McDonalds at Budapest’s West railway station before and after recent renovation

Cheeseburgers eat THE ASS of people who sit on their faces and eat their family?

I miss the time where everything had a distinct identity. Shapes, colors, a bit of imagination…

The motto now seems to be sterile, monochrome, uniform design; nothing must stand out. Subway station? Moved from colorful place with art stuff on the walls to white, squarey area. Fast-food? two-colors, no decoration (except for advertisement collaboration of course). Store? Bland aisles full of items, no billboard, no nothing.

All logo are converging toward a single letter/shape with no feature. All UI must be full of empty space and devoid of lines/distinctive features, with components similar across everything. Gadgets and gizmo? Smooth, uniform, nothing extravagant.

No wonder every time anything with a bit of personality comes out it's acclaimed to no end.

They also rotated 180* and had a spring return to center so it was fun to swing your legs back and forth in the air

Everything is so fiscally optimized, it's kind of gross, absolutely no character to just designing things to be part of an experience.

They do this because it offers corporate more flexibility when it comes to selling a place.

I understand that they stopped marketing fast food as fun and towards kids for a reason but damn do I miss 90s McDonald's

Look at what they took from us.

Nothing like dragging your junk across those eyes over and over while eating your nuggets.

A yes, the Reagan era.

Wait, 1983?

Where are the ashtrays?

No! You guys were always imperialist pigs

I'm so old...

The 80s & 90s had some wild style.

Late to the party but I'll chip in my anecdotal evidence of the local Hungry Jacks that looked like this up until circa 2021:

It was then fully renovated and my immediate reaction was just, what have they done... I don't have a picture of that particular HJs post reno but they all literally look the same seldom floorplan, so here's one with identical design language.

The old one almost felt like an American diner with the red glistening seats, the ceiling neons, the diamond tiled floors.

We had clearly defined enemies back then and they weren't us.

Username checks out.

Ig McDonald's went with minimalism approach.

Take out the nostalgia and what you're left with is kitsch fast food advertising for children