The Harbinger of the Dystopia
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If I saw that in America I'd think it used to be a Starbucks.
And god knows McDonald's wouldn't want to be confused with inferior coffee.
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That sounds like the commercial real estate version of cancer to me, but I'm no expert in that field. I can see you're right, though. It's up there with motel art and off-white walls.
McDonald's specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I'm mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don't know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
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depends how they do it. Nothing says "we're a legit chinese restaurant" more than getting the "fuck off oranges" when you're done.
Hahah the fuck off oranges. I’ll never see them differently now.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Taco bell recycled, Pizza Hut recycled, peak kids life bottom.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
I was born in the early '80s. The 2000s picture was what my McDonald's always looked like throughout my childhood. I've never seen a McDonald's that looked like the '90s pic.
The 2020 pic shows current McDonald's, but they changed to that sometime in the mid-2010s.
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"Two golden menus!"
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When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I'm mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.
I don't know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.
Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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The French branch puts some effort in it, usually they look like this
Same(ish) here in the Netherlands. The fact that the near vicinity isn't entirely asphalt and concrete, due to there not being 300 parking spaces for a fast food place, probably helps it not feel like a Nazi bunker.
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In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.
We've all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.
That, and they want customers GONE. Eating in take space. People who come, get food, and leave are their favorites because it increases throughput.
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Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Libraries are basically the only remaining third space, but they don't fill the same need as the original commentor. Libraries don't have places for kids to run around, be noisy, and climb things. That would be awesome though
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
We used to have the only McDonald's (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They "modernised" it last year.
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Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Libraries don't have playgrounds, and don't allow food, drink, or birthday parties with friends.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
$3.99 Big Mac combos
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We used to have the only McDonald's (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They "modernised" it last year.
Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn't there any heritage protection?
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We used to have the only McDonald's (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.
They "modernised" it last year.
From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
I for one welcome our new brutalist McDonald's overlord
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
I mean, I wouldn't say no to a brutalist McDonald's.
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If it were borne out of a progressive, socialist democracy, I'd be on board. Auth-right brutalist fast food would be a horror show.
Upton Sinclair has entered the chat
