/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11271438
why do they all have that same "chimney" ? or whatever it's called

I miss the comfy burger huts.

>>11271438
What?

>>11271438
It's "modern" which means it has to be blocky, grey and brown and not have a lick of personality to it whatsoever.

>>11271453
Huh?

>you need to make your building look like a piece of ikea furniture to appeal to zoomers

EXPRESS YOURSELF
JOIN THE CONVERSATION

https://youtu.be/KG_i7oWzTyU

>>11271447
The wall with the easily idenitified logo is higher than the other walls to make it stand out more

>>11271455
>Implying that the restaurant's looks gives it its personality

modern looking building = chipotle
and
chipotle = quality

because the new buildings look less like a children's cartoon, you are supposed to think the food that comes out of it is higher grade.

>>11271438
Left: soul
Right: soulless

>>11271438

Better than it being cartoony as an eye sore. Reminds me of getting excited as a kid for McDonald’s. This was an improvement

>>11271438

at least they make the inside more appealing now desu

you probably only go through the drive thru though

>>11271438
Nobody, but eventually people start ignoring things they become too familiar with.

Didn’t know 30 year old boomers were having such difficulties with modernization.

B-but what about my McDonald's?

>>11272087
Why does modernisation have to be so cold and souless though?

>>11272099
>99
>nice
Do they have signage laws there?

>>11272103
I believe so. They also cannot talk through the drive through speaker, you can to place your order, but they're prohibited from speaking. Just have to confirm on screen. I believe that is a noise ordnance of some sort.

the only thing i hate about it is that every remodeled mcdonald's has those fucking kiosks installed. the only thing they're good for is wasting everybody's time because they take forever to use and every single mcdonald's that's installed them has gotten noticeably slower overall. ever since kisoks started getting installed, the drive through lines have been swamped because a lot of people hate using them. it's really fucking everything up for a lot of locations

>>11271438
McDonald's decided it needs to be Starbucks and then everybody followed McDonald's.

>>11272099
That's a house.

why do all modern restaurants look like computer parts?

complete with hint sinks.

>>11272117
Better get used to it. Thanks to fast food workers demanding a higher minimum wage these restaurants are rolling out automation before it's ready.

>>11272180
Yeah, fuck workers wanting to be paid a wage at least matching inflation.

>>11272186
If you don't like it then get an education and a real job.

>>11272117

Imagine going to fast food restaurants so much that this is an annoyance...

Imagine being an obese american that orders from the drive thru and eats in his car.

Imagine..

>>11271438
I like that style, actually.

>>11272186
The "workers" are filthy diseased subhumans who are already overpaid. I look forward to eating fast food as soon as they are fully automated because I refuse to eat food prepared by "people" so dumb they can't get a real job

>>11272216
Careful with that edge

>>11272150
Yes, a Victorian, but it's actually a a McDonald's.

ITT: people fearful of change are unable to cope with changing societal aesthetics

>>11271455
Do you go to a restaurant to eat or admire it's architecture?

>>11272117
We invented them in Australia. They're very clever. You're just jealous because you thought you were smart enough for every idea. But we have all the best McDonald's ideas. First the McCafe now the McKiosk. Please try to keep up. You probably can't.

>>11272224
>Common sense is edgy in the current year

Found the college retard

>>11272275
This, don't critique just consume and shut up

>>11272117
what the are you talking about, the kiosks are great. No need to wait in a line, just punch your order into the machine, pay with a card and wait for your order. Much better than dealing with the young retards high on xanax at the counter

>>11272288
>calling people filthy diseased subhumans
>not something only an edgy teenager would say
Grow some hair on your balls before posting kid, take a break from flossing too

>>11272297
Not him, but I had hairy balls at eleven. It's not a very good metric for adulthood.

>>11272289
>worrying about the architecture of a place firing out cheap food as fast as possible

I mean it ain't the Ritz, it's fast food slop, pablum for the masses. Who gives a shit what it looks like?

>>11272297
My kids are older than you incel, theres the ding fries are done now get back to work retard who makers shit food for other retards

>>11272303
People obviously care, they wouldn't spend so much money remodeling all the stores if it wasn't the case

>>11272311
Embarrassing

>>11272311
I somehow doubt you would still be visiting 4chan if you really had children older than 12.

>>11271616

>implying you have any reading comprehension

>>11272295
Sounds handy but I only use cash or cheques.

>>11271453
outrage culture
OP found a new thing to get outraged about

>>11272336
Imagine being this poor.

>>11272216

Are you the same dude that posted in another thread about how chefs (CHEFS, not line cooks) are all easily replaceable and worthless?

You seem bitter.

>>11272342
I'm not poor. I'm just not stupid enough to pay with credit and I won't ever need to up my credit score either.

>>11272353
Poe's law at work

>>11271438
They built a new taco box near me and I didn't realize the restaurant was actually open for weeks because the design makes it look like they haven't finished building it yet.

>>11272349
>Chefs at Burger King

You have a drug problem m8 or just born with a low iq?

>>11271447
Parapet wall buddy

>>11272353
>>11272336
Why not debit?

>>11272355
Is there a term for people too dumb to detect irony on the internet yet? Because an entire generation has now reached adulthood with the internet as their primary mode of information exchange and I feel like Poe's law only really applied to people who didn't have the advantage of 18 years of internet exposure.

>>11272372
No need. I use a prepaid card if I really need it.

