/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17501174]

Can somebody explain why nearly every fast food chain decided to do this?
Not saying remodels can't be good, but why did they all decide to go for this ugly block look?
In my town there's one Burger that's remained unchanged and it's basically the only one I go to. I just prefer to go to any older looking restaurant if I come across one.

[Anonymous No.17501179]

>>17501174
The target market used to be children who'd nag their parents to spend money there.

Now the target market is the parents.

[Anonymous No.17501182]

>>17501174
Same reason why all the ads have adults now: they're changing the target demographic. I do think that this is a weird business choice though. I figured that kids would always be the money makers, although maybe they don't need to advertise as much to get their brand loyalty.

[Anonymous No.17501184]

The top design makes people feel shame when they go to McDonald's, they feel like clowns going to the fatass circus. The bottom design looks sleek and sophisticated so they can feel like a big boy as they slurp down their slop.

[Anonymous No.17501188]

>>17501182
>I do think that this is a weird business choice though
Why? Adults have money; kids don't. Sure parents do, but not all adults are parents.

[Anonymous No.17501191]

>>17501174
>>17501179
You're close. The correct answer is not just one answer but multiple pieces of a pie chart. This thread has been on here before but the answers remain the same
1) Lots of these companies are owned by 1 mega company and with a building that looks like the bottom pic they can repurpose it. So it has a Mcdonalds logo on it now but they could easily convert that to a Chipotle.
2) Everything is soulless and awful now
3) Parents just give their kid's iPads and don't force them to go play in play escapes anymore, additionally lots of these suits like to cut costs and no one wants to pay someone to clean a ball pit room in addition to all the other shit McDs does
4) Opens them up to more lawsuits
5) Everyone needs a makeover every so often. When I worked at a grocery store we had the same wine display up for 3 years. We literally just moved it to another area of the store and the wine started selling like hotcakes. It's incredible how a small simple change has an effect on NPC's programming.

[Anonymous No.17501205]

>>17501188
Because kids can pester their parents for McDonalds. On top of that, brand loyalty you build as a kid stays with you for life, which is why there are so many Disney adults. Actually, that's probably why their switching focus to the adult consumer.

[Anonymous No.17501216]

>>17501205
>Because kids can pester their parents for McDonalds
That makes families the sole target market though. People without families probably have way more disposable income to spend on shit like fast food.

[Anonymous No.17501217]

>>17501174
>>17501191
Ironically, part of the official explanation is that the modern designs are actually less blocky in design than their predecessors. Over the years, the company had a lot of problems with their classic store designs being difficult to renovate or redesign. When prime McDonalds locations were found to last decades, they started to find a lot of problems as the stores couldn't be upgraded to match increased demand.

[Anonymous No.17501218]

>>17501174
They both look bad. The bottom one looks better. The top one looks like a cartoon rape shack. The bottom one looks like a spaceport.

[Anonymous No.17501220]

what i don't understand is why they've opted for a sorta brutalist appearance that brings to mind a military base, rather than something nice

[Anonymous No.17501245]

>>17501217
>customer connection zone

[Anonymous No.17501246]

>>17501174
You post this thread at least once a week. How autistic can you be that a single change in store design over 30 years triggers a prolonged internet meltdown

[Anonymous No.17501254]

The marketing shift away from kids has a few drivers, with fast food one of the big ones was backlash mcdonalds got from how they targeted kids in the 80s and 90s with snap together toys, we all remember asking if we could go back to get one of the other ones because they fit together and getting a shrieking "NO AND IF YOU ASK AGAIN IT'S GOING IN THE TRASH!" (maybe that was just my experience), and other things like the playplace stores and birthday party rooms. You had years of media saying how advertising to kids was literally the holocaust and any parents who let their kid near a mcdonalds was tragically irresponsible, comparing the food to hard drugs and so on, and then Supersize Me came out which threw a tremendous wet blanket over any kind of "fun" fast food branding at all, note the other two removed "King" and "Biggie" sizes also. Further pushing this trend was the emergence of the "fast-casual" resteraunt class, like Chipotle and Five Guys, both of which use much flatter and simpler branding, Chipotle's brand aesthetics in particular are a major origin point for the grey slate, faux-upmarket style we've seen the older chains adapt.

Mcdonald's advertising in general is kind of fascinating in how restrained and carefully broad appeal it is, like it'll just be black people dancing in front of a red background then the jingle or catchphrase, Wendys and Burger King take much more risk and have much more specificity in their ads, maybe that's always a function of trying to keep up with a dominant leader

[Anonymous No.17501276]

>>17501245
You laugh, but 80IQ twits with Communications degrees are making six figures while coming up with this shit.

[Anonymous No.17501313]

>>17501217
Finally. Proof that they shouldn't be asking for my order when I'm still reading the menu. I always stand well outside the customer connection zone.

