Why do people still go to McDonald's in 2026 lol.
>>21835874Watch some YouTube videos of people eating McDonald's in SE Asia or like Japan and Korea.It's unbelievable. The burgers actually look like the menu pictures. And the price is 1/4 price of western countries.It's like going back in time to 1980s US McDonald's quality
>>21835874i don't care how skinny you are, there's no way having your chairs attached to the wall is safer than just having regular chair legs. i've seen toilet seats like that too, weirds me out.
>>21835888I had KFC in china while on a work trip and was absolutely blown away by the quality. It was actually crunchy, savory and moist everything you'd want from fried chicken. And it wasn't in one of the cities it was just a random location in bum fuck nowhere but still amazed me.
>>21835874McDonalds is unironically the expensive fast food here, I don't know if it's the same everywhere because I know prices vary from location to location.Burger king? Two whopper MEALS will be like $8. Jack in The box? Two meals, $10. McDoonalds? Single sandwich, $8. Fries are $3.50 for a small. It's absolutely hilarious.
>>21835874I really don’t know - I eat fast food every other day but it’s never mcdonalds. Every single thing they do is better at one or more of their competitors
>>21835893It was easier to mop and could easily support 300lbs. No way someone bigger than that would be going outside, right? Just imagine the shame.
>>21835893But I really really really don't like the sound chairs make when they move with legs
>>21835898In Taiwan, I discovered Big Macs were only 78 TWD which is $2.47 USD. I bought 1, and thought "hmm, that was tasty". Bought two more extra lettuce, extra onions, no sauce, no cheese (no extra cost!!!) and took them home. Ate them as soon as I sat down at my desk.
>>21835898Dunno where you are, but if you're in the US you must not have gone to BK in a while. I got coupons yesterday and a single large Whopper meal is $8 while two medium meals are $15. I'd imagine the regular menu prices are several dollars more than that.
>>21835895Chinese know their fried food. If KFC tried to sell soggy chicken there they would be out of business quite quickly.
>>21835874Why do people get fast food in general? For the same money, you can get food that wasn't heated up in a microwave. The whole value proposition of frankly everything has been turned on it's head. For a $2 difference, of course I'd rather go to a place that actually cooks its food.
>>21835976They call you the american at there and when the employees get back home they tell their wife today the american ate three burgers all by himself, which none of them won't believe.A decade later they'll still talk about the day the american ate three burgers in disbelief. After few generations you'll become a folk tale character who ate three dumplings all by himself and turned into a pig, which is the reason why sun disappears at night:you fuckin ate them all.
>>21835874>What went wrong?leftism.
>>21835893They're not attached to the wall. They're on a steel frame that goes into the concrete floor. That frame doesn't contact the wall at all.
>>21836093>>21835893For me, it's the plants.The restaurant looks friendlier and more human when there are plants lol.
>>21836051and billionaires importing a neo serf class. the working class and all Americans are getting fucked from both sides
>>21835874Some people are retarded and fat (because they're retarded). Those people don't care that McDonalds is bad, so they go anyway.
>>21835874There's a bottom line. Companies answer to a CEO and a board of directors, and they in turn answer to the shareholders. People who bought part of a company expect the company (their shares) to grow. The board of directors has 2-3 choices: either increase volume, increase profit/portion or lower production costs with shit staff and no interior.Meanwhile here you are: the connoisseur, laughing his ass off. You know better: you make a pasta alla marinara, the ultimate cheap, delicious, fast and healthy dish. Without San Marzano tomatoes from the Vesuvius volcano (PDO), Ufita garlic, oregano dried whole (flowers included) nor Trapani sea salt. And you pretend your supermarket garbage is just as good, healthy, delicious and authentic as the real deal.At least McDonald's admits it serves garbage to garbage people. You on the other hand, are on a whole other level of corruption: you serve garbage to your friends and family, while pretending it's top tier.
Usually only go for breakfast/lunch before a road trip, about 5 times a year. When I went a couple weeks ago and spent $30 for 2 meals that was the breaking point where I don't think I can do it anymore.
