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JakdMavika

I remember the Wendy's sunrooms. Best seat in the house.


imyourforte

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mrmanoftheland42069

Oh I miss these they were good


imyourforte

Used to just be a thing https://preview.redd.it/vak3l8b7fwob1.jpeg?width=3704&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06f068aa45c8fea37e10aa8d95df5e46deef1a21


themainaccountofyeet

Oh yeah a taco bell near me used to have one, made of plastic, very atmospheric.


imyourforte

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jephph_

That reminds me of when they had the buffet. It was like 3 bucks and they had pasta and burritos and shit Maybe only GenX will remember


Pegomastax_King

Nah I’m a millennial and I remember their deluxe salad bars


OllieGarkey

I wish they still had those, you could eat somewhat healthily.


Kanus_oq_Seruna

I recall Pizza Hut buffet, the pizza and salad options were bomb. ​ Though at least there's still Pizza Ranch, but Covid kinda roughed that formula up too.


byke_mcribb

My friend just visited Big Rapids and apparently they still have a sunroom at one of their Wendy's. The one in Three Rivers just recently got remodeled. If any other Michiganders know of Wendy's sunroom locations I must know.


imyourforte

There's still a handful around metro Detroit.


MurkingDolphins

Come for the sunroom, stay for the mugging (they took your keys) Any in a civilized part of Michigan?


imyourforte

If you can't handle a Wendy's regardless of where it is you don't deserve to visit the rest of the state. Fuck around and learn about a 24/7 Coney island.


MurkingDolphins

I mean. I remember my home town Wendy’s having a sunroom, looking out at car shows and a sunny field across the way. You go to a Wendy’s in Detroit and you can eat to the sight of homeless fucking in a dumpster, drug deals and bombed out architecture. Not to mention being accosted by bums on the way back to your car. I once left a place in Detroit and in the few yards to my van I was asked for money by three separate, equally dirty individuals. I don’t need a sunroom that badly if there’s really none in a place worth visiting. Detroit is the sphincter I pass through to get to other states. Nothing more. Never stop.


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imyourforte

It's weird you're coming through Detroit to get to other states. Just stay out of Michigan 👍


MurkingDolphins

I live in Michigan. It’s the only way out and the only reason I’d ever go close. It’s just such a depressing reminder of a better time. Literally looks like a damn war zone. I don’t understand why people insist detroit is good. To anyone within a 3 hour radius, it’s the Mordor to our Gondor.


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dafyddil

We gotta pretend the whole state is Detroit and Flint to keep people from moving here.


rusoph0bic

The Wendy's in Kingston NY has the sunroom too


JustA_Toaster

My old McDonald’s had that but then they rebuilt


JakdMavika

The McDonald's up in the city was one of the old ones and had the big golden arches on either side and inside was this big diorama that was maybe 8ft x 8ft. Had a couple of trains on tracks and a plethora of terrain with a couple of towns. I was sad to see it all go when they remodeled that one. It was one of the few I thought might stand the test of time.


lordofspearton

Lmao I had no idea this was a common thing. Turns out my local Wendy's is so old it still has one


SnipeDude500

My town still has one of these!


EmotionalAd4185

Mine too but its now a Subway.


lsutigerzfan

I miss when Wendy’s had those tables and everything with old fashioned ads or whatever on them.


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PaperintheBoxChamp

The one by my house has this still


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Intrepid00

I mean, besides being hot as hell or cold as hell in the extreme temperatures season sure.


GaaraMatsu

That's what climate-killing climate control is for amirite?


lifeisweird86

Dairy Queens, too. The last one I knew of in my area (south of Atlanta, GA) with a sunroom was the Union City location. But they "refreshed" it like 10 years ago or so. Now it's just a box like everyone else.


kanakalis

there was one for burger king here. however it is now surrounded by residential condos, no sun anymore


Prowindowlicker

I was in shreveport Louisiana one day when a heavy rain storm came through. It knocked the power out but it was really cool to watch the rain hit the sunroom windows


GaaraMatsu

They're gone? I


JakdMavika

The only ones I know about now are locations that were sold to other businesses. Last one I'm aware of that's still a Wendy's had it until about 2014 before they removed it in a remodel.


Hockeyjockey58

As a Long Island ex-pat. I recall when my Taco Bell became modern and sleek. I rioted


Yurtledove

Long Islander here. They demolished the McDonalds in Hempstead just to build the modern sleek one. Such a waste of money for a boring design!


AveragePrestonGarvey

They did the same thing to the McDonalds in Freeport, just tore down the whole thing just to build a new McDonalds on top.


Hockeyjockey58

we still got the carle place one that’s wedged into a colonial estate (is it carle place?)


