The world has become Applefied.

Snowpix , 2 months ago

They do that partially to encourage people not to sit down and eat inside for a long time. They want you in, buying their trash, and GTFO quickly after. They make the seats intentionally uncomfortable so you don’t stay for long.

FlyingSquid OP , 2 months ago

It also discourages “them” from sitting there with their dirty unwashed clothes and body when they dared to only buy one thing with the money they were able to panhandle.

Wouldn’t want to let such people have a warm place to sit that wasn’t the public library, now would we? By the way, when do we close down the public library?

ricdeh , 2 months ago

Source?

PunnyName , 2 months ago

The kiosks are great. I can more easily customize my McChickens, and they almost always come out boiling lava hot.

FlyingSquid OP , 2 months ago

and they almost always come out boiling lava hot.

That does not sound pleasant.

That’s why I don’t get their apple pie.

PunnyName , 2 months ago

It’s pleasant because it’s not like luke warm. It means it’s fresh.

I can let it cool, or nuke the roof of my mouth; choice matters!

FlyingSquid OP , 2 months ago

If hot was the same as fresh, you wouldn’t be able to heat up day-old Chinese takeout.

Swedneck , 2 months ago

The move toward self-serve stuff is actually revolutionary for people who don’t like constant social interactions, i have autism and holy shit just 10 years ago i would have been spending all my social energy just talking to cashiers.

Raiderkev , 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/acd4f8aa-f2a0-42ca-a4c4-b79bd5d20321.png

This guy was in the lobby at the McDonald’s in the local mall jamming on a self playing piano throughout my childhood. Now it’s just a bland, boring lifeless shell of its former self.

set_secret , 2 months ago

more like a hospital 🏥 than a prison.

johannesvanderwhales , 2 months ago

Seems to me like there’s a pretty wide variety of McDonald’s interiors.

Binthinkin , 2 months ago

Their food is absolute garbage do not eat there.

The fancy look is just what everyone else is doing.

America doesn’t actually have style. They have architectural and design dickheads throw shit at a wall and we have to put up with it and that’s what winds up in peoples homes.

And I have remodeled some homes to look like McDonalds and the client doesn’t even recognize it.

It’s so sad.

BautAufWasEuchAufbaut , 2 months ago

And I have remodeled some homes to look like McDonalds and the client doesn’t even recognize it.

Can you elaborate on that story?

boonhet , 2 months ago

It’s been in style for a while

Saddest part is, I also default to this sort of appearance. Though if I do see a cozy place, I like it - but if you asked me to design something, it would be millennial gray. I have no imagination.

JusticeForPorygon , 2 months ago

I hope Gen Z fixes this when we’re running the businesses.

Swedneck , 2 months ago

i’m praying gen Z fixes this by telling corporations to fuck off and going back to how fast food worked for most of human civilization: just random people selling stuff from their kitchen, basically.

fun fact: at least in rome it was basically standard for most people to eat “fast food”, the streets were jam packed with various little food shops.

JusticeForPorygon , 2 months ago

I think that’s still the case in some places, take countries like Korea or Vietnam, where street food is everywhere and it won’t literally kill you to live off of it.

tacosanonymous , 2 months ago

I don’t like McDonald’s. I’m just old enough that the Play Place thing wasn’t for me.

But I’ve got family that likes that stuff, especially the kids. The one closest to my house was kept to look like a 50/60’s diner with murals of rock n roll musicians and an old school juke box (with the lil baby singles records).

It was a pleasant, if not fun, setting. They gutted it to look like the prison picture.

luckyman2 , 2 months ago

I miss the looks of the 90's McDonald's restaurants

thorbot , 2 months ago

Hurrdurr Apple bad

FlyingSquid OP , 2 months ago

Please tell me five good things about Apple.

thorbot , 2 months ago

Why would I waste my time talking to a brick wall

FlyingSquid OP , 2 months ago

In other words, you can’t.

boonhet , 2 months ago

Fuck it, I love playing devil’s advocate.

1. Seamless integration between their products (at the cost of having to be in their walled garden)
2. Best, smoothest mobile UX out there (and I’ve used many Androids, including custom ROMs)
3. Moving their computers from from x86 to ARM (much better power consumption to performance ratio). This will likely improve Linux ARM support too, as people use Asahi on Apple Silicon Macs and more packages are then created for ARM.
4. Taking active part in creating industry standards (such as USB-C, which they admittedly should’ve adopted on their phones long ago, but they DID promise not to change plugs for 10 years when moving to Lightning).
5. Macbooks don’t bend like a lot of plastic non-Apple laptops do. Their batteries also seem to last longer - might be anecdotal, but I’ve fixed thousands of laptops, easily over a thousand Macbooks produced in the 2010-2017 era (I quit that job in 2019).

Swedneck , 2 months ago

hurrdurr “hurdurr apple bad”

shalafi , 2 months ago

This is mostly because they don’t want you eating inside. Maintaining a dining room takes extra staff and other expenses.

dullbananas , 2 months ago

This post brings back a recent memory of my high school senior field trip to Disneyland where we went to the nearby McDonald’s first, and trying to do hygene stuff in the crowded bathroom felt so ghetto, and then at the tables while other kids were talking I was writing a comment on a pull request on Lemmy’s GitHub repository