/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20000961
"Modern" design is based on sucking the soul out of everything it can

>>20000965
its all based on retaining resell value of the building and assets

so yes the corporate manufactured """soul""" specifically designed to extract every possible dollar out of you is sucked out and sacrificed to mammon

>>20000961
i dont like either

>>20000961
Truly the face of someone witnessing paradise

>>20000961
kek, looks like a walmart break room

>>20000984
>specifically designed to extract every possible dollar out of you
at least they had to try then, if youre telling me theres no more zombies getting sucked dry because the building now has resale value youre a goddamn moron

>>20000965
>>20000984
Nah it's just soulless shit. Google "sad beige baby". Mom's literally won't buy their children colorful toys and only dress and decorate their rooms in neutral colors so it matches the aesthetics of their home.

global homogenization

>>20001280
???

Yes. That's how you eat food. Its not a carnival.

>>20000984
>its all based on retaining resell value of the building and assets
That's bullshit and you know it.

it's so if the store closes down they can salvage all of the shit and put it in a different restaurant and then easily sell the completely blank slate building on the market. we have this thread at least twice a month.

It's all re-usable with resale value in case the restaurant fails and the feanchisee needs to have that shit liquidated. Where as when you see the old light brown, dark brown, and black trimmed decor you'd immediately know it went in a McDonald's.

Kinda like those old, abandoned pizza huts that are no longer pizza hut. You know it was a pizza hut.

>>20000961
No money in selling to kids.
The profit margins on 'higher quality' sandwiches and meal sets are better than selling 99 cent burgers and nuggets and trying to manage a bouncy castle or jungle gym.

>>20000961
because you still give them money.

>>20000961
Because leftists bitched about "predatory marketing towards children" and had all the fun stuff outlawed.

>>20000961
White people don't have kids anymore and niggers/beaners trash the place with their dozen jumping beans/niglets if you give them an inch so now McDonald's is just moving towards eliminating dining rooms entirely.

>>20001512
You know, you bring up an interesting point, albeit completely ass-backwardsly. It WAS actually illegal to market to children for a long time, until rightoids reversed that legislation in the 80's under Reagan. It could be argued, then, that the marketeers all went on a spending spree trying to capture a whole new section of audience, not really having any data at the time of how good an ROI that would actually be. Now, several decades later, they must have figured out that it simply isn't worth it (not really a big surprise, since kids don't usually hold the purse strings in a normal American family). With all this in mind, it's not that McDonald's is "getting boring" now, it's that they are just returning to their boring roots after a temporary fling with being interesting.

>>20001546
Then leftoids made it legal for the government to sponsor domestic propaganda against everyone thanks to Obammy.

>>20001546
I love how you can just make shit up like this that's easily disproven. The McDonaldland characters were created in the 60s. Grimace, Hamburglar, fucking Ronald himself.
The 80s were the peak of the kidvertising because of the economic boom caused by Reaganist economic reforms, yes, but it didn't start then. The push to abolish kid advertising happened in the late 80s and the first laws against it were in the Bush Sr administration; why do you think all the cartoons like Transformers and Care Bears that only existed to sell toys all disappeared overnight around 1990? Because that's when the Children's Television Act was passed into law. A more comprehensive revision came in 1997. Then you had propaganda bullshit like Supersize Me that made it untenable for fast food specifically to market towards kids. McDonalds has basically retired Ronald because of the bad press of Supersize Me and other reports on how "unhealthy" their food is for kids.
It's functionally illegal to advertise anything 'unhealthy' towards kids these days.

>>20001546
And for the record, fast food had record level profits in the 80s and 90s. They have NEVER matched those profit levels, when you adjust for inflation. Burger wars and cola wars were the pinnacle of junk food's prominence in American society.

