It’s the frying squad! Police’s burger swoop
DOZENS of motorists brought traffic to a standstill yesterday as they queued for fast food at a newly reopened drive-through.
The branch of Burger King, in Elgin, Moray, was inundated with hungry customers who have been denied the chain’s signature Whopper sandwich since lockdown was imposed in March.
But as cars started to queue along the busy main road, police officers moved in to clear the congestion – with the restaurant, which opened on Monday, forced to close again.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: ‘Police attended after large amounts of traffic. The store closed and traffic dispersed.’
Last night, Burger King said ‘a software issue with one of the card machines led to a queue of cars forming’.
A spokesman added: ‘Staff worked to disperse the queue while the machine was fixed.
‘Though police were not called to disperse the queue, they passed by to check everything was in hand.’
Burger King has reopened a number of branches across Scotland, offering drivethrough and delivery services. Queues also formed at the fast-food chain’s restaurant near Aberdeen beachfront when it reopened last week.
At the same branch yesterday, two people were reportedly refused service after trying to order at the drive-through window while on foot.
Coffee chain Starbucks is set to reopen some stores today. Social distancing markers will be laid out, with the number of customers allowed inside limited.
Demand for coffee from Costa at Cameron Toll, Edinburgh, has been so high that an entire car park has been set aside solely for the branch’s use.
Sandwich shops Subway and Pret a Manger also intend to reopen some stores.