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11941121 No.11941121 [Reply] [Original]

Why doesn't McDonalds have vidya set up anymore? Do they even still have playplaces? Kids used to have birthday parties at McDonalds and it seems like that doesn't happen anymore.

>> No.11941124

>>11941121
Because most parents spoil their kids with phones

>> No.11941128

Kids didn't have smart phones in the late 90's.

>> No.11941129

>>11941121
it's not profitable
fast food is designed to get people to pay for their shit and fucking leave, quantity over quality
can't keep selling these kids more burgers if theyre just gonna play n64 for five hours getting free refills and then leave

>> No.11941130

I remember seeing a trailer trash kid deep throat one of the controllers in the play place. Fuckin nasty. Pretty sure he was the same kid who would poop in the top tube.

>> No.11941133

I sometimes see a birthday party when I get my daily double quarterpounder. Although it has become much less over the years.

>> No.11941151

>>11941121
McDonald's is abandoning children as their target audience and swiveling to manchildren. They've gotten too much bad publicity over the years for appealing to kids with junk, so they want to let that settle while retaining the grown ups they already caught in childhood. That's why they're focusing on gourmet options and table service.

>> No.11941165

>>11941121
probably because everyone has phones with games now

>> No.11941167

>>11941129
this doesn't make any sense considering this strategy did work for McDonalds in the late 90s and early 00s

>> No.11941175

>>11941167
they tried it, it wasn't working, so they stopped investing the business strategy
I don't have my image folder onhand but im sure some anon can post one of the thousands of mcdonalds menu items that were tried but then scrapped for not being profitable, it happens all the time

>> No.11941185

Fuck off.
>>>/pol/203982629

>> No.11941190

>>11941185
srsly breh, kys
people want to talk about a restraunt on a cooking imageboard- how fucking shocking and offensive

>> No.11941216

>>11941175
or it was working, and then conditions changed so it stopped making sense to. They did it for quite a while, way too long to make your assumptions make sense. This wasn't just some pilot program they tried for a few months, or even a year.

The idea that McDonalds is trying to get people to leave quickly doesn't make sense. Remember, these were part of the playland stuff, stuff that many McDoanlds still have designed for kids to stick around and play in. Its designed to bring people in the door, McDonalds typically have plenty of space, I honestly don't know if I have ever seen one more than half full

>> No.11941225

>>11941216
playplaces don't bring in 16 year olds who vandalize and refuse to buy nything

you're wrong my friend. if you were right mcdonalds would have wii's and then switches and so on. they bought the n64s and installed them, it wasn't profitable so they left them in place and didn't keep pushing

but please tell me more about business and how mcdonalds work and how insanely obvious and observable business practices are totally insane because you for some reason are really really sure about this

>> No.11941238

>>11941190
>totally just ignore that this is a stealth /pol/ thread
>#maga

>> No.11941244

>>11941238
>they're infiltrating muh imageboard with their evil coordinated psyops!!!!!!
desu I think YOU might really like /pol/

>> No.11941249

>>11941225
Nah, people just started having phones

Also, these stations were never designed for 16 year olds man, like that just was not a fucking thing

>they bought the n64s and installed them, it wasn't profitable so they left them in place and didn't keep pushing
I'm like 70% sure they upgraded them to Gamecubes

>> No.11941255

>>11941225
>but please tell me more about business and how mcdonalds work and how insanely obvious and observable business practices are totally insane
I think McDonalds knows a bit more about running a business than you do

>> No.11941268

>>11941249
>that was not a fucking thing
you retarded cunt. 16 year olds don't play vidya? like honest to god wtf are you even on rn? who cares who they were designed for teenagers used them I USED THEM you retarded twat
>gamecube
pics or it didn't happen retard
>>11941255
>this is a response
everyone knows more about business than you you fucking non arguing cunt
like srsly at least say something not just "neeeeh, you're wrong tho" like a moronic pussy bitch

>> No.11941272

>>11941121
does anyone else remember when walmart had these things too?

damn, that's the first time I played blast corps

>> No.11941280

>>11941268
>you retarded cunt. 16 year olds don't play vidya?
16 year olds were never hanging out in McDonalds play pens to play their DK Country 64 set up

>> No.11941291

>>11941268
>this thing that incredibly well run and profitable corporation McDonalds did was an utter failure even though they maintained it for year, I am just smarter than they all were and can recognize it

>> No.11941297

>>11941268
>pics or it didn't happen retard
https://www.google.com/search?q=mcdonalds+gamecube+station&client=firefox-b-1-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcjOy9tc7gAhUp5YMKHYTpDN4Q_AUIDigB&biw=1920&bih=944#imgrc=fjUP-HvuHvMV0M:

