Massive McDonald's Food Fight Occurs Between Customers and Staff in Amsterdam

Absolute chaos ensued due to an order being wrong.

January 21, 2025
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Ba-da-ba-ba-baaa, nobody was loving it at a McDonald's in the Netherlands after a massive food fight broke out due to someone’s order being wrong.

Video of the incident from Jan. 19 at a McDonald’s in Amsterdam showed that one customer’s order got messed up. When you eat out, mistakes like that occasionally happen. They're usually solved by telling a staff member that your order is wrong, after which they apologize and replace it. But this particular customer wasn’t having it — she lunged at an employee in indignation and threw her drink at the staff behind the counter.

Anyone who’s ever seen a food fight unfold on TV knows what happened next: the first item was flung, prompting other food holders to join the cuisine-slinging chaos. The McDonald’s employees met her anger with a mountain of menu items, flinging everything from fries and burgers, to even dessert delicacies like ice cream.

Food wasn’t the only thing being tossed around in mid-air. A trash can full of garbage was thrown at customers who then return the favor by throwing a container of straws. Amid the chaos, the woman who started the whole fiasco is shown with a delicious-looking, light-colored milkshake dripping down her jacket. The footage is grainy, but you can almost tell that she wishes she had reacted differently to her order being wrong.

McDonald’s has been having some serious trouble lately. An employee in North Carolina recently shot and killed a DoorDash driver following an altercation. Late last month, Fayetteville police responded to a shooting at a McDonald’s location where 25-year-old driver Samori Husamudeen was killed after getting into an argument with an employee.

Police alleged that Husamudeen and the employee got into an altercation before the latter pulled out a gun and shot him. The employee, Kevin J. Holland, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.