/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12481351
They franchised

because they need to all be the same modern, drab, square

Because those styles became associated with fast food restaurants.

>>12481361
/thread

>>12481361
Didn't they always use to say in news articles that fast food restaurants *benefited* from creating lots of psychological associations to their food to keep people addicted to it?

>>12481358
>>12481360
I think it's more these than this:
>>12481361
Everything about fast food chains have gone downhill since the 90s. Both decor and the food quality itself. Probably more about cutting corners and trying to make more and more money doing less and less than it is an attempt at marketing improvements.

>>12481360
>the same modern, drab, square
Yeah, fuck this shit. They need to go back.

>>12481351

>not living in a city with onerous building codes which restrict the number of colors and building designs
You must hate yourselves.

This McDonald's in Dallas, Texas is definitely a kid's paradise. Not only does it look like a gargantuan happy meal, but it also features a huge McDonald's Play-place inside. Surprisingly, this wacky McDonald's has a tasteful interior, with designer touches such as Ralph Lauren wallpaper, crystal chandeliers, and mahogany booths. There's nothing like a luxury setting that will also keep the kids occupied for a little while. All this McDonald's needs is a fancy adult happy meal to compliment its luxurious interior.

>>12481432
?
None of us have the fast food buildings in the OP picture. They died after the 90s.

>>12481374
that's actually why they look the same
each mcdonalds looks the exact same so that it triggers a habit pattern in its customers.

>>12481664
But then why did they stop doing that? McDonald's no longer has a distinctive appearance and looks like all the other modern fast food exteriors today.

>>12481478
Most of the McDonald's in the Orlando area used to be elaborately themed like this one (probably due to their close proximity to Disney), but they have all since been redone in the most generic ways possible.

>>12481351
Those are /comfy/. If I go to a fast food restaurant or a dinner, I want it to look old and genuine. The biggest turn-off ever is when you go to a chain that tried to over-modernized like McDonald's calling itself "McCafé" with all-glass walls and soulless unaturally-too-clean plastic interior furnitures.

Don't try to fool me into thinking this is a hip and classy place, it's a fucking fast-food joint.

>>12481668
Got me wondering so I looked all around the city (picrelated)
Seems a couple old ones are different, a couple more were built inside existing structures and look weird but half of them are new and all the same ugly building like the architect could only find his one straight ruler

>>12481937
Good work rounding all those images up. That's really weird to me how the design in the first one is exactly the same as all the "Yum" owned restaurants (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut). Especially that rectangular motif where there's one long, thin rectangle colored differently and raised higher than the rest of the building.
I have no idea why they would all do that. It looks like shit.

>>12481351
The nicer fast food places are where the white people live.

>>12481478
>I CAN'T WAIT FOR MONDO-BURGER TO OPEN

>>12481351
Millenials.

>>12482005
Nah, these changes were ordered by boomers and gen X business executives, not millennials.

>>12481422
>>12481432
oh my god

>>12481422
the new designs look better

>>12481351
We have an old school taco bell in my town

>>12482625
Sweet, where is that?

This one is in Hale'iwa Hawaii. I used to live near there and I always thought it looked cool.

>>12482434
Absolutely not.