[Anonymous No.17501321]

>>17501313
Honestly, at my local McDonald's, they seem to have a policy of not actively having someone wait around manning the register most of the time. You either have to use the self-serve or wait at the counter for someone to notice you. I haven't heard someone say "are you ready to order?" in over a decade.

[Anonymous No.17501327]

This is what they took from you.

[Anonymous No.17501382]

>>17501327
>more energy efficient
>easier pest control
>more abundant natural lighting
>better air quality
>more elegant use of interior space
>ADA compliance
>lower maintenance costs
>better fire resilience, lower maintenance
What's not to like? I don't miss those stuffy, overhead flourescent lamp shitboxes that had nicotine stains oozing off the walls and weird rancid food odors and mouse traps everywhere

[Anonymous No.17501410]

>>17501382
>trade SOUL to be a lifeless machine with a laser focus on safety and efficiency
>What's not to like?
If I wanted a lifeless cube for atmosphere I'd take it to-go back to the apartment

[Anonymous No.17501426]

>>17501174
because most restaurants fail within their first year even if they are some big fag chain franchise.
it's easier to resell and renovate a building that looks like normal generic office space than it is one with a silly red roof and children's play equipment out back.

[Anonymous No.17501429]

>>17501410
>SOUL
>a shitty cheap fast food restaurant
Bruh... how empty is your life? Jesus christ

[Anonymous No.17501433]

>>17501327
Everything's so gay now

[Anonymous No.17501443]

>>17501429
he just wants his surroundings to be aesthetically pleasing

[Anonymous No.17501444]

>>17501327
2020 killed the last pizzahut in my neighborhood that looked like that.

[Anonymous No.17501448]

>>17501174
>Dark khaki green
>Mmmmmm I want to eat there

[Anonymous No.17501457]

>>17501184
This desu

[Anonymous No.17501459]

>>17501433
What's wrong with being gay?

[Anonymous No.17501460]

>>17501444
Where I live, they all got bought up buy a payday loan company. It's kinda fucking weird.
Incidentally, they opened a new modern-style location right across the street from this picture in a stripmall.

[Anonymous No.17501462]

>>17501448
Check the colour balance on your monitor, bro.

[Anonymous No.17501463]

>>17501174
Market it as a premium product and charge higher prices than before.
Mcdobalds used to be a place you could get a bag of food for $3 or $4. That was unsustainably cheap so they make mcdonalds look nicer to justify a $12 big Mac combo

[Anonymous No.17501469]

>>17501459
AIDs

[Anonymous No.17501470]

>>17501469
>only homosexuals can get AIDS

[Anonymous No.17501472]

>>17501470
Of course not, but you can enjoy yours faggot.

[Anonymous No.17501476]

>>17501469
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as AIDS, is in fact, HIV/AIDS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, HIV plus AIDS.
AIDS is not a communicable disease unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning HIV infection.

[Anonymous No.17501478]

>>17501174
Macdonalds is a real estate company. It makes more sense to have a generic building for when/if that franchise ends up closing down.

[Anonymous No.17501480]

>>17501443
Nothing more aesthetically pleasing than irregularly sunbleached nicotine stained walls, fogged up state of the art 1970s plexiglass windows, watching some obese beetus mcdonalds customer struggle to get up the step because there's no ramp, and the delicate smells of cigarette tar and rancid cooking grease

[Anonymous No.17501485]

>>17501480
and you know it

[Anonymous No.17501486]

>>17501476
Actually lost it.

[Anonymous No.17501487]

>>17501217
this shit is retarded and I hate it. wahat are tehy gonna do? Go into Edit mode on blender and pull the store out more? no

[Anonymous No.17501492]

>>17501472
Yikes...

[Anonymous No.17501493]

All these threads have made me realize how badly I've underestimated American's emotional attachment to fast food brands and everything surrounding it.
It's just a food fume smelling place you try to exit as fast as possible with the right order. I still won't believe people give it any thought other than "something has changed, I don't like it".

[Anonymous No.17501495]

>>17501327
>old Pizza Hut
What do you remember most, bros? For me, it's the arcade machines.

[Anonymous No.17501499]

>>17501480
Sounds pretty kino actually, mmm notes of nostalgia or is it sandalwood

[Anonymous No.17501500]

>>17501493
I don't know what it's like in your country, but in the western world, fast food companies spend billions to groom children into being lifelong customers.

[Anonymous No.17501506]

>>17501493
They're so pervasive a discussion on how they look is basically the same as a discussion of the appearance of a certain species of tree. They're part of the landscape now and changes will be noticed and discussed.

[Anonymous No.17501511]

>>17501433
Gay men have actual taste anon. It may be shit taste but at least its taste

[Anonymous No.17501519]

>>17501460
I hate the times we live in.

