For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America’s highways. You’d drive by Howard Johnson’s with its orange roofs and then pass Pizza Hut’s red-topped huts. A few more miles and there was the roadside White Castle with its turrets. Arby’s roof was shaped like a wagon and Denny’s resembled a boomerang. And then McDonald’s, with its neon golden arches towering above its restaurants.
The two 25-foot bright yellow sheet-metal arches that rose through the McDonald’s buildings were tall enough to attract drivers amid the clutter of other roadside buildings, their neon trim gleaming day and night. McDonald’s design set off a wave of similar Googie-style architecture at fast-food chains nationwide.
1. The importance of the behavior decreases, so does the corresponding place. 2. The way people locate places is increasingly shifting from visual guidance to personal information tools.
Good thing CNN is here to tell us how to eat. You talk to people like they are children.
Not to mention the almost complete absence of fast food mascots like Izzy The Insulin Baron & McFibrillator.
Charm Fast Food?
People still eat McDonald's?
Its Mine Mcdonalds Restaurants My Business It Started Since To My Grandfather.
If they designed things the Cool way they used to, they come up with some kind of excuse that they would have to double the price of their Meals.