GLASGOW City Council is set to inspect a fast-food premise after crowds amassed to take part in a YouTube prankster's free food give away.
YouTube star Niko Omilana set up a knock-off McDonald’s drive-through restaurant earlier this week in Glasgow’s southside
The fast-food restaurant, creatively named NotmcDunaLd’s, has been handing out free food from the makeshift restaurant on Eglinton Street, The National reports.
Huge queues were posted on social media, and residents reported traffic chaos with the drive-through line running “all the way down Pollokshaws Road".
Angry locals commented on the post, saying it took "more than an hour to get home because of this s****,” with another calling the traffic chaos a “f****** shambles.”
Another said the stunt was a “massive inconvenience to normal people for a video.”
The council said it was not made aware of any event planned at the location, with the crowds and traffic chaos coming as a shock to officials.
A council spokesperson told The National: "This is a premises that only recently registered as a food business.
"Officers will carry out an inspection and at that time we will raise the concerns that followed from the free food give away."
It confirmed that NotmcDunaLd's was registered with the council's environmental health service on November 12, but said it could not check the status of any planning permission application for the business due to the service being under maintenance.
The YouTube star with over 8.3 million subscribers recently appeared on this year’s Celebrity Traitors and made headlines in 2021 after coming fifth in the London Mayoral election, beating out candidates like actor and Reclaim Party candidate Laurence Fox by almost 2000 votes.
He has previously pranked popular fast-food chain Burger King through a pop-up called “not Burger King” and has used the NotmcDunaLd's branding in various other viral videos including one which has garnered over 27 million views since it was posted five years ago.
The prankster was seen dressed in a fast-food uniform similar to that worn by McDonald’s workers helping to hand out milkshakes and burgers from the drive through building.
The lot housing NotmcDunaLd’s is usually occupied by a drive-through car wash and smash burger takeaway Zak’s Drive Thru. It is located a few minutes away from a real 24-hour McDonald’s on Pollokshaws Road.
The poster of the viral Reddit post claimed that the food being given away was the “normal food [Zak’s] sells but renamed and rebranded,” adding that it’s good food, but it took a long time for orders to get processed as the crowds were filming and taking photos.
McDonald’s has been approached for comment.
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