>>11271727
Chipotle = salmonella

>>11272388

>Is there a term for people too dumb to detect irony on the internet yet?

Millennials?

They're doing this right now in Fort Lauderdale. The burger King and McDonald's on Marina mile are getting remodeled to that modern bleh. But it looks better than the hurricane stripped paint and graffiti and shit that was on the old buildings. And they're always still open during construction, anyone notice that??

>>11271438
This is what Taco Bell looked like when i was a child.

>>11271438
LITERALLY!

>>11271438
>Millinials are triggered by colored.
Liiiiiiiiterally racist! Literally, literally!
>http://www.nichiha.com/blog/detail/the-rise-of-the-retrofit-for-quick-service-restaurants

>>11272366
Get out of here demon. Now tell me why Papyrus Sanscript is still allowed.

>>11271438
Meanwhile, at KFC...

>>11272667
There's a chain that isn't afraid to show her colors!

The old-style Wendy's are all pretty run down, but I really liked their design.

>>11272679
...
God damn it, Taco Bell.

>>11272666
>666
Well fuck me jesus

>>11271438
McDick's wanted to rebrand itself as a modern, upscale cafe and everybody else got afraid of being left behind.

>>11272284
Sorry Pedro, Australia may've invented farting in a beer bottle, not automation in fast food.

>>11271453
The pictures on the left are how these franchise restaurants used to look. The pictures on the right are how they now look. OP's asking what the point to completely remodeling these store designs was when the way they were before looked fine.
>>11271438
I don't get it either, OP. Seems like a lot of time and money wasted on random bullshit although I imagine they had some evidence doing this would somehow increase sales?
>>11272275
>ITT: people fearful of change are unable to cope with changing societal aesthetics
I'm not afraid of it, I just hate it. Especially since I always go through the thought process of "why would these people who aren't me all suddenly want these retarded new things I would never want" which just gets me angrier because their behavior doesn't make any sense. Same thing with "youtube" celebrities. I give myself ulcers dwelling on how there are millions of people who somehow know all about these "youtube" celebrities like they were actual film actors or something. Why are you all doing this? What is even making you start doing this in the first place? It doesn't make any sense.

>>11272698
>pedro
We don't have much Mexican immigration here because of the lack of a land border.

>>11272700
Sounds like you're past old, gramps. Maybe it's time for that long sleep.

>>11272701
>literally being too stupid to comprehend that Australia is Americas other Mexico
Go ask your Monash mates for some US/AU meme-tips.

>>11272705
You guys don't even have good ideas for McDonalds like we do so I don't care.

>>11272713
The point I am making is that an American run franchise is not inventing anything here in Australia. It's actually testing automated self service, and calculating its value before its rolled out across thousands of US stores.

>>11271438
Do Americans really do this?

They're operated by totally different structures. The USA branch has no sway over the Pacific branch. Australia managers are smarter about McDonalds than USA managers. This is a fact. USA managers have to copy Australia managers to seem creative. Sorry to burst your bubble, but we're simply better than you when it comes to ideas about selling hamburgers.

>>11272186
Or you know, leave before highschool is over...

>>11272284
Nice try mate, just another one of your prison stories to pass the time.

>>11272216
This is true. Well, only the "overpaid" part. Baseline manufacturer workers all lost their jobs to upstart plants in China employing people who don't have the rights we fought for. CEOs get paid big bucks to snort cocaine while shouting about a need to downsize the payroll. Of course this is going to affect fast food workers eventually.

>>11272117
>use maccas phone app while driving to store
>select pick up in store
>their automated system means the order isn’t started cooking until you’re just around the corner
>park, walk inside, food and coffee waiting for me
>collect and leave
Don’t even have to talk to people. It’s great.

>millenials this and that
Imagine being proud of being old, aren't millenials like over 30 or something? How old are you and still on 4chan jfl, I guess old people saying children to get out of their lawns have migrated to 4chan to be angry at people and call them names, sad

>>11272311
fucking based.

>>11271897
this, what the fuck are you guys getting worked up about. its fast food. meaningless shit that is at best mediocre and gets the job (quick non disgusting meal) done

>>11272279
To eat. But that doesn't mean I like every building looking exactly the same.

>>11272808
When did meals start becoming about isolation rather than family and friends?

>>11271438
Me.
I told them, if they're going to keep the same tedious veneer I'd never get food from them again. It's just as cheap if not moreso to get frozen pizza from Aldi. I'm fat enough that they got worried.

>>11272311
Please, no more inbred, I’m on a low carb diet

>>11272954
meals are about eating food

>>11272684
More like KFT, amirite?

>>11272720
Aus is not a great place to test things that are to be run in America though?

Traditional mainstream fast food places like those have more competition now, so they have to do stuff like this to bring people back.

>>11272954
She's high as fuck on valium and he's having an affair

Pizza Hut had the best building design.

I'll never forgive what they did to the McD's in my area. They used to be really well-themed, but they've since neutered it with cheap reddit-ass decor.

>>11273038
They just tore one of these down near me to rebuilt in the same modern square style as OP's pic.

>>11271438
90% of them should be burned to the fucking ground for peddling diabeetus and heart disease.

These only work for the franchise doing this before it was cool

>>11272117
>the only thing they're good for is wasting everybody's time because they take forever to use and every single mcdonald's that's installed them has gotten noticeably slower overall.
Just don't be retarded. Im done with it in 30 sec tops. Those kiosks only give you more time to look what you want. Instead of feeling social pressure to decide on the spot.
But if you know the regular order you're done way quicker than the line you need to wait in.

