/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13720809
old design was too racist

no /less roof for homeless to loiter under?

>>13720809
SOUL
vs.
SOULLESS

>>13720809
Our corporate research indicates that consumers tend to spend more money in modern-looking buildings with wood and other warm tones.

>>13720811
But they still be lovin it

>>13720809
bros...the consumerist heart attack murder factory from my youth has lost its soul....

>>13720831
funny because ever since mcdonalds started looking like that, I felt less inclined to go in and buy cheap burgers. I like plastic and consumerist architecture when I go to buy my processed slop.

>>13720809
Gaudiness like the early style is considered gauche and white trashy nowadays.

>>13720857
its true though. i only ever go in for coffee, which Ill admit I'm a big fan of, but rotten ronnies has really stepped up its game over the past 20~ years

>>13720857
I agree but I feel like SOULLESS modern wood/gray is gonna go out of fashion even faster

>>13720809
From a design perspective, no gutters to clog, no curbs for trip hazards, and three windows to speed up service. Unfortunately or fortunately there are no play places anymore. Fun as hell, but literally never cleaned.

>>13720809
it was never right

>>13720871
Those play places became a major liability risk in addition to the fact they were literal germ factories.

>Only eat at mcdonalds because you're poor and sad
>Building being soulless makes you sadder
>The cost of renovations passed on to consumers and workers makes you poorer
>Mcdonalds now has an influx of poor sad people to shove garbage down their gullets
America went wrong

>>13720880
Those ball pits sure were fun though as a kid

>>13720883

lil johnny will get the cornavirus if he's 3 feet within another human now.

>>13720883
the mcdoodles in my town still has a play area and its the modern design

not sure if it has a ball pit tho

>>13720871
I don’t see gutters on either design though

>>13720898
“lil johnny” must be quite an ironic name if he’s getting three feet inside anybody!

>>13720809
lost the SOUL

>>13720809
Lots of things went wrong for this retarded corporation. Unironically I think the pro-drug anti-family sentiment growing in the West got rid of iconic pleasures like The Happy Meal and the play pen (you can still get it but it's not the fucking same. It has no soul.) The discontinuation of the dollar menu was the nail in the coffin as far as I am concerned. The problem these idiots haven't figured out yet is that no one is happy about going to McDonalds; no one is happy sitting in the drivethrough waiting for this worthless wageslave to feed us our slop. We know in our hearts we could be making more of an effort to improve our diets and our health but the value of a $1 McDouble or McChicken is difficult to argue with. They got rid of that; started introducing a bunch of stupid fucking "artisanal" burgers which cost $9 and were somehow the worst thing on the menu. They try to tease you along with these occasional promotions like McPick 2 for $2.50 or some other nonsense but it's all too late. Five Guys came out and everyone realized they can get a better burger with some peanuts for the price of a Big Mac and that was basically the end for McDonalds. Now there are a ton of fast food options which are better and it's only the lowest common denominator who eats at McDonalds now because they either don't know their left from right or don't have cars and since McDonalds is a real estate company first and foremost they are the closest food source for these animals

>>13720809
Millenials need every restaurant to be a starbucks clone

>>13720883
>>13720899
Only the burgerking in my town had a ballpit. there was a wcdonald's that gave free internet access through some PC terminals. Before free wifi became a thing for them.

I wished my town had wcdonald's with nintendo terminals.

>>13720966
>got rid of
>you can still get it

>>13720967
Taco Bell used to have such nice colors.

>>13720967
It looks like they just want their logos to be more prominent. Maybe it's because they've expanded to a lot of countries that don't speak English but the logo is immediately identifiable.

>>13720839
There's something comfy about plastic architecture desu.

>>13721030
The entire building used to be part of their logo, retard.

>>13720967
more likely there's one fat kunt at the top who gets all the design contracts

>>13720809
>What went wrong?
niggers

>>13720809
Bring me the heads of Walter Gropius, Frank Lloyd Wright and Miles Van Der Rohe!

>>13720967
man the old Wendys was KINO

>>13721129
your mom fucked em doe

>>13720967
>2/$3 sausage mcmuffin WITH EGG
holy fuck where

>>13720831
>modern-looking buildings
Then why base the new design on The Armory?

>>13720809
i like the new mcdonalds much more than the old one. who the fuck wants to eat in a circus clown tent looking shit hole?

>>13720967
these are all objective improvements

>>13720809
I hate how they're try to market themselves as some sort of upscale cafe that sells burgers and shit with this mininalist cuboid architecture with wood and stone instead of plastic. They're not fooling anyone, its still fucking McDonalds.

>>13721030
The building WAS the logo. You could tell immediately what kind of restaurant it was just by looking at it. Think of how many pizza huts got converted into other shit and how you can still tell it was a pizza hut.

>>13720967
The taco bell by my house hasn't changed since the 90s.
Stepping through those doors just teleports you to a different time man

>>13721265
>t. Schlomo Shekelberg

>>13720967
the wendy's just looks like it got a facelift while the mcdicks and especially taco bell look like they lost their souls

>>13720967
Less gaudy chains polluting our eyes with garish garrets to sell their grotesque goo to gluttonous gobblers?

Great!

>>13720967
I don't get why they all went gray. It doesn't convey a sense of freshness or even have an association with food. Aren't colors supposed to be important for brand identity and attracting customers?

>>13720809
It stopped being a burger joint and started being a "cafe".

