Why don't restaurants design their buildings to look like the food they're serving anymore?

how do we get this back?

>>21407544 (OP)
expensive and hurts resale value

>>21407544 (OP)
I should call her

>>21407548
>hurts resale value
This is the big one. Remember how you used to be able to tell if a store building used to house a mcdonalds or pizza hut? People didn't like that and payed less for those, so planners started using neutral, soulless designs so when the store goes under they can squeeze every cent out of it.
This is also a big reason EVERYTHING is grey, bland and cookie-cutter now, like houses and cars.

>>21407548
>expensive and hurts resale value
and they're just tenants, usually, not builder-owners

>>21407555
>>21407556
so the issue is rentierism?

>>21407560
Yes

>>21407560
Custom buildings also have higher maintenance costs. Dark colors fade faster and absorb more heat, unconventional roof shapes are more likely to leak, you might need to special order replacement parts, or need to rent equipment to reach certain heights that would be accessible with a perfectly simple square box.

>>21407544 (OP)
Real estate. The entity that owns the land and building leases to the company that operates there, in most cases. Imagine if you owned a piece of land with a big ass donut on it but the donut shop closes down or doesn't resign their lease. Now you've gotta rent out a piece of land with some dumbass donut no one cares about. Way easier to own and rent out a grey flat box instead.

>>21407549
You used to eat there together? Sweet.

>>21407544 (OP)
because the world isnt a fucking amusement park
unless you're a westerner in japan of course

>>21407544 (OP)
30 years of people mocking it for being tacky and kitsch at best, and predatory at worst.

>>21407555
>so when the store goes under they can squeeze every cent out of it
And a lot of restaurants fail btw

>>21407560
capitalism*

>>21408135
capitalism created the situation they could exist in
government-corporation incest created the renter hellscape we're in

>>21408135
Even adam smith hated rentiers.

>>21408173
Adam Smith never once used the term "capitalism" and the economic system he described bares essentially no resemblance to capitalism.

>>21407586
It also won't get the foot traffic it used to. People aren't taking road trips, which is where these kinds of gimmicks became an attraction. Now it would just hurt business since locals are gonna favor something low key and understated

>>21407544 (OP)
Fat people would try to eat the buildings.