A HARD-left plot to shut down McDonald’s, Wetherspoons and TGI Fridays today has ended in failure after it emerged just a handful of workers are striking.

Employees in just a few McDonald’s restaurants managed to win enough support for the strike, organised by the Jeremy Corbyn-backed Bakers’ union.

In the Brixton branch only two of its 100 workers backed taking strike action - and they’re not even working today.

Several of the so-called McStrikers don’t even work for McDonald’s, it emerged last night.

In total, just 21 of McDonald’s 120,000 UK workers have agreed to take part, the fast food chain said. And it is set to be an even more botched strike than the one held in May - with the number of McDonald’s workers signed up to a union falling by a quarter since then.

The Bakers’ Union is trying to organise a mass walk-out - dubbed the Fast Food Shutdown - at TGI Fridays and Wetherspoons in a protest against pay and working conditions.

They are demanding an end to zero-hours contracts and a minimum £10 an hour wage for all workers.

This is despite eight in ten McDonald’s workers opting to STAY on the flexible contracts.

A McDonald’s spokesman said: “We are disappointed to confirm that industrial action is planned in four of our 1,300 restaurants on 4 October - Cambridge, Crayford, Watford and Brixton.

The number of people involved in this action is extremely small, and it is wrong to suggest this is a ‘Fast Food Shutdown’ - the restaurants will remain open as usual.

“Any suggestion that this activity is widespread and growing is not accurate. We understand that fewer of our employees are involved in industrial action than last May and fewer of our restaurants are impacted, with union support from our people diminishing. The numbers also represent an extremely small proportion of our workforce - in Brixton, for example, just two of our employees have been balloted for strike out of a workforce of more than 100.”

Uber Eats and Deliveroo couriers are also striking today.