Most recently, the weed-smoking, frozen-drink-throwing, booth-trashing chaos that drove the immigrant family that owns the restaurant to close the dining room from 1 to 5 p.m. every weekday. Monday's reopening only happened because cops are now stationed inside so customers can eat in peace.

Not one Boston official suggested holding any of these teens accountable.

The Roxbury McDonald's was already operating defensively long before this week — customers have been ordering through a window cut into a vestibule wall for months, visible in a customer photo posted to Google reviews this year.

The owners are the Selhi family. Patriarch Vijay Selhi arrived from India in the 1980s and took a maintenance job at a Somerville McDonald's. He worked his way up to manager, bought his first franchise in 2015, and brought his two sons into the business. The Selhis now own 19 McDonald's restaurants across Boston — most of the city's footprint.

"Our purpose right now is giving our dad a legacy," co-owner Cherag Selhi said. "So for us, family culture is at the forefront of all our decision-making."

That legacy now requires permanent law enforcement inside one of their restaurants just to keep the dining room open after school lets out.

The Globe called it a "grand reopening." It described a "team of local law enforcement and youth service providers ... presenting a united front against the unruly teenage crowds." The paper approvingly cited Mayor Michelle Wu's summer-jobs plan and blamed the chaos on "lasting impacts of pandemic school closures, rampant social media use, [and] economic instability."

What the Globe called a "united front" is, in plain terms: the Suffolk DA's juvenile unit, the Boston Police Department, the Boston Public Schools chief of safety, the Roxbury YMCA, the Center for Teen Empowerment, and Project R.I.G.H.T. — all of them now committed to standing inside a fast-food restaurant during after-school hours. The full weight of municipal Boston, deployed inside a McDonald's, because the city would not make the teens face a single consequence.

Cherag Selhi told the Globe similar closures have been necessary at other McDonald's locations across Boston — and he hopes the Roxbury model can be exported to those franchises too. That is the city's blueprint for fast-food retail in 2026: lock the dining room for hours every day, deputize the cops and the DA to babysit, and hope the kids behave.

Even the teens noticed: one of the regulars quoted in the Globe pointed out the reopening landed on the last day of Boston Public Schools and called the timing "a little suspect." The youth-service providers say they will "ramp up" before fall.

The chaos is on summer hiatus.