I’ve don’t think this person has seen prison.
Idk if other countries had this period, but there was a time where mcdonalds in sweden all had these semi-transparent glittery green glass mosaics on the walls and that is 100% the nicest it has ever been, it was actually nice to look at and the generally dark interiors made it very comfortable to be there.
The current interiors are… okay, but so fucking uninspired… At least they have some wood panels here and there, but christ would it kill them to tone down all the stark white?
Shit that sounds really cool.
it was! It baffles me that they changed it because during that era it was genuinely quite nice to go to mcdonalds and just hang out over some food.
Nothing cool can be allowed to exist.
I mean, i definitely think the new touchscreen displays for ordering are pretty cool.
My conclusion is more that capitalism sucks and higher-ups are blithering idiots who make worse decisions than a random number generator.
And the old style chairs which you could “twist” the seat on lol 🤣
A Finnish prison? That’s way too nice for an American one.
nordic prisons are unironically way nicer than this, they’re basically particularly boring and secure dormitories with normal looking (if very clean) rooms.
Maybe it’s a Turkish prison.
I hope Gen Z fixes this when we’re running the businesses.
i’m praying gen Z fixes this by telling corporations to fuck off and going back to how fast food worked for most of human civilization: just random people selling stuff from their kitchen, basically.
fun fact: at least in rome it was basically standard for most people to eat “fast food”, the streets were jam packed with various little food shops.
I think that’s still the case in some places, take countries like Korea or Vietnam, where street food is everywhere and it won’t literally kill you to live off of it.
No, it doesn’t look like a prison. It looks more like a school or a factory.
…wait a minute.
You say that but dear god, that tree has seen some shit
Top one looks like from a horror movie…
You didn’t grow up in the 70s or 80s, did you? That was what half the shows we watched looked like.
And by design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald's_Corp.
Seems to me like there’s a pretty wide variety of McDonald’s interiors.
They do that partially to encourage people not to sit down and eat inside for a long time. They want you in, buying their trash, and GTFO quickly after. They make the seats intentionally uncomfortable so you don’t stay for long.
Source?
It also discourages “them” from sitting there with their dirty unwashed clothes and body when they dared to only buy one thing with the money they were able to panhandle.
Wouldn’t want to let such people have a warm place to sit that wasn’t the public library, now would we? By the way, when do we close down the public library?
This guy was in the lobby at the McDonald’s in the local mall jamming on a self playing piano throughout my childhood. Now it’s just a bland, boring lifeless shell of its former self.
I was so confused when the lyrics didnt rhyme
E I E I OI don’t like McDonald’s. I’m just old enough that the Play Place thing wasn’t for me.
But I’ve got family that likes that stuff, especially the kids. The one closest to my house was kept to look like a 50/60’s diner with murals of rock n roll musicians and an old school juke box (with the lil baby singles records).
It was a pleasant, if not fun, setting. They gutted it to look like the prison picture.
Probably good that a junk food merchant isn’t marketing to kids to heavily.
Jokes on you, they dont need to anymore :)
What makes you think they’re marketing to kids?
I mean we are living in an age where Call of Duty’s audience is 14 year olds and Pokemon’s audience is like 40
CoD was always 14 year olds.
I miss everything having distinctive features, personality, and allowing themselves to use colors and shapes.
Restaurants, business logo and branding in general, apps, everything getting normalized to the death. I know a large part of that is accessibility and cost reduction, but it’s a bit sad.
In my town, subway stations where all themed around what’s above them. No two stations where the same (there isn’t a lot, so there’s that). Now that the network is getting extensions and the old stations are remade, they’re all flat, white walls with square lights, flat uniform labels (harder to see, since they’re lined with the walls). If you were dropped in one without indication, it’d take some time to even know where you are.
I think there’s now a law about the modernization/regulation of fast food restaurants. Just so we don’t have a bunch of leftover Pizza Hut buildings anymore when a store closes.
And just none of it is fun anymore. Noble Roman’s Pizza, before it became gas station pizza, had windows where kids could watch them make the pizza and they showed old silent movies and cartoons on the wall. It was awesome.
Now? Even the McDonalds playgrounds I’ve driven past look depressing.
Tbh I’m finding that to be quite the trend for everything today as a car guy do see some cars being cool and fun but compared to the 50s when even their equivalent of a Prius shit box was still trying so hard to look like a god damn spaceship rocket thing with so many colors that almost every car had two colors per car green and pink where common place today everything is ether trying to look like a ford focus or a SUV brick granted I currently work at a Toyota dealership so I’m constantly surrounded by Toyota cars that are in my opinion are the blandest of bland cars that only good because of their reliability Honestly even when modern cars try to copy old car design they always end up looking like the old car having a allergic reaction
I mean there you go, Toyota’s are appliances. They have to look bland because their style has to remain inoffensive after decades on the road.
That being said, I’m impressed with how much style they’ve managed to put on the new Prius while still aiming for long-term fleet vehicle role. I also like what they’re trying to do with the BZ4 styling wise, even if it’s a compromised first gen product.
There’s also always the Supra and LC500 :3
in my state, NC, they don’t even have the playgrounds anymore (I think they outlawed fast food joints being allowed to have play places, as I typically only see them when I vacation in Virginia)
