Looks like their customers have grown up and they tried to follow suit and became boring adults.
This speaks for itself
Submitted 2 months ago by Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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eldain@feddit.nl 2 months ago
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Look at how they mascaraed my boy. Enshitfication in its best example
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Just more proof of the efficiencies of Capitalism
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Thanks for reporting the often ignored extinction of wildlife at the local Mcdees
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They’re the same picture.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months ago
More profitable than ever
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is what I saw too
scops@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I have never seen a McDonalds that looks like the top pic. I remember plenty with play spaces, but they weren’t visible from outside.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Iirc this was the McDonald’s just outside the Dallas zoo.
If it isn’t that one, the same thing happened to that one. Sad times.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty sure that’s the Dallas one too.
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I spent a lot of time in the car crossing the U.S. in the 80’s and 90’s so I saw a LOT of McDonalds. Most of them are bog standard but once in a while you come across one like this where they spiced it up. I’ve seen one with a train engine out front, one with a parked airplane, etc. There’s one in Tucson with a giant T-Rex statue in front of it. I’ve also seen some crazy play places with slides going out of the building and back inside. Would’ve loved that when I was a kid.
El_Azulito@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the Fascist States of America, a McDonald’s techbro named BigBallz voice will serve you a burger with no beef, charge you double, and call it freedom.
You ask, where’s my Mcplayground? Well, it is outsourced, replaced with a sad bench on which a crying Ronald McDonald sits, holding a sign about liability.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
What do y’all expect from an industry based on torture and murder?
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Typical family with kids can no longer afford to eat here since the business model is to maximize shareholder value. So it makes sense to rebrand to the only people who can afford it.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
the menu prices are insanity.
last time i was in there, they wanted 3 bucks for the shitty little burger they used to sell for 99 cents.
Not even getting started on 10 dollar bigmacs and other stupidity.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
There really is a lack of kids-themed restaurants. Rainforest Cafe, Old McD with play places, You’d think they’d be able to keep a place that caters to families open.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They’d need to charge amounts that families can afford for that to work.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah, totally. All of fast food is in this downward spiral of giving you less charging more.
Looking at the menu back in 1980, you could get a meal for four for about $10.
That same meal today is just shy of $40
Unfortunately, inflation from 1980 is about 3x.
So they’re about 25% more expensive than they used to be. But the mean salary per household is certainly nowhere near 3x.
The cost of housing and everything else is way above 3x.
Economically as a society we’re in pretty bad shape, we’re scraping that lower limit of infeasibility.
Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 months ago
And it also just got more expensive
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 months ago
For laughs, I checked out how much the meal cost in my city. It’s $12.
For two dollars more, I can get a better burger at my neighborhood bar.
Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Last time I ate mcdonalds we paid 15 euros a person which is quite a price for the garbage quality
boaratio@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ronald McDonald is a capitalist.
fromadistance11@lemm.ee 2 months ago
We’ve been turning in Russia all this time without even noticing.
yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The difference is commie blocks have utility.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Soviet bus stops have more pizzaz than American McDonalds.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
CONSUME
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dude those ball pits were special, they don’t exist anymore. Disease infested suffocation hazard, but special.
TheWilliamist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Code enforcement in cities and towns, especially more are more to blame for this than any other factor. Where I’m from the more affluent suburbs, barring in any kind of real individual expression or even signage.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
someone got tired of mopping up all the jizz from the ball pit.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Hail corporate!
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jesus Christ you lot need to get out more. You lot are seriously over analysing changes in marketing, and using it to stroke your ego’s.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The shit looks depressing. How does that stroke one’s ego?
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dystopia is when boring burger.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I smell a Pizza Hut
gamer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t eat at McDonalds for many reasons, but if I had to walk through such a Chuck E Cheese-ass entrance to grab a burger I’d have one more reason to avoid it.
JinSpear@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Vou can roast the entrance but going to mcD and getting to play xbox inside, for someone who didnt have one at home, is a core memory
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck mcdonalds and all that but honestly if a respected buisness had some fun and personality on their building why avoid it? Anyone can just put up a brick and mortar store it takes someone who actually cares to try and have fun.
Also Charlie’s entertainment cheese is now very much like this with their few locations it’s just very basic no fun houses or little rides it’s just an arcade now with VERY muted colors.