r/interestingasfuck • u/Charming_History7423 • 12d ago

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

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u/Kimberlylynn2003 12d ago

Did they change to stop marketing toward kids or just wanted modern?

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u/dalgeek 12d ago

Probably wanted to charge more and also cycle customers through faster. Most people don't want to visit a place with a bunch of screaming kids running around, and if a family is taking up a table for an hour then that's fewer customers who can use that able. Bigger menu, higher prices, more customer traffic = way more money.

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u/PapaBorq 11d ago

It'll kill em in the long run though. Remember Pizza Hut? They used to have small parking lots, intentionally. That way it always looked packed, and it was cause everyone was like 'we better go now or we'll never get in! " Now is a shell of its former self.

I stopped in McDonald's last week and there were maybe 3 tables with people. At lunch. It's a ghost town now.