[Anonymous No.17501529]

>>17501217

[Anonymous No.17501541]

>>17501184
>sleek and sophisticated

[Anonymous No.17501542]

>>17501493
idc about fast food in particular. for me its bc its part of the greater trend of everything looking the fucking same. there are like 4 different types of building being copy pasted over america now and they're all boring

[Anonymous No.17501549]

>>17501493
Most people would rather live somewhere that looks nice. I don't even eat fast food, but I'd rather have to see these horrid looking things every day.

Granted, the old fast food designs were never really good, but they still looked better.

[Anonymous No.17501551]

>>17501174
Still have an old McDonald's here, same with Wendy's. Everything else has been modernized.

[Anonymous No.17501554]

>>17501549
rather not* have to see these horrid looking things every day

[Anonymous No.17501563]

>>17501327
the Wendy's patio thing was so awesome. so was the salad bar. everything is so gay now

[Anonymous No.17501575]

>>17501541
>>17501549
see: >>17501217
The design philosophy involves a different kind of blocks.

[Anonymous No.17501580]

>>17501542
kek yeah it is like a basic sim city building pack

[Anonymous No.17501600]

>>17501495
The waiters and fresh deep pan pizza in a cast iron pan, brought to the table.

[Anonymous No.17501645]

>>17501575
modular construction doesn't have to look bleak, grey, and devoid of ornament

[Anonymous No.17501683]

>>17501549
I'm one of those that don't mind the outside being a soulless husk if the inside is nice. Sadly the former doesn't often translate to the latter.

[Anonymous No.17501688]

>>17501683
I'm the opposite.
Fuck your interiors. I want to look at pretty architecture.

[Anonymous No.17501695]

>>17501688
As a visitor, tourist, neighbor or whatever? Yes, of course, you don't get to see the interior most of the time anyway.
I just meant if I get to live in an apartment the first thing my mind will blur out is how the outside looks. It wouldn't sooth my mind even a little if the inside was a shithole while the outside was high art that caters to my tastes.

[Anonymous No.17501699]

lasted to 16 got torn down and replaced

[Anonymous No.17501702]

>>17501205
>brand loyalty you build as a kid stays with you for life
Not true. I don't eat fast food anymore.

[Anonymous No.17501707]

>>17501327
grim

[Anonymous No.17501709]

>>17501245
If you can think of a better name I'd like to hear it.

[Anonymous No.17501712]

That look was common in NY restaurants in the late 90s early 00s and it took middle America 10-15 years to follow suit.

[Anonymous No.17501715]

>>17501410
Do you go there to eat or to admire the exterior?

[Anonymous No.17501721]

>>17501174
Because there's no children being born any more, only lazy millennial manchildren.

[Anonymous No.17501740]

>>17501702
But if you did you'd probably go to whatever you used to like.

[Anonymous No.17501745]

>>17501709
Wage slave interchange zone.

[Anonymous No.17501754]

>>17501745
Oh that's a good one. Can we get an "experience" in there?

[Anonymous No.17501773]

>>17501182
Can't advertise to kids anymore

[Anonymous No.17501776]

>>17501754
The Wage Slave Interchange Experience Zone?
"TWASLINEZ" in short.

[Anonymous No.17501777]

>>17501776
Brilliant, I think we have it

[Anonymous No.17501780]

>>17501487
how do you think architects design buildings anon?

[Anonymous No.17501782]

>>17501715
>but I go into the designated feeding area to feed, why would I want to feel anything but hunger satiation

[Anonymous No.17501784]

>>17501782
>Independent thought alarm

[Anonymous No.17501873]

>>17501493
What's really being lamented is that focus-group-tested concepts and designs from the not too distant past are practically auteur art compared to the modern standard, that being an algorithmically optimized slurry of gay cubes that every single major franchise adheres to

What has been lost is not dumb plastic playplaces, but the very last notion of creative human involvement in the activities of corporations

[Anonymous No.17501912]

>>17501382
ok, boomer

[Anonymous No.17501937]

>>17501780
usually before its built

[Anonymous No.17501960]

36 year old boomer here
bottom is better

[Anonymous No.17502015]

>>17501433
just like the year 2000 and that era the fashion/aesthetic was the black & silver futuristic look, the current trend is generic corporate copy-paste.
even the tourism industry is gradually replacing "enjoy your annual holiday" with "corporate business retreat"
t.living/working in the busiest tourist destination in the southern hemisphere

[Anonymous No.17502024]

>>17501327
It's funny. We see futuristic movies with clean architecture people dream about, then we get it, and realize it's nothing like in the movies.

>>17501382
Someone I know explained that it's to come off like a "friendly lodge" and be inviting but I ignore everything he says because I know it's some stupid shit he probably read off reddit.

[Anonymous No.17502039]

>>17501426
>it's easier to resell and renovate a building that looks like normal generic office space than it is one with a silly red roof and children's play equipment out back.
this is the real reason

[Anonymous No.17502041]

>>17501549
>>17501554
As someone living in a city that prizes its old buildings just like that, upkeep is a major problem and why everything is plastic.

