McDonald’s looks like it went from being a happy kid to a depressed adult like many of us…
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Why is everything so drab and colorless nowadays?
Lol this looks like one of those “This is what they took from us,” posts.
They had to get rid of kids marketing due to healthy eating trends.
Also, those play pens were notoriously dirty. I think there was a popular (pre-internet) TV news reporting that should how much feces was in those play pen things and McDonald’s slowly began removing them and banning them.
What seems like a cheerful spot feels more like a prison—where you check in, eat your meal in silence, and leave, hoping no unstable person is lurking near your car.
Truly, the past was better, or at least that’s how I remember it. [Do you remember these things? Such nostalgia.](https://screach.org/w14m1r)
Fast food places are no longer a guaranteed investment. The building owner wants to make sure he could be turned into another if it goes belly up.
Too many sueing at the playgrounds
Getting DMV vibes.
McBunker
When you found out your friend was having his bday party at McDonald’s it was great.
I mean kids should stay away from McDonald‘s
It’s all about $$$ now
Probably change to get it’s appeal to the same audience that gave them their fortune . The now addicted to various items that reappear every year 😉
I guess they got tired of kids taking a mcpoop in the play ground smh
I just ordered a bigmac menu for a long time.
The fries where good, but that burger. Omg
The taste was terrible. Its like eating rubber with toxic sauce. Never again. Keep your kids away!
The biggest change is now all these restaurants are focused on the drive thru as it’s their biggest source of revenue. Starbucks has been ruthlessly closing as many of their stores as they can that don’t have drive thrus, and McDo is following suit.
Like if you had a stand alone cafeteria building at the prison
Ppl started protesting it was too kid-friendly and caused generations of obesity
I’m not exactly mad that fast food places arent screaming even extra loud at children to come eat there.
You truly have to be a gigantic individual to care about the exterior of mcdonalds this much.
Kinda feel like unhealthy fast food joints not trying to directly appeal to children isn’t a bad thing honestly
I think covid killed play places too. I’ve noticed a few chick fil as tearing theirs down to make room for more dining.
Also, when you go inside it sounds like an ICU at the hospital with all the beeping, alarms going off behind the counter.
u/Abigdogwithbread why did you take the photo, crop out the title, then post the title as your own?
I watched half of The Founder today and I can’t stop thinking about how they were reluctant to franchise because they didn’t want to lose oversight of the quality.
I miss the old mcdonalds
There’s a lesson on late stage capitalism here
Real time representation
I still think the blue McDonald’s in Arizona is my favorite.
I remember being young. We never really ate fast food unless we were on the road. I used to get so excited when I saw those arches. I’m hoping to see the colors of a play place towering over the actual building as we turned off the freeway. Nothing lasts forever.
It’s not worth visiting, the food is shite, expensive and you’ll wait an eternity then your order will be wrong
Indoor playground makes more sense than an outdoor when it comes to a place to dine in but the new building design is just so boring
Preschool to Prison
I remember driving my brother 45 minutes to the best one in town for play dates, all day.
I remember really liking it the first time I saw a restaurant present a more “modern” look like this. But then they all started to do it and now it seems like all corporate design in the US looks the same and appears lifeless from their logos to their buildings.
Happy kids playing in the bouncy castle was a trick to sell more burgers. Who knew?
Playground to a prison. Food matches the trend, overpriced over greasy garbage.
Couldn’t have summer winter apple pie johnson getting hurt on the playground.
If you are an adult who still goes to McDonalds then yup. You should be depressed.