s close to Maine Medical Center-- about 4 NYC blocks (3 or 4 US football fields) away & can host 4 families. Anyway she was in a few times a year getting something for recognition of volunteers & companies that donated to them. A pizza place got one. Depending on the order we’d donate all or 1/2 of the cost.
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I like the Spicy McCrispy primarily because of the sauce. The chicken is inconsistent - sometimes you get a breast that is thicker than average so it stays juicy, sometimes you get one that’s thin and stringy. I don’t go to MCD all that frequently but the spicy McCrispy is basically the only thing I ever order when I do go, so I have a fair basis for comparison
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I was honestly surprised that there are no non-fried, non-red meat options and no sides even pretending to be healthy (except for the kid’s meal apples). It’s not a place I frequent but the kiddo enjoys it for a treat.
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Ronald McDonald House helps at local Canadian Hospitals, too.
Another restaurant chain in Canada, Jack Astors, provides meals to families living at the Ronald McDonald House accommodations and families who have relatives who are inpatients at the children’s hospital, in my city, at least once a month. I understand the meals are often provided to families who have preemies staying at the hospital.
It’s nice to see businesses helping out.
Strangely, the hospitals themselves in Ontario mostly have Tim Hortons and Subways operating in the coffee shop and cafeteria concessions these days. Bigger hospitals in Toronto have food courts with the usual Food Court suspects.
No McD’s at our local hospitals in London, Ontario. The food would be better if it was McD’s making it, instead of Tim Hortons and Subway.
When I was a kid, the hospital cafeteria was a regular restaurant with kitchen staff that could cook, and a well stocked salad bar, rather than a Subway franchise.
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I suspect because our demographics are changing so quickly in Canada, and there’s a massive number of immigrants in their 20s arriving who will be customers at fast food chains because they’re working hard and won’t have time to cook, McD’s in Canada has a lot more chicken options now, crispy or grilled.
Our McD’s now even have chicken Egg McMuffins.
I suspect the Chicken Egg McMuffin option is due to growing demographics that don’t eat pork or beef, that have increased quickly in Canada over the last 2 years.
I don’t like the idea of that, eating chicken and egg in the same meal. Despite not keeping Kosher, it bothers me to eat the hen and the egg at the same meal. Whereas I don’t have a problem with cheeseburgers or lasagna, or even beef - veal meatballs. LOL. My logic is inconsistent.
I have been eating more McD’s this year than I can remember eating previously, maybe once every 3 weeks. I usually get a burger and an iced coffee when I’m on the go. The food seems to taste better at the locations I’ve been visiting than it tasted in 2019. Or maybe my tastes are changing. Again. LOL
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