Unless the mayor takes pains to restore/upkeep easily weathered stone and re-work plumbing/electricity across the city, it's absolutely too much to constantly keep up. Shit breaks, all the time and the roof is the hardest part. I'm a landlord for a 200 year old building, it's frustrating.

A corporate cell block will cost you less overall and if someone doesn't like something, you can swap pieces of it out in a few days.

[Anonymous No.17502059]

>>17502041
Something that looks nice will attract people, business, customers, etc.

https://vimeo.com/128428182

[Anonymous No.17502063]

>>17501459
Pedophilia

[Anonymous No.17502082]

>>17501174
you know (((why)))

[Anonymous No.17502099]

>>17502059
Think of how a CEO and shareholder thinks.

They're going to get business anyway, but they also want to spend less despite being fully able to spend more. Do you recreate ta beautiful themed resturaunt with a more expensive menu to compensate for cost (not every location will look like this either), or build a box a few thousand times in under a year while offering the same prices while spending more in advertising/collaborations?

Both of these will make money. But one will make money faster than the other and last longer.

[Anonymous No.17502125]

>>17502039
yep.
like 60% of the government is either property developers, friends of property developers or used to be property developers.
real estate is bigger business than most actual industries.
this is why no-one wants to buy an apartment built after the 80s, new ones are purposefully designed to be knocked down and re-built every 10 years because nothing makes more money than swapping property as often as a college student changes his underpants

[Anonymous No.17502136]

>>17501480
When the buildings looked like the ones in the first pictures people weren't half as fat as they are now. Take your soulless bugman dreams and buy a one way ticket to china. Your utopia is waiting for you.

[Anonymous No.17502146]

>>17502136
>one way ticket to china.
Kinda wish Kowloon wasn't torn down. There's barely any pictures of the place from the inside taken with a modern camera.

[Anonymous No.17502164]

>>17501542
This is what happens when you replace worshiping God with worshiping mammon. Notice how almost all of the great aesthetic works of the west were created by and during times of great religious belief. Religious people want to create works of beauty to praise their creator. Modern man has thrown away the idea of creation for creations sake and only seeks to fatten his wallet. It's a race to the bottom, all things streamlined until there will be one type of everything and everyone will be interchangeable because that is the most profitable way to make more money.

It's a soul sickness, things won't get better until there is a reset of consciousness. It won't happen in our lifetimes I fear. But somewhere down the line maybe our children or grandchildren will see a brighter future.

[Anonymous No.17502165]

>>17502099
nu-Architecture lasts shorter than traditional architecture, it's only put up to be taken down in 10-20 years, it's covered in that documentary. It's just being a lazy, cheap money-grubber and trying to market it as minimalism and sleekness and whatnot. I know this is a fast food thread, but I'm talking about the larger picture of things. It may take a little longer to build, but people will enjoy it more and be more willing to go there more and more willing to spend money there. Nobody wants to rent an office from some horrid looking thing that sucks the life out of them for example. Also, there's more to life than maxing profits like a money changer.

[Anonymous No.17502171]

>>17502146
>kowloon
>torn down
t. passportless flyover
you probably mean the walled city, which was a miserable shit hole

[Anonymous No.17502196]

>>17502171
I didn't specify, but yes. I think loss of knowledge is a shame, overall. Everyone should learn from mistakes and a lot of mistakes were made with that actual trash dump. But people were still innovative and survived.

I admit, I first heard of it when playing Shenmue 2 but by the time I looked it up, it was gone.

[Anonymous No.17502199]

>>17501220
I'd love to see what military base looks like a modern McDonald's. I expect an informative response.

[Anonymous No.17502204]

>>17502196
Easy to romanticize something that you didn't have to live in

If you want to cry over something cry over Hong Kong's unique culture getting shamelessly destroyed by the PRC

[Anonymous No.17502227]

>>17502204
>cry over something
Hardly.

[ieatinmycar No.17502382]

>waaah why do things change from when I was a child?

[Anonymous No.17502499]

>>17502204
Hong Kong is a dystopian nightmare without the PRC and I hope it fucking dies.

[Anonymous No.17502635]

>>17502382
>literally even better

[Anonymous No.17502642]

>>17501174
Bottom design is cheaper to build, easier to update/upgrade and should that franchise go tits up its easier to resell

[Anonymous No.17502900]

>>17501174
New one looks like a modern detention center/highway patrol outpost...

[Anonymous No.17502940]

>>17501217
"customer connection zone" pisses me off irrationally
I hate everyone who comes up with phrases like that, like calling employees "team members"

[Anonymous No.17502946]

>>17501327
We have entered the age where overpopulation of NPCs has removed the soul from everything

[Anonymous No.17502948]

>>17502900
Welcome to the McFuture

[Anonymous No.17502977]

>>17501174
>>17501182
>>17501205
Completely forgot to mention, but while I can't answer for the rest of the world, I know that McDonald's Canada wants to be seen as a "legitimate" restaurant franchise instead of a place for kids. When I worked there, we actually had a weird waitress system where cashiers were expected to deliver to the customer's table (we had to call them guests to make them feel welcome) if they requested it.