Those kiosks are a god send.

>>11272700
Because most of those places were fucking decrepit and outdated

>>11273071
Why? Nobody's making you go there. It's an option, and if you're too weak willed, why don't you go die of heroin?

>>11271438
Look, I'm not really digging the new designs that much, but they're much, much better than what we had before. The designs on the left just scream "CARNIVAL FOOD" or some shit. And I eat at these restaurants maybe once every two months.

>>11273153
>decrepit
That's bullshit, if you ever spend time in New England you can see historical buildings hundreds of years old that are still doing fine, I seriously doubt a building constructed a few decades ago is going to be falling apart from age.
>outdated
That doesn't even mean anything except "I like this arbitrary combination of colors, shapes, and fonts more than that one."

>>11273213
>CARNIVAL FOOD
What's wrong with carnivals? You people here are so picky about everything.

Its cheaper to build buildings in this prefab manner, what do you expect?

>>11273273
I want a fucking burger and maybe some fries, leave the carnival shit out of it.

>>11272275
>people should design the same garbage aesthetic because its change and different from 15 years ago

>>11272279
>unless the design is important to the experience, every business should be made in a drab cookie cutter modern art building.

>nothing like this will ever exist again

>>11271438
Everything has to be "smart casual" these days to appeal to the narcissistic hipster youth.

>>11273034
He also routinely beats her black and blue.

>>11272275
>people fearful of change
>people
Nah, just subhuman neanderthal conservatives which is why their social agenda always gets steamrolled over.

>>11273319
>Everything has to be "smart casual" these days to appeal to the narcissistic hipster youth.
Actually most of those old joints were looking really fucking disgusting. By revamping the entire thing to be more modern they can streamline some processes to current times.(kiosks nicer tables and chairs) And give a good cleaning to the stores while attracting more costumers with the remodel.

>>11273364
>if you don't like McDonalds' architecture then you're a subhuman neanderthal

>>11272724
obsessed

>>11273116
>Waiting in line for a register - bad
>Waiting in line for a kiosk - good
>social pressure to decide
You fucking babies lose your shit because human interaction might be required. Why haven't you all just sucked down a bottle of sleeping pills yet?

>>11271438
You forgot the worst (not posting the old one because everyone knows what a real Pizza Hut looks like). They fuckin tore one down near me to build the new style.

>>11273174
That's why I said 90%, genius.

>>11273409
>You fucking babies lose your shit because human interaction might be required.
Actually the line at the kiosk is either non existent. Since 1 kiosk has 2 sides to order at. And with 4 kiosks thats 8 places to order. Way more than the 1 or 2 clerks taking your order wrong.
Im sorry but the kiosk is way superior in every way possible. You dont have social contact tho. Which i'll give you, but I doubt you have good convo's with a fucking teen that takes your food order. So unless you're a lonely senior there's no reason to cry about social interaction.

modern architecture is pretty much soft communist. They're just prepping you now so when the blocs and gulags start to be built you won't question it

>>11273483
Retarded post. They look like this because of capitalism, it's the cheapest way to build things since it's all prefab and is easy to install and maintain. Also customers like a 'clean' and 'minimalist' design because Apple set that trend.

>>11273532
>building stuff out of prefab modules isn't communism
ok

>>11273559
>communism is defined by methods of building construction

>>11271576
>1:30
champ guy on the right?

>>11273559
You can find those same apartment designs everywhere in New York City, can you tell me what time communists ruled there?

>>11273575
>can you tell me what time communists ruled there?
I think the same rules apply for communism. Cheap to make and uphold.
Capitalism: max profit from suckers
Commies: Cheap housing/free housing for suckers

>>11273058
That's bullshit. The new architecture looks cheap. Reminds me of shipping containers.

>>11271438

I went to a Taco Bells in Florida and it had those thick plastic swivel-chairs on fixed mounting. Was like going back in time to the 90s. It looked pretty tacky.

These redesigns happen because things start looking like shit after a while and rather than replace with the same you can use it to create a bunch of design improvements.

>get rid of 50% of the tables
>replace with long benches where you may end up sitting right next to someone when it's busy

Fuck that shit.

Seems loads of places have abanoned this style though, a McDonalds near me had this style only for them to get rid of it 9 months later in favour of more tables.

>>11273309
a mall?

I like dairy bars where the burger is fried on a griddle, wrapped in wax paper with a tooth pick pushed through the center, and everything comes in a brown paper bag. MAGA

>>11273575
the commie apartments are made of whole prefabricated concrete modules that are stacked on top of each other with a crane - those lines you see in the picture. It's not just the overall floorplan of the building.

>>11273309
V A P O R W A V E

>>11273483
>>11273575
>not wanting to live in a dystopian cyberpunk society
cringe

They even got the fuckhuge one in Orlando, it had murals all over the walls, a giant arcade floor, a giant playground floor, and a ton of decoration. The new one is all white walls and square shapes and tan highlights with modern looking furnishings.

>>11273038
Wooooah I always thought it was called Pizza Hat because that was the red thing, I didn't know it was because of the shape of the roof

>>11273034
>>11273337
>HURR THE 50S WERE SO BAD, I KNOW THIS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME IT'S BETTER NOW TELL ME THIS!

>>11273575
The 50s through 80s.