>>13721139
Ye olde wendys

>>13720967
2 for $3 mcmuffin

>>13720809
I would absoluteley split a nigga if he made me a house like that. This shit is as dated as shag rugs and wood panelling.

>>13721394
Haha take an upvote kind strangerino!

>>13720809
We gotta get back.

>>13721394
Onamatapeeya. nice.

>all that effort put into architecture and none put into improving the quality of the burgers
I would love McDonalds if their burgers didnt fucking suck. Their nugs, breakfast, drink machines, and fish sandwiches are all great. I don't get why they can't make a decent burger.

>>13720809
>>13720839
>MacDonalds is our kind of place
>it's such happy place
>hap-hap-hap-happy place

>just some soulless looking building that screams "Psychologist office".

Goddamn it McDonalds.

>>13721328
Lucky

>>13721328
Is it a smaller average town? They are usually pretty based when it comes to that stuff.

>>13720967
Holy shit. I still think there is a conspiracy in Architecture that wants everything to look ugly and stiff even if that's exactly the sort of place that it shouldn't.

>>13720967
Taco bell should have never changed

Aren't these buildings efficient pre-fabs?

>>13720967
lol the Taco Bell logo looks so bad in contrast to that wall. If you told me this is just badly photoshopped to have the logo I'd believe you.

>>13720967
Fixed that title for you.

>>13721465
>I don't get why they all went gray.
They can't discriminate against colors anymore, so they couldn't justify paying the full amount to use more expensive colors.

>>13720871
Don't know for sure, there's still one I know of that has the newer design

>>13720809

>>13720967
New designs scare me. I constantly feel like I'm not good enough to eat in such modern-looking places.

>>13720809
SOUL

VERSUS

SOULLESS

>>13720871
>no play places anymore
I remember going in one and there was literal piss and shit in one section
Fucking disgusting scum kid who did that should've been executed

>>13720967
All my local places look pretty much exactly like the 'old' ones

>>13721855
>saving the thumbnail
kys retard.

>>13720880
and without them future children will become feeble and weak to plague

I used to go to fastfood during my early 20's, I'd frequently go on pilgrimages to Jack In The Box and get $0.99 chicken sandwiches and $1.19 jr bacon cheeseburgers and I'd get a lot of food for about $5 or $6, but shit has basically doubled in price since then and my boomer brain doesn't feel right spending over $10 on a single fast food visit. I'd rather just make it at home, it's cheaper and I get more for my money.

>>13720871
>Lil' zoomers will never know the joy of going on a schooltrip followed by the bus taking a stop at McDonald's or BK.
>Lil' zoomers will never know the fun of sneaking into the play area, which your teacher forbid the class from entering
>Lil' zoomers will never know the joy of riding down a toboggan on a plastic tray

>>13720809
I sincerely can’t wait for this modern architecture fad to die out, It is the only reason why I stopped eating out and learned to cook. Shit is so soulless I get depressed just looking at it.

>>13722200
KEK

>>13720967
I miss old style Wendy's. This restaurant was like a dinner with lots of space and low temperature on the A/C, now a days it feels like Wendy's establishments are cooler inside the kitchen than outside.

>>13720967
the "old" taco bell here looks like shit too compared to the older ones. that one looks like the product of someone winning a shopping spree at home depot

>>13721678
I just fucking miss Pizza Hut in general. I get cravings for their Pan Pizza once in awhile, but there is none within like 25 miles of me

>>13722390
Ok boomer

>>13721139
agreed. that window is comfy

>>13721900
convoluted meme at best, nonsensical meme at worst

i'm still trying to unpack it.

i will get back to you with my final rating.

>>13722412
But you can still get an old fayshinned hamburger, the best in the bidness

>>13722441
I miss the Pizza Hut of the late 80s / early 90s. Tabletop Galaga was the bomb.

>>13722397
It's really just big brands doing it.
Local restaurants look so kino, at least here in my region.
It's like the universe got it backwards and just decided to roll with it even tho it makes no sense.

>>13720917
That's because you're not lovin' it® enough

>>13720967
>that
>old Taco Bell
I remember when Taco Bell looked like an actual Mexican-style building.

>>13722567

Mine was dingy, served beer and was brown terra cotta everywhere. Food was easily 10x better.

>>13720831
The number of dine-in customers increased a lot with the new style.

>>13722567
That planter in the front of the building used to have a big ass gas flame fire in it at night.

>>13722567
This is why zoomers are fucking retarded. They experience a little change and lose their minds. The shit has already changed before. They're using a shitty 00s image of Tacobell. They're not even using the old McDonald's either.

>>13722713
>They experience a little change and lose their minds.
oh no we think the bad change is bad, how retarded of us to not follow the great examples for those before us and just roll with it.

>>13722713
It's not retarded to be ignorant that things haven't gone from okay to bad but rather bad to worse. Unless that ignorance contributed to the degradation.

>>13720809
The promise of growth year over year to please investors coupled with people finally learning more about nutrition AND fast food being seen as far less healthy.

>>13722741
This is the stupid dumb shit that you fucks are fighting for. You're fighting for the facade on a FAST FOOD restaurant. Not the preservation of historical recipes. No, you actually make fun of that shit. You're not fighting for marble statues or some grand European ideal of beauty. You're not fighting for the dissemination of a proud and robust body of knowledge. You're fighting for what building materials your round-boy treat factory is using.

