I donât remember where I got this information, but the MacDonalds is green here in europe to cater to their europeans clients as itâs associate with environment, nature, quality and âhealthâ
I donât think so. And they announced that theyâre bringing back playplaces, but Iâm still not holding my breath about them looking as exciting as they were in the 90s and early 2000s.
What I meant was the new ones potentially not looking as multi-colored and massive as the past ones, which I really do believe isnât just nostalgia and did actually look so much better.
Fair enough, but I saw a few old ones still around a few years ago in Europe, and I do think they could do better. Personally, for me it is nostalgia, this seemed like a whole other planet when I was a kid but in the cold light of day, itâs not that impressive
Prob is it eats into the whole "interchangeable real estate" model the industry relies on now. If that mcdonalds becomes any other business theyll have to repaint.
Anecdotal evidence, but almost everyone reported that theyâd never seen a McDs close to become something else. Have you? This is a broader issue, sure, but for McDonalds specifically, once they get their claws in a neighbourhood, they do not let go.
The McDonald's I grew up with closed around ten years ago and moved to another location nearby. The building was bought by a charity organization that helps people with disabilities find housing and job training.
It really does. I wonder if the architect for it also designed drug stores. But believe it or not it was an entirely new building. It replaced a movie theater and deli, which caused protests when plans to demolish them were announced.
Be thankful, I've seen a few, but it tends to be confined to decaying small towns. I see it in rural Louisiana, & I can see similar happening to rural rust belt areas as well.
McDonaldâs tried their new ice cream/coffee place in my city and it closed after not even a year. The building (drive thru/walkup only has still not been bought up. Iâve seen McDonaldâs close to relocate into a newer building.Â
A mcdonalds near my old apartment became a halal burger place. Funnily enough a couple years ago a brand new mcdonalds was built from the ground up so the places look almost identical
There is one near me that closed an turned into a Chinese restaurant for a while. It has been vacant for years now. I am not sure the fact that it still looks very much like a McDonald's helps.
And there was one in the inner city that is a cafe now, but that was in a neutral building.
Also an anecdote, but where I live, a former McDonaldâs was at times a Peruvian chicken joint and has been a liquor store for a while now. A different McDonaldâs closed shortly after I moved to the area but it didnât get knocked down for about seven years. It took another five years for someone to build a sports bar steakhouse in the parcel of land as the former McDonaldâs.
The interior is as generic and interchangable as it can be. It could become a wendys, a kfc, a burger king or any ghostkitchen tomorrow with a reprogrammed menu for the kiosks and some new wall posters.
In the majority of cases, they do. Given how goddamned huge the chain is internationally and that they own most of their restaurants, McDonalds is almost a kind of real estate company when you look under the hood.
I doubt it. They might have the most locations, but not the most acres or the most value. The logging industry holds the most acres hands down (assuming we exclude governments), If we go by value of the land, I think Blackstone is still the juggernaut by a mile with like $250billion to $400 billion worth of real estate under its control (I mean its the biggest REIT out there by a mile).
Iâm so sick of these posts nostalgic about old McDonaldâs. WE made them change! Everyone was so mad at them from late 90s to early 2000s they switched. They were literally the blame, or at least a major part, of the obesity epidemic. Plus everyone was mad at them for targeting kids!
Please McDonalds! We need this!!!
[Says someone who almost never, without going to McDonalds; it's been several years, many many years since I have been there. But ... we need the colors AAAHHH!!!!]
They didn't, the difference is everyone in business realised millenials had no soul and liked trash hence all the 2000s trends that were ugly and popular.
Sane goes for zoomers, we're just lucky some zoomers actually like color, moat are still stupid or have shit taste though.
Boohoo ass argument when it's been said for decades. The real problem is we have incompetent presidents and world leaders with totally irrelevant agendas to a healthy country. We've never had so many joke politicians than we do nowadays, the fact Kamala was even an option tells you all you need to know.
My point doesn't directly tie in with that, enjoying slop is a milenial problem not a capitalist problem.
When this sterile box design for restaurants started popping up in the late 00s, I doubt any of the influential architects behind it were millennials âŚ. Boomers (and possibly Gen Xers) did this
I'm guessing they reached the point at which Millennials attained positions high enough in the company to make decisions about aesthetics, and the Millennial grey bullshit seeped through. Then after a few years they realized that greys and browns and beiges do not stimulate appetites like reds and yellows and so they changed it back.
Yeah I donât know why itâs called millennial gray as if we had some kind of influence over that corporate aesthetic especially when we grew up during the 90s which was probably the most colorful generation to date
I agree the red and yellow looks better, but come on, the weather in the left picture looks miserable, while the right pic has a perfectly green lawn with an average sky in 2016.
Hyper Financialization stripped all the color out of the world. Millennial Gray isnât so much a generational style preference as an imposed hue austerity in the service of VCs streamlining colors in both manufacturing and retail for the purpose of easily dismantling/rebranding when whatever property, be it a restaurant or a factory producing couch cushions, gets sold. And the process repeats, bleeding yet more color out of our lives.
I mean businesses hate proprietary designs buildings for the same reason reason consumers do on their electronic. Harder to fix them â or retrofix them and harder to like sell them off
People who remember play places and colorful mcdonalds hate drab, corporate McDonald's.
Also, they are desperately trying to get people to come back after losing a ton of business. Well, that will happen when you charge sit down restaurant prices for garbage.
They aren't competing very well with Wendy's biggie bags, which are better tasting or taco bells luxe boxes or burger kings newly redesigned whoppers.
McDonaldâs has become a fast casual restaurant. Aimed mainly at teens and adults now. We grew up. Times have changed. Thereâs no point of going back to the old colors.
Weâre all reasonably tired of this aesthetic but what I do remember is how fresh this felt after the old style, which felt cheap and tacky to me even as a kid
I agree it does seem garish. Like the design is devoid of charm and they went overboard to fix it. Even if you look at what a lot of us associate with the classic design it has some white to give the colours some breathing room
High end neighborhoods have regulations against having fast food and other businesses. Like I said, it sounds like you know very different"high end neighborhoods"
I work in zoning and sign regulationâgenerally the government can enforce design standards, but itâs pretty rare to see enforcement of paint colors and such, maybe with the exception being historically significant structures/districts. Like everywhere Iâve worked, they could just repaint like this with no permits and no special approvals. If they put up a big new sign, though, thatâs different
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