The Harbinger of the Dystopia
-
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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how I felt when I went there more often (or at all) when I was younger.
-
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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Interesting take. Maybe they should be designed like an art gallery of various medical office styles. Kids would hate that.
Edit: I'm glad cigarettes are on their way out, but I used to love these when I was even stupider:
-
Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World."You are in McDonald's. Consume and exit."
-
80s : Pizza hut
I miss it every day. That salad bar. The cups. The lamps. I wonder what things of today I'll miss in 40 years.
-
Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Just insert the mcnuggets tube into your throat, sir, and the credits will be deducted from your daily quota
-
I miss it every day. That salad bar. The cups. The lamps. I wonder what things of today I'll miss in 40 years.
Being alive.
-
Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Ahhh gotta love the brutalist architecture.
-
The French branch puts some effort in it, usually they look like this
Looks about the same in Sweden.
Wood panels with green accents together with the golden arches -
Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
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.
-
"You are in McDonald's. Consume and exit."
No kidding. Not just them either. I know it's a cultural thing in US restaurants, but I feel like I'm being rushed out the door. I know on the surface it's a having respect for a person's time thing, but it feels like an eating contest sometimes.
-
Ba da ba ba bah! It's Brave New World.
Adapting to their growing customers
-
Adapting to their growing customers
There's the hauntingly predatory nature I was struggling to portray.
-
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 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.
-
No kidding. Not just them either. I know it's a cultural thing in US restaurants, but I feel like I'm being rushed out the door. I know on the surface it's a having respect for a person's time thing, but it feels like an eating contest sometimes.
depends how they do it. Nothing says "we're a legit chinese restaurant" more than getting the "fuck off oranges" when you're done.
-
I miss it every day. That salad bar. The cups. The lamps. I wonder what things of today I'll miss in 40 years.
That salad bar. The cups. The lamps.
My god, it even has a drinks fountain.
-
depends how they do it. Nothing says "we're a legit chinese restaurant" more than getting the "fuck off oranges" when you're done.
Funny thing is, I love those oranges.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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. Iāll never see them differently now.