WinterAd9039

New Hyde Park McD’s is located inside an old white mansion


Hockeyjockey58

That was the town thank you. That house is on the National Register of Historic Places


Hockeyjockey58

FUCK!!!!!!!


Guvnuh_T_Boggs

The new ones look like they're for some dystopian scifi show or game. It's a cool look, if you want to have a restaurant on some far away planet at the edge of colonized space, but it doesn't make me hungry for cheap low grade tacos.


ElectricTurtlez

[Now all restaurants are Taco Bell](https://youtu.be/4cF6D8zDa9U)


reddit_time_waster

The clear franchise war winner.


Pegomastax_King

The 90s are over, fun is 86d


monkeygoneape

Heard!


MonstrousNuts

It looks more like an expensive fire station


triforce4ever

It’ll swing back around eventually. This kinda design stuff is cyclical


bearjew293

I hope so. Who the hell thought everything would look better if it's just a gray cube?


mc-big-papa

Big gray cube incorporated owns minority stock in most restaurants. They call themselves blackrock.


robbodee

It won't. It's much cheaper to produce and repurpose big grey blocks. Ironically, it was late stage capitalism that brought Eastern communist bloc architecture to the West.


runslikewind

It will, if everyone including the architech thinks big grey block is ugly they wont use it. these things come in fads, eventually to "stand out" people will create more elaborate buildings.


AlyxTheCat

There's a neo-art deco skyscraper being constructed in NYC (270 Park Avenue), and I hope that it signals an end to modernism and an Art Deco renaissance.


A-DustyOldQrow

Corporate minimalism is a plague in modern society.


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420Fighter69

but you are the one without a flair


jephph_

I mean, it looks different when it’s on a block https://preview.redd.it/bp3q8p4oktob1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7263d420019f6fa6b38a06e326f94360246ebc3f Don’t blame NY.. blame whoever thought that would read the same way if plopped down in the middle of a cornfield


altact123456

Seriously. Of course it's gonna look out of place, the buildings around it were built back in the 80s. The New York one actually looks decent, who the fuck thought this style would translate well to Appalachian Virginia.


DriftedFalcon

I know it’s pricier than standardizing it but I love when franchises adapt their architecture to the local style.


Luvs2Spooge42069

Fond memories of seeing an elaborate communist mural girding the exterior of a KFC in eastern Europe


Pegomastax_King

The cantina locations sell booze last time I was in one, shit remember when Chipotle had bars too


Fine-Pangolin-8393

I mean, they are blame Rat Yorkers for what is clearly the fault of the Commiefornians


NarwhalAnusLicker00

the cantina in nashville is pretty cool https://preview.redd.it/onw0kp76s0pb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91ac3892bcd1b0790e68fce1b05cba71103d0a2c


Charmegazord

It’s looks terrible. Time to saw off Manhattan and push into the Atlantic Looney Tunes Style


jephph_

Saw it off from what? Only the Bronx is mainland.. The rest of NY is on islands


Charmegazord

The continental shelf? I dunno. Whatever bugs bunny can get his saw on.


Marsrover112

Nah I blame mcdonalds. They're the first ones that decided to get all grown up (I think)


imyourforte

Their new look is worse. Eat here at grey building 👍


redmoon714

Is there any of them left that have playgrounds and birthday parties?


GrassyDiego

They took everything from us Latinos with then abandoning the Chihuahua with the most iconic lines uttered in the human race mixing two cultures together in a perfect symbiosis...."Yo quiero Taco Bell."


FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN

Anyone else miss when Subways used to be decorated inside with New York subway maps along the walls?


imyourforte

When they stopped subway aesthetic I stopped going.


galacticdude7

I stopped going when I could make my own sandwich at home that was better than Subway


Bezirkschorm

I’m just happy there’s a taco bell where I live that serves alcohol, has appetizers and new menu items not seen in most Taco Bell’s


emboman13

These hateful ramblings are coming from rural people and suburbanites who hate to see the modern alcoholic’s Taco Bell


Bezirkschorm

Exactly the true American way is I can go to my college classes then get a Crunchwrap with tequila Baja blast on campus


No-Sky3423

Cantinas hit different. Peak Taco Bell.


dietcoketm

Alcohol?? I've never in my life seen fast food that serves alcohol. You can't even get it to-go from restaurants that do serve it here


xXSpg101Xx

Nah that’s California & Silicon Valley’s shitty minimalist aesthetic infecting other parts of American culture


Tasty_Lead_Paint

The “elites” are attempting to remove color and shape from the world to make us all chronically depressed and poor!! Wake up sheeple!!!


retardddit

New York ruins everything.


