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Project McDonald's: Designer 'De-Americanizes' Fast Food Uniform
Shine from Yahoo ^ | June 25, 2012 | Piper Weiss

Posted on 06/26/2012 10:32:16 AM PDT by Truth29

The new look still takes its cue from the kitchen: pickle green and mustard yellow polo shirts at the counter. Mustard-colored skinny ties and belts for managers. Lettuce green pants for customer service assistants. But the condiments cues are the only reminder of the old get-ups.

We've taken some of the Americanism out of the uniforms," the British-born Hemingway told Yahoo! Shine in an interview Monday, just a few weeks before the uniforms are rolled out at four Olympic park restaurants in London.

(Excerpt) Read more at shine.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: 2012olympics; antiamericanism; fastfood; mcdonalds; olympics; uniforms
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Barf in idea and colors
1 posted on 06/26/2012 10:32:29 AM PDT by Truth29
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I find that I can’t eat McDonalds, regardless of the colours of the uniform.

I still don’t mind Burger King or Wendy’s.

But I think Harvey’s has the best burgers. I think they put cocaine in their burgers, they are so addictive.


2 posted on 06/26/2012 10:35:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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Wow those are horrible, but McDonald’s uniforms have always been horrible.. I still remember the polyester striped white and red shirt, with black pants and fake tie I had to wear.. and the joy I had burning it the day I finally quit.


3 posted on 06/26/2012 10:35:49 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Truth29

They “Obamasized” the cloths. What a joke.


4 posted on 06/26/2012 10:37:26 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: Truth29

Sure, why not. Our own government is de-Americanizing America.

BTW, uuuuugly new “designer” uniforms. I thought we were in an economic crisis and paychecks weren’t going as far these days but nooooo let’s pay for some pansy fashionista to give us what we don’t need or want and raise the price of uniforms and food. Yo, Ronald, if you really want to make some changes, how about better food? Your customers don’t give a rats behind about new uniforms.


5 posted on 06/26/2012 10:38:15 AM PDT by bgill
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Mustard yellow-brown is my absolute least favorite color. Ever since this one puppy pooped in my lap in kindergarten.....

So sorry that “sophisticated” designers keep using it. Yuck.


6 posted on 06/26/2012 10:40:57 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Truth29

So they are all going to dress like scientist and engineers now?


7 posted on 06/26/2012 10:41:42 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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McDonald’s TV spots are creepy. What’s up with that little bearded man?


8 posted on 06/26/2012 10:42:05 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Truth29

The wording is really unnecessary (’De-Americanizes’?), but honestly, they actually look really nice considering it’s a McDonalds uniform. Without even reading where they spoke of it in the article, I totally got the Mad Men vibe as well.

Compare it to the dumpy clothes they make them wear today, this actually makes them look really professional and dignified.


9 posted on 06/26/2012 10:43:48 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Eighteen months ago, the man behind HemingwayDesign and the award-winning street style label Red or Dead, was tasked with revamping the fast food giant's burger-colored (that's being kind) uniforms.

Anybody else see the irony here?

BTW, this is for McDonalds in England, so...whatever.
10 posted on 06/26/2012 10:44:18 AM PDT by rottndog (Political Correctness KILLS...)
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Meh. It’s not gonna help with anything important, like making the food taste better, so it’s dumb.


11 posted on 06/26/2012 10:49:38 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Truth29

Sounds more like they took heterosexuality out of the design.


12 posted on 06/26/2012 10:51:29 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Truth29

How about re-fooding your crap products?


13 posted on 06/26/2012 10:51:31 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
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They look fine but I am sorry for all the men who have to wear a tie.

I don’t think you should have to wear a tie when working fast food. There have to be some perks to the job.


14 posted on 06/26/2012 10:57:14 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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“Mustard yellow-brown is my absolute least favorite color. Ever since this one puppy pooped in my lap in kindergarten.....”


In the Spanish-speaking Caribbean (or at least in Puerto Rico and Cuba), that color is known as “color de caca de niño chiquito.” It’s a very long name for a color, but quite descriptive.


15 posted on 06/26/2012 10:59:31 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Truth29

I guess it’s so they can sell more “euroweenies”.


16 posted on 06/26/2012 11:15:49 AM PDT by pfflier
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I dunno or care about uniforms, but I live in Iowa, cattle country. I stopped in a livestock sale barn once a few years back to visit a friend who was working there.

He used his cattle prod and pointed at a bunch of cows. "See those?" he asked. "Those are going to McDonalds."

Mangiest, sickliest most gawd awful looking bunch of cattle you ever even imagined could possibly exist. Couple of them had different eye color in each eye, scrawny.

I'll never eat McDonalds unless I'm half a step out of the grave from starvation, then I'll think twice about it. Especially when I opened my burger one day and the lettuce looked like someone had scooped it up off the floor.

They seem to think that when we go out, we want to eat the cheapest that they can possibly manufacture instead of food of the same quality we make at home.

Never again.

17 posted on 06/26/2012 11:19:07 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica ("We have prepared for the unbeliever, whips and chains and blazing fires!" Koran Sura 76:4)
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I bet Nancy Wilson of Heart would dig a single, successful guy in such a uniform.


18 posted on 06/26/2012 11:25:52 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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Grab a handful of clothes at the local Goodwill store and you have their “designer fashions” duplicated.


19 posted on 06/26/2012 11:31:54 AM PDT by Energizer45678
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I don’t think you should have to wear a tie when working fast food.

Agree, and this from the article:

"Baseball caps are a big thing with fast food," he says, "but they're far too casual for restaurant service."

Is McDonalds considered fine cuisine in Britain? Well, knowing British food, maybe it is.

20 posted on 06/26/2012 11:33:47 AM PDT by Dan Nunn (Support the NRA!)
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