The Associated Press
NEW YORK- The McDonald’s Hamburglar could wind up in a city jail.
The Department of Correction is serving up a plan to put a fast-food restaurant in New York City’s Rikers Island jail system, giving thousands of workers there greater meal options. Currently, the jail guards eat the same food as the inmates.
A Department of Correction classified ad in a restaurant industry publication says there is a demand for meal alternatives and for food at the beginnings and ends of guards’ shifts. It seeks expressions of interest from companies that would like to operate a fast-food joint in the joint.
“They certainly have a captive audience,” Dean Poll, who operates a city concession in Central Park, quipped to the New York Post for Monday’s editions.
About 9,000 municipal employees a day pass by the spot where the restaurant would be if the plan cuts the mustard; more than 1,000 people pass through a visitors’ center five days a week.
There was no word on whether the jail guards, who get one free meal a day, would have to pay for the fast food or how many cigarettes it might cost them. The inmates’ menu would be confined to what it’s always been.
A Department of Correction spokesman said Monday he could not immediately comment.