>>20001609
>I love how you can just make shit up like this that's easily disproven. The McDonaldland characters were created in the 60s. Grimace, Hamburglar, fucking Ronald himself.
That's a comic book character. You're arguing that TV regulations didn't exist, because McDonalds put out a comic strip. McDonalds didn't even get into the TV and film game until after 1988, which is after Reagan's administration reversed the FCC's position on child advertising.

>>20000961
because everything is run by the property market in the last decade
buddy of mine works at a real estate agency in a town of 22k pop.
their small 3 room 2 storey office is worth 11mil on the market.

>>20000961
>YOU MAY SIT DOWN, BUT YOU MAY NOT GET COMFORTABLE
>EAT FAST SO THAT THE NEXT CONSUMER MAY SIT DOWN
Both are maliciously designed.

>>20001609
>why do you think all the cartoons like Transformers and Care Bears that only existed to sell toys all disappeared overnight around 1990
dedicated toy shows continued WELL into the 2000s, and quite frankly they're still around in America but a lot less successful. TMNT still out there selling toys I know that much

>>20000961
That's intentional. The point is so you don't linger and be out the door as soon as you devoured your slop.

>>20000991
McDonalds from the 90s had a pretty good ambience that was halfway in between
>>20001754
It's also because Mcdonalds is run by tight arses who have no interest in paying for original designs for each restaurant so they all look the same

>>20000961
Cooking?

>>20001742
So are Transformers, so was a little IP you may have heard of called "My Little Pony." That anon is just a retarded corporatist shill being all "woe is me the government won't let me groom children into good little paypigs as easily as they used to under papa Ronnie!"

>>20001201
>sad beige
I'm stealing this to make fun of luddites on /out/.

>>20000961
Walking into a McDonalds dining room reminds me of a visit to an intensive care unit. Everything looks sterile and soulless, and you hear constant beeps and alarms going off.

>>20000961
the muted colors are to psychologically pacify the n*****s that hang out there all day

>>20001655
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4w-Ozdd40BQ&pp=ygUebWNkb25hbGRsYW5kIGNvbW1lcmNpYWxzIDE5NzBz
They were created and used for television advertising in the 1960s, you fucking retard. Keep thinking Reagan was the KKKorpofascist bogeyman, though. Really makes you look sane.

>>20001742
>>20001857
They were heavily regulated from 1990 onwards and needed to have "educational content centred around good values". They could still be for toys, but they had to be a lot less overt about it. You're free to read to the laws yourself. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/101/hr1677/text
>retards still refuse to back up their arguments
Can't wait to see what bullshit sidestep you respond with next

Never forget.

>>20000961
>Why is McDonald's getting boring?
Who goes inside McDonald's to eat anymore? It's all drive thru

>>20000961
Maccas was always garbage

>>20002392
lmao I was just thinking you've posted the one in my neighborhood.
They also copy the buildings.

>>20002479
Who the fuck likes to eat in their car?

Everybody wears all black clothes nowadays it's tough if their skin is dark they become shadow monsters and get ornery when I struggle to see them.

They don't actually want you and your annoying children to hang out there anymore. They just want you to pay, eat and get the fuck out.

McDonalds grew up with their customers

>>20002392
>Mcoad's
Huh?

>>20002732
Based mcdonalds

>>20000961
Children are a shrinking demographic. Catering to them is not a sound investment.

>>20002732
>pay and get the fuck out
ftfy, nobody eats in the "restaurant" except bored retirees and the homeless

i only get mine to go

>people saying its for resale value of the building
when was the last time you saw a mcdonalds close?

>>20000961
>Why is McDonald's getting boring?
because silly clowns was old stuff in the 70's. the new decor looks better.

>>20002879
The McDonalds around me have bigass signs saying NO LOITERING FOR MORE THAN 30 MINUTES.

>>20002965
Mine do too but I think that's just a pretext so they can ask undesirables to leave. There are old people who buy a coffee and sit there all day, nobody bothers them and they don't cause any trouble.

>>20000984
Nope. Most commercial leases (at least in my area) have a dilapidations clause that require the building to be returned to its original state in any case.