>> No.11941298

>>11941280
>t. was not alive in the nineties
kid. people didn't use to have video games on their phones. yes, we played n64 wherever we could when it first came out because our moms were not going to pay for us to sit around all day at home (because that was a bad thing back then)

>> No.11941316

>>11941291
>maintained for a year
installing something that requires no maintainence is not maintaining. and yes, leaving something for a year is reaosnable when it only costs money to install or remove. the sign that this wasn't profitable is that they didn't incor[orate into the larger model: i.e. no more vidya in mcdonalds means it didn't work, because otherwise why not, mcdonalds could very easily do it, but they won't because it's (say it with me now) not profitable

>> No.11941330

>>11941297
fine you got me but >>11941316 this still applies, they didn't update the gamecubes=they didn't keep putting money into vidya in mcds=NOT PROFITABLE

>> No.11941331

>>11941316
McDoanlds installed video game systems in their stores, kept them maintained for years, then upgraded them from N64 to Gamecubes

This wasn't some failed experiment, it was a long and successful marketing partnership

>> No.11941344

>>11941298
I wasn't 16 in the 90s because I am not a literal boomer but I never recall seeing teenagers driving there to play video games amongst us children at the time

>> No.11941349

>>11941331
-that is no longer around
gee i wonder why

>> No.11941360

This probably has nothing to do with McDonalds, but for some reason this thread made me thing of a bizarre and tragic thing that I saw recently while traveling through a small town. Basically, it was a birthday party for a kid inside of a gas station Subway. I stopped in to get a drink, and they had birthday hats on and everything. I didn't really know what to think of it, but it honestly broke my heart a bit.

>> No.11941361

>>11941344
then take your ad hominem and shove it up your fortnite loving ass faggot and go clean your room

>> No.11941363

>>11941330
or it was profitable and useful for quite a while but then everyone started having phones so it stopped being profitable.
Or maybe Wiis just were tougher to maintain as you couldn't lock down their controllers and still make the fun to play?

Or maybe Wiis were just so fucking cheap and wide selling that almost everyone already had them at home and it wasn't really a draw for them anymore

There are a bunch of plausible reasons I can think of, your logic fails this plausibility test

>> No.11941376

>>11941363
phones with games (good games) did not come out at the same time as gamecubes. there is no correlation

and if wiis and switches are too strange of a model, there are fucking xboxs playstations

and even if this phone thing youre so set on is true, why does that make mcdonalds NOT want to put vidya in the store? you can't keep a switch in your pocket, it'd be a draw to bring in customers in that sense right?
wrong. the food is cheap and meant to be sold in bulk. you don't make profits in the industry by selling a few good expeirences you need to sell a bunch

>> No.11941378

>>11941361
I was a fucking 90s kid, I don't give a shit about fortnight grandpa

>> No.11941381

>>11941363
>you logic fails the plausabilty test
holy shit you literally have no fucking idea what you're saying
tip: just say you're reaosning isn't sound. thats not true in this case, but thats what youre trying to say

>> No.11941388

>>11941378
8 in the 90's /= 90's kid
nice try though
isn't it a school night? time for bed anon

>> No.11941411

>>11941376
Dude, just admit that McDonalds knows more about what is profitable for them than you do, outfitting all of their stores with N64s and then later Gamecubes was not a mistake just because they do not do an analogous thing now as far as we know

>phones with games (good games) did not come out at the same time as gamecubes
McDonalds put Gamecubes in their stores, why are you trying to frame the discussion like this?
>and if wiis and switches are too strange of a model, there are fucking xboxs playstations
These are way more expensive and more adult focused, this was stuff for their play pen area, not for teenagers and adults

>and even if this phone thing youre so set on is true, why does that make mcdonalds NOT want to put vidya in the store?
because it doesn't draw people as much as it did when you ddn't have games in your pocket constantly, how are you struggling with this? This is primarily about bringing people in the door, and perhaps a little about getting people to stay longer so that they buy a desert or something. Video games apparently weren't doing that for them anymore at a rate that justified the investment, but that doesn't mean they never did and McDoanlds stubbornly stuck to them for years just for the hell of it

>> No.11941415

>>11941388
90s kids are people born in the late 80s and early 90s, not people who graduated high school in the 90s

>> No.11941424

OK, who is going to screencap this epic thread? I can't do it because I'm on my phone.