>>11271438
I'm not opposed to this, makes it a lot easier to sell the building or change franchise. Less needless construction might not make jobs but it certainly makes it easier to start a business.

>>11271455
(((modern)))

>>11272275
>>11272704
Fuck you and fuck your bullshit mentality. Was everything better in the past? Probably not, but I hate this modern meme of pretending that all pining for the old days is purely in one's imagination. Quality of life through history does not exist on some exponential scale, where it just gets better and better as the years go on. Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes we drift towards ideological dead ends. Sometimes we lose the plot. I don't pretend the world I grew up in was the best and most perfect reality we could find ourselves in, but I'm old enough to see where this shit is headed. It is easy enough to be complacent with the rampant encroachment on your privacy, freedom, and economic mobility when you're born into a house already on fire.

Basically, fuck your square box fast food joints, loser.

>>11273309
Bullshit. They're all over the place.

>>11271438
Commie brutalist architecture, rehashed by uncreative millennials, and built by corporate fascists.
It all looks the same, why not give in and just have a one size fits all building design and a common company name for factory food.

In a lot of ways these old aesthetics were tacky and even ugly. But I'll take them over modern gray cubes any day of the week because at least they were trying to be something. Nowadays the goal seems to be to keep everything as completely inoffensive as possible. Just exist without making any statement because that might upset someone.

>>11271576
Millennials are 30-40 now.

>>11272926
This, do you also care about the hispanic and mullato teens who work there?

I wish Five Guys had a comfy building design. They're my favorite burger place but they all look like tire stores or some shit.

>>11273993
Groovy

>>11273999
>five guys

>>11273999
heh, I see what you mean.

>>11273999
>look like tire stores or some shit.
From the inside it's even worse.
Looks like a restaurant that's straight from the 50's (in a bad way) and hasn't cleaned in a month.

>>11271438
I too miss the old buildings. there was something noble about them. something that had a reall character

>>11274040
Yeah their chairs are so unpleasant, they're either too short or too tall, and they're always blasting boomer music

>>11274107
>Yeah their chairs are so unpleasant, they're either too short or too tall, and they're always blasting boomer music
What's worse is they decided to keep that super disgusting 50's style with their overseas expansion.
When they came to the Netherlands their BRAND NEW store looked old and shit from the very day they opened.
Like why? Who is the retard responsible for this.

>>11272273
Beautiful, is it not?

>>11273998
They're Filipino here in Canada. And sure. They get the job done, they seem to be about as pleasant as whites, and they're working.

>>11274130
it's the best kind of beauty, the kind that comes with tragic symbolism.

>>11273999
i thought this when i first went to alexandria/DC and saw my first five guys before they came to california a couple years later. they all look like our Wheel Works tire stores

>>11272150
Did you read the sign? Its clearly a mcdonalds

>>11271438
>Millennials vs Zoomers

>>11273994
millennials are age 4 to 64

>>11272353
>wont ever need to up my credit score
If you arent borrowing money to fund your businesses, investments and assets you will always be poor.

>>11272275
I'm not so much against 'change' if at the core of that change the meaning behind the original does not lose it's sentiment and heart. But I liked the old McDonalds because it was YOUR McDonalds, not all of them looked the same, they all were built slightly differently from a local contractor (usually). It might sound stupid but there was a real sense of you McDonalds being your 'local' McDonalds restaurant. This idea everything needs to be the same is just wrong. The mass commercialization of society took away personality in everything and harmed us in a very wrong way. No musician today sounds original, they all sound the same. Before there were real personalities in everything, not just music. Actors too. They're all carbon copies now. Or people without talent are put into roles of prestige for the sake of 'diversity'. forced 'equality' has ruined everything. In fact an argument can be made that inequality is the only thing on this earth that gives anything meaning at all. If everything was the same, and everyone was the same, it wouldn't be so special, would it?

I believe this is the sentiment behind people who do not like 'change'. I don't think they are flat out against 'change'. But if that change is not an extension of the previous principles that either simplify the previous principle for the better and keep the previous principles heart in tact, then change is frankly unnecessary. What those people are 'fearful' of is something that runs much deeper than mere physical appearance. It isn't some 'the good ol' days' mindset. It's real. maybe one day you'll understand.

>>11273414

Now the logo doesn’t even make any ducking sense anymore

We used to more heavily market fast food to kids, who wanted a fun place to go. Colorful, interesting designs catch kids attention more easily. We didn't quite have as many fat kids, so we didn't really get the harm in buying kids a cheeseburger a couple times a week (then they became fat).

Now, parents want to feel like they're feeding their kids healthy, or at least not awful foods. The new modern fast food designs try to mock the standards that fast casual chains with 'real food' (Chipotle, Fresh Kitchen, whatever) have created. They also introduce new, healthier options (although nobody gets them) to make make it feel like everything is as healthy as it.

tl;dr used to market to kids, kids got fat, parents concerned, parents now only go to 'fancy' places, and fast food changes its appearances to match that desire.

>>11271438
>old Wendy's
>a classic look

>new Wendy's
>looks like a fucking post office or something lmao

>old McDonald's
>looks like a food place at least

>new McDonald's
>is that a fucking recruiting center

>old Taco Bell
>colorful and eye-catching

>new Taco Bell
>a depressing and shitty strip mall shop why would anyone even think to go there for food

I don't get it either.