This is the problem with the faggot generation zyklon crowd. You think you're fighting for Western culture because you hate the new pepsi logo but you're just fighting for the most cultureless, bland, meaningless, corporate, soulless mid-western freeway off-ramp middle-class nightmare. You lack the language and knowledge of a proper critique of your world so you resort to dumb shit like this.

>>13720967
>[Adults under 40] need every restaurant to be a starbucks clone
Okay, boomer.

I miss when stuff looked like this, but I can't quite figure out why.

>>13722811
Maybe I just like woodgrain, idk.

I don't really like how slick and "new" everything is now, not just in McDonalds but everywhere. Nothing feels particularly lived-in anymore. It's not comfortable and familiar, it's weird and alien.

Is this what it is to become a 30 year old boomer...?

>>13722788
>This is the stupid dumb shit that you fucks are fighting for
Is thinking "I don't like going to McDonalds anymore because the architecture is boring" actually considered fighting for you?

Grandpa, just because your old brain is slowing down doesn't mean everyone is also fighting hard to even casually use theirs.

>>13720809
OLD GOOD
NEW BAD

>>13722880
>GOOD GOOD
>BAD BAD
oh no

>>13722811
fuck i didn't know i missed this

>>13720809
Don't know about the exterior, but the interior changes they did so that people can see the majority of the kitchen at first glance from behind the counter. This was done because fast food employees are the most likely to spit in people's food, even fast casual/family restaurant cooks don't do it so often, so by making the kitchen open to see by even the customers they hope that it'll discourage the shit workers from pulling that stuff, if not allow customers to flat out snitch to the manager if they happen to see it happen themselves.

>>13720967
>that Taco Bell

Now THIS is a real Taco Bell

>>13722827
Better to be an old fucker who wishes the newer generations experiences a better world and perspective than to pretend you're still young by seeing everything new as good: >>13722881

SOUL

SOUL

>>13722904
I think life has lost an understated simplicity in the modern era, and it's literally reflected in everything we build or do.

Our parents probably thought the same 20-something years ago.

>>13722911
That's soulless, this is soul.

>>13722952
>>13722911
different souls for different environments

>>13722957
No, there is only soul vs soulless. If you open it up for nuance you get the modern version.

>>13720809
thank god honestly
all the old stores were fucking FILTHY

>>13722952
That looks like it was built last year. That's faux-retro hipster soulless.

>>13722961
The burgers are still filthy so, what's the point?

>>13722390
Why couldn't they do the tray thing? Do schools no longer use trays or garbage cans with lids?

>>13720809
Who gives a shit, I can barely see it from my car.

>>13720809
COLOR BAD

>>13720809
Honestly the new design is not so bad.
They have others, bigger issues, like their table service thing, which is a total failure. These days it's quicker to eat in a lot of regular restaurants than at Mac Donald's

>>13720967
The old McDonalds looked shit but those Wendys and Taco Bells were slick.

>>13720967
Right looks like homogenized corporate office buildings.

>>13720809
>>13720831
>>13720839
>>13721037
>>13721820

It was the theme park aesthetic, like something out of Disneyland's Toontown. McDonald's, and similarly-minded fast food companies wanted to change from that long-standing aesthetic to more of a modernist-meets-earthtones sort of design.

the new designs isn't all that bad
its great if they're in the city but if they're not in the city, its kinda tacky
but what i really don't like about them is now everything looks the same.
before they all had their own little flairs on the exteriors and interiors
but now they all more or less look the same

>>13720809
>>13720967
>>13721005
>>13721328
>>13721393
>>13721845
>>13721850
>>13722424
>>13722567
>>13722576
>>13722657
>>13722713
>>13722741
>>13722744
>>13722891
>>13723017

I miss the old Taco Bell aesthetics. They kind of changed throughout the 2000s, but especially during the next decade, we have witnessed the rise of their current looks. I don't know if there are any Taco Bell stores left that have the old Mexican restaurant, or just generally Mexican and American Southwest architectural aesthetics, anymore. Has anybody seen one of those, in recent years? Taco Bell might change the design this decade, or the next, again, who knows? I hope they return to rustic warmth, rather than the look of a single storey office-sized skyscraper with Starbuck's inspirations. Is Starbuck's even that fashionable, anymore, of an influence?

>>13723037
It isn't a BAD design but it's definitely not a place I envision a thing called "happy meal" being served.
It's just a wrong design,.It's good looking but that's not what you should be hoping to achieve in this case.

But you do bring a fair point: The way they're all the same it's what pains me the most.

>>13723065
Is that an egg and ham mcmuffin?

>>13723073
Looks like

>>13722976
It wasn't you moron. It's the OG McDonald's design. They do paint it every once in a while and keep it clean.

>>13720809
I miss my free Happy Meal cookies.

>>13723362
I miss seeing this thing.

>>13723365
I miss the Ronald statues outside.

>>13723369
And I miss my Fancy Ketchup

>>13723374
Heck, I miss being able to by a $6 vhs movie with my meal.

>>13720809
it was always wrong.
Stop succumbing to childhood nostalgia.

>>13723378
But what I really miss most of all are affordable prices.

>>13723386
Now a days it seems that no matter what combo you pick they seem to want around $8 to $9 for a burger, a drink, and some fries.

>>13723390

>>13721742
what do you mean by that

>>13723380
>it was always wrong.
You sir are a hipster and a liar.

>>13722390
Shieeeeeeeeeeeet. This is that good shit, old-timer.

