Why can't McDonald's look like this in our country?

[Blue_Tires]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2016/03/10/mcdonald_s_on_paris_champs_elysees_gets_an_upscale_makeover.html

[Recursion]

1. The one at Foggy Bottom does

Meanwhile the one in the 17th Arrondissement looