HUNGRY McDonald’s customers have been accused of ‘threatening’ charity volunteers as they queued for their Big Macs.

Fast food fans have descended on stores up and down the country in their thousands this week as the chain reopened drive-thrus.

But in Bolton, volunteers who deliver food for the homeless were blocked in ­— as queues snaked their way down Fletcher Street in Daubhill.

Bosses at Indian supermarket House of Raja’s, where Homeless Aid UK have a drop-off point, have praised quick-acting bosses at McDonald’s for resolving the issues in a speedy manner.

In a post on Facebook seen by hundreds of people, a worker who says he is associated with the charity said: “McDonalds is open again and I have a favour to ask of you. I’m involved with Homeless Aid UK, we are Bolton based and we don’t just do things to benefit the homeless.

“We also deliver food parcels, hot and cold meals to a great many people living in poverty ­— schoolchildren who don’t get a decent meal each day when the schools are closed, and the elderly. Much of the food is prepared and boxed at House Of Raja’s on Fletcher Street.

“The McDonald's jam is blocking our access road. Worse still, some of the drivers in the queue are being very threatening and sweary when we ask them to let our van out. Can we play nicely please?”

Sital Raja-Arjan, manager of House of Raja’s, said: “The traffic at McDonald’s blocked our entrance and exit, so my husband went across to the restaurant to tell them.

“Within two minutes the manager came and sorted it out, it was a relief to have it cleared.

“Obviously every business needs to do its job and if people want to enjoy their McDonald’s that’s fine with us, but it’s the drivers who need to be sensible.

“We have a great relationship with the McDonald’s and the manager is really nice, there have been a few homeless people near there and he’s never moved them along.

“We have always worked together to sort things out, that manager is just brilliant.

“The traffic is now under control and we’ve had no problems since.

“Nothing stops us helping Homeless Aid UK and we would have kept going regardless. We make meals and sandwiches and House of Raja’s is a drop-off point for food donations.

“We also run a Covid-19 project and we distribute lots of food parcels for pensioners in the area.

“The manager came across and formally said sorry for the problem, and we took a social distancing selfie to commemorate the moment.

“What’s important is that Homeless Aid can carry on functioning and the community can keep being a community.”

The queue is now being managed effectively to ensure the blockage won’t happen again.

A spokesman for McDonald’s said: “With restaurant teams adjusting to new procedures to enable safe working and social distancing, things may take a little longer in our newly-opened restaurants and demand has already been very high. Our team at the China Gardens restaurant were made aware that traffic was creating access issues for another premises nearby and took immediate action to make sure it was cleared.”