[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Depressing stuff from the global corporations.

PING!

[Vaquero]

If you demand workers get a minimum wage…you wind up with machines doing the work. Simple math

[Moonman62]

If grouchy old John Horvat II doesn’t like it he can still go to a fancy restaurant.

[Ken H]

I will miss the brawls on Youtube.

Oh well, there’s still Chucke E Cheese.

[colorado tanker]

Call me crazy, but I don’t get warm fuzzies dining in a McDonalds. If I’m going to have Mickey-D’s I’m fine with taking it home. In fact, that’s mostly what I do now.

[dfwgator]

Enjoy your *BIG ASS FRIES*!

[Dr. Sivana]

The original McDonald’s, like the present day Sonics, were take out only. You can get your food quickly and still enjoy a leisurely meal in your car, or take you f back home or to work. Nothing new here.

[Tax-chick]

I get that the author is upset, but goodness gracious, go calm down, dear. Perhaps a nice Restorative Beverage would help.

Some people sit around and eat food at McDonald’s. Some people sit around so long that the staff ask them to leave! Okay, you don’t like the food. Neither do I, but I didn’t like a lot of what my mother cooked at home, either, especially when Dad was at sea and she was practicing frugality.

Carry-out food sellers have been a feature of urban life for as long as urban life has existed. Poor, city people couldn’t cook at home in the bad old days, because they’d burn their whole city block down and thousands would die. A writer with “Tradition” in his website title should know this stop and desist from hyperventilating about takeout food.

[-YYZ-]

There’s basically just a few things I want when I got to a place like McDonalds:

I want my food, fast.
I want it hot and (some reasonable approximation of) fresh.
I want my order filled correctly.

Don’t care about decor or signage, and I can’t remember the last time I actually ate in a McDonalds restaurant. OK, that’s not true, I actually ended up there several times while on a motorcycle tour recently. But as a general rule I’m just hitting the drive-thru.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

So what does a Robot Spit onto your food, it’s nuts?

[2ndDivisionVet]

We had that in Denton, Texas 5 years ago. Drive-thru only.

[Red Badger]

I like it. No one to spit on your food...................

[jonrick46]

Hamburger assembly machines will be next. Customer orders will be auto packed. The robot machinery will be assembled in third world companies by cheap labor.

[bigbob]

Perfect! I don’t stop there for chat or works of art. Just like the self-checkouts at Walmart, in and out in the shortest time is what I want.

[LeoTDB69]

Great format for travellers who just want to get off the road for a bit and grab a bite. Where do they take out to?

[TBP]

This is what minimum-wage laws do.

[Responsibility2nd]

What you won’t see at the new McDonald’s to Go are any dining facilities. The new format is exclusively take-out. There are no tables, chairs or any decoration at the locations. The walls are gray and expressionless to get the customer in and out as quickly as possible. Even the storefront outside is bare with minimal signage beyond some small yet familiar golden arches.

So? This is exactly how McDonald's were in the 60's. Maybe they are returning to a tried and true model.

[jimjohn]

I reject the premise of the entire article.
The main reason I avoid McDonalds is due to lack of speed - consistent at every McDs I visit.

Back in the day, I worked at a Wendys. We had 60 seconds to have an order ready from drive-thru. 45 seconds inside during lunch rush.

Compare that to today.

[mykroar]

Consequences . . . .

[YogicCowboy]

Automat.