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Neil Shaw

McDonald's to leave month-long lockdown with new rules on February 22

McDonald's is trialling a new way to how people can order food and drinks in lockdown - which will mean going into restaurants for the first time in weeks.

Since the start of January all restaurants have been open for takeaway, delivery and click and collect only meaning no customers have been allowed to walk into restaurants.

There has been no way for people to walk up to a McDonald's and collect food.

McDonald's CEO UK and Ireland Paul Pomroy said: "A month ago we made the voluntary decision to temporarily close walk-in takeaway while we reviewed our safety measures to ensure they reflect the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Working closely with third party safety expert NSF International, we identified a small number of changes to further enhance our procedures, and we are currently in the process of rolling these out to restaurants.

"This week, a small number of our restaurants will trial reopening walk-in takeaway with these enhancements in place, with the plan to reopen the majority of restaurants for walk-in Takeaway across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland from Monday, February 22.

"Due to government restrictions, we are unable to reopen takeaway in Scotland at this time.

"New safety measures being introduced include visors as well as face coverings for customer facing employees, revised guidance and processes for our couriers to support their safe working and enhanced processes for managing customer and courier flow in restaurants.

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"Once again, we would like to thank our franchisees, managers and employees for their ongoing commitment in supporting and implementing all of our updated procedures.

"The wellbeing of our people, as well as our suppliers, couriers and our customers remains our top priority, and we are confident the new processes in place will further enhance our already robust safety measures."

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