>>11272808
>order taco bell on the taco bell app
>as I near the restaurant, click "I am here" so they start cooking my food as I pull towards the lot
>they don't start cooking it til I get there and ask
whats the point

>>11272117
I just use the app.
Lots of nice discounts too

Losing that greenhouse section of old Wendy's is too bad

>>11273987
Fuck off, everywhere looks like this now

>>11272808
>use maccas phone app while driving to store
>get pulled over for using phone while driving
>double demerit weekend
>ten demerit points in one hit
Thanks Ronald.

>>11273813
Don't you have a suicide to finally go through with?

>>11273483
Yep

>>11273309

I live near gwinnett place mall and it's like a timewarp

or it would be if there were any shops, I think all that's left is journeys, hot topic, sears and foot locker.

The sears might be going but it's fun looking at a mall with nothing in it, it's like being in the apocalypse with none of the downsides

>>11271455
>ot have a lick of personality to it whatsoever.
just like the shitty food they serve man.

>>11272284
>we invented it

>>11274905
https://youtu.be/I43pxV35MbY

>>11275134

yes, this is how it feels, kino

>>11271438

It makes the restaurants look less like they're for white trash and poor blacks. I wonder what the next redesign will be.

I think we only prefer them because of nostalgia. If the designs were switched we'd still prefer the older one, matter what it looked like.

>>11272099
what do you think of mine?

>>11274905
>>11275134
Where is the bulk of the population gravitating to congregate, talk and eat instead? They can't just be staying home. Malls are still functioning quite well in Australia, but what can I expect when Amazon brings retail to its knees? I also want to know what sort of places I should be investing money in before that happens.

>>11275165
yall on my level or what?

>>11275172
>They can't just be staying home
Sure they can.

We need some more effay McDonald's ITT

Why did McDonald's get rid of Grimace, Hamburgler, Ronald and birdie?

>>11275207
>that boomer in the picture trying to look cool and hip

>>11274905

I live in Lawrenceville, anon. I used to love Gwinnett Place Mall but that place is a fucking graveyard now

>>11271438
It's fine. Although the taco bell in my town is worse because the bell is just black and white.

>>11274807
what the fuck? is that people photoshopped?

>>11275247
he is cool

>>11275172
>Where is the bulk of the population gravitating to congregate, talk and eat instead?

Here, facebook, twitter, and snap although snap is dying.

The very last of people actually leaving their house is either going to a bar or a concert, the days of leaving your house for the hell of it is long gone, especially since the majority of the country is on minimum wage and barely has enough to pay to their bills

>>11275262

It makes no goddamn sense, breakers and iron age is right there, wasteland is down the street, sweet tomatoes, and all those BBQ places, tokyo valentino, and they have like 5 hotels, that place should be booming.

God bless megamart though, in house library and grade A meat for cheap korean prices? k

>>11275292

I hear they're going to tear down the mall and build apartments but I don't want Pleasant Hill to be even more clogged than it already is.

Any good recommendations? 678 is the only good KBBQ spot I've had. Iron Age is mostly trash

>>11275335

People are mad at Iron Age because they got rid of Brisket.

Breakers is good but theprice is up there, supposedly they've dropped their price to compete with iron age but I haven't been there since.

There's also a BBQ site near the hooters, I've heard great things but they are very biased towards asians. I'm biracial and look hispanic so they kind of ignored me when I went there, and my friend was chinese I'm not sure if that factored into anything.

basically breakers is your only other choice here, 678 is king

>>11275344
>I'm biracial and look hispanic
I'm biracial (asian/white) and I notice that the more muscle you put on, the more hispanic you look. Since I started getting strong, people have been speaking spanish to me in the street.

>>11272099
>>11275165
>>11275174
>>11275207

Literally the focus groups that are made up of McDonald’s customers asked for that

>>11275344

Cheers, anon. If you're in the mood for Indian, check out Asma's Cuisine on Breckenridge. My buddy's family owns it. Coming from a South asian guy, it's legitimately good amongst a sea of mediocre ass South asian/indian/pakistani food in the Gwinnett area

Highly recommend the biryani, chicken 65 or butter chicken.

>>11272100
You thinking it's soulless is your nostalgia blinding you. It looks fine. Someday when the designs change again kids who were 10 today will act the same way as you.

>>11275281
Its a mockup for a building concept.

>>11273711
That looks pretty comfy

>>11275360
>people know what they want

>>11272117
It got slower because you faggots are adding additional orders through the kiosk all at once

I work at corporate for a fast food chain. They think this is what people want and that newer store designs will bring in more customers. Its fucking retarded and it costs our franchisees hundreds of thousands of dollars per store.

>>11275410
Are franchisees forced to remodel as part of the franchise agreement? Or is just that new stores have to be built like this?

>>11275410

oh my god does corporate come with some dumb shit, I used to work at a fairly decent chain, all our best selling items fell off the menu constantly while the shit all our cooks fuck up and everyone complains about stays on for a fucking year.

And lesser items that sell like hotcakes are on the menu but no longer have a picture so basically at every table we have to show people where buffalo wings are FUCK CORPORATE

>>11275417
They're not forced to, but it is strongly encouraged. The company will usually also put up 20% or so of the cash to help out if they go for it.

>>11271438
corporate

>>11272273
Tragic. This is a beautiful woman with a dick tattoo on her face.

>>11274141
>>11275480
McDonalds is unironically a great brand. The only thing wrong with it is the quality of its workers in the US, where it caters to lower income people.

