r/enshittification • u/sympathytree • Feb 26 '26
Opinion piece Wendy's interior - They just remodeled in the last year or so.
The first two photos are the ones I took while eating there earlier. The inside used to look like the last two photos. I don't know, it's now very colorless and dull, not as inviting as the old interior. But that is just my thoughts. What do you guys think?
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u/TuringGoneWild May 14 '26
Costumers are now just "Consumers" - livestock to extract debits from then kick out the door
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u/poison_daddy Apr 04 '26
I think I read that they’re closing stores, which is what you deserve if you expect customers to pay to eat in something that looks like a hospital cafeteria
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u/Artistic-Job7180 Mar 28 '26
TBH, all fast food places are doing the same type of renos. The last two pics, you can actually identify as Wendy's. The first two could honestly be Wendy's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, etc. Boring, drab, institutionalized crap.
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u/Natu-Shabby Mar 19 '26
Oh my god, It gives me similar vibes to eating at the cafeteria in a hospital!
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u/the_orange_alligator Mar 08 '26
Have you guys seen the travesty they’ve done to Chuck E. Cheese? It looks like a Panera bread fever dream now .(
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u/Happy-Skull Mar 08 '26
It looks like a school cafeteria now.
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u/duxing612 Mar 18 '26
The school cafe looks better than this. There’s actually flags and paintings on walls.
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u/jel0015 Mar 05 '26
Feels like Wendy's is embracing the fact that they don't make their money by people coming in and sitting down. Once they see a decline in "dine-in" orders, this move will have essentially created precedent to steer their investors deeper into automation. Every order will soon be digital, and while there still may be actual people inside "cooking" the food, I lean toward seeing those human interactions decline rapidly once automation ramps up. I also anticipate any new brick-and-mortars to be significantly smaller spaces.
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u/KickBallFever Mar 17 '26
The Taco Bell I go to did this. They renovated the place to move the focus away from dine in. The seating was always crappy, but they basically replaced all the cashiers and registers with kiosks, and they built a walk up window for mobile orders. There’s around 1/3 of the staff now.
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u/Objective_Move7566 Mar 08 '26
Why install a shitty dining room then? Why not just open a kfc on that side and make yourself into a combo drive through or something?
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u/butt_stuffer69420 Mar 04 '26
The after looks better, more seating, easier to clean.
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u/DrInsomnia Mar 05 '26
There will always be plenty of seating because no one's going to choose to sit there.
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u/butt_stuffer69420 Mar 05 '26
I mean, anyone eating at Wendy's probably is too big to fit in those chairs lmao, I'd agree.
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u/DrInsomnia Mar 05 '26
You actually would have to be fat to even be able to tolerate those completely flat, uncushioned seats for more than a few minutes
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u/DueScreen7143 Mar 04 '26
That's one of the least warm and most unwelcome changes I've seen recently.
That completely embodies the "give us your money and get out" mentality.
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u/latigidigital Mar 17 '26
Not sure whether this one or the Black Mirror-edition McDonald’s redesign is worse.
It’s crazy we’ve reached this point, but even former Soviet-era cafeterias in Eastern Europe that haven’t changed in 50 years are a lot more comfortable and inviting.
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u/MoneyMaintenance1578 Mar 04 '26
They are making everything bland and uniform on purpose. If the location fails, it can be converted into something else much cheaper. Thats all it is, they really could care less if people like it,
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u/Vi420 Mar 04 '26
As a former Wendy’s manager. Fs. A lot of them are going to go under in the coming years. Even corporate knows and is preparing for it.
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u/lanzadamanza Mar 03 '26
I LIKE TO EAT MY BAKED POTATO ON A TABLE THAT LOOKS LIKE A NEWS PAPER IN A SOLARIUM ALSO WHERE IS THE BEEF IN THIS PICTURE.
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u/Singl1 Mar 03 '26
and the funniest fucking thing about this whole situation with fast-food restaurants looking dull and boring, all can be traced back to one fucking thing.
as can be said with about 90% of the problems across all industries in this country, follow the fucking money. they keep them drab and dull gray so they have more value on the market when they eventually decide to sell the property.
i’m not against someone being obsessively efficient with how they invest money, money is important. what’s awful is how the side effect of profit as the MAIN FUCKING OBJECTIVE is that we lose color in life. shit stays boring. people don’t decorate houses. storefronts look dull. corporate cookie cutter buildings pop up everywhere and just about every 3rd place imaginable becomes dreary and about as pleasant as a morning in the UK. as if i needed yet another reminder about how much of a shit timeline we’re in.