I'm most sad about that austere and cold aesthetic they and most other fast food franchises chose to use in their design. Why is it ubiquitous? Why did all agree they had to pursue the hipster gastro pub/starbucks type thing and abandon their family friendly coziness?
>>21835874Browns.
>>21835874why did they ever go there to begin with?
Spanish? mommy im scared
>>21835888That's American fast food in almost every other country.There's a reason sales in the US specifically are on such a big decline - companies have hit against the wall with how much they can rely on The Brand (something they had to carve out market share of elsewhere) while undergoing enshittification and raising prices.>>21835898>Burger king? Two whopper MEALS will be like $8.a Whopper meal is $13.25 USD near me in the US... almost twice the cost of my states minimum wage
>>21835874its funny because they burger on the bottom left isn't even from mcdonaldspeople just throw anything together these days to get (you)s
>>21835895I've always wondered. In regions with a shit ton of local fried chicken like China and the US south do KFC's put more effort into the product quality or is it the same shit everywhere?
>>21835874why do we ALWAYS get these zoomer-tier nostalgiafag threads
>>21835936I always try to lift my chairs when pushing them in, as i don't want to scratch the floor. Now i will also do it so I'm not upsetting my misophonia frens :)
>>21836497Yes it is actually. You are just a zoomer.It's the arch deluxe. Which is something McDonald's used to sell before you were alive, people will just make up anything to discredit a thread they disagree with lol.
>>21836155>billionaires are the problemthey're not.you just need to invent a new internet.
>>21836291>Without San Marzano tomatoesPretty sure I can get these canned at the market. If they are fake, they are fake. Nothing I can do about that except sue their asses for false advertising. So you ready to go to court to testify against Big Tomato anon?
>>21836745holy based cuck, how much did you beg your boss to fuck your movie today, cuckie?
>>21835888lmao why would they? goys happily fork up $20 to guzzle up their slop
>>21836155This is why hot dog stands are the most respectable food vendors. They are actually just normal people trying to sell food. It's the easiest way to get into the food business without buying an expensive restaurant and hiring staff. Support hot doggers. Lol.
>>21835874When did McDonald's look like the left interior? My local one never looked like that and it looks fairly modern.
>>21835895The west has fallen.
>>21836745>they're not.You are genuinely retarded
>>21835874>oh no a mcdonald's hired a nigger>whatever will I do
>>21835976>Bought two more extra lettuce, extra onions, no sauce, no cheese (no extra cost!!!) and took them home. Ate them as soon as I sat down at my desk.
>>21835898I got a special the Sonic near me was offering, and it was almost $9 for a burger that was a disappointing piece of shit. I felt like such a faggot when I opened up the box and saw what I was given. Like I just was made a dumb fat gullible little burger bitch.>>21835976>no sauce>no cheese>no decency
only if i forget my lunch
>>21836488The one thing I noticed is the bigger the brand the better international markets do itSomething that still has quality service (say Chick Fil A) or a relative newcomer or still small in statue (quite a number of minnow chains) that can better control will match up or even exceed chains in Japan or Korea or Europe. Even for convenience stores.However for huge brands (Mcds, KFC, 7/11, etc) they have grown too big for any expansion in the USA so they have to cut costs to make a profit increase while against tougher competition, so the food declines hard, while this is not peaked yet in other countries so they still have to keep a quality product. So for big international brands they are always better international because they have not reached saturation peak yet like they have in the usa
>>21836465they've tried to rebrand as something for adults and not children because of ethical concerns over children becoming fatties
>>21837025>>21836488>>21835888>>21835895Fast Food Franchise in the United States deliberately set themselves into the niche of Street Food market because street food business is very difficult to establish in USA because of how spread out the cities are and how heavily CAR focused America is.Meanwhile in international countries, Fast food franchises cannot compete with Street Food on value especially since they are far more ubiquitous. Therefore the Franchises focused on a more upscale market, and thus the food need to be more upscale, hence higher quality.
I only eat at McDonalds if I'm in a shithole country and I'm about to be doing something where getting diarrhea would be an absolute disaster
>>21837686Would McDonalds be safe to eat even in India?