People use McDonalds as a symbol of bland corporatism, which is ironic because McDonald's menu is highly distinctive, e.g. their fries or the big mac. I could eat at 10 "good" burger joints and their burgers would be almost indistinguishable while the big mac is immediately recognizable.

For people in other countries, McDonalds is a unique delicacy, not the foreign invasion that SJWs see it as.

>>11272049
this. i can actually enjoy sitting at a fastfood restaurant now. it used to be weird sticky plastic table and chairs.

>>11275512
I don't think you know what bland corporatism is. A cookie cutter product replicated across millions of stores is definitely bland corporatism.

>>11275512
>I could eat at 10 "good" burger joints and their burgers would be almost indistinguishable while the big mac is immediately recognizable.

How much do you weigh, just curious

>>11275523
>A cookie cutter product replicated across millions of stores is definitely bland corporatism.
I'm challenging that the concept of bland corporatism is useful or meaningful. I don't think brands like McDonalds make the world less varied or interesting. I used burger joints as an example, but street food is another example. You can have hundreds of street food vendors all selling something indistinguishable.

The idea that big corporations make the world boring and homogenous is primarily pushed by people on the left, because they see our economic system as fundamentally flawed and corrupt. Others adopt anti-corporate views uncritically because they have a naive appeal.

>>11275528
why do you ask? what do you weigh?

>>11275512
I don't disagree I'm just saying the symbol seems sad to me because I was raised where mcdee's is practically a food staple.

Whataburger still has a cool building design for almost all locations

>>11275594
You sound so fat. Yikes.

>>11275700
I'm not fat, will post my height, weight and squat if you do. And there's nothing about my post that implies being fat, you realize that gourmet burgers and McDonalds burgers have similar amounts of calories right?

>>11271727
chipotle's quality has decreased since they started opening tons of restaurants 10 years ago. you'd be better off making cheap burritos at home now, basically the same stuff.

>>11275512
I was just talking about the photo. It's a beautiful landscape with some very well considered architecture that fits the landscape. And an ugly building right in the middle of it which doesn't fit at all. It's sad as fuck. I couldn't give a shit about it being a McDonald's. I couldn't give a shit about politics. That building is ugly. That building in that setting is tragically ugly. Even the other ugly buildings around it have pitched rooflines that sort of reflect the mountains.

>>11271438
who cares?

>>11275165
I live like 5 minutes away from here

>>11273711
>>11275366
Austin has one that's really popular (of course it's popular though, Austin is a hipster town).

>>11275711
>you realize that gourmet burgers and McDonalds burgers have similar amounts of calories right?

you realize that Mc and Gourmet use vastly different grades of meat, are prepared fresh instead of donald's frozen, are prepared to order instead of being premade and slapped on a bun with toppings, and a wealth of other differences that shows its quality to justify it having a dollar menu right?

You're fat AND retarded if you're gonna sit here and tell me there's no difference between a big mac and a 1/2lb. Sirloin burger

>>11271438
The yellow/purple/green color scheme old Taco Bell restaurants used to have was so comfy, it makes me nostalgic for the good old days whenever I see it

>>11273988
You’re dumb.

>>11275713
That's fair, although it would have a nice vaporwave aesthetic in the evening. I've actually been there (Yangshuo). I don't recall the McDonalds but there are a bunch of restaurants, both chains and regular, and it's pretty cozy. This city is a gateway to the region, so it's not spoiling anything, people will travel further to the main sightseeing spots.

>>11275723
Never said they were there was no difference, I said they had similar amounts of calories. And you can stop calling me fat until you post your own weight.

>>11271576
not enough interracial couples and xylophones

>>11271438
Fucking reminds me of the interior of Star Bucks. Like it's designed on purpose to be uncomfortable so you leave earlier.

And I've really grown to absolutely hate the soda machines with the digital displays with the stupid fruit flavors.

>>11275748
>I said they had similar amounts of calories.
>>11275512
>I could eat at 10 "good" burger joints and their burgers would be almost indistinguishable while the big mac is immediately recognizable.

Absolutely nothing in your post mentions anything about calories, and I am not going to eat McDonald's freak burgers and get cancer just to watch my calorie count

>>11275758
>>11275758
So you have to understand that no one can guess what's going on in your angry, petty mind from the short posts you write. I assumed you meant from >>11275528 and >>11275700 that you thought I sounded fat because I liked McDonalds burgers, and so I responded by pointing out that McDonalds burgers aren't especially high in calories. You, lacking a functioning theory of mind, failed to understand why I was saying that and went on a rant about quality in >>11275723.

So I'm guessing you meant in >>11275528 that I sound fat because I don't care about quality? If so, I don't think McDonalds is bad quality, maybe the beef is slightly worse but everything else is just normal ingredients.

>>11275811
>I don't think McDonalds is bad quality,

Go somewhere and think about your life

>>11275822
No, go and be a rude snob somewhere else. As I said in my first post on this topic, McDonalds in the US has shitty staff, and honestly the quality isn't as good, but that's just the US. Outside the US it's popular among people from all walks of life. You sound like an insufferable cunt who can't like anything lots of other people like.

>>11275838

shut up retard

>>11275844
You sound annoyed, maybe a big mac would cheer you up?

>>11275859

rut up shetard

>>11275875
It's funny how the rudest people get riled up the easiest.