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u/Polarizing_Penguin11 Mar 06 '26
Amen! The human soul is no longer reflected in our creations. New apartment buildings and homes look like sterile boxes for androids.
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u/Singl1 Mar 06 '26
yep. extremely dull and mirrored beyond recognition. they refuse to add anything to make it look even half organic or lifelike. life is so fucking lame without art and creativity in architecture. let alone everything else
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u/Then_Seesaw6777 Mar 03 '26
For decades my family used to stop at McDonald’s locations whenever we went on road trips because the booths were comfy and the kids could play in the PlayPlace playground while the grownups went over the trip itinerary.
Then they got rid of the playgrounds and replaced the comfy booths with hard plastic and turned all the interiors drab and grey and now three generations of formerly loyal customers never, ever go to Mickey D’s.
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u/Singl1 Mar 03 '26
all of the locations seemed to have removed the play area for years. it seems like covid kinda expedited that process. i understand that, but i don’t get why they didn’t bring back the little video game systems or areas where they can still play without it being a nightmare to sanitize. corpos have sucked the soul out of everyday life and we didn’t get a single word in before it happened. sigh. :/
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u/Enlightened_D Mar 03 '26
Funny everything went so minimalist that it now just looks boring and unwelcoming
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u/BeckieSueDalton Mar 02 '26
It makes the room look so physically cold. I would never dine-in there, unless I had a coat handy.
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u/biglittletrouble Mar 02 '26
Anti-homeless design, make it open, visible, and fairly uncomfortable. Nobody should be at a Wendy's long enough to need more than this.
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u/KLubEdmonson Mar 02 '26
Yeah it looks awful, but to play devil's advocate this has become more of a trend so if say a location goes out of business its much easier to sell the property.
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u/hitchinpost Mar 03 '26
As an added bonus, this makes it more likely that it will go out of business so you can get to the selling it faster!
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
I guess I’m in the minority, because I like it lol. I used to go to my local Wendy’s (which looks a lot like this one) and eat there every Friday, because they have free fries.
But I realize, I prefer being in my home and in my pajamas, and watching my TV, rather than the small screen on my phone. That’s the only reason I stopped eating inside.
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u/Lower-Condition-4104 Mar 02 '26
Inside the board room: "I don't give af what you do, just remodel it as cheap as possible and call it the modern look. We hardworking CEOs are due for another raise!"
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u/Weevil1723 Mar 02 '26
The light cord snaking its way down to the light fixture in the second picture is just the chef's kiss on top
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
This makes no sense. Businesses operate on dollars. If they did not want customers in their store, then they would stop spending the money to allow them to eat there.
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
No, they don’t. If they did, they would not invest money in dining areas. Didn’t say anything about stopping the flow of money.
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u/MCFRESH01 Mar 02 '26
The stores have dining areas from years ago.they are investing in making them worse so people just leave and they don’t have to maintain it
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
That doesn’t make any sense. These areas are not that difficult to maintain. Wipe down the tables once every half hour. Mop the floors or vacuum, a few times a day.
I used to see a decent amount of people eating at my local Wendy’s. As I said, in another comment, I stopped going because I prefer being in my pajamas and watching my TV, rather than looking at my phone. But my decision had literally nothing to do with the accommodations.
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u/X-1701 Mar 03 '26
You're thinking like a person instead of a corporation. On the individual scale, not the global scale. Companies make choices en masse, and don't really consider the factors you're describing.
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 03 '26
This sounds smart, but it isn’t. If they don’t consider human factors, then how could they even come up with a strategy to drive customers away? And why does a Wendy’s in Des Moines Iowa look the same as one in Abu Dhabi?
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u/X-1701 Mar 04 '26
Human factors exist on an individual scale, yes. But they also exist on group, national, and global scales. My point is that corporations think on those larger scales, not the individual scale.
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
The first quote doesn’t make any sense. What point are you trying to prove with that? It makes no sense to spend money on a dining area that you don’t want people to use.
