Video of that famous fight and the raccoon

It operated from 1985 to 2023 and was notorious for its daily crime and incidents.

On March 15, 2019, Ottawa police chief Charles Bordeleau — who had worked at McDonald’s for seven years prior to joining the police force in 1984 — sent an open letter to the CEO of McDonald’s Canada. […] He noted the increasing burden on police, with an increase in the annual calls for help made from the restaurant from 2014 and 2017: a jump from 647 to 928 calls. “In fact, even as I draft this letter, another individual is recovering from a stabbing that occurred at that address yesterday.”

Ottawa’s mayor, Mark Sutcliffe, said he had regularly dined at the Rideau McDonald’s on Friday nights as a teenager, and expressed positivity about the future of the area and its new police hub plans.