Cars move through the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s in Springfield, Ill. The fast-food chain is offering random customers a chance to somehow express their love for someone instead of paying dollars and cents.

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Cars move through the drive-thru window at a McDonald’s in Springfield, Ill. The fast-food chain is offering random customers a chance to somehow express their love for someone instead of paying dollars and cents.

Associated Press file photo

McDonald’s chains nationwide are allowing 100 customers to pay for their meals with love instead of money over the next 10 days.

The fast-food chain is promoting its “Pay with Lovin’” campaign as part of a marketing strategy.

Though many Durangoans enjoy a healthful lifestyle and shun fast-food chains, this offer might entice some to head over in hopes of scoring a free Big Mac.

The Durango location, 201 West College Drive, awarded unsuspecting customer Danette Jackson of Durango a free meal when she stopped by on her lunch break around 1:15 p.m. Wednesday.

“If I would have known this, I would have ordered more food,” she told the cashier.

When asked who she would be “paying the love” to, she said her two children.

Customers will be randomly selected for a free meal through Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.

Herald Staff