>> No.11941433

>>11941129
>fast food is designed to get people to pay for their shit and fucking leave, quantity over quality
what does pushing people out have to do with quantity vs quality? Also are fast food businesses really based on forcing you out? Can't really say I ever see them at capacity

>> No.11941443

>>11941411
>McDonalds knows more about what is profitable for them than you do
what does that have anything to do with anything? mcdonalds isn't in this conversation, we're all trying to address the observable query as to why there are no longer video games in mcdonalds. how much they know about business is moot, we are OBSERVING their practices, we are both going to assume that our opinions reflect the good business practices of mcdinakds, stop saying this it means nothing.
>outfitting all of their stores with N64s and then later Gamecubes was not a mistake
1. they did not outfit ALL thier stores, that would change this debate considerably
2. no ones saying it was a mistake, I am saying it WAS NOT PROFITABLE. go google that concept if you really are having a hard time grasping this- it means it won't generate money- like many other mcdonalds ventures they tried and didn't continue to pursue it wasn't a mistake just not profitable

>why are you trying to frame the discussion like this?
because the only reason "gamecubes" were brought up was as a totme of this initiative being pursued. we don't live in a time where gamecubes represent the avant garde of video games= they are not keeping this program updated. we can assume that means its ... you guessed it NOT PROFITABLE
>These are way more expensive and more adult focused, this was stuff for their play pen area, not for teenagers and adults
a customer is a cutomer is a customer. mcdonalds has not targeted it's 'healthy' menu options to children, but its kept them on as profitable because retarded adults want to think they can be healthy and have mcds. thats another issue but the point is pulling in kids has little to do even with the playpens

>the last point
obviously it's to draw people in. there are cheaper draws which don't bring the side risk of vandalizing teenagers or people who jsut loiter

>> No.11941447

>>11941433
not FORCING you out, but you need the flow to keep moving

it's the whole idea behind the drive thru: people paying for your shit and not even taking up space in the building

>> No.11941454

>>11941415
okay, young man, whatever you say

>> No.11941460

>>11941443
>what does that have anything to do with anything? mcdonalds isn't in this conversation, we're all trying to address the observable query as to why there are no longer video games in mcdonalds
You are saying they got rid of them because they weren't profitable and were a mistake. I am saying they got rid of them because they stopped being profitable and were not a mistake

>> No.11941462

>>11941443
>1. they did not outfit ALL thier stores, that would change this debate considerably
I have no idea what percent it was but it wasn't some niche thing. they were all over the place

>> No.11941463
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11941463

i'll just leave this here

>> No.11941466

>>11941443
gamecube was the best system of its generation though, especially for younger people, they very ones being marketed to to in a McDonalds playpen

Why do you keep assuming they were making this stuff for adults or teenagers?

>> No.11941472

>>11941443
>a customer is a cutomer is a customer.
I assure you, McDoanlds was not putting N64 in their chuildren's area with the hope that fucking adults would come and play them

>> No.11941475

>>11941463
But what about the Jews who disagree with that interpretation of that particular Kosher rule?

>> No.11941478

>>11941463
>totally not a /pol/ thread, guise!
>trust me!

>> No.11941480

>>11941454
So by your logic, I graduating HS in 07 should consider myself a 00's kid? That doesn't make nearly as much sense as considering myself a 90s kid

>> No.11941497

>>11941460
HAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAHAHHAAA
fuck you're stupid
>>11941462
well I await the proof of this then
>>11941466
no they WEREN'T they were BRINGING IN the teens unexpectedly. this was supposed to be like the playpen model. it's not relly for the kids, it's for the parents who need to let their kids go off somewhere while they eat, and sure maybe some families go because the kids desperately want to go to the playplace
>>11941472
that's my whole point genius. they set it up for the kids and got teenage delinquents
>>11941480
this convo is done retard no one cares about you being a child

>> No.11941501

>>11941460
>gets obliterated
>no, cause actually I was saying X the whole time and you said the other thing
jesus christ

>> No.11941512

>>11941497
>the kids desperately want to go to the playplace
forgot to continue this thought
the n64s were supposed to be like playplace 2.0 but teens showed up with no parents and only bought soda to play for free all day=losing money long term

>> No.11941521

>>11941480
>7 out of 12 years of school was in the 2000's
Yep, that would most certainly make you a 00's kid.

>> No.11941523

>>11941151
This

>> No.11941527

>>11941497
>no they WEREN'T they were BRINGING IN the teens unexpectedly.
haha, just because you were driving to McDoanlds playpens at 18 to play amongst the kids does not mean this was a normal thing

>> No.11941531

>>11941501
I literally was saying that they whole time, my initial post was calling out your absurd leap of logic and suggesting that the video games were probably a good idea at the time and thats why they did it for so long regardless of whether it would be a good idea today

>> No.11941535

>>11941527
I am not going to waste my time tryng to explain the psychology of a 16 year old to a 12 year old
I guess I'll just have to say i feel comfortable in the belief that 16 year olds do things like loiter and take free stuff especially if its video games

>> No.11941536

>>11941521
ok, but thats not how must people use terms like that. I, and most others don't consider teenage years as peak childhood. Usually adolescence and childhood are viewed as separate things so this "years in school" metric is rather unrelated

>> No.11941546

Video games used to be special. Now they aren’t. Kids already have them at home, and they’d rather play them on their own machines so they can play on their own user accounts. This is also what killed the arcades.