>Go to museum for astronomy dome field trip thing with all the stars and stuff
>It's super boring and we go like twice a year
>Me and buddy sneak out to mcdonalds instead
>Go to playpen
>Meet these other boys who snuck out of THEIR class field trip
>Hit it off
>These mexi-nigger local kids said to gtfo because this was THEIR playpen
>Tell them we do whatever the fuck we want, because we're rebels
>One of them throws a plastic ball at my friend
>He throws one back
>Hell breaks loose
>Kids jumping off the swinging bridge yelling stuff like "CAN YOU SMELL WHAT MCDONALDS IS COOKING?"
>Plastic balls being thrown all over
>Lining up to get sparta kicked into the ballpit by the biggest kid there
>One kid got kicked a little too hard, so we all yelled "GET HIM", and everyone joined together to lift the big kid over our heads and Emperor Palpatine throw him into the ball pit
>While all this was going on, adults just sitting there talking, not giving a single fuck about all the recklessness going on in the playpen
>We all have a really good time and even the mexi-niggers ask us to stay and keep playing when it's time to sneak back to our field trip
>One of them hands me his happy meal toy as a gift, which was a neopets doll
>I promise to give it back to him on next year's field trip
>Me and my buddy can't answer shit during the "What Did You Learn" paperwork section of the field trip
>Oh well, totally worth it
>Hyped to go back again next year and do the same thing
>Play pen gone
>Mexi-niggers gone
>Even the other school doesn't show up
>Know I shouldn't weep over it, but it still seemed very sad

Carried that neopets doll for years, hoping eventually he'd show up again. Never saw him again.

>>13721326
so true. all these new buildings look like you could go inside and get your taxes done now

>>13720966
>Five Guys came out and everyone realized they can get a better burger with some peanuts for the price of a Big Mac
I like Five Guys and all, but you have to be baiting.

>>13722390
>zoomers will never know what it's like for a cold uncaring institution to force feed them manufactured food stuffs from a highly commercialized fun zone
>zoomers will never know what it's like to have people actually care for them and make them wholesome lunches for school
>zoomers will never know what it's like to be trained as consoomers from an early age and get nostalgic about child neglect

>>13720868
And yet it hasn't in a decade.

>>13720967
They figured out that bright colors don't work anymore. Remember when they used to say reds made you likely to eat more? It was just bunk psudeopsychology created by marketing firms. The whole themepark paradigm has also changed.

Chick-fil-a was actually the first to start doing this. Natural materials, minimal colors (red logo but neutral colors elsewhere). Everyone loves chick-fil-a. It's not al Starbucks' fault. People also want authenticity, not a themed eating experience. The natural materials are warmer and cleaner. The inside isn't all plastic and vinyl anymore. It's "leather" and wood and stone. It's feels more homey than the old design. It's also less of an eyesore overall. Which city planners and people like. nobody like living to a trashy 70s carnival ride with clowns everywhere.

Updating their buildings also shows they care. If you go into an older McDonalds today it just feels less clean despite new coats of paint. It feels dated.

The food has changed too. The Supersize Me craze happened and people stopped going out for fastfood as much. Chick-fil-a was providing a better dine-in service which drew people in. They all moved towards creating a better dine-in experience. Making you feel more like an actual restaurant than a circus-themed truck stop is part of why they did a trendier re-design.

>>13723515
>letting children learn how to govern themselves is considered """"""child neglect""""""

Lmao, I bet when you become a parent, you're going to be the type to never let them take the bus or walk home after school by themselves, even when they're fucking 13 or 14. In Virginia, there are places called "Child Zones", where it's just a giant, fenced in wooded area, with a playground and some logs and shit, and no adults are allowed inside, except for these designated supervisors on duty in giant watch towers. Adults are advised not to interfere with child matters unless necessary, so kids have to figure their own problems out themselves. One child being too rough? They have to enforce their own laws. One child not sharing his toys? They have to figure shit out themselves. One child being excluded from the rest of the kids? He has to figure that shit out himself.

And then they gathered all the evidence, and it turns out kids who get practice learning to socialize without adult assistance, develop far faster than other children, and develop excellent leadership skills as well. No fucking duh. What a big surprise.

The absolute fucking STATE of zoomers right now.

>>13723555
>shoving them into a fast food place so you don't have to bother making them or pay attention to them as they play in a glass box is "teaching them to govern themselves"

Next you'll be espousing TV raising you because it taught you rugged individualism. I'm sorry you're just now realizing you're the product of lazy teachers and parents.

>>13720871
>no gutters to clog
Where do you think water that lands on the roof goes?

>>13723555
Do Americans really place their child into a prison yard while a teacher on their smoke break listlessly gazes from afar in order to avoid liability lawsuits and because it's cheaper and easier to let Lord of the Flies play out than pay people to actually teach children?

>>13723577
If I recall correctly, the parks in virginia actually got the idea from like sweden or finland or something. The ONLY difference is that sweden (or finland) didn't even bother to have the adult supervisors. It was literally just a park with a bunch of trees and rocks gated shut, with no parents allowed.

And it worked 100%. The kids grew smarter, learned to be more confident, and grew up to have much better leadership skills compared to other kids. It's kind of a no brainer. Wow, you taught the kid how to socialize by putting him a park where he can practice socializing? HOW CAN THIS BE? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

>>13723537
>Nothing but "Millenials are killing Applebee's" articles in the last decade
Depressing architecture (and even the music they play inside) plays at least some part in why people don't want to go out for fast food anymore. You go out to feel good, and this dystopic, bland aesthetic doesn't help make the case to go there especially when depression is on the rise.

