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The Harbinger of the Dystopia
Submitted 16 hours ago by Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Jarix@lemmy.world 58 minutes ago
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’d like to change the order of the meme
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
passepartout@feddit.org 15 hours ago
I recently watched a (german) video about the exact development of McDonalds depicted in the meme and it made me realize how much of the experience had been catered towards children and how i felt when i was there more often (or at all) when i was younger.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Fair point! I entirely agree with that perspective in other areas. If we’re using this as an example, then I understand, but I actually think this is one example where the change is a tangibly good thing.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Interesting take. Maybe they should be designed like an art gallery of various medical office styles. Kids would hate that.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours 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 6 hours 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.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
From beautiful 19th century architecture to boring modern office lounge. Not everything needs to be updated for current trends.
DrSoap@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
ch00f@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 14 hours 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 13 hours 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.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 hours ago
The food is also going to be shit like bugs or lab-made pink paste.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 13 hours 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.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Library? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 12 hours ago
Libraries are basically the only remaining third space, but they don’t fill the same need as the original commentor. Libraries don’t have places for kids to run around, be noisy, and climb things. That would be awesome though
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Libraries don’t have playgrounds, and don’t allow food, drink, or birthday parties with friends.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Instead of McCafe, it should be “McSoylent”.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Would you like a 64 oz McEnergy with your McSoylent?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
“I’ve exhausted my monthly ration allowance for McEnergy, so I’ll have to pass today.”
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
More like hambinger
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
The harburgler of doom. Robble robble!
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The order needs to be reversed. People don’t really read from the bottom up.
Asafum@feddit.nl 15 hours ago
“You are in McDonald’s. Consume and exit.”
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
depends how they do it. Nothing says “we’re a legit chinese restaurant” more than getting the “fuck off oranges” when you’re done.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 10 hours ago
Welcome to McDonald’s, the All-American Restaurant, papers please
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Oh, it’s been harbinged. We’re in it.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s the same thing that happened to the fair phone regarding the audio jack
The noisy minority wants it, they yell, write on forums and complain, but they are statically nonsignificant as people keep buying the phone
Same with colors. Why waste millions on cars and buildings dyed with colors no one might want instead of appealing to the broader consumer base?
They are also are influenced by and influencing fashion and trends in color choice as well, just look at minimalism and brutalism. It is also cheaper and more efficient on the design and manufacturing to offer things in less specialized coloration
Proof is that people keep buying stuff
Same as with furniture. There is a reason why Ikea is a whole thing
Going into the meta, imagine someone wants to buy a car. Inevitably, they will think as well on the day they will sell the car. What are you gonna buy? A car painted in a weird color? Or something that you know for sure no one will mind THAT much?
Ithat, or you can go with the theory of the Pixies finally doing their takeover
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 39 minutes ago
McDonald’s use to be a place for kids. They have since rebranded to let people know there’s stuff on the menu that’s for adults.
Much of marketing to Americans is treating everyone like a monkey and using colors to trick them into buying your stuff.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I mean, I wouldn’t say no to a brutalist McDonald’s.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 2 hours ago
That’s fair.
pawnfuture@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It should be a hole underground.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
80s : Pizza hut
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I miss it every day. That salad bar. The cups. The lamps. I wonder what things of today I’ll miss in 40 years.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
Being alive. 😉
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That salad bar. The cups. The lamps.
My god, it even has a drinks fountain.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
McDonalds: Fuck you I’m eating! / Home of the Extra Bigass Fries
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I was so sure that movie was hyperbole.
rakete@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Adapting to their growing customers
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
There’s the hauntingly predatory nature I was struggling to portray.
inlandempire@jlai.lu 15 hours ago
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
If I saw that in America I’d think it used to be a Starbucks.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And god knows McDonald’s wouldn’t want to be confused with inferior coffee.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Looks about the same in Sweden. Wood panels with green accents together with the golden arches
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 12 hours ago
Same(ish) here in the Netherlands. The fact that the near vicinity isn’t entirely asphalt and concrete, due to there not being 300 parking spaces for a fast food place, probably helps it not feel like a Nazi bunker.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
needs to change the sign and logo to be more brutalist as well
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You’re entirely right, but you might be writing cheques my 5-year-old phone can’t cash.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The soon one makes sense 'cause of global warming. We don’t be able to do it like the good old times.
cobysev@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I was born in the early '80s. The 2000s picture was what my McDonald’s always looked like throughout my childhood. I’ve never seen a McDonald’s that looked like the '90s pic.
The 2020 pic shows current McDonald’s, but they changed to that sometime in the mid-2010s.
toddestan@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That 1990’s McDonald’s picture is the specific restaurant that was across the entrance from the Dallas Zoo, hence the animal theme. While it’s now remodeled and much more dull, it still looked like the picture up until just a few years ago. In any case, it’s not typical of what a McDonald’s has ever looked like.
As someone born around the same time as you, I do remember when the typical McDonald’s had a bright red roof with the yellow lights, which the 2000’s pic is a toned-down version of.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Ahhh gotta love the brutalist architecture.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Just insert the mcnuggets tube into your throat, sir, and the credits will be deducted from your daily quota
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Brutalist fast food restaurants? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Fuckin love me some brutalism
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
If it were borne out of a progressive, socialist democracy, I’d be on board. Auth-right brutalist fast food would be a horror show.
grue@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Upton Sinclair has entered the chat
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
McNormandy opens June 2026
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Don’t give them any more ideas.
atlien51@lemm.ee 54 minutes ago
The 2000s was perfect