>> No.11941556

>>11941121
because of niggers

>> No.11941559

>>11941535
I am just gonna say I remember being a kid in the late 90s and early 00s when these were at their peak and I definitely do not remember the gangs of teenagers driving to McDoanlds to play the N64 in the kids area with us

>> No.11941560

McDs doesn't invest in playplaces for a couple reasons;
1 they're an injury liability- potentially very costly
2 they take up seating space; for safety reasons McDs aren't built with basements anymore since the 90s, so they need to build a ground floor big enough to store all their supplies. Playplaces take away from the available space for seating, and kitchen and storage.
3 they don't want their restaurant to be a playground for neglected nigger kids to spend all day playing because they have shitty parents. That's what a park is for. And again liability.
4 the extra cost of installing, maintaining, and cleaning a playplace probably isn't worth it. They're a biohazard, and a lot more expensive than just tables.
5 then you have to host birthday parties, which, again, is not worth paying an employee to do. Esp wheb that employee is a manager, because all the other crew are illiterate drooling morons and immigrants, like everyone in this thread.

>> No.11941696

>>11941121
All the McDonald's around me have long since removed a lot of their playgrounds. Burger King is still going pretty strong though

>> No.11942592

>>11941696
Is that why they closed like 700 restaurants last year?

>> No.11942608

wtf i love mctoddlers now

>> No.11942695

>TFW you were old enough but just not aware enough to go through McDonalds and blockbuster as it was closing down to snag all their unique vista setups

I really would like some of the Pokemon stand ups for a collection

>> No.11942745

a few years ago I was near the area were I first worked at a mcdonald's
they did a major overhaul of it and I wanted to see what it looked like. they had one or two table top games. not like pizza hut back in the day arcade. I didn't check it out but it looked like bejeweled type gaming

>> No.11942749

>>11941546
Only very poor families didn't have video games at home in the 90s and 00s. They weren't special at the time.

>> No.11942783

In UK McDonald's still has a table with rows of fixed iPads with crammed full of children's games, although I'll admit I haven't seen a birthday party there in years now.

>> No.11942786

>>11941475
They can go to a non-Kosher one. It's like going to vegan restaurant and sperging out after the waiter says they don't have ribeyes

>> No.11942838

>>11941121
thats maio party 3 on the left
whats the game on the right?

>> No.11942845

>>11941121
McDonalds seems to have been phasing away from being a child-centric restaurant since the early 2000s. You never see playplaces anymore either, and Ronald McDonald only rarely makes commercial appearances now.

It's probably a good thing though, because I remember those gaming setups as being sticky and gross. If they were ever cleaned, they instantly became gross again because kids there are covered in ketchup and fry grease. Also, I don't trust McDonald's workers to thoroughly clean the puke and shit out of the playplaces, so it's probably good that they don't have them anymore. I wouldn't clean it either for only minumum wage.

>> No.11942865
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>> No.11942875

In the 80s my mom was a party coordinator for a McDonald's in my small home town. Just think so many parents booked their kids birthday party at McDonald's that they needed someone to plan them.

>> No.11942890

>>11942845

>You never see playplaces anymore either

That's probably for the best. They were essentially gigantic petri dishes just rife with whatever disgusting bacteria kids dragged in with them, not to mention impossible to keep clean

>> No.11942905

>>11942838

Mario Tennis

Pretty much every McD's that had an N64 had a copy of that game somewhere

>> No.11942909

>>11942890
That's how you build an immune system.

>> No.11942942

>>11942905
thanks senpai
this wouldve been on my mind all day

>> No.11943756

>>11941121
Those play places were dirty as hell anyway. I'd rather just go to a playground. It least they see some rain and you don't have to remove your shoes

>> No.11943791

>>11941244
Ill suck your cock to shut you up

>> No.11943804

>>11941151
>gourmet options and table service
in what world

>> No.11943812

>>11941216
I remembered there was one MacDonald's that had a playground where you could climb and crawl in tubes and there was a ballpit. It wasn't even dirty! (which is kinda the norm in my country, desu)

But it got torn down when I was six. I still don't know why.

>> No.11943831

>>11942749
This isn’t true, it wasn’t just the very poor. The conventionally poor didn’t have video games, either.

>> No.11943953

AMERIFATS MUST DIE

>> No.11945378

>>11943804
>gourmet options
stuff like the signature burgers they're doing
>table service
even in bumfuck alaska they give out numbers and will bring the food to your table if you're sitting down
and like basically every other chain they're revamping locations with that shitty "modern" aesthetic that marketing says everyone likes but nobody ACTUALLY likes

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>>11945378
>>gourmet options
>stuff like the signature burgers they're doing