>>13722957
Pssst, a non-participating architard student here
the term you're looking for is "vernacular architecture"; mostly means you build with indigenous materials and traditions appropriate to the surrounding environment.

>>13720967
>even at McDicks you just CAN'T escape the saturation of amerimutt flags
do amerifats really

>>13722952
>tfw you just live 10 mins away from the oldest soulful McDonalds in the world
I like how they keep the moonman prop right right next to the restaurant. I believe there a second one in pico rivera but they modernized inside and kept the original golden arch exterior

do you even need to ask at this point?

>>13725226
What is your problem? It's not like Germans don't fly their flag everywhere.

>>13725226
Imagine seething at the sight of your own flag

>>13720839
I miss the blue tables and yellow seats

>>13720883
I remember as a kid having fun in this huge ball pit at a mall, and it absolutely stank of sweaty children and probably piss.
I wouldn't want to be a maintenance guy doing the right thing and cleaning all those balls.

>>13723468
based

>>13723378
fuck yeah Fievel Goes West!

>>13725233
Mac Tonight is based. Not sure how he became a symbol of the radical extremists, but I remember his commercials and the Happy Meal toys of him and he was pretty cool.

>>13720967
everything is homogenized nowdays

>>13723577
Yes, and it's why so many kids still get abducted.

>>13725342
>Not sure how he became a symbol of the radical extremists
YTMND (the original meme site) had notorious kkk memes about him.

>>13725373
Ok, but why him? Just because it would be lolrandumb?

>>13725380
The moon is white.

>>13723577
>listlessly gazes from afar
>Lord of the Flies
/lit/fag detected

>>13725373
>YTMND
Holy shit that takes me back. I don't remember those KKK memes though. I just remember the mac tonight stuff getting posted on /b/

>>13722911
They used to look like this even here in Europe.

>>13720809
It's McDonald's.
It was always wrong.
It will never be right.

>>13725567
No way dude, McDonald's was cool as hell back in the early 90s.

>>13725380
>Ok, but why him? Just because it would be lolrandumb?
First he was used with text to speech YTMND shit in general. Rap songs sound funny when you do them with text to speech so people did rap songs with him. Then someone did this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxFGhQsaSwI
Which if you listen to that link you'll here the song start out with "OK K K!"
With text to speech each "K" gets enunciated / lingered on a lot more so it sounds less like someone saying OK with extra Ks and more like someone mentioning the KKK. From there others extrapolated he was a white supremacist and had that sort of content as the focus of his lyrics. Also his head looks like klansman wearing his hood.

>zoomers will never know what it's like for a cold uncaring institution to force feed them manufactured food stuffs from a highly commercialized fun zone
>zoomers will never know what it's like to be trained as consoomers from an early age and get nostalgic about child neglect

What makes you think newer generations won't know that? It's just sad that they get a worse deal than the older ones

>>13723548
>nobody like living to a trashy 70s carnival ride with clowns everywhere
Speak for yourself, blandie.

Bright colors are meh, not the important part here. What I can't stand is it looking like a Psychology office.
Everything looks the same and none of them are places I'd think "oh yes, a happy place (hap-hap-hap-happy place) for children!"

Anyway about everything else you wrote:
I just don't see what differentiates these fast-food brands from just your local restaurant or diner now tho.
If they're trying to look more healthy then, I can only laugh at that attempt
Unless you were a special kid, you knew that McDonalds burgers were actually just "fun tumors"; you were just allowed not to care. But this consensus has existed way before I was born, it's part of popular culture to think that fast-foods are just chemical dumping facilities and shit. Why do they suddenly care now? How do they think people will forget that?

It's just weird seeing autistic fast-food places trying so hard to be normal and fit in with the locals, when being different was the one thing they were known for.
And it doesn't make me suddenly forget that "oh yeah, Happy meal is a death dish" just because their restaurant now have natural materials and look like a office building.

>>13725162
That's interesting. Is there a name for the inverse of that? Architecture that contrasts the complete opposite of it's surroundings?

The amount of nostalgia people in this thread have for their childhoods disgusts me. I can't imagine not being embarrassed about wanting so badly to regress into a kid, not to mention being so willfully ignorant of the fact that most of the things you remember about your childhood are grounded in corporatism and disgusting hypocrisy. This is some reddit-tier manchild bullshit. Consoom harder, you fucking sheep.

>>13726092
I think you're just trying too hard to...

what are you even trying to do?

>>13726092
My parents gave me a birthday party for my third birthday at a McDonald's, it's one of my earliest memories.

>>13726140
Grow up.

>>13720967
>>13720809
I want them to go full Brutalist.

>>13726164
Why are you implying everyone in this thread hasn't grown up? Like, I just don't get your basis.

Everyone talks about their childhood, that isn't a manchild thing. And to have nostalgia of certain things is actually a good sign (if you're not stupid/sad enough to think being a kid would be better)

>>13726223
Badabababa I'm loving Big Brother Ronald.

>>13726245
>noooooo mommy why did they change mcdonalds and my happy meals
>adult discussion

>>13726465
>People discussing designs, architecture and the overwhelming amount of bland patterns.
>it's about fast food restaurants so it's just a nostalgia blind thread

>>13720883
Gosh darn right it was

>>13726517
>discussing
They're not discussing, they're circle jerking and histrionically bitching because deep down they want to be eight years old forever.

