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New Lakeville McDonald's Offering Meals for a Year to First 100 Patrons

Take our poll: what do you think of Lakeville's newest McDonald's restaurant giving its first 100 customers a free value meal every day for a year.

Gastric gluttony, or good business? Evidently, that just depends on how you look at it. Lakeville's newest McDonald's location is set to open Friday morning at 4 a.m., and when it does, the restaurant will give the first 100 customers a free value meal every day for a year. When Lakeville Patch first reported in April that Lakeville's City Council approved plans to demolish the old Dino's Gyros building sitting at 179th Street West and Cedar Avenue—in the Cub Foods anchored Lakeville Crossing mall—so McDonald's can construct a new restaurant in its place, the reaction among readers was harsh. "Disappointing. My family loves Dino's. So nice to have a different option around here. We certainly don't need another McDonald's. Yuck," Adria …

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What Neighbors Are Saying: Dino's Officially Closed, McDonalds Set

With Lakeville's Dino's Gyros officially gone, McDonalds is set to take over the space along Cedar and 179th Street. But residents seem less than excited.

Last month it was revealed that Lakeville's Dino's Gyros would be closing up shop and a new McDonalds would be taking its place. A fair amount of controversy surrounded the situation, with representatives from Dino's telling customers they were caught unaware the leassor of the space in Crossroads of Lakeville mall was shopping the location to McDonalds.  Regardless, on April 16, Lakeville's City Council approved plans to raze the building Dino's occupied and let McDonalds construct its third Lakeville location. By the end of the month, Dino's was gone, and to this date, it's still unclear if Dino's will find a new Lakeville location. If comments on the Lakeville Patch story and conversation on our Facebook page were any indication, …

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Lakeville to Get Third McDonald's; No Word on Fate of Dino's

Lakeville's City Council on Monday approved a plan to raze the building Dino's Gyros calls home, and build a McDonald's restaurant in its place.

Lakeville will be getting its third McDonald's restaurant, but it may be losing a popular gyro restaurant in the process. On Monday night, Lakeville's City Council approved plans to demolish the building sitting at 179th Street West and Cedar Avenue—in the Cub Foods anchored Lakeville Crossing mall—that Dino's Gyros calls home, so McDonald's can construct a new restaurant in its place. There's no word yet as to where Dino's would relocate, if at all. According to city officials, the building is about 10 years old, and McDonald's would actually keep the foundational footprint of the existing structure. City documents say McDonald's identified the area as a location for a restaurant as far back as 2003, but didn't build. According to a story…

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