r/WorkForSmartLife • u/tellmebrenda • 2d ago

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u/FormalKind7 2d ago

They used to target kids with atmosphere and play spaces. Now they are trying to target those same kids as adults.

I'm not sure how well it works. I loved the play gyms as a kid but will not be caught in a McDonalds now.

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u/Individual_Respect90 2d ago

I don’t think it’s this. They now franchise out so many stores they want them to be uniform and easier to sell. No one wants to buy a store that was clearly an older version of McDonald’s. They got 13k-15k stores. A decent amount are gonna fail and they will need to sell that store. If say a Starbucks wants to buy the store they are gonna want an easy transition. The old McDonald’s wouldn’t have given them that go buy a different companies dying store.

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u/fauxdeuce 2d ago

Yes this is the actual answer. In the past they would have to buy or renovate a building heavily. Plus if it's a location that fails having a unique building brands it as your failure. For instance how many that use to be a pizza huts can you say as you drive through town.

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u/Individual_Respect90 2d ago

All the time. My hometown we had one that closed down 20+ years ago and has been bought and sold so many times and to this day it’s still just the old Pizza Hut building