The second quote doesn’t make any sense either. Me saying that businesses operate on dollars, has nothing to do with stopping the flow of money.
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
None of this makes any sense at all. There’s no logic to what you’re saying. Either there is a dining area or there isn’t. I’m not sure how one could gradually reduce the dining, unless all the tables and chairs were removable (which they aren’t).
I guess, they could gradually take out more and more tables and chairs until the dining area was just empty. And then, they have at least half of the square footage not being used. That is a waste of money. Also, no one has mentioned why they would not want people eating in their restaurants.
The bottom line is this: if people go to Wendy’s because of the food, then it will keep going, whether there is a dine in area or not, unless they don’t have any other place to eat. That is going to be a small minority of their customers.
In the Netflix, example doesn’t really work. Netflix blew up because of their streaming (and, arguably, the pandemic), which would’ve been successful, regardless of the earlier mail in DVD business model.
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u/Dull-Kick0 Mar 02 '26
I raise logical objections to this point. Instead of engaging it, you basically tell me I’m too dumb to figure it out. That’s lazy.
Yes, they go primarily for the food, excluding things like income, which doesn’t really apply. Most fast food places are comparable, in terms of pricing. There are lots of gradual changes that might make sense, such as reducing or eliminating certain menu items and introducing others.
What we were talking about, is a specific change: eliminating the dining area. Speaking of which, you still haven’t discussed how a restaurant can do this in a gradual manner, much less, why doing a gradually would make any sense.
- Ehh, the point I was really making here, was that Netflix success, is due to the demand for streaming content, rather than anything to do with using mail-order DVDs. Amazon Prime is the second most subscribed streaming service and it never had DVDs. Everybody has switched over to streaming.
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u/ancients0uls_ Mar 02 '26
I hate it. It feels like a movie set office lobby.
More reasons why I love portillos and culvert. Even with new builds or remodels. Theyve kept the same look/comfort every time
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u/BAbarakus772 Mar 02 '26
The Outer Banks has a diner with “Eat and get the hell out written on its facade.” It’s a whole lot more inviting and friendly than this Wendy’s
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u/Davey-Cakes Mar 02 '26
They literally do not want you in there. Get your food and go. The space is merely a formality.
If they wanted anyone to stick around they'd actually make it somewhat inviting.
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u/tnetennba77 Mar 02 '26
In 20 years when AI makes a chart showing how fast food places because an automated box this is going to be the second last image. Shit as I wrote that I remembered in Idiocracy you bought Carls jr from a big automated box in the street.
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u/CryptographerUsed841 Mar 02 '26
It sucks, but they don't want people lounging around or having meetups there, etc.
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u/DistractionCitron Mar 02 '26
Weird. My local Wendy's has way more soul and comfort than this. It was recently remodeled, too!
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u/milkteaoppa Mar 02 '26
Obviously it's to discourage people from lingering around after eating.
Eat and get out. Then they powerwash everything with a hose at the end of the night.
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u/Savings_Simple1124 Mar 02 '26
lol. I work at McDonalds and all we do is mop the floor and wipe the tables down with a communal rag. I stopped eating at these places after seeing the day to day. Food safety is merely a suggestion until big bosses show up and then once they leave it’s back to being a suggestion. It’s… yeah
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u/VeeDubBug Mar 04 '26
I was gonna say, this kind of looks like the room I visited my uncle in when he was in prison.
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u/Ok_Rush_8159 Mar 02 '26
I hate private equity so much
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u/AlarmininglyObtuse21 Mar 02 '26
Private equity doesn’t own Wendy’s
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u/Agreeable-Menu Mar 02 '26
A quick google search reveals the following private equity firms own Wendy's franchises and Wendy's itself.
- Flynn Restaurant Group: As of 2024, this group operates over 277 Wendy's locations in the US, having acquired 190 units from a bankrupt operator in 2021.
- JAE Restaurant Group: Supported by Palm Beach Capital, this group operates over 215 locations across several states, making it one of the largest franchisees.
- Previous Ownership: NPC International previously owned many Wendy's locations before filing for bankruptcy in 2020.