Plus McDonalds makes most of its money from retaining a commercial property portfolio and renting it to franchisees who have little bargaining power. It's just the business trying to compete with competitors that serve more "luxe" offerings

>>20000961
Here is my local McD's in York, UK. First photo is 1991, five years after first opening. Second photo is now.

>>20000961
Here is my local McD's in York, UK. First photo is 1991, five years after first opening. Second photo is now.

>>20000961
>>20001763
>>20002392
>>20003636
sobbing

real answer
fast food used to be a rare thing to get. a thing of indulgence. much like people dressed up in the early days of aircraft travel and now people dress like slobs with sheboons eating crab legs and hooting and hollering on the plane. fast food is now a regular way for people to get "food". as such the celebratory, fun environments have been removed.

People don't eat at McDonald's anymore, they prefer to take their food to go or order delivery. And it's gotten much worse since Covid, but this trend started long before him. In the 2000s all the McDonald's in my city were full of people, families, kids, and now on the busiest day there are about 5 people sitting there at best.

>>20003636
Looking pretty grim on airstrip one

>>20001201
beige rocks tho, it should go back to being the "default" colour of stuff like it was in the 90s, instead of the souless artificial black grey and white we have now.
Beige feels alive without being too on your face

>>20001201
>Google "sad beige baby".
It's a great esthetic though, more truthful than what we were exposed to as children in the 1990s and early 2000s. It helps kids understand from a very early age that their life will be full of suffering and struggle for resources, and that they will never have an easy time living in an overpopulated world plunged into climate change and socio-economic collapse not seen since the end of the Antiquity (the collapse of the Roman Empire) or even the late Bronze Age.

>>20005784
Beige as a default is fine
Beige or white or gray everything is soulless and depressing

>>20005822
You are so full of yourself it's pathetic.

>>20001763
>yellow lighting
i miss this so much
i fucking hate white bright lights

>>20005889
they should just be dark inside nobody wants to be seen buying mcdonalds

>>20000961
I can't even find a seat at the mcdonalds nearby, fucking students and old chinese fucks have hijacked the place as their hangout. Some of them don't even buy anything and management isn't going to scream at chinks to get the fuck out for hogging all the space from customers for fear of being racist

>>20005784
>>20005872
the beige bandit

>>20001201
People should only experience colors trough art and nature, not marketing and internet "content"

>>20005784
Most of the blowback against beige seems to come from the growth of cubicles in offices, which started off in a variety of colors but eventually settled on dirty beige almost everywhere. People got sick of seeing it for 8+ hours each day, wall to wall, everywhere, which caused it to become synonymous with soulless design.
It's fun to look back at other time periods such as the 1980s and see stores like Banana Republic that were packed to the faux rafters with khaki and earth tones.

people don't really eat inside fast food burger places anymore

>>20006710
Based. Kids have 0 discipline these days.

>>20000961
Niggers were using it as a daycare

>>20000996

>>20000961
this look identical to one i went to in Australia recently.
Was the shittiest mcdonald's experience ive err had

>>20006710
>>20006802
Fookin based RAGIE WAGIE .

>>20005702
Whats stopping restaurants from just becoming delivery only kitchens ?

>>20006710
based

You make this thread every week, exactly the same every time. It’s obvious /pol/ shit and should be deleted on sight.

>>20005822
But everything you just wrote is wrong. Those kids will grow up in a sheltered, upper middle class/wealthy world where they will never want for anything. Although boring as all hell, they will be completely insulated from the reality less well off people experience. They will grow up, go to college with everything paid for, get a well paying job that is mind numbingly dull by the standards of most people and have sad beige babies of their own.

>>20001546
Do you live in a parallel universe where any of the crap you just typed is or was even remotely true? LOL

>>20006430
That was more because they were trying to go for an outdoorsy theme, in the case of Banana Republic specifically the hint is in the name. I remember reading the fad originated with some romantic drama movie from the mid 80s set in Kenya that was bigly popular with chicks.