>>11272954
Meals shared with family and friends are about sharing meals with family and friends. I don't need some modern-facelifted fast food chain to try and sell me on family values. If I want to pick up fast food as a treat for family and friends I'll do just that and then bring it home where I'm most comfortable.

If I'm hungry and just want some quick cheap food to eat for lunch I'm going to McDonalds and avoiding people because the majority of humans on this planet are disgusting, trivial, awful people and I have no obligation to share with them an experience reserved for family or friends, faggot.

>>11272311
You don't even make any sense.

>>11271438
the burger king redesign is the worst one

>>11275512
Not a single thing in this post is true tho.

>>11271438
McDonald's was an improvement, but the rest are trash. My local Pizza Hut closed down for like a month so they could demolish their perfectly fine brick building and replace it with a no seating phone booth like the ones in your pic.

>>11276028
At this point you'll find discount Chinese food places with two tables and four chairs with more space than some fast food chain joints.

>>11272279
>>11271616
Do you seriously doubt that the appearance of the building influences consumer choice?

>Go to Mcdonalds
>Order a McDouble, small fries and a drink
>Order given to me
>Realize the bag is heavy as fuck
>McDouble, McChicken, 30 McNuggets, 3 large fries, and a diet coke
>only cost me $4 to feed me and my roomates
lmao wtf

>>11272482
No one cares millenial

>>11271453
The samey "modern" design.
>>11271996
None of those building designs were ever eyesores.
>>11272117
The initial transition hurts, but as people get used to them they'll install more and phase out the wageslaves.
I fucking laugh at the libshits that cried for $15 an hour. They are literally the reason this is happening.

>>11276073
>low key stole $10 worth of food from some McDonald's franchise owner
>thinks this is behavior to be proud of
>thinks this is an interesting story rather than something petty and mundane we've all experienced

>>11276113
>we've all experienced
Fuck you nigger I wish some fed up wageslave at McD's gave me some extra food after a hard day of being a wageslave myself.

>>11276043
I don't refute appearance playing a factor in choice, but at a certain point I like to think that the familiarity and consistency in fast food chain restaurants supersedes looks alone.

>>11273283
It's also easier to re-sell them when your franchise goes under, because the design is basic enough that the buyer won't have to tear it down and start from scratch to have a totally different kind of business in the same location, just remove the signage.

>>11271438
You missed the important part--the interiors with the kiosks, etcs, as they prepare to eliminate as many human employees as they can

>>11276119
It's common to receive extra food or change by accident. If you're not a smalltime nigger you smile and let them know. Often they let you keep it anyway

>>11272117

Twice now I’ve seen a boomer publicly freak out at the lack of cashiers and storm out in an ignorant huff. I love it. Based McDonald’s sticking it to old fucks afraid of change (the same old fucks that created the corporate penny pinching economy that led to kiosks in the first place).

Oh and I also fucking love how when I walk in I don’t get five slaves all separately shouting “WELCOME TO MCDONALDS” like at Moes or Jimmy Johns. It’s so forced and obnoxious.

McDonalds also even got cheaper over the years because the app offers new users a coupon for any sandwich being 1 dollar then after you can just make a new account and use it the next time. I’ve been getting one dollar bug macs and quarter pounders all year long. All while boomers walk out starving cause they’re too fucking entitled to use technology. Fast food never tasted so good and I love this new cynical state the country is in.

>>11273658
that's where low-cost construction in general is going. Constructed in factories overseas, shipped cheaply by boat, and then stacked like legos. Same idea as flatpack Ikea furniture

>>11276232
That's archaic. The future is 3D printed buildings. You can make them out of even more compactly shipped material. China has already done a few prototypes.

>>11276219
>Fast food never tasted so good and I love this new cynical state the country is in.
Couldn't agree more

>>11271455
It was "classic" which means it had to be bright, gay and look a design from a 5 year old, to perfectly fit their consumer base

one more

>>11275986
I didn't even think of them when I made OP pic. Huh. It feels like they're declining in relevancy

But one still has the older look near me; it has neon lights inside with a small arcade room. Hope it doesn't change.

>>11276921

They were so loud and colorful

>>11272273
There’s a WcDonald’s in the lake
>woah

>>11275207
this one's my favourite

>>11277329
and a close contender from Hungary

Functionalism was a mistake.

Aesthetic trends change with time, what people find attractive will always spark debate and fights.

>>11275892
Says the person unironically shilling McDonalds for free.

this is just what is happening in architecture in general. fast food chains aren't out there to be bold paradigm shifters.

that's one of the big criticisms of modern architecture, all buildings across all cultures and all functions are beginning to look alike. if these didn't have fast food logos and drive through lanes, could you guess what the building was used for? a bank? a dentists office? a resto? could you guess where it was located? America? China? Central Europe? probably not.

>>11273711
this is the aesthetic
are you in Missouri?

>>11271455
It has tons of personality you ingrate

Who the fuck cares? Get me 2 double cheeseburgers, large fries and some nuggets to go please. Nice building by the way. Missed you guys while you were under construction

>>11272954
well black and gay communities are certainly not more isolated than in the 50s.

>>11276924
Damn thats bad

South Lake Tahoe has a shared esthetic of sorts between stores where they all our like comfy lodges/cabins.

>>11271897
real soul

>>11272186
Fast food jobs are for highschool and dumb college students. If you're past that age you need to seriously think about your life if you're still working in fast food unless you actually plan to climb the corporate ladder. The people who bitch about the hourly rate at McDonald's are the same people that think the government should pay them to do nothing.