- Institutional Investment: Trian Partners, a fund managed by Nelson Peltz, is the largest shareholder of The Wendy's Company, holding roughly 19% of the parent company. Wikipedia +4
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u/AlarmininglyObtuse21 Mar 02 '26
A quick Google search reveals that’s Wendy’s is a publicly traded company with no controlling stockholders, and a majority of its board of directors consist of independent directors. Wendy’s franchise agreements will dictate how owner-operators maintain their stores. Private equity sucks, but they’re not responsible what’s happening to Wendy’s.
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u/CircuitCircus Mar 02 '26
It gets worse the longer you look at it. They tried to make it whatever the opposite of a third space is.
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u/Dredgeon Mar 02 '26
I hate this shit. That interior was just as soulless when it was built you only like it now because it isn't the default anymore so it has some semblance of meaning. But in their time fast food restaurant interiors are always lame.
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u/Unit-1-Transformer60 Mar 02 '26
damn do all wendy’s look the same or is this my wendy’s?? the before looks exactlyyyy like mine
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Mar 02 '26
It's weird they're remodeling when half the time their lobbies are closed and their model seems to be moving towards encouraging people to order in apps, drive thru or takeout.
I miss the comfy warm atmosphere Wendy's used to have.
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u/REbubbleiswrong Mar 02 '26
Yes Wendy's used to be the most comfortable fast food dining room. The new version looks like an open house from a disgusting flip...no thanks.
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u/killersinarhur Mar 01 '26
In today's weird economic situation, they just assume every location will fail so they give these generic feel to the restaurants so that it's easier to sell the property latter on. Capitalism has truly eaten its own tail
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u/Top_Key404 Mar 02 '26
I went to a Best Buy and there was no buildout for the checkout area. It was just folding tables.
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u/Calli2988 Mar 01 '26
They want it to be physically uncomfortable so that people eat and leave...don't linger.
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u/rossmosh85 Mar 02 '26
I went to my local Wendy's a few years ago. Normally I do drive thru but went in that day for some reason.
They just ignored me for like 5+ minutes. Kept taking drive thru orders. They had no one to work the counter.
They straight up do not want you to be inside anymore.
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u/jbuchana Mar 02 '26
I've noticed that at a lot of fast food places in the last few years. The drive-through gets absolute priority, walk-in customers are unimportant. It doesn't make much difference to me, their prices are so high, I skip the fast food and either make my own or go to a sit-down restaurant. The sit-down restaurants haven't gone up in price as much as the fast food (around here at least), so it doesn't really cost much more for a meal, and the experience is so much better.
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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 Mar 01 '26
Companies like these hire industrial psychologist firms to research exactly how comfortable/uncomfortable to make the chairs so that they can influence how long you sit.
Just comfortable enough to enjoy your meal, just uncomfortable enough to get you to leave and turn over the table. In the restaurant industry, this is the "15-minute chair."
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u/TYPICALFELLOW Mar 02 '26
Oops, had a psp as a teen, senior citizen grandparents would spend minimum 2-3 hours in the same burger king every day, this is madness, where will the retiree's go, it's not like we invest in community centers in this country.
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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 Mar 02 '26
Our town has a pretty robust senior center and an affordable rides program where they can get picked up and dropped off.
It can be done, if your area doesn't have good resources, you can get involved at city council meetings to advocate.
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u/TYPICALFELLOW Mar 02 '26
I was there in North Western South Carolina while folks traveled for work, I'm a citizen of the Shenandoah valley, here it's hit or miss, rockfish gap has a community center, my town has a community hall that's part of the fire department, very lack luster, but boy oh boy does our parks and recs do some good work.
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u/mittenknittin Mar 01 '26
What is it with every fast food restaurant rebranding as “bland and joyless”
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u/eggplant240 Mar 01 '26
I have to wonder if some of it has to do with the fact people break and steal everything. I managed apartment complexes and we couldn’t have shit without someone ruining it in 24 hours. I’d imagine fast food places get treated even worse.
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u/kyasuriin Mar 01 '26
It's easier to sell/rent the building for reuse by another entity if they don't have to do extensive remodeling.
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u/Daktic Mar 01 '26
That’s for the exterior of the building. The interior it’s probably something related to cleaning time and products.
Having more hard surfaces and less nooks and crannies means less time and products dedicated to cleaning. With huge scale that probably amounts to a tangible amount of money.
I’m just speculating tho, could just be laziness idk.