>>13725785
Lol, something is wrong with you. Seek professional help, ok?

>>13720967
When did it get so bad? The new looks like crap and boxy not even in a good way.
I live in the rural areas, so all the fast food joints look they still in 00s.

>>13726599
>They're not discussing
Okay, then, "talking about it with the occasional unpopular opinion", is that better?

> they're circle jerking and histrionically bitching because deep down they want to be eight years old forever
hahaha, sure man. If that's what you want to think of it, then do.
I'm just fated to never understand you or what you're trying to do here.

>>13726938
Go fart in an anachcronistic mcdick play pen then.

>>13726626
That's how the moonman KKK thing actually began.

>>13726955
Grow up.

>all those americans thinking old ones look better just because their ideal of top architecture is disneyland

>>13720809
$9 Big Macs

solid cuppa for $1.40 tho

>>13726626
newfag

>>13727063
Not american but, I mean, they look better for their purpose.
Would you want to have a happy meal in a place that looks like Auschwitz?

>>13727120
obviously not, but how is such absurd comparison relevant to anything?

>>13720809
>t. nostalgic american millennial with his head shoved up his ass

>>13727130
Just saying, it's a bit weird to switch from "dysneyland-like" architecture to a serious one when your target audience is kids.

Retards who design schools' architecture are finally understanding the idea of not making the place look like a prison. Meanwhile McDonalds is going the other way around.

>>13722390
>>13723468
We always had field trips touring McDonald's, Tim Hortons, Thrifty Foods (I'm a leaf), and they were so great. I remember having a party in the caboose at McD's after one of them

>>13721742
You mean alliteration?

>>13720809
A couple of locations that had been around since before I was born used to have custom decorations related to the area, so all my life their stood out but now they're all the same ugly modern gray box as the next one, decades old art and memorabilia gone.

>>13726223
At least it would be honest. Soulless corporation dishing out overpriced subpar food to overworked drones.

>>13725258
Topkeki.

>>13727208
Pretty sure billionaire corporations are relying on more reliable research than shitty public school systems. Common sense is not always truth.

>>13725482
Some of them still do. In Eastern Europe you can find quite a few who look like that.

>>13722390

>>13722531
I wonder where this girl is now?
This picture is at least 12-15 years old at this point so she's probably in her 30's.
Wonder if she knows this picture is used so often? In fact I wonder how many people in famous images don't realize it?

>>13728032
2007 is more than 12 years ago. What a sadly ancient reference.

>>13728234
There is a series of images of her posing before slices of pizza from after she became known. They ruin the original image, so I won't share them. The internet ruins everything.

>>13728250
post them or I'll smack u

>>13720809
They wanted to shake off the image of clowns serving plastic food.

Their food is actually as shit now as people acted like it was back then. I only ever eat at McDonald's if it's an older one.

>>13720967

Thats the wrong taco bell anon....

Remember when Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to KFC because of the unhealthy connotations associated with the term "fried".
I see these days they're sporting their old logo and are back to Kentucky Fried Chicken.

>>13720809
Crips kept shooting them up, gotta be gang neutral now.

>>13722390
What shithole school did you go to? Mcdonalds WAS the feildtrip.
>tfw its the mcdonalds with the n64 and playstation

>>13722441
>7.99 for a large one topping handtoss carryout
No thank you, im getting dominos.

>>13723378
Still have my copies of fivel goest west and land before time.
>retard me called maple trees tree star trees until i was like 10.

>>13728448
The child who voiced Ducky was abused by her father and is already dead.

>>13728450
I know, i read that years ago.

>>13728032
Horseshit, 2002 was fucking awful.

>>13720809
>amerilards prefer toxic plastic
>euro prefer healthy wood
mhmm

>>13728032
This easily falls apart when you consider all those people idolizing a time when they were either very little, or even 50+ years before they were born.

People don't seem to understand that this was entirely intentional. The restaurants used to look appealing as a way of getting people into them, now they make them cold and uncomfortable so that people will leave as soon as they finish eating and make space for the next customer.

i miss these colors

>>13728626
Some Wimpy places in the UK still look like this

>>13720809
AmeriCUNTS won the Colonies Rebellion.

>>13720809

>>13720967
Literally all of the ones in my area converted to the new style once the leases went up for releasing.

>>13728632
And it's great.

>>13720809
They spent all their money on new soulless shit but the food somehow became even worse.

>>13723390
>>13723386
guess what grandpa they're the same price when indexed for inflation

>>13729148
good god have sex

>>13720967

>>13721030
A lot of people who don't speak English expanded to America.

>>13729180
to be fair, lots of people are expanding in america. Especially americans.

>>13722811
It's extremely comfy. Also you're probably in your mid 30s and there's at least one fast food place that has positive associations with a parent you're not close with from meals in places like this in your childhood.

grugg hates things now. things not like they used to many moons ago. everything better many moons ago

>>13720967
I miss the old Wendys, Burger King's and Hardee's with the sunroom windows. It was always hot as fuck in there but no one sat in that area so I loved it.

>>13729248
go eat a Tide pod limpdick

>>13720967
Imagine how much money it cost them to update every single building to look like this. I cannot imagine the projected increase in sales was so good that it justified spending millions on reworking every single store's appearance. There has to be another reason they did it.

I mean you can have nostalgia for those old Mcdonalds but they were also pretty objectively terrible
I think you guys just miss the idea of them not actually eating inside them

The pricing. 1,50€ for a cheeseburger is too much. That's $1,65 for a mouthful.