>>20000961
Cherry picked images.
McDs in my hometown never looked like that

>>20007260
lies

>>20000965
>hideous tacky dated plastic monstrosities are soulful

imagine having such a boring life you only experience nostalgia about fast food places

>>20007400
Sounds like 'Out of Africa'. Meryl Streep was a powerful woman running her own plantation for her absentee husband while being wooed by game hunter Robert Redford. Think it won a bunch of awards.

>>20001293
no one likes em. simple as

>>20007471
I can be nostalgic about ice cream parlors too.

>>20001293
In many prisons and jails there are kiosks for ordering food, very basic made-into-the-building furniture. Because black people are feral in all environments, corporations are slowly turning all environments into black peoples natural environments - prisons.

>>20007478
man

>>20001201
Fuck it, why not. Saturated colors would be better, but I'll take anything over pastel

>>20007490
Keep in mind that Detroit in the title isn't a LARP. That photo is from a close in suburb in the 1970s. It has of course been overrun now. Pic related is from Orange County, California, which looks nothing like this now.

for me?
its hooters decor

>>20007544
me too. i still go to the first one that opened. i believe it's 40 years old

>>20000961
Nu-McDs looks like a weed dispensary which look like sterile Apple stores.

>>20007539
I made a pig out of myself at Farrels

>>20007751
A ziggy piggy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NzdphRY2IM

>>20000961
>where adults would sit quietly
I wish.

>>20001512
>leftists bitched about "predatory marketing towards children"

>>20000961
Who even would go inside one of those now? And eat? You just use an app on your phone. Someone delivers the food to your house.

McDonald's MIKU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WmqkFT8DAVQ

>>20007941
I go there. I eat inside. The entire place is empty but they clean because of me.

>>20000961
Everything has to be aimed towards childless millennials nowadays. It's where the money is.

>>20008352
>millennials
>money
/0
99% of Millennials are drowning in college debt, credit cards debt, iPhone debt, Frappuccino debt, tranq debt, etc. Most of them haven't been to McDonald's since 2020, when everything went downhill for them when all their boomer parents started dying all of a sudden, but instead of the expected $100,000+ inheritance, millennials found out that their parents participated in a reverse mortgage scam and not only left their descendants no money, but put them in further misery by making them pay for funeral expenses, etc. Millenials are fucked. Most of them are 40 now, and they own no property, no cars, nothing, they have no kids, and yet they can't afford essentials. Things are looking extremely grim for most of them.

>>20000961
my local taco bell looks so fucking souless now, the windows are black, the lights are so fucking dim because of those garbage lamps, everybody speaks in whispers and smells like hospital disinfectant. I remember when they blasted musica latina 24/7 and people could dance in front of the store.

>>20001280
>This. The McDonalds on Sahara and Las Vegas Blvd used to have a classic 1950s decor and even a cool old car out from bit all that rayciss old stuff was ripped out so it could be made into an environment that was more Diversity friendly(a prison lunch room) by being slightly less full of things to break and slightly easier to clean.

>>20008441
Dim lights and everybody whispering sounds cosy.

People used to go to Taco Bell to dance? Like a nightclub?

>>20005822
>give kid bright and cheerful childhood
>later in life the going gets tough
>looks back on happy childhood
>knows the only way he can reexperience those feelings are to give someone else the same
>finds the strength to keep going

>give child dull and depressing childhood
>later on blah blah blah
>look back on sad childhood
>it was over for me before it begun
>curtains

>>20007315
>Those kids will grow up in a sheltered, upper middle class/wealthy world where they will never want for anything.
>>20008599
>it was over for me before it begun
The 2000's ended 14 years ago, guys, no one will live in a wealthy world anymore except the children of a few oligarchs like Bezos, Musk, Soros and the like, and the middle class is pretty much dead. What's the point of feeding our children (if we ever have any) the same lies we were fed 20-30 years ago that the future will be bright, happy and prosperous if we know for a fact that it will never be true anymore?