>>21837772no but it will be a better shot than random street stall slop since there's only one contamination vector (final prep/packaging) since it's made in a factory and shipped/stored frozen rather than like a thousand (every possible stage from meat butchery, storage, shipping, cooking, serving)
>>21835888Buy real food
>>21836051> cutting costs at the expense of qualityClassic leftism alrightt. pic rel
>>21835874I still prefer McDonalds to most other fast food places in Canada because they're not afraid to season their patties. I also appreciate how they're re-designing their restaurants to segregate the delivery counter from the dine-in counter so I don't have to experience the sights and smells of the Uber international students.
>>21836498It's the quality of the workers and how much everyone cares about their job. Compare this to USA where all fast food workers hate their job, managers, customers, and do everything half-assed with the minimum effort.
>>21835888the thing is, even if it's considered cheap, fast food slop is actually sort of a luxury in Asian countries, and most locals actually would probably rather go to a local restaurant and it'll cost less and be more filling too..
>>21836527>>21836656>40, childless, and seethinglol. lmao.
>>21835993hold over from when fast food was actually fast and cheap, or zoomzooms with the App(tm) to give the gigacorp all their data in exchange for 3 bucks off shitty chicken nuggets because this hellscape is normal for them
>>21836465>Why is it ubiquitous?the actual money in a fast food franchise now is in the real estate not the goyslop. you want to be able to sell the property the moment sales start to dip and the best way to do so is make the building as bland and soulless as possible. if prospective buyers don't have to remodel, they're more willing to buy the property quickly.plus empty stainless steel cuboids are easier to maintain. they know their workers won't give a single shit about anything because they're not paying them enough to care, so they don't want to worry about something being filthy because it would take effort to clean the upholstery.overall just further enshittification to extract the last few drops of profit out of the retards still buying fast food
>>2183678270s/80s, they started phasing it out in the 90s and the conversions were generally done by 2010 or so
/ck/: hating low quality slop while loving low quality threads
>>21836103>the restaurant looks friendlier and more human when there are macroplastics to go with my microplastics
>>21840464surely you get all the bitches. which is why you're stuck here on 4chan with me and that 40 yr old anon
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>>21835993a normal diner or something is much more unpredictable with how long they'll take to make your food, and if you get back to work from getting lunch even within the half hour but later than normal with something besides fast food everyone will be looking at you like "what the fuck, retard"this is also why fast food places aren't marketed to kids anymore, parents avoid it nowadays because feeding your kids fast food is perceived as neglectful and stupid, so the main people eating fast food are workers who're too low ranked to risk somewhere nicer taking too long
>>21836771>Lol.don't support phone posters
>>21842528Compose yourself.
They had better food, and playgrounds with unique features like two story overlooks in a fake tree or hamburger.They used to believe customers wanting to come stay in the place was a good thing. Families would laugh, adults would eat, kids could play.Then cultural enrichment happened.People in the ghetto had unsupervised kids destroying the equipment when staying half the day. Tagging and carving gang symbols into the high quality powder coat paint meant to last years of rough use. Having turf wars in the restaurant. Endless refills they don't pay for as they pocket all the available condiments and ruin the bathrooms.They realized cheaper food and nothing that keeps you any longer than needed to pick it up is ideal, and the easiest prison inspired furniture to clean if you insist on eating there has higher profit margins and lower operating costs.The modern design is an order on the app come grab it and get the hell out inspiration.
>>21836291Gay take at least if you cook at home you know Tyrone wasn’t standing on your lettuce before you ate it.
>>21835895China McDonald’s and KFC have to complete with 8888 other fried chicken joints with similar quality and comparable prices, if not cheaper in the same street. In US, I’m sure you can get good fried chicken but you’re paying premium prices (plus tip) so fast food slop joints don’t really need to compete quality wise.