>>13720809

Minimalists

>>13729282
>terrible
just like your post

c>13729258
>le epic tide pod meme

really? boomers really only have that one meme.

>>13720967
Soul vs Soulless

My local KFC looks like it's still the 80s.

Pic isn't the location, but it looks exactly like this.

>>13723057
Buncha cunts around here pretending we were 8 years old when we went to these places. I was 17 in highschool and fucking a very attractive raven haired nutbar. We'd buy lunch and head down to the bike path and eat our lunch. I'll give you that sex was probably making life great at the time but the food was objectively better in the late 80s. They were probably not fucked over by multinational resource pricing at the time and just had to make good food.

>>13721139
The wendys by me still looks like that

>>13729402

That looks a lot like a Subway franchise in the 90s. I'd bang my bad knee on that crossbar and end up with an endorphin rush almost every goddamn day.

Does anybody remember the feeling of choking in the play places?

>>13720809
I think the reasoning is twofold
One, they're trying to cover up the fast food stigma by adopting modern styles and making commercials where they advertise their food as real food (slow motion pictures of cinnamon sticks and stuff). This is failing miserable and I have no fucking idea why they're going with that angle now instead of the "eating shitty fast foods brings you and your family together" thing they used to do.
Two, it's supposed to be a lot less comfortable of an atmosphere because homeless people love gravitating towards mcdonald's because it's a place you can hang out for eight hours at the cost of a dollar for a bag of fries or a coffee.

>>13729520
My mom never let me into the play places ):

>>13729529
>"eating shitty fast foods brings you and your family together"

Did you miss the jewish memo about destroying the nuclear family unit?

>>13720809
A lot of places are adopting this look it seems like, probably easier to sell the building to another store/company since the look is uniform.

>>13729555
That's an interesting take

>>13723386
>double quarter pounder with cheese meal
5.09 in 1990 = 10.05 in 2020
current price is 6.69
>6 piece chicken mcnugget meal
5.19 in 1990 = 10.24 in 2020
current price for a 10 piece meal is 6.49

in terms of inflation alone mcdonalds has managed to keep their shitty food cheaper than ever

>>13729529
>>13729539
Might be a case of chicken and the egg, but also eating shitty fast food won't reverse the divorce and Ronald McDonald won't find your real dad (he's been phased out anyway).
Single Mother fast food commercials probably won't be popular until the next 10-20 years when it's 60-80% of households.

>>13729724
I don't think I understand what you meant by this post. When has mcdonalds ever had "single mother" commercials? I don't watch TV that much so maybe they do, idk? That'd be pretty fucking funny though, like associating eating deep fried potatoes and mechanically separated chicken with being a strong single woman. Throw in some beyonce tracks, docile employees who "can't handle" the customer's vivacious personality and bizarre neon lighting, then have the kid come up and do a dancing duet with their badass mom. God it's a satire of reality alright.

>>13729724
Oh wait I think I get it now. It seems like they've never really cared about whether or not they're appealing to fantasies that are out of their purview and have nothing to do with what they're actually selling.
That's exactly the kind of commercial that they -would- do regardless of its implausibility
i don't get why they do this disingenuous shit instead of playing to their strength, which is that eating at mcdonald's is often more convenient than not eating shit

>>13729148
>not understanding purchasing power
ngmi

>>13729739
>>13729764
They aren't doing single mother commercials explicitly now, if they are even showing families at all its probably always going to be ethnic units or white woman + ethnic male. I think the last commercial I saw years ago was a black man and a child, it was based around a happy meal toy.
Otherwise both of these posts are on the money, appealing to the fantasy of "family units coming together" which has nothing to do with their product is a bad idea now when more than half of their customer base has a broken family unit of some sort.
Given time for the trend of single parent homes to increase, this can come back as a "appealing to strong single women to spend time with your children between work shifts or sending your children to MickyDees when the EBT card is full (when they lobby enough to take ebt in most states)".

>>13722891
>>13721678
>>13722911

A lot of these building never got taken down around here. The original business failed, and mom and pop food places took them over a while back.

>>13730398

>>13720871
I went to a McDonalds that looked like the modern boxy ones yesterday, and there was a play place. They might go away in some McDonalds but other McDs still have them.

>>13730416

>>13722952
>Crosses
>Flags
>Arches

>>13721046
Yeah but the logo will stand out more than the entire building in a more crowded area and it's more eyecatching

>>13720967

my local taco bell is just a store in a strip mall

so depressing

Not specifically McDonald's, but, am I crazy or did fast food legitimately taste better back in the day?

>>13720809
>copying an Imgur post from three months ago
You asswipes are fucking children. Stop rose-tinting corporations for your happiness, fat fucks.

>>13722911
>>13722934
>>13722891
>>13722567
>>13721678
>all hut-shaped, dark color roofs
These were group-tested to exploit you, you fucking idiots.

>>13720811
Why do new Maccas then look like a prison? To be more homely for the blacks?

>>13728032
I am 12 and what is this

They might have tried to chase people out of their restaurants with shit design, but they chased everyone into the kitchen. Anything I really craved from these shitboxes I copycatted and made better. From that I made food that kept me out of expensive restaurants other than fast food because I finally learned how to cook. That was 25 years ago. 25 years of lost revenue and I'm sure I'm not the only gen X that did that.

>>13722531
built for big wedge of cheese

>>13720967
Am I the only one that likes the modern cubist architecture?

