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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm actually going to say that I think designing a restaurant for disastrously unhealthy fast food in a way that makes it look and feel like a playground shouldn't be legal, and I'm happy to see them look as dull and unappealing as possible to young children.

The ongoing health crisis is so severe in no small part because of things like that 1990s picture getting kids addicted to trash. This post feels like someone from the 1970s yearning for the days of Joe Camel. Plain packaging does work.

Edit: I thought Joe Camel was much older than it really is.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

it's not about mc d's. almost every business is doing this. Everything fun, colorful, expressive and artistic MUST go. All must be replaced with homogeneous minimalism.

mc d's is used as the example because they led the way with this shit.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I also read that cars turned less colorful since 1970s.

And a colleague told me that he read that skirts got longer on average since 1970, but idk about that one.

Also i noticed that most pop music these days are break-up songs.

Really shows you the mood of society.

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[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'd like to change the order of the meme

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

In addition to moving away from marketing directly to children, the reason a lot of fast foot restaurants are rebranding to look like grey cubes is to make the buildings more generic and therefore more valuable as commercial real estate.

We've all seen the local Mexican restaurant that definitely used to be a Pizza Hut. This is to avoid that.

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That, and they want customers GONE. Eating in take space. People who come, get food, and leave are their favorites because it increases throughput.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds like the commercial real estate version of cancer to me, but I'm no expert in that field. I can see you're right, though. It's up there with motel art and off-white walls.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

McDonald's specifically is famously a real estate company that happens to serve burgers on the side. The corporation owns all of the land that its franchises are sitting on, so they can park a restaurant on it and sell it for a profit after the land appreciates in value.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJVj3vp-lho

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

We used to have the only McDonald's (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.

They "modernised" it last year.

[-] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, which piece of shit did they bribe for that? They completely destroyed the interior of the building. Isn't there any heritage protection?

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.

The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn't full of tourists because they didn't think that the railway station buffet was so good.

BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a "fast casual" crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I'm saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.

[-] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for the interesting context!

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

My college did this. It might have been due to bedbugs. They swapped the cozy built in furniture with this weird vinyl stuff. Bugs can't get into the seams.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Corpo interior designers should be hunted, and theblicenses should fund repairing damage they die.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Some of that is from white balance making the top picture look warmer, but even accounting for that, it's a tragedy.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's this a picture of kids growing older¿?

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!

[-] twice_hatch@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to McDonald's, the All-American Restaurant, papers please

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

A couple of minutes in Dystopika, annnnnd....

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

The order needs to be reversed. People don't really read from the bottom up.

[-] JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste. Possibly made with bugs.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know if that will be better or worse than what they currently serve up.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago

"You are in McDonald's. Consume and exit."

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

No kidding. Not just them either. I know it's a cultural thing in US restaurants, but I feel like I'm being rushed out the door. I know on the surface it's a having respect for a person's time thing, but it feels like an eating contest sometimes.

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[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

When I talk about how much I miss the 90s McDonalds, I'm mostly complaining about the loss of a third space. My parents would go to McDonalds so we had a safe, climate-controlled, indoor play space, and we could spend hours there for the price of something off the dollar menu.

I don't know of anywhere comparable these days. Anything indoors is going to be expensive, you have to get the city to unlock the local hoops, the cops start asking questions if you just want to hang out with friends, and if you have too many friends they make you get a permit to use the public park.

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Instead of McCafe, it should be "McSoylent".

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, I wouldn't say no to a brutalist McDonald's.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I would, but I'm rejecting the mc d's part not the brutalist part.

brutalist architecture is fucking cool.

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's fair.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

brutalist state-owned fast food joint, everything's cheap but not that cheap and perfectly middling quality, and there's 4 things on the menu

[-] pawnfuture@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It should be a hole underground.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

needs to change the sign and logo to be more brutalist as well

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don't threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, it's been harbinged. We're in it.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

A new McDonald’s commercial has a burger stolen and the character shouts “it’s the hamburger thief”

Cultural erasure

[-] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wouldn't be allowed here. 30 minute limit on the dinibg rooms. With purchase.

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