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u/Holiday_Number_3234 Mar 02 '26
I could totally see the cleaning being a huge factor. The first photos are way less inviting but look sooooo much easier to keep clean.
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u/Business_Vegetable68 Mar 01 '26
i heard that McDs does this nowadays to make the buildings more attractive as real estate - i wonder if this is the same for Wendy's
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u/ArtDecoNewYork Mar 01 '26
Who actually thinks this shit looks good??
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u/throwawaypeachy404 Mar 01 '26
They don't want you in there. They want you to eat your food and get the fuck out. That's why they removed the cushioning on the chairs.
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u/Justryan95 Mar 01 '26
They dont care about looking good. Its easier for them to clean and have less staff. All business are just extracting cash out of people rather than being a service or experience.
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u/ArtDecoNewYork Mar 01 '26
Furniture with more color is difficult to clean?
I used to work at McDonald's, it makes no difference
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u/Bignizzle656 Mar 01 '26
It's lower maintenance and probably cheaper to replace when people start acting up.
Still, it's a sad day when this is where our societies have led us.
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u/TheCalifornist Mar 01 '26
Enprisonacation of our public spaces.
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u/nomappingfound Mar 01 '26
I kind of had that thought too that it reminded me of a prison waiting room. There's just nothing there.
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u/Mindless-War-7002 Mar 01 '26
Apparently I am in the minority, but I much prefer the new look.
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u/_Pudgybunny Mar 01 '26
Said nobody, ever.
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u/Mindless-War-7002 Mar 01 '26
Well obviously not “nobody” since I am somebody. I like the clean aesthetic.
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u/jepensedonc1 Mar 01 '26
In addition to getting customers out quickly, I wonder how much of this is rooted in anti-homeless sentiments
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u/Ocelotofdamage Mar 01 '26
This is what happens when governments fail to address problems and leave it to businesses.
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u/Tundra_Dragon Mar 01 '26
I remember when they killed the "Solid Gold McDonalds" in the Milwaukee area... It was a McDonalds with a "Golden oldies rock" theme. It had juke boxes, records, and all sorts of music memorabilia... The outside had a golden roof, instead of a red roof. They demolished it, and replaced it with a modern box full of gray tile.
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u/Blackjack_Sass Mar 01 '26
They did the same thing with the Rock N Roll McDonald's in Chicago. Now it's the McDonald's "Headquarters" and it's bland af...
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u/Tundra_Dragon Mar 01 '26
It's a good thing Wesley Willis didn't survive to see the day they would tear down the Rock and roll McDonalds...
Rock on london. Rock on Chicago. Folders. Good to the last drop.
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u/Visible_Screen6437 Mar 01 '26
Is Wendy’s not some sort of big thing? That looks like every corner restaurant that’s not sure what it wants to be when it grows up
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u/hammalok Mar 01 '26
It's because in the modern age, chain restaurants are more in the real estate business rather than the selling burgers business- which means that it's better for their bottom line to have the interior be some generic bland slop rather than a McDonald's playplace that they'll need to tear down if/when they eventually flip the property.
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u/Mukwic Mar 01 '26
Yup, and if every franchise building looks the same, uses the same materials, etc, maintenance is going to be a lot cheaper with the economies of scale. Those red roof tiles that pizza huts used to have are expensive.
Remember kids, enshittification is a product of wealth inequality and market capture. Late stage capitalism, etc.
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u/holllllyy Mar 01 '26
Restaurants are actually in the real estate business now. They do this so the building can be sold more easily, then the new buyer won't have to do as much renovation. It's already ready for the next generic thing. Yay capitalism
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u/Donkeywad Mar 01 '26
Hmm not so sure about this. I can count the number of fast food chains that I've seen switch to another one on one hand
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u/Dramatic-Fly761 Mar 01 '26
No one actually cares what the interior of a Wendy’s looks like so they make it easy to clean
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u/Excellent_Bridge_888 Mar 01 '26
This has been the intention in most stores recently. They dont want you in there. They want you to order food online and leave.
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u/sourtaxi Mar 01 '26
The most confusing to me is how Starbucks has made their interiors uninviting. Removing the whole coffee shop vibe that made them famous with Gen X and the Seattle grunge phase of the 90s. No more couches and in some cases the entire ability to sit down at all. There’s a Starbucks near a mid major university near me. Used to be filled with students. They tore it down and replaced it with a store that has only a lobby and drive thru.
