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.

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.

Waiting for this…

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.

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.

Instead of McCafe, it should be "McSoylent".

I'd like to change the order of the meme

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

https://www.sighthound-studio.com/blog/2016/6/24/simon-stalenhag

https://www.simonstalenhag.se/

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

80s : Pizza hut

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

McDonalds: Fuck you I'm eating! / Home of the Extra Bigass Fries

Adapting to their growing customers

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

The French branch puts some effort in it, usually they look like this

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

More like hambinger

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