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    Cool McDonald's customers who hung fake poster in restaurant for 51 days get $25G checks from fast-food chain

    By Alexandra Deabler | Fox News




    Two McDonald’s customers who went viral for hanging a poster in a Pearland, Texas, restaurant have been awarded for their prank with a big payout from the fast-food chain.

    Jehv Maravilla, 21, and his friend Christian Toledo, 25, placed the sign in the Pearland McDonald’s after noticing a lack of Asian representation in the marketing materials.

    “We were eating McDonald’s one day and we looked around and saw there were posters around that didn’t have any Asians,” Maravilla told KHOU 11. “They had other races but no Asians so we felt like it was our duty to put ourselves up there.”



    The pair concocted a scheme that involved buying McDonald’s uniforms from goodwill and creating fake badges to have their sign placed in the store.

    Though the friends were worried about “getting in trouble,” the sign remained in the store unnoticed for 51 days – until the pair posted about their prank on Twitter, where it went viral.



    Now, they're being rewarded for their stunt.

    On "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," the two men found out that McDonald’s wants more Asian-American representation in their marketing, and is going to feature both Maravilla and Toledo in an upcoming campaign. But the good news doesn’t end there — each will be given a $25,000 check for their participation in the promotion.

    As far as the picture goes, a member of McDonald’s corporate office reached out and told them it had to be removed for renovation purposes, but it was going to be auctioned off and the proceeds would go to the Ronald McDonald House Houston charity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    Nice.
    You know, people like to rip on McDonald's a lot, but they seem to be a stand up company in a lot of ways. Doing something like this in the OP, the whole initiative they're doing in Chicago to help teens and young adults get jobs, it's all good stuff.

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    They spent some time and money on that poster too, it looks professional

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    Ha! Good for them..

    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    You know, people like to rip on McDonald's a lot, but they seem to be a stand up company in a lot of ways. Doing something like this in the OP, the whole initiative they're doing in Chicago to help teens and young adults get jobs, it's all good stuff.

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    McDonald's customers who hung fake poster in restaurant for 51 days get $25G checks from fast-food chain

    Of course these guys were on Ellen that’s like the final resting place for any good meme or viral video, where it goes to die and be reposted on your aunt’s Facebook page.

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