The Harbinger of the Dystopia
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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
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Welcome to McDonald's, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
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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
Some do. My library has a play area set up for littles and another area set up for infants. On Saturdays they have a sing along story hour thing, and other events like that throughout the week. We also have plenty of local parks with playground equipment. No free place with indoor slides and ball pits though like McDonald's used to have.
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I'm actually going to say that I think designing a restaurant for disastrously unhealthy fast food in a way that makes it look and feel like a playground shouldn't be legal, and I'm happy to see them look as dull and unappealing as possible to young children.
The ongoing health crisis is so severe in no small part because of things like that 1990s picture getting kids addicted to trash. This post feels like someone from the 1970s yearning for the days of Joe Camel. Plain packaging does work.
Edit: I thought Joe Camel was much older than it really is.
it's not about mc d's. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.
mc d's is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.
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Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.wrote on last edited by [email protected]
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Are you the ob/gyn that recommends pregnant people to swap chocolate for broccoli?
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it's not about mc d's. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.
mc d's is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we're using this as an example, then I understand why, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.
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From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
My college did this. It might have been due to bedbugs. They swapped the cozy built in furniture with this weird vinyl stuff. Bugs can't get into the seams.