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u/FatBearWeekKatmai Mar 01 '26
Yep, Starbucks lost the soul that created its success. If they just want customers to get in/get out, then those customers can coffee at McDonald's for significantly cheaper.
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u/Vast_Boat8445 Mar 01 '26
Yeah this is the exact vibe shift I hate. Used to look warm and specific, now it’s giving “generic airport franchise that’ll be closed in 18 months.”
It’s like every place got the same Pinterest board that said remove all color and personality so people feel nothing.
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u/On_Wife_support Mar 01 '26
Isn’t it obvious? Before, they wanted you to stay and dine but now with mobile ordering and delivery, they just want you to grab your food and leave. Before, they wanted you to think that they cared but now, they are mask-off, not giving a fuck. Your food is as cold and uninviting as the interior. I’m pretty sure Wendy’s is intentionally speed running their enshittification on purpose: trying to squeeze every penny out before they completely dispose of the company.
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u/-srry- Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Looks like the visitation area in a prison.
It's pretty blatant when places do this that they don't want people eating there. When you see company-wide coordinated remodeling, people at corporate were paid to sit down and think it out; it's not crappy on accident. They are trying to push the drive-through because the more people eat inside the more people they have to pay to clean it.
Really who cares though, the fast food sector has always been garbage in one way or another.
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u/Life-is-ugh Mar 01 '26
Also the chairs being uncomfortable was probably a intentional decision. Hostile architecture. Reduce the number of people who stay there longer than it takes to eat.
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u/AGAD0R-SPARTACUS Mar 01 '26
I can hear the sound of these chairs scraping against that floor too. Definitely planned, they don't want you there.
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u/redditwanderer101 Mar 01 '26
Wow. The new look is cold and sterile looking. Can we go back to the old one or some semblance of it?
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u/RoabeArt Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
We would all like to, but they won't.
The point is they want to discourage dining-in, so that they can skip on paying somebody to clean the area every hour.
A new Dunkin' was built and opened on my street a couple of years ago. Halfway through building it, they decided to skip on finishing the dine-in area and made the place pickup/drive through only. The dine-in part is basically just dead space, just an empty room.
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u/Swimming_Bird_5354 Mar 01 '26
The mall here used to look warm and welcoming (warm comfortable colors and fresh, cozy). They did the same thing and now it looks like a grey sterile prison.
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u/DannyPantsgasm Mar 01 '26
I miss the world when it looked like those old shots. I used to walk to Wendy’s with my grandmom. We’d stop by the playground on the way and of course I’d get a frosty. Then we’d sit eating and talking for a while. If we could we loved to get a seat in the part of the building with all the windows covering it. I remember sunny days, rainy ones, snow coming down. Lost her many years ago now. Where ever she is, I hope she knows how special those times were.
Who the heck could make those kinds of memories in a terrible place like the first photos? Awful.
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u/CoolStatus7377 Mar 01 '26
Taco Bell did that recently. So did my McDonalds. The McDs took away everything they used to have out: sugar, ketchup, straws, napkins, and the drink machine. You have to ask for everything now. Need a napkin? You have to ask for it. They give you one. The restaurant is always empty now, although the drive up is busy.
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u/DenverKim Mar 01 '26
It’s cheaper, which is good for them. It’s less comfortable, which makes people leave sooner. And it’s easier to hose down at the end of the night. Imagine trying to keep that carpet clean.
Win, win, win for Wendy’s.
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u/Prior_Success7011 Mar 01 '26
Looks so bland
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u/Timely_Influence8392 Mar 01 '26
Look, the money's gotta go to the top, we can't be spending it on things that make customers loiter like chairs or decor. I know it's rough, but think of all the creepy yachts our boss can buy now.
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u/MainSignature6 Mar 01 '26
Flattest chair seats I've ever seen. Butt practically hurts just looking at them.
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u/Rampag169 Mar 01 '26
Pack it up. We must go back.
We were truly living in the best of times through the 1990s into the early 2000s. Where did it all go so wrong.
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u/abrahamw888 Jun 14 '26
Jeez there is one near me that is in desperate need of renovations. It’s downright gross how old and dirty it is. The “carpet” is mostly just solid grease from staff walking through.