>>21842689yeah we know they suck but the entire point of mcdonalds was for people to eat and leave, ray kroc said explicitly in a now quaint seeming statement that hamburger restaurants are the kind of place you wouldn't want to take your wife, populated by men in leather jackets and teenagers smoking, pretty much the entire concept of modern fast food started with the various rules he put in place to stop shitheads from hanging around the restaurant all day and scaring decent people away, which was expected at the time and is still kind of inevitable anywhere that sells cheap food and is open latethe playgrounds and hosting birthday parties era of mcdonalds that everyone here post-ironically pines for was probably more the exception, where mcdonalds focused on advertising to kids rather than adults with limited money and time like was the entire point at the beginning
>>21836973not eating theresimple as
>>21836532Based
>>21835874niggers became american gods and got immunitynow they terrorize customers and workers alike and if you do something about it, the police will come and jail youin other words, the high trust society we grew up in is de facto over and niggers took over with the help of the judical system
>>21835874Why do people go to ANY fast food chain anymore? The excuse used to be "it's supposed to be shitty because it's fast and cheap" and that worked when it was actually fast and actually cheap, but now fast food restaurants cost just as much, if not more, than dine in restaurants. The problem is that people will lower their standards if you give them a good enough excuse to do so. They've been steadily lowering the standard for decades now and we've finally reached rock bottom where the food is barely even food anymore, the portions are comically small, and the price is offensively high.
>>21835874Nothing. Times are a changin' ya zoom zoom zoomoid.
>>21843389the man asked a question, i answered that onetruth hearts, my littel brownling
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>>21835874I haven't gone to McDonald's in at least a decade. It makes me sad because I really loved eating at McDonald's when I was younger. My Dad would buy me a Big Mac value meal every Friday night as a treat. The last time I had a Big Mac on its own it just tasted like the entire thing had been made from sugar and chemicals.
>>21837677>street food is garbageindeed
>>21835874I've been to McDonald's a few times in the last couple of moths. After not having had it for like several years. The quality was OK and the meal deals were actually OK value. But. I think McDonald's should return to its original 1950s fast food ethos. Just simple and speedy and cheap. Like just sell a handful of items. And make them good. You go now and the menu is so cluttered with dumb promotional items. And too many options. There is no reason for McDonald's to have more than half a dozen menu items. I don't want to have to use a touch screen either. Just let tell them my order.
>>21835874I unironically prefer the new decorDon't get me wrong I still won't eat mcdicks except in dire situations (it's the only thing open in my train station at 2 AM for example), but I would be too embarassed to ever be seen walking into that thing on the left
>>21836051>leftism is when an independent contractor redecorates mcdonalds
>>21848075>old sloppa good>new sloppa bad
>>21848075I want a mcdonalds ashtray
>>21848585Yeah I have plenty of gripes with McDonalds but this is retarded. What's the difference between those Mario toys and Minion toys?
>>21836465Same reason they took away the benches in the cities
>>21848628Nothing other than a retard's nostalgia since those toys are made of the same plastic, are of the same quality and mass produced the same way
>>21836051>leftism is when the free market values profit over productFuck, I wish I could be retarded too sometimes.
>>21845549>be in predominantly white area>these things still got fucked up and covered in god knows whatIt was never a race thing, it was a "parents need to teach their kids how to wash their fucking hands" thing.
>>21835874>what went wrong? You never grew up.
>>21835874I miss white Americahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0bN-IzU3RU
>>21842542>don't support phone postersI’m hang gliding right now and you’re stuck in some jizz stained battlestation
Because you can get way more variety of food than you could back then and it's just as good without having to be a pedo with kids all around like you're sitting in a playground while trying to eat and if you don't want to talk to people and want to make absolutely sure that there isn't a miscommunication in your order you can order through the internet. Fast food is WAY better now than it use to be.
Take me back bros
>>21842528t-thanks for the emotional manipulation, megacorporation-san
>>21835874both pictures are mass produced junk food dealers
>>21843362this
>>21839017I like your reaction image so much I fixed it
>>21835993people are animals and have no issue totally SLOP'ing themselves up all day, every day
>>21836002There are three thoughts in this picture>I want three burgers>Oh god I’m wet>That’s it, I’m killing myself as soon as my shift is over
