Thread 21555632

Why is this happening?

>>21555632 (OP)
>Cleaning up your trashy image is LE BAD!

private equity/VC money
the classic pump n dump
>slash costs
>reduce portions slightly
>rebrand slightly
>introduce 1 or 2 new things
>post record profits for a quarter or two before consumers catch on and stop going
>entire brand is now ruined

this is the well-deserved fate of businesses trying to appeal to millennialls

Same thread(s), every single day, for the rest of your life

>>21555678
>this is the well-deserved fate of businesses trying to appeal to millennialls
millenialls actually experienced whats on the left and actively miss it(and blockbuster)

Friendly reminder that the inherant efficiency of design, insulation and new heat pumps cut down alot of overhead costs over time.

I can cool or heat that building over 150% better than just 10 years ago. In places like Florida, arizona and children can consent areas I can put in heat pump hot water tanks that will naturally air condition the room at no additional cost.

It may not be pretty, but the objective is to make money and cut overhead. I am one tiny block in that infrastructure.

>>21555678
I'm millennial and I like left

>>21555701
I am an elder millennial and I vote right

>>21555693
>>21555701
corporate marketing departments want their restaurants to be """instagrammable""".
they abandoned family-friendliness for the terminally online rebbit user who needs to take a photo of their food before they eat it.

>>21555632 (OP)
The modern fast food restaurant sees your purchase as transactional, they want to you pay, get your food and get out. Ideally, you never dine in, everything is taken home or eaten in your car. Thats less money they need to spend on cleaning up or maintaining the illusion of cleanliness. Remember most of these places are ran by immigrants.

>>21555693
no one misses that old disgusting fast food shit. you neets are stuck in the fucking past

>>21555632 (OP)
Jews

>>21555678
Nail Jakshitter filth to a cross

>>21555706
lies why fuck would you want boring grey lifeless corporate design

>>21555726
even if you dont eat there you have to see it everytime you are on the road I want to see left

Jews

Somewhere along the line there was a board meeting where an overpaid tard with a marketing degree showcased a powerpoint presentation that "proved" these kind of buildings attract 1% more costumers on average

>>21555786
I meant politically. Efficiency wise, I don't care. I live in beauty, I don't need to go into my nearest town and have to pay for their inspired shit with high overhead that's passed on to me. Make the food, give it to me... done.

This doesn't apply to sit down actual restaurants. Just cheap places like this when you want some food and not have to worry about getting dressed up.

>>21555724
I find it funny that you retards will be the first ones going to these places, but pretend you don't online.

Real answer is so they can quickly repurpose the building when a franchise folds. If everything looks like a box then it's easy to switch from Taco Bell to Pizza Hut to a nail salon to a cell store and then back to a McDonald's.

>>21555901
does the corporation own the building or does the franchise? would it be possible that mcdonalds owned one of these buildings and leased said building out to a taco bell franchisee?

>>21555632 (OP)
Minimalism costs less to make and is easier to resell, and if all companies collectively decide to enshittify that means consumers have no better options.

Addiction.

>>21555901
That's assuming the plywood and cardboard box thrown up haphazardly by the cheapest migrant labor they can get will last more than a decade or so, by the time the nail salon gets it the place will barely be standing.

>>21555924
How are there so many goddamned nail salons out there? Is there some bigass nail salon company that instalocks a spot in every shitty minimall on earth?

>>21555924
>plywood and cardboard box

No, those things are generally steel and cinderblock on a poured slab to keep within fire codes. They can stick around for decades.

>>21555928
half are fronts for whatever the viets or similar that own them are actually up to

>>21555632 (OP)
Zoning
Its the same thing with the entire residential sector
>Why is everything a soulless box!!??!1
Thank Karens and your local zoning board

>>21555729
>they want to you pay, get your food and get out
This was literally the entire point from the beginning. Ray Kroc's emphasis on this was what made mcdonalds mcdonalds. Books have be written about it. I swear fucking half of current culture starts here as a joke and then spreads until retards take it seriously

>>21556143
stop making shit up because you were memed into watching some youtube essay

>>21556132
That has absolutely nothing to do with it. You're retarded and wrong and just making shit up.