[Anonymous No.17503002]

>>17501495
Pizza buffet and going to Pizza Hut with my AR points.

[Anonymous No.17503034]

>>17501529
I know Ronnie is a retard but what is wrong with being able to stand and wait patiently for your order without looking at a screen for 2 minutes?

[Anonymous No.17503073]

>>17502977
McDonald's does table service some places in the US, Carl's Jr does as well

[Anonymous No.17503150]

>>17501174
Because prefabricated buildings are easier and less expensive to set up, generally easier to maintain and repair, more resistant to damage, and will cost less over the long term not only for some of these reasons but because insurance prefers the fact that they're safer.

[Anonymous No.17503365]

can fast food get its soul back ?

[Anonymous No.17503418]

>>17503034
t. psychopath

[Anonymous No.17503475]

>>17501460
There's a pizza hut near me that's been an insurance office for several years.

[Anonymous No.17503489]

>>17503365
>olympic tie-in promotions are ultimate soul
What a load of shit. The Olympics alone are the most soulless thing ever.

[Anonymous No.17503495]

>>17501327
My local Wendy's is still like the top pic and I love it

[Anonymous No.17503497]

This was the mcdonalds near my old college apartment when I first moved to the city I live in. I stopped here often for breakfast since it was right on my way to work or school, and I spent a lot of time getting food here with my now wife to eat while we would watch adult swim or toonami or whatever. this is what it looked like in june 2015.

[Anonymous No.17503500]

>>17503497
This is the same place in January 2017, and it looks even worse now since it has just sat untouched. Kinda bums me out when I pass by it sometimes, I had a lot of fun memories there.

[Anonymous No.17503617]

>>17503500
the fact that its in the winter makes it 10 times more depressing

[Anonymous No.17503643]

>>17503497
>>17503500
Brandon?

[Anonymous No.17503647]

>>17503643
fuck joe brandon

[Anonymous No.17503666]

>>17503500
imagine having fond memories of going to a mcdonalds lol you americans are a pathetic joke

[Anonymous No.17503671]

>>17503666
what are your fond childhood memories anon?

[Anonymous No.17503804]

[Anonymous No.17503894]

>>17501487
Part of the design allows for them temporarily remove almost any wall of the building without compromising the structure, making renovations a lot easier and faster. The older designs were boxed in by their exterior walls and bound within that iconic red roof.
Yes, they can literally just cut a wall off and extend walls outwards. I'm sorry your computer-addled brain can't actually imagine the physical labour involved.

[Anonymous No.17503899]

>>17501912
Always find it weird when zoomers romanticize shit they didn't even live through.

[Anonymous No.17503911]

>>17503899
You know there's been around 3.5 generations since the baby boomers and only one of them is gen z, right?

[Anonymous No.17503941]

>>17501174
Does it matter? They’re all corporate stains on the map either way. Go to some local place.

[Anonymous No.17504042]

>>17501529
I'm #3.

[Anonymous No.17504082]

Because monopolies control everything in the US, including construction, so everything starts to look roughly the same and everyone uses the same services

[Anonymous No.17504083]

>>17503911
Sure thing faggot

[Anonymous No.17504091]

>>17501174
The most shocking thing about the second picture is the lack of any green areas, any outdoor seating, and even any bicycle stands. The area around it looks shitty and empty. This is what America is now. It isn't a place with comfy tree lined streets and manicured parks and gardens, it's just one big grey development, not conducive to human life. People don't live in their neighborhoods anymore. They live in their houses. They drive to the McDonald's. They drive back home.

[Anonymous No.17504126]

>eating shitty, unhealthy food then: OMG SO MUCH SOVL
>eating the same shitty, unhealthy food now: baka what happened to the SOUL behind this low-quality food?

[Anonymous No.17504129]

if you like cheap shitty fast food that's perfectly fine. just don't let your nostalgiaboner blind you to the fact that the experience isn't much different, if at all, to that when you were a kid.

[Anonymous No.17504369]

>>17502499
I probably don't want to know, but ok tell me why HK is dystopian without the PRC, tankie

[Anonymous No.17504392]

The first being that they think it makes them look more like an upscale, serious dining place rather than just a fast food place for kids. They think it makes it more appealing for adults to come.

The other is that it makes the buildings easier to sell. There are times when a fast food place has shut down and then the owners of the building can't sell it to anyone else because of the crazy design, or they have to spend a fuck ton to renovate it back int oa regular building again.

[Anonymous No.17504399]

MackDonald's near me these days :[

[Anonymous No.17504413]

>>17501459
It's fucking gay.

