McDonald's "Promotes" the 10 Second Rule

[Ana Ng]

According to Consumerist, McDonald's endorses the ten second rule- whether this means your McRib has been under someone's foot, I can't tell ya...

[Valitudinarius Rex]

Maybe the McDonald's "ten-second rule" is like the basketball ten-second rule, in which the team in possession of the ball has ten seconds to get it to the centre line or incur a foul. That would be: that your order shouldn't sit more than ten-seconds on the counter in the bag before delivery to you...which makes no difference at all if, before being placed in the bag, your sandwich has been sitting for fifteen minutes in the accumulator tray.

[Hepcat]

Considering that the word "second" is spelled incorrectly, I think it probably a joke on the part of some bored employees.

Not only the incorrect spelling of "second," but the lack of capitalization of the name of the city and the incorrectly capitalized "MC Donalds." I'd wager that some 16-year prankster employee at the restaurant just got ahold of the password to access the computer and put it in as a joke.