r/interestingasfuck • u/Charming_History7423 • 11d ago

/r/all McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

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u/Confident-Fudge-2087 11d ago

No personality in modern McDonald’s, it looks like a soul sucking corporate office

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u/LudicrisSpeed 11d ago

Pretty much the case for all fast food places. All of them want to go for the boring-ass "mature" aesthetic like an office breakroom, forgetting that they serve low-quality hamburgers for people who just want something quick and cheap.

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u/ThatQueerWerewolf 11d ago

My family got to go to the grand reopening of our local McDonald's when it had its makeover. It used to be brightly colored and have a train running through the middle that I loved to sit in as a kid. Then we went in and everything was grey or brown, and it had a fucking water feature. The golden arches turned into an eyebrow. There was a section that said "McCafe."

I guess the point was to compete with coffee shops and get themselves to be taken a little more seriously, but I think they missed the mark. They just made themselves less fun for kids. No adult respects themselves any more for going to McDonald's just because there's less yellow inside.

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u/e4w12p1 11d ago

This feels true of basically everything nowadays