>>13722531
dude.. the sit down pizza huts with the red cups and fresh buffet pizza will forever be a lost nostalgia. not to mention the pizza is complete trash now.

>>13730712
Pizza Hut has always been complete ass for as long as I remember.
My dad would always take us there because it was cheap and I would never eat their shit pizza. I'd always just eat from the salad bar.

>>13730706
Who gives a shit what urban sprawl architecture looks like? It's a shitbox dystopia. We don't live in Austria or rustic parts of Germany or the English countryside.

Who honestly fucking cares when we're a heartbeat away from looking like Russia and the hellhole that has become? At least we're not the Niger delta I guess.

>>13725919
AFAIK, there's no term for something that opposes local traditional building methods, materials, and styles; mainly because
(1) building with materials not endemic means importing, and that costs money,
(2) not building with the usual local methods requires, again, an importing of labor,
(3) people like having a cohesive skyline or neighborhood, so even if the project owner gives it the greenlight, the neighbors might protest,
(4) those traditions aren't arbitrary, they're mostly what works in the environment; having your building not built with surroundings in mind will either drive up maintenance costs to keep it habitable, or just cause it to structurally fail.
that being said, slap on a counter to it, and badda-bing badda-boom, you've just invented counter-vernacular architecture.

>>13730723
>Who gives a shit what urban sprawl architecture looks like
me

>>13730714
their old pan pizza straight out of the oven was cripsy and fluffy. then you dip it in garlic butter and can go fuck yourself.

>>13730714
You have daddy issues faggot not pizza issues. You need to work on yourself.

>>13730776
Im gonna work on this dick in your mouth fuck boy.

>>13730791
lol ok fag

>>13722934
fuck....I wannt go back to when BK was cool. Good commercials with boomer rock, the food was actually good, no soyfaggot bullshit, no virtue signalling, just fucking hamburgers and the better fries than anyone else. fuck this gay earth

I assume all of you assholes have watched McMillions, right?

>>13730808
>manbaby who literally has nostalgia for a fucking burger chain of all things uses "soyfaggot" completely without irony
You can't make this shit up.

>>13730840
THis board creates morons. If you read Soy in a prejudicial statement, these people are programmed bots.

>>13730826
sorry, I don't consume social media

I prefer the new style over the circus one, you can at last eat there without worrying about clowns showing up or the kids running around.

>>13729279
Franchise owners are forced to foot the bill for any and all remodeling, corporate doesn't have to pay a dime.

>>13723515
zoomers are the absolute most ZOGed consoomers of all. It gets worse every generation.

>>13730906
Remember how everybody was always dancing st McDonald's? Really annoying when you just want to eat your food.

>>13720809
McDonald's has the best coffee of any fast food restaurant. Way better than Shit Hortons.

>>13720809
They used to try and appeal to children but decided they didn't want to do that anymore but still have happy meals and childish names for food like McChicken so now they are trapped in some void between wanting to be a happy place with clowns for kids and mature for adults.

This is easiest to see in the commercials. Look up old commercials on youtube and they are mostly filled with kids and Ronald and some of his friends. The newer commercials are all filled with adults and white women dating black men.

Either way the place is garbage.

>>13731808
kek

>>13730436
>>13730416
>>13730398
It's always a mexican place.

>>13731808

>>13723403
>actually white knighting for a purveyor of slop fit only for niggers.

Destruction of the nuclear family. It used to be about taking out your family for something quick and easy from time to time. Now it's just single mothers, or soulless people glued to their cellphones the entire time they are in the restaurant.

It's not like this is a problem just for fast food. Marketing firms everywhere are telling businesses that boring minimalist design is the best way to go all the sudden and now everything looks the same. I mean, look at the new Mario. Fucking Mario has this clean white sterile bland UI that clashes horribly with the Bing Bong Wahoo game world.

>>13720967
whoever designed that wendy's unironically plays minecraft, i bet my life, my yeezys, and my borger on it.

>>13730906
>getting cockblocked from my shamrock shake because they're holding an Irish Slavery Awareness Parade during St. Patrick's Day
I'm fucking glad McDonalds stopped doing this shit

>>13720809
Nothing. Old design was infantile, depressing and gaudy, appealing only to fat, impulsive retards and loud normalfags who want architecture to remain stagnant in some simulation of 1950s USA for eternity. It clashes with the surrounding landscape and potential nearby buildings. The contemporary design is more mature, more futuristic and appeals to a more reserved customer-base and is less stereotypically regressive. It would also look much more fitting at night than the fucking hideous pastille coloured nightmare that is that old design.

>>13723571
The roof drains into the ice machine.

>>13729652
This. They have the largest supply chain in the world.

>>13720809
It's called image rebranding. Y'know, people do that to keep staying fresh.

>>13720809
God, they look like prisons now and it makes me sad to look at. It happened because they're determined to rebrand themselves as a "sophisticated", adult restaurant. They started doing dumb shit like creating their "signature collection" sandwiches and charging $6 for them.

>>13728259
https://imgur.com/gallery/TZdSz

>>13731819
Except reddit hates the country girl meme you faggot.

>>13726223
Fucking birmingham. I could recognise that building by just glancing at the thumbnail, and it reminded me of all the hideous architecture in that city.
The worst part is that a lot of the old redbrick buildings look great, but because they were destroyed during ww2 they decided to replace them with towering, grey, lifeless shite.
Ironically the new library that was built to replace the old one somehow looks even worse.