>>11272216
the edge so sharp so FUCKKKKINGG DEEP gonna make me cum bb

>>11271438
Wendy's is fucking sick though

>>11272482
We still have this by me but a lawyer bought the building for his practice

>>11272700
Based Boomer

>>11272700
In a few months, youtube and ecelebs will just be celebs. Keep grasping your nightly news on the nines

>>11272684
Kentucky Fried Taco, or Chicken Bell?

>>11272323

>>11278004
Freaking cool. Fast food is like a cancer, it’s gonna spread no matter what, might as well conform to where it’s at instead of giving us the same shit architecture.

say it with me: the materials are cheap which is what dictates 100% of architecture in this godforsaken continent

>>11274303
good post

>>11273774
P

>>11275363
if you think the proliferation of structural homogeneity is a made up thing that is being invented as a byproduct of people's nostalgia you must literally be blind let alone have ever picked up a book on architecture

>>11271455
personality if you're stuck in the last century i guess but time moves forward and things have always changed. They will surely have other styles in the future and also probably have THROWBACK stores that are classic looks again.

>>11273960
I bet you bought into the "inequality is rising" meme

>>11272353
imagine being this retarded

>>11279677
>>11274168
>>11272342
If you value privacy you pay with cash.

>>11272099
I literally got food there last thursday

they should focus effort on making scratch resistant walls. i swear every fast food restaurant restroom i go into is scratched full of gang graffiti.

>>11277656
These places are all over the US.

One of the highlights of living in the country. Always young kids working the counter and the food is always great.

Families are always sitting at picnic tables.

Usually attached to a farm that sells their produce and homemade baked goods.

Man, I love America.

>>11272445
Hey FTL bro
Keep it real

>>11273414
Holland, Mi?

>>11279888
Or threats from edgy teenagers.

>metal and glass skyscrapers go up everywhere giving entire cities less no character
>modern fast food follows suit with their own shitty design, once again removing any defining character
Nobody stopped it. Without stopping it you basically asked for it. Here's your new design for every place you eat, you opinion-timid whore.

>>11279978
be glad you dont live here in the hood and only have to deal with edgy teenagers.

>>11271447
MARKETING!

>>11271438
Parapet Walls are jewish design
deutoronomy 28:8

>>11275512
>while the big mac is immediately recognizable
This has more to do with the depth and pervasiveness of their marketing.
There's a reason small children know who Ronald McDonald is but not Mickey Mouse.

I havent been inside a fastfood joint scince maybe 2008. Went into wendys back in july and the drink machine is just a coke machine with one nozzle, being too autistic to ask the very dark black lady with a mop dyed with shoe polish on her head how to use it and end up looking more retardeder than she did i just grabbed a handfull of salt packets and left. Havent been back since, how the hell do you use it? Do all chains have this bullshit? Also wendys new fries are shit.
>mfw my 4 for $4 ended up being a 3 for $4

I hope posting this will fix the end of the thread

>>11271438
>Literally who asked for this?
The CEO / Investors, lol.

Welcome to the real world

SOUL VS SOULLESS

>>11271438

The Post-Brutalist fast food architecture to appeal for boomer share holders and millennial debt slaves alike. May you feel uncomfortable as you ambulate into the chain storefront® for your serving of soyim.

>>11272196
I HAVE TO PAY FOR COLLEGE TO GET AN EDUCATION SO I CAN GET A """"REAL"""""" JOB WHICH REQUIRES MORE THAN FUCKING $10 AN HOUR TO EVEN OBTAIN YOU ASSHOLE

Obligatory.

https://youtu.be/d8Q-V6A24pQ

>>11280609
Recognizable is the wrong term. What I meant is if gourmet burgers are more similar to each other than the big mac is to any of them. Obviously I don't mean every possible gourmet burger, but the kind you would typically get in a high end burger place.

For me, the big mac flavor is completely dominated by the tang of the special sauce, which itself is distinct from the thousand island dressing used in say, in-n-out. The texture is much less about the meat and more about the crunch of the raw onions, lettuce and pickles combined with the softness of the bread.

For me it's not controversial to say that the big mac is an outlier in the world of burgers. In fact I'm curious if anyone could name a burger more distinctive than the big mac.

>>11280636
No serriously guys, how the fuck do you use the new pop machines?

>>11272117
I enjoy standing behind older people while they are using these and subtly laughing every time they make a selection. It makes them really self conscious.

>>11271455
This.
We're slowly being acclimated to the bland soulless doldrums of late stage capitalism.
>90's = fun, quirky, colorful
>2010's = grey, soulless, lacking any personality whatsoever

>>11273270
>Historical building
vs
>Place that sell shitty fast food

oh gee I wonder one gets demolished and rebuilt

>>11280961
This is why you need to stay in school.

>>11279888
>scratched full of gang graffiti
>>11279978
>threats from edgy teenagers
When I was a kid if was all 'for a good time call' and people would write their ex's numbers. Off-line personal army requests, basically.

>>11282251
YEAH BECAUSE HIGH SCHOOL GIVES YOU ENOUGH MONEY TO GO TO COLLEGE HUH DUMB FUCK?! KILL YOURSELF YOU DELUSIONAL BOOMER!

>>11282660
u okay bro?

I had a good feeling this thread would reach bump limit. It had an attractive recipe.