>>20000961
Everything from fast food joins to houses are falling the NPC grey color and style.

>>20000996
>>20006896

>>20008934
what the fuck happened to green cars after 1996

Upper picture appeals to families with young children. A lot of people dont want to around screeching families of young children. The bottom pic appeals to nobody but doesn't scare away people either.

>>20008934
I miss green cars so much bros

I wanted to get one but idk if I can justify the cost of a paintjob

>>20000961
Only to a mutt would mcdonalds be a paradise. Ffs.

>>20008934
I wonder why green died completely but blue and red still live on in a hobbled state.

>>20000961
>Why is X becoming this way
because times change. simple as.

>>20009088
Don't know why green died but it seems clear that white crowded out the rest. Sunbelt population also exploded during this time and white cars are much more efficient in hot southern summers.

>>20001546
Left wingers really do love in fantasy worlds they created in their heads.

>>20001857
You're the retard just completely making shit up in your posts here. The media propaganda hit your soft brain hard.

Pic related is me signing the death warrant for every single person known to nostalgically bitch about the utter shit that is and always has been McDonald's. Get a grip you sad slobs.

>>20006710
wtf did the kid do lmao

>>20000961
To fuck over the O/O's with remodels for every new ESG brownie point CEO.

>>20008441
>i miss when spics and normalfaggots were having a yo quiero dancerino fiesta out front of the slop shop
You sicken me. I gain more understanding and appreciation for the modern "soulless" aesthetic by the day

>>20003636
Why would they do this? Top looks so warm and inviting, but bottom looks so sterile, like a hotel lobby or a hospital. Do they not want anyone eating inside.

>>20010931
once you pay for the food you're supposed to drive away. sit-down customers just make messes you have to pay somebody to clean.

>>20010957
No difference. Niggers will make messes anyway.

>>20010960
The difference is not having a place to sit and eat reduces the number of employees and the cost of cleaning products. this is mcdonalds, not a bar where they get more drunk and order more drinks and food

>>20010970
But niggers will always linger and loiter just like flies. The niggerwagies will always have to babbysit the loitererniggercattle. I fail to see what the difference is.

I haven't stepped into a fast food place in a decade at least. Who cares what it looks like when I'm just going through the drive thru?

>>20009989
get a grip on deez nuts
fast food restaurants used to be comfy

>>20011408
*grips your ballsack*
*twists and pops*
not so manly now huh tough guy

>>20011750
why must you hurt me in these ways, anon?

>>20007548
Hi Clearwater anon
That was my childhood hooters as well

>>20000961
Because they realized they could have the same amount of customers without putting any effort into their appearance, especially when most people just order for pickup or from the drive thru anyway.

>>20007470
Yes. If you were white you would understand

>>20000961
>>20008785
I don't know about you guys, but my brain associates the bright McDonald's aesthetic with uncleanliness. I see those bright yellow plastic chairs and tables and I think "there is something dried and sticky on that surface".
>>20011750
Oh my god, don't even get me started on those controllers...

>>20001293
/ck/ is more race-obsessed than /pol/ for some fucking reason

>>20012731
Working in a restaurant will do that to a mf

>>20000961
They went from trying to market to kids (naturally full of sovl) to trying to market to obese, horribly aging soyllennials (naturally devoid of sovl).

>>20006710
who was in the wrong here?

>>20007260
I would let her such mich

>>20001767
where else do you have a discussion about places that serve warmed things that can be chewed and swallowed?

>>20008984
It's because Grove Street died out.

>>20005755
Bullshit. i just watched an 1984 vid not 5 seconds ago mentioning airstrip one. this manifestation is insane.

>>20001098
You would know nigger bitch

Does anyone have the webm of the black chicks fighting in a McDonald's

>>20013397
That narrows things down... NOT