[Anonymous No.17504423]

>>17501174
When everything is the same and no one is special, when everyone is a grey sexless genderless soulless husk, no one can rise above another. Everyone is equal. Finally, true equality.

[Anonymous No.17504424]

>>17501460
>>17503475
I wonder which companies have bought buildings with the Burger King castle design

[Anonymous No.17504449]

While I liked the exteriors, I never really liked the interiors. Especially the seating areas. They would always use plastic, like plastic tables and chairs and they were just uncomfortable and they'd stain easily so you'd see everyone's spillage.

[Anonymous No.17504463]

>>17503500
I like how even the sky is grey and dull, as well as the grass.

[Anonymous No.17504965]

>>17501174
congratulation anon you are officially old. hang some onions on your belt (it's was the style at the time) and yell at clouds.

[Anonymous No.17504973]

>>17501459
mentally ill people never think that they are mentally ill or have a problem with it.

[Anonymous No.17504975]

>>17501174
So they can sell the old look back to us once we get nostalgic for it.

[Anonymous No.17505050]

>>17504965
I also enjoy the Simpson’s!!!!!soy

[Anonymous No.17505102]

>>17505050
sneed

[Anonymous No.17505176]

>>17503500
Looks haunted.

[Anonymous No.17505681]

does your local wendys still have a sun dome?

[Anonymous No.17505754]

>>17502382
You disproved your own point with that image.

[Anonymous No.17505787]

>>17505681
where I used to live yeah. supremely comfy on rainy days

[Anonymous No.17505838]

>>17503911
Millennials grew up with the top picture

[Anonymous No.17507073]

>>17502164
>McDonalds
>Grand Architecture of Most God-Pleasing Design

[Anonymous No.17507083]

>>17505838
As well as gen x. That was the point.

[Anonymous No.17507106]

>>17501460
>Incidentally, they opened a new modern-style location right across the street from this picture in a stripmall.
This one, to be exact. My dad goes to the dentist next door.
Ah, stripmalls...

[Anonymous No.17507155]

>>17501174
the top appeals to me more and I'm an adult. the assumptions being made in this thread are retarded

[Anonymous No.17507157]

>>17507073
>completely missing the point

[Anonymous No.17507163]

>>17501174
>Can somebody explain why nearly every fast food chain decided to do this?

Because the lack of unique roofs mean you can easily flip the restaurant after you have taken the 30 years of depreciation on the building. Also a box is cheaper than a box with a hat.

[Anonymous No.17507270]

>>17507155
>I feel a certain way, so everybody else does as well

[Anonymous No.17507277]

>>17507270
if the bottom appeals to you, you are mentally deficient

[Anonymous No.17507292]

>>17501182
zoomers hate fast food, they might eat it, but they are ashamed about it. it's not healthy etc...

[Anonymous No.17507341]

>>17501695
you're a child who has not lived in apartments. that statement is wrong and you're wrong and bad for thinking and typing it

[Anonymous No.17507356]

>>17507277
Be nice, the demoralization campaign is more effective against some than others. He deserves your pity, not your hate.

[Anonymous No.17507403]

>>17507356
you're right

[Anonymous No.17507460]

>>17501480
This but unironically and without a hint of sarcasm

[Anonymous No.17507462]

>>17502382
S O U L F U L and I wasn't close to being born then

[Anonymous No.17507468]

>>17503365
Kek you can see the deterioration in the quality of the food by the fries

[Anonymous No.17507481]

>>17507157
I’m just having a joke around man come on lighten up

[Anonymous No.17507732]

>>17503804

>McDonald’s ash tray

WISH WE COULD TURN BACK TIME

[Anonymous No.17507752]

>>17501480
>watching some obese beetus mcdonalds customer struggle to get up the step because there's no ramp

Damn right. Make them work for that McChicken.

[Anonymous No.17507757]

>>17507277
If the top appeals to you, you are likely a pedophile.

[Anonymous No.17508073]

>>17501327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTaOEUH53Y
Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created

[Anonymous No.17508118]

>>17501327
Holy soulless! God i want to go back more and more every year I hate it here in the future.

[Anonymous No.17508128]

>>17501179
Maybe in your shithole country. Where I live the vast majority of customers in these filthy establishments are dumb soulless zoomers brainwashed by american propaganda on social media.

[Anonymous No.17508238]

They're sick of being cozy. Bums and coons have basically occupied mcdicks now and they're fucking pissed. Restrooms will be locked and some locations will have guards there to make sure you live within 20 minutes.
You'll notice the wifi has still not been switched back on since 2019. That is intentional.

[Anonymous No.17508253]

>>17501174
This is done deliberately to demoralise you.

[Anonymous No.17508264]

They both look the same to me. Perhaps this is because I somehow didn't end up eating much fast food in my life. Both are corporate, and remind me of the unpleasant smell of being inside them, the few times I have been.
I'd rather build peanut butter sandwiches myself and carry a lunchbox than go to these places.

