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Bring your own cup to buy coffee McCaf é clerk first said the takeout cup was recycled and then threw it into the trash can

Published: 2026-04-08 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/04/08, Professional baristas Please follow the Coffee Workshop (official Wechat account cafe_style) many coffee shops encourage customers to use their own cups, but some netizens criticize McDonald's for ostensibly allowing customers to use their own cups, but in fact, they have to pour the curry into the paper cup and then turn it into the cup, and then throw it away. This afternoon, a reporter from Ming Pao, as a guest, brought his own cup to a Maidang room of the prince.

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Many coffee shops encourage customers to use carry-on cups, but some netizens criticize McDonald's for ostensibly allowing customers to use their own cups, but in fact, it is a waste to pour the curry steak into a paper cup and then pour it into a self-carrying cup, and then throw it away.

This afternoon, a reporter from Ming Pao, as a guest, brought his own cup to a McDonald's to buy coffee. He hit the clerk and claimed that the paper cup used to make coffee would be recycled, but quietly washed the paper cup with water and put it aside before throwing it into the dustbin.

Other reports: [online hot talk] McCaf é insists on buying coffee with his own cup in the takeaway cup. Netizens question the violation of environmental protection policy.

At noon at the Prince's McDonald's, the reporter brought his own cup to the McCaf é counter to buy a cup of hot coffee. The clerk in charge instructed another male clerk in charge of making the coffee to mix it with a paper cup before pouring it. When asked why paper cups were used, the salesgirl replied that the paper cups would be recycled and "washed back (paper cups) to drink their own water".

However, the reporter witnessed the saleswoman, after brewing coffee, first flushed the paper cup with hot water and frozen water, then put the paper cup aside, and then threw the paper cup into the dustbin every other time, not recycled. McDonald's responded that McDonald's in Hong Kong is committed to protecting the environment and will continue to listen to different views, review the packaging design and materials of its products from time to time, and actively explore the feasibility of other options to respond to the needs of the market and customers.

Yesterday's post on FB's "McCafe Cafe solution" special page revealed the incident. "there was a chance that an employee whom we believed to be responsible showed up and told my sister in a stern tone that because of the company's standards, we had to wash down the McDonald's cup first, and then let the customers pour the accompanying cup. Because we did not reuse cold drink plastic cups and did not help us pour hot drinks into food cups, we wasted four cups of coffee today. "

In an interview with Ming Pao, the netizen in charge of the special page said that in fact, the McCafe employees of individual stores will rush directly into their own cups at the request of their guests, but because of McDonald's policies, including ensuring the volume of drinks and hygiene problems, employees are actually not allowed to do so. "on the contrary, we have to protect the employees who are willing to do it, and we should not publicize them too much, otherwise they will be scolded!" She said that in fact, other coffee shops and even Taiwan beverage shops in Hong Kong not only support customers to bring their own cups, but can even reduce prices as encouragement. She does not understand why McCaf é cannot do so.

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