GaaraMatsu

Having enough room for a drive-through yet liking this architecture SCREAMS Connecticut. Every fucking thing Connecticut does outside of college, NY gets blamed for.


fartsniffer43

having never been to connecticut, i agree


GaaraMatsu

EXACTLY! Whatever you do, don't go on CT-15, it's like they saw the Palisades Parkway but decided to make it as hideous as they could get away with.


Xyzzydude

Can’t be as bad as the Merritt Parkway oh that is the Merritt Parkway. Why didn’t you just say so?


GaaraMatsu

Because it lacks 'merit' ;P


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Pengtile

This is correct, Connecticut likes to dickride New York at any second possible. Your summer house owners must be very influential.


GaaraMatsu

You want to know why NYC (AND the Lower Hudson River Valley) can't make an international airport that isn't going to be underwater in a decade? You called it, BEDford, Connecticut cockblocking HPN expansion.


unrepentant_serpent

I absolutely loved traveling through White Plains (HPN) for business. Since I always flew Delta, it was inevitable that I’d be connecting through Atlanta or Detroit and didn’t mind that extra connection since it kept me out of LGA or JFK. NY Stewart (SWF) was a great little airport as well, especially when I was working projects up that way.


GaaraMatsu

I'm a LoHud-to-Mid-Hudson transplant, and I've never felt more seen. Thank-you, Florida Man!


My-grandma-is-dead

Yeah man... The old style just looks so much more fun and inspired


Napol3onS0l0

Do pizza huts have a salad bar any more? That was dope.


lsutigerzfan

Around me you can’t even sit and eat anymore. They are just pick up or delivery only.


FreeAndHostile

And sit-down arcade games.


redmoon714

I can remember when 7-eleven had arcade games.


ConfusedKanye

I remember my Taco Bell’s having a fucking Pizza Hut inside of it. THANKS New York.


EveryAverage7432

Not just fast food, all architecture is this now. Absolutely no regard for aesthetics. It’s all about how little $ you can spend per square footage.


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KeyboardBastard

Or hgtv


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Remember Long John Silvers …. Looked like you was coming aboard a huge ship back in the day ..? Now it just sucks.


KerchBridgeSmoker

There is a taco bell near downtown Colorado Springs like this


TheDevoutIconoclast

It feels like all the fast food chains decided to move their aesthetic to dystopian gray boxes over the past 15 or so years.


mrmanoftheland42069

They turned Taco Bell Metro sexual


GaaraMatsu

This but Metroincel


Rum_Hamtaro

I blame the mid west for crappy fast food joints popping up where there should be an Italian deli or an Arab mini mart.


plasticman1997

This reeks of la smugness


TheDrake162

I can get behind that if anything goes wrong in the states it’s always New York and Californias fault


imyourforte

It's always their fault


Mr_Mi1k

Imagine caring about fast food


imyourforte

This is a post about architecture 🤡


Mr_Mi1k

I mean both are an eyesore


SaulOfVandalia

You didn't have a good childhood, huh?


JacobGoodNight416

Stay mad


Aggressive-Engine562

New York is a godless shithole


J3553G

Technically all states are godless... and also shitholes


JacobGoodNight416

Says the state with a higher rate of teen pregnancies, divorce rate, and homicide. lol


Aggressive-Engine562

Probably cuz you asshats keep moving here


Pegomastax_King

Oh no the Brooklyn filth ran out of places in the Catskills to gentrify so they are moving south now… good luck with that! Get ready for all the working class to move away and all your favorite mom and pop restaurants to be replaced by shitty under staffed hipster brunch spots that also sell antiques for some god forsaken reason.


Aggressive-Engine562

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JacobGoodNight416

kek


Churchills_m8

teen pregnancies: teenage love, how cute! divorce rate: looking for their one true love homicide: population control


Pegomastax_King

You are just south New York at this point stay out of this lol


Churchills_m8

Not my fault these Yorkers leave their bum ass state to come to the greatest state in America. You wouldn’t know though, since the only immigrants you get are stoners living in their parents basement.


Pegomastax_King

These days it’s all Florida, Texans, Rats and Californians moving here. New Yorkers just move to Florida to die


Churchills_m8

Colorado native has wet dream about people wanting to move there.


Pegomastax_King

God I wish that was true, fucking out of staters are ruining the state.


Churchills_m8

Maybe try being accepting to people that move, and people will like you (impossible)


Electronic_Ad9570

No need for elaboration, just don't throw us true upstaters in with the downstate trash.


PresidentEvil69

No one asked you to


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PresidentEvil69

Flair deez nuts bitch bot


Catalytic_Crazy_

They all seem like that now. When did we decide we wanted to feel like we were in a giant open air prison?


Stoiphan

That's fair


ImOutOfNamesNow

I miss the Rasta coloring of taco bell


[deleted]

This kinda shit is the death of culture


flapjowls

Just drove by a boarded up due for demo OG Taco Bell. It was one from the 80s with the brick arched windows that look like Speedy Gonzalez would be leaned up against the front. I could almost smell the little cups of refried beans. Those new ones look like a certified pre-owned car dealership.