[Anonymous No.17508547]

>>17501174
>why nearly every fast food chain decided to do this
the answer is simple and blindingly obvious once you realise it: they all use the same architecture firm.

[Anonymous No.17508553]

>>17501174
It's an attempt to make it more iconic. You know the little symbols apps have? They want you to recognize it even more easily. Grey background with a bright, colorful logo.

[Anonymous No.17508580]

>>17507757
sure thing buddy

[Anonymous No.17508603]

>>17503034
well that's exactly what people did before phones.

[Anonymous No.17508608]

>>17505050
sorry dude though I referenced them I haven't watched the show in 20 plus years.

[Anonymous No.17508619]

>>17503666
THIS. Satan trips of truth.

[Anonymous No.17509765]

90s BK was so soulful, all the footage was shot on vhs

[Anonymous No.17509799]

>>17508580
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychopathology-and-personality-traits-pedophiles
Have a read. Not all pedophiles offend.

[Anonymous No.17509860]

>>17509799
Yeah, they just victimize little girls online and/or invite them to their house to cuddle

[Anonymous No.17509997]

>>17501327
I've never seen that new design of a wendys before. Did they base it off of a car show room?

[Anonymous No.17510566]

>>17501217
Holy shit. I actually came across a similar problem when I was playing Prison Architect and trying to expand cellblocks/showers/etc. and came up with a similar solution. Interesting.

[Anonymous No.17510582]

>>17501174
saw this in pol the other day... you should know the answer

[Anonymous No.17510750]

I live near the original bk and it has the soulless redesign but the retro burger King logo

[Anonymous No.17510765]

>>17501529
>tfw psychopath

[Anonymous No.17510815]

Marketing moved towards minimalism in the last decade. Any number of theories exist on why they have, but the most commonly accepted is attention spans are shorter, because those hyperactive little cartoon watchers of the 90s and 2000s are now adults iwth money, but still have a 3 second attention span and can't take the time to figure out anything more complex or bright than a simple, low color variance logo.

[Anonymous No.17511499]

>>17504973
What's wrong with browsing /pol/?

[Anonymous No.17511545]

>>17508128
In your country the McDonalds is operated by a crack addicted inbred who sells his baked foreskin as a Happy Meal

[Anonymous No.17511562]

>>17501511
literally kek

[Anonymous No.17511565]

>>17501174
Easier resale for other businesses.

[Anonymous No.17511568]

>>17501476
underrated

[Anonymous No.17511605]

>>17509765
Last time I visited home my favorite burger king was turned into a liquor store.

[Anonymous No.17511615]

>>17501217
they have failed to imagine a full McDonalds complex with multiple buildings and a courtyard, arcades, you take your mcdouble out and sit on a railing under the arches, you look out on the McDonalds gardens

[Anonymous No.17511623]

>>17501182
Kids also think people who get a lot of autistics to watch their YouTube videos are celebrities

[Anonymous No.17511681]

>>17503804
I agree except for the ordering stands. As an introvert with social anxiety, it's nice I don't have to recite my order and can take my time ordering

[Anonymous No.17512069]

>>17501327
It's literally criminal anon..
>cries in globohomo

[Anonymous No.17512233]

>>17501327
>>17512069
>>17503804
>>17502164
>>17501873
>why are corporate junk food peddlers adapting their strategies to keep making money???
>>17501493
It's pretty clear that fast food chains' cradle-to-grave marketing strategy is extremely successful.

[Anonymous No.17512268]

>>17501182
>>17501179
millennials arent having kids though?

[Anonymous No.17512390]

>>17501529
I thought it was a relaxed stance!
>slouched back
>low hanging arms
>blank expresionless stare

[Anonymous No.17512422]

>>17501493
For real, and I'm saying this as an American who regularly eats at every fast food restaurant in town
for most of my life. I honest to God have no Idea how they look. I know they used to look different, and have been remodeled in the last 15 years, but I don't remember what they look like when I went there last week, and I don't give I single flying fuck, I just want my god damned goy slop and to get home as fast as possible.

[Anonymous No.17512596]

>>17502125
>yep.
>like 60% of the government is either property developers, friends of property developers or used to be property developers.
>real estate is bigger business than most actual industries.
>this is why no-one wants to buy an apartment built after the 80s, new ones are purposefully designed to be knocked down and re-built every 10 years because nothing makes more money than swapping property as often as a college student changes his underpants
You sure it's not just the usual building as cheaply as possible with poorly trained workers from south of the border?

[Anonymous No.17513298]

>>17505681
Awwwww fuggg yeah!

[Anonymous No.17513310]

>>17501495
For me it is the salad bar my parents used to go to.
Plus the big cheesy pizzas that were there. Now it tastes like cardboard with barely any cheese.

[Anonymous No.17513311]

>>17501174

Corporatism is like a circle.