IDK THERES A LOT OF WEIRD SHIT GOIN ON AYE BRO

>>21556155
I read about this before youtube even existed when I was like 12 you retard, Kroc himself spoke very clearly about how the entire point was for people to eat and fuck off. It's a foundational idea about how to run a business so common that literal children learn about it like they learn about Henry Ford and the assembly line. It's even in the name "fast food".

if I didn't know better, and sadly in this case I do, I'd say you were a leftist trying to make us look stupid

>>21555632 (OP)
if they were still like they were on the left, as in the 90s, i would take my kids to them.
but im paying over priced, low quality slop with no imagination put into the interior.

>>21555806
>live in beauty
pics

>>21555632 (OP)
Late Stage Capitalism

>>21555632 (OP)
Because the 20th century was half a century ago .

>>21556195
Shouldn’t you be back in school?

The buildings on the right can be repurposed when they fail.

The ones on the left got meme status when they were repurposed and you KNOW what they used to be.

>>21556438
>before youtube even existed
>when I was like 12

just do me a favor and don't post about cultural or political issues because you make the side I generally align with look retarded

>>21555632 (OP)
Is that Pizza Hut image even real?

>>21555806
>Just cheap places like this when you want some food
None of these places are cheap anymore

>>21555696

Indeed and considering it's been years since I've been inside a fast food joint, who cares what it looks like.

>>21555638
You mean rebranding.
Rebranding is hugely risky.
>Let's get rid of the Nike shwoop and maybe make it more phallic for modern ZEST!
how about everyone is vax cattle prion food and need all the help they can recognizing the slop that they are the target audience of.

>>21555632 (OP)
Most of these restaurants profits worth comes from property value first and food profits second. It's a lot easier to sell the building on the right than it is the building on the left because it doesn't look like McDonald's and looks like it could literally be anything else.

>>21555904
Sometimes the buildings are owned by some semi-local corporate entity that leases out buildings to people or other semi-local corporate entities who have acquired a franchise license, sometimes they're own directly by the people or semi-local corporate entities who aquire the licenses and may even be used as collateral for the loans to get yet another building to do the same shit with in the next town over.

>>21556891
*Worth not profits worth
Sorry I'm a retarded phonefag

>>21555901
That is the answer and it is a reasonable one, but I feel like there could be a compromise for aesthetics if brands really wanted to. It shouldn't be that hard for McDonald's to attach their signature roof as a cheap facade that could be easily removed.

>>21555638
>Cleaning up
ruining
>trashy
comfy

>>21555632 (OP)
Cubemerica. Everything must be cube for matching cube in telephone app and maximize space for more cubes on the map

This is as good an explanation as I've heard, at least for the logos.

>>21557325
That explanation is retarded

>>21555802
This.
And you just know the survey was something like "We showed 100 Boomers the building on the right and asked if they thought it looked nice and 99% of them said "Sure, i guess""

>>21557329
Why? UIs got fucked up to fit phone aesthetics/functionality; this seems like more of the same.

>>21557381
don't worry, he doesn't know what a UI is

>>21555632 (OP)
Nobody's actually eating inside those places it's mostly drive-thru or delivery. They'll all be ghost kitchens eventually.

>>21556128
>half are fronts for whatever the viets or similar that own them are actually up to
This. It's a mill for green cards or possibly some kind of indentured servantide. I think these people owe monies they are working off. I bet they don't get to keep their tips, either.

>>21555632 (OP)
noo not muh heckin goyslop corporate products

>>21557329
Fitting, as this reality is also retarded

>>21556891
No excuse. Even ramshackle wild west towns bothered putting up facades to make their rectangle buildings look interresting.

>>21557321
Get back in your cube, cubeling.