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Lifestyle
Jorge Aguilar

Step to the side, babe’: McDonald’s is so understaffed customers are now doing the job for staff

In a wild turn of events, when a McDonald’s was completely understaffed, customers stepped up to manage the chaos and essentially became the staff themselves. It’s a moment of community (or maybe just desperation) that’s gone viral on TikTok, and it really shows the ongoing labor shortages in the food industry under Trump.

The scene unfolded in a TikTok posted by @styledbymoonkk on October 12, 2025, showing a McDonald’s utterly overwhelmed by a flood of DoorDash orders. With no employees around to handle the deliveries, one customer in a cozy cardigan took charge.

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