Just like commies concluded that soulless blocky designs with easy to contruct motifs were the most efficient so too did globohomo coporates realise that soulless blocky designs most efficient (especially when franchising).

[Anonymous No.17513321]

>>17501184
It also helps if the franchisee needs to sell the place. New sign and a coat of paint and it can be a new slop house

[Anonymous No.17514767]

The new design just screams depressed burnout

[Anonymous No.17514799]

>>17510566
>mcdonald's buildings are literally designed like prisons

[Anonymous No.17514811]

>>17501709
customer service area
order receiving zone

[Anonymous No.17514880]

>>17501709
Food Inflection Point

[Anonymous No.17514885]

>>17514799
modern architecture is ugly as fuck, everything new looks like a prison

[Anonymous No.17514983]

>>17502199
Ugh, military bases look like prisons, gray/brown soulless buildings. Concrete bunkers for ammo/bomb storage. Best bet for color will be if there is an air traffic control tower there, with some hangars painted white.

If you are looking for art in architecture, military bases are NOT the place to look.

And that is if the housing isn't fucking covered in black mold as part of a scam.

[Anonymous No.17514989]

>>17503365
>Implying fast food EVER had soul.

[Anonymous No.17515046]

>>17514989
Yes

[Anonymous No.17515127]

>unironically pic rel

[Anonymous No.17515150]

>>17509765
My Burger King in the 90s even had a Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition cabinet, was awesome

[Anonymous No.17515188]

>>17502099
>Think of how a CEO and shareholder thinks.
Just think like a jew, goy!

[Anonymous No.17515197]

>>17515188
Stop trying so hard to fit in, real /biz/ loves Jews

[Anonymous No.17515246]

>>17515197
>"oy vey! stop pointing out patterns"
shut up queer

[Anonymous No.17515289]

>>17515046
Fucking hell. What else do you regard as soulful? Neon lights? Spoilers on four cylinder cars? Chunky digital watches?

[Anonymous No.17515571]

>>17515246
>sh-shut up queer
Cope and seethe, /ck/ loves Jews too

[Anonymous No.17515618]

Wanna know something crazy?
The old stuff is just underneath the new stuff. The mansard roof is still there. The interior is ripped apart but for the roof and exterior they just covered it up.
You can do it anon, you can just go take it off

[Anonymous No.17515625]

>>17515618
I'm in

[Anonymous No.17515655]

>cooking board loves fast food
why does this not surprise me?

[Anonymous No.17515697]

>>17501327
The wendys on the west side of town still looks like that. One on the east don't due to space limitations. It don't got that bottom pic look either so that's a plus. The pizzahut in your pic, well it moved. They went to just a carryout, delivery model. The old place got changed into a bo jangles..

[Anonymous No.17516016]

>>17515289
Lemme guess, you were the kid that mommy wouldn't let go on the slide cuz it's too dangerous

[Anonymous No.17516521]

>>17504091
Quit listening to your government's shills Ivan. America hasn't turned into your commie bloc. The gas wasting lawns and traffic islands that need mowed and cookie cutter suburban hell is very much alive.

[Anonymous No.17516651]

>>17501174
it's the style of this time, doofus. Get over it

[Anonymous No.17516667]

>>17512268
My generation can't afford kids with all the money it spends on McDonald's, if the single women I bump into at my age (late 30s) are any indicator.

[Anonymous No.17516689]

>>17501184
My family owns a bunch of McDonald's. The bottom is cheaper to build by a wide margin, and I mean a WIDE margin (hur hur). The top is made of actual brick, which they don't do anymore. It's normally a cheap facade, you could smash through it with a hammer if you had a mind to.

[Anonymous No.17516695]

>>17516016
No. How does that make sense to you? Your response is infinitely more bizarre than could be predicted. Please explain in definite terms what you mean by "soul." Because at best it's tacky and at worst demonic.

[Anonymous No.17516698]

>>17515655
>>cooking board
Why do you faggots keep saying this? moot specifically called it "Food & Cooking".

[Anonymous No.17517250]

>>17509765
Interiors and exteriors are updated at different times. The BK in my hometown has had all three of the exteriors in that pic, but has always had the interior on the right.

[Anonymous No.17517253]

>>17517250
i'm american I like plastic shit everywhere ok

[Anonymous No.17517360]

>>17516521
I'm from middle America and I have slowly watched it get worse and worse, less comfy, less conducive to human life and more conducive to insectoid hive living over the last 30 years. That anon is absolutely right. There has been a deliberate and jarring shift from family friendly, community oriented, green inviting spaces to the miserable grey concrete on concrete on concrete motif you see today.

[Anonymous No.17517381]

>>17501174
Because of the jews

[Anonymous No.17517400]

>>17517360
Because you voted right and maintaining parks costs tax revenue that doesn't help make rich people richer.

[Anonymous No.17517894]

>>17501709
the fucking counter