New McDonald'ses too ugly to eat in

[codyg1985]

The inside of the new McDonald's that has been built close to me (in Meridianville, AL) looks like something straight out of the 70's. I think it is hideous.

As of recently, this McDonald's in Muscle Shoals, AL still has a classic arch, but I'm not sure if it is original: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.746778,-87.6676565,3a,75y,62.25h,89.12t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI1N3Ce77N-6kt_UAFlTugA!2e0

[Billy F 1988]

Ah, McDicks! The place where you get your nuggets made from a disgusting chicken paste, the beef is zapped with poo, and the drinks are high in acid.

[GCrites]

The inside of the new McDonald's that has been built close to me (in Meridianville, AL) looks like something straight out of the 70's. I think it is hideous.

As of recently, this McDonald's in Muscle Shoals, AL still has a classic arch, but I'm not sure if it is original: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.746778,-87.6676565,3a,75y,62.25h,89.12t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI1N3Ce77N-6kt_UAFlTugA!2e0

That's a late '90s design. There's ones like that on the South Side and at Easton in Columbus OH.

[Pete from Boston]

Speaking of ugly, I'm eager to see how the nutrient recycling program has progressed:

http://youtu.be/ZP_nNemsNT8

[jdb1234]

The inside of the new McDonald's that has been built close to me (in Meridianville, AL) looks like something straight out of the 70's. I think it is hideous.

There was one in Huntsville that until a few years ago had an old school McDonald's sign.

As of recently, this McDonald's in Muscle Shoals, AL still has a classic arch, but I'm not sure if it is original: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.746778,-87.6676565,3a,75y,62.25h,89.12t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sI1N3Ce77N-6kt_UAFlTugA!2e0

There is one in Mobile with that same style.

As for me it has been nearly a year since I have stepped foot in a McDonald's (the one in the Walmart that I work in doesn't count).

[roadman]

Ah, McDicks! The place where you get your nuggets made from a disgusting chicken paste, the beef is zapped with poo, and the drinks are high in acid.

Anybody else remember the 1960s parody of the original McDonald's jingle

McDonalds is your kind of place
They serve you rattlesnakes
They throw pies in your face
They steal your license plates

So if you like rattlesnakes
Or pies thrown in your face
Or stolen license plates
Then McDonalds is your kind of place

[Pete from Boston]

When I think "McDonald's" and "1960s," this frightening image is the first thing that comes to mind:

[jakeroot]

When I think "McDonald's" and "1960s," this frightening image is the first thing that comes to mind:

It's like some weird sci-fi film from the 40s...genuinely frightening in retrospect, but maybe cool when it came out?

[Pete from Boston]

When I think "McDonald's" and "1960s," this frightening image is the first thing that comes to mind:

It's like some weird sci-fi film from the 40s...genuinely frightening in retrospect, but maybe cool when it came out?

I look at Willard Scott as Ronald McDonald and think, "Run, kids. RUN!"

[GCrites]

I ate in an Eyebrow of Doom. Man was it ugly. They had a TV on showing the NASCAR race, but it had a ton of glare on that so it kinda ruined it. Will still try to avoid Eyebrows of Doom in the future, but there really are a lot of them getting built.

[Pete from Boston]

I ate in an Eyebrow of Doom. Man was it ugly. They had a TV on showing the NASCAR race, but it had a ton of glare on that so it kinda ruined it. Will still try to avoid Eyebrows of Doom in the future, but there really are a lot of them getting built.

The number of them built will soon equal the number of McDonald's restaurants. 

Some of the design choices are odd.  In one I saw a round table in a dark-wood alcove with a pendant light with a shade, like it was in some kind of cocktail lounge.  The same restaurant had a too-tall, all-galvanized pergola ringing a concrete patio for what had to be the coldest-feeling eating environment designed since the Berlin Wall fell.

[GCrites]

Oh and I hate high stools in fast food places. A lot of Eyebrows of Doom have a mix of high stools, regular booths and chairs. Stools like that belong in bars and I've noticed that you rarely see them in actual use by fast food patrons.

[Pete from Boston]

Oh and I hate high stools in fast food places. A lot of Eyebrows of Doom have a mix of high stools, regular booths and chairs. Stools like that belong in bars and I've noticed that you rarely see them in actual use by fast food patrons.

It's funny you say that, because in that same McDonald's I was in the other day, I took note of the fact that the high-tops were all filled while there were most of the other seats around the restaurant were open.

[GCrites]

Perhaps there is a regionality to the interest in high tops that McDonald's failed to notice.

[Pete from Boston]

Perhaps there is a regionality to the interest in high tops that McDonald's failed to notice.

Could be.  I remember some restaurants in the 1970s/1980s having specialized seating sections that always filled up first, like one with a sort of 70s-Victorian gazebo within one.

[GCrites]

Or people wanting to sit in the middle part that was elevated by a step or two. Presumably to watch the other partons. Nowadays restaurants don't have those.

[jakeroot]

Or people wanting to sit in the middle part that was elevated by a step or two. Presumably to watch the other partons. Nowadays restaurants don't have those.

Ignoring the fact that you probably mean "recently constructed", all of my local Arbys have raised dining areas.

[GCrites]

True; in this case I was talking sit-down since it seemed the discussion had shifted to that.

[jakeroot]

True; in this case I was talking sit-down since it seemed the discussion had shifted to that.

Indeed, it did. And you're right, new restaurants don't seem to have any particular special eating areas (raised areas and the like). The coolest thing I've seen recently is at some of the McDonalds, where some of the contemporary furniture kind of overhangs the chairs, so it feels like you're eating in a cocoon of sorts. Strange, I know, but it's cool to sit under.