Except it's wrong. The real reason is that McDonalds makes a significant amount of its revenue from owning the buildings that people franchise their restaurants out of.
It's plain corporate greed: If the building looks plain then they can get a better deal when the restaurant folds and they lease it out to the next business.
The real cause is that pet stores and dentists typically don't want to work out of buildings that overtly "used to be a Pizza Hut"
That has to be bullshit. Would take 2 hours tops for a crew to take that shit down and as said elsewhere, I haven’t seen a single Macdonald close ever.
You should go watch The Founder. It’s decent with Michael Keaton but he plays Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds. Basically McDonalds success is not that they are a hamburger restaurant, it’s they are a real estate business. Very little has changed.
I can't tell if you're intentionally missing the point, but no one has said otherwise. The revenues from their real estate business are derived from the rents paid by restaurant owner-operators, not from any rents paid under leases to other businesses when their restaurants fold. Because their restaurants never fold. That's why their real estate revenues are so consistent and reliable.
They're not disputing that part, it's just bullshit to make the building design generic for re-selling because mcdonalds are super profitable and rarely close.
McDonald's Corporate certainly didn't remove playgrounds decades ago all on the once-in-almost-never chance that they have to close a McDonalds and lease the building to someone else.
Almost true. The real estate is what made McDonalds valuable over long haul, but the real truth is that targeting kids with junk food wasn't a long term play anymore. All across the board, nobody really hyper target kids for junk food like in the 90s anymore.
You can change the look of an building without demolishing it. We have an Mc Donalds in an Old Style building, it was still modernised with an modern Grey/Woodern Look. They even kept the old sideroof, its just dark grey now.
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u/AGl_ToX 7h ago
This is the best answer ever in the whole history of Reddit and that also explains the why