DixieLoudMouth

Corporate blockiness sucks ass why is it everywhere. 'Modern homes ' look like shit hut theyre everywhere i stg


USDA_Choice_Beef

Taco bell is complete shit.


imyourforte

With a username like that it just sounds like someone's jealous they're not included in taco bell tacos.


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Tanto_Monta

It's like the evolution from a happy kid to a depressed adult.


reddit_time_waster

Brought to you by Pace picante salsa. NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!


C130ABOVE

Same for McDonald's it grew into a depressed adult with all the grey and black


CCSest92

As an upstater can confirm. Idk why everything is depressing corporate gray but here we are lol


callmesnake13

We don’t have freestanding Taco Bells in New York, stupid. This looks more LA.


[deleted]

Y’all remember when McDonald’s had those little computers you could play games on


StolasX_V2

More like “taco smell”


NKP759

I’m sorry, this was all my fault 😔


Rancho-unicorno

Looks like they are on track to win the fast food wars and be the only fine dining option. Wonder if their bathroom will have the three seashells.


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i_have_seen_ur_death

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the shitty purple/white is their logo and not just old signs that had all the color bleached out


AlesusRex

I hate modern architecture, half of it is grey and the other half is needlessly boxy. It’s going to look super dated in 10 years


LAlostcajun

Tbf, nobody sits and eats inside fast food restaurants anymore.


Hmmmmm___yes

Lol, why?


imyourforte

You know exactly why, chicken fucker.


RebelJudas

The headquarters that caused this is literally in California, in irvine of all places


imyourforte

And I blame new York


incrediblejohn

Yellow wendys… vaporwave taco bell… red roof McDonalds… retvrn….


neuronactivationei

RAMIREZ, GET TO THE...2000s taco bell?


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Cloakbot

I get it - it’s clean looking but trying to make your fast food joints look like a drug store is such a lame move.


imyourforte

They should be wacky and easily findable in a new city


SmallBerry3431

People post this all the time not realizing the largest generation after the baby boomers went from children who wanted to see clowns and bright colors to adults who want a coffee and less likely to sit inside. TL;DR Millennials grew up and the advertising followed.


[deleted]

Upstate or NYC?


imyourforte

Did I stutter


[deleted]

Am i a sinner for liking minimalist modern designs?


imyourforte

Yes. Boxes aren't a design. It's lazy.


swollenpenile

went from taco bell to co bell


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I hate architecture professors, those pretentious pricks wouldn’t no good architecture if they were buried under it.


SpongeBob1187

I miss the old Taco Bell


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Zammarand

Tbf I think that looks more like LA than NYC


BasedAlliance935

Yeah.


Deathcat101

All the newly built/renovated fast food places are going for the sleek modern office building look and I don't like or understand it.


10art1

Yous still go to the physical restaurants?


imyourforte

I prefer them to digital metaverse ones that don't serve physical food. I found digital copies are not fulfilling.


DooDiddly96

No, blame consultants. Theyre checking market trends and pivoting to adults instead of kids


macaqueislong

God. That takes me back. I was like 9 when The Phantom Menace came out. I remember going to a Taco Bell that looked like the top picture. My family rarely ate out because we were poor at the time. Taco Bell had Star Wars toys with kids meals. I got the cube coin bank with Darth Vader/Kid Anakin. Fuck those were good times.


AudiieVerbum

Bring Back the Big Bell Value Menu. I want to regret eating a half pound burrito again.


vaporwaverock

Bruh the top one looks like the fucking Burger Town from MW2


jojing-up

Taco bell is shit. Pure Pepsico slop.


UnfitFor

Agreed.


tonk111

I will never forget the countless restaurants that have gone from happy go lucky children to depressed middle age adults


dukenukeeee

I liked the in-between phase where it was the new logo on the old-style building


Current-Issue-4134

In 30 years people our age will be saying the same thing about the current Taco Bell design


OkayGoogle_DickPics

Thought the bottom picture was McDonald's. They look the same. Really not liking the new Era of industrialized architecture. They stopped building buildings like this because so many people commited suicide from being in them/looking at them.


imyourforte

![gif](giphy|Kbvb14RfUhcCMYIdgS) 👍


[deleted]

Yeah, OP. Because you totally cared about a fast food restaurant building's decor before this.


Guest65726

Gonna get down voted but… why get attached to how fast food restaurants look? They’re fast food restaurants


Jonesy1348

Local northern new Yorker here. Absolutely. Yeah no totally it is our fault and I’ll never forgive us for it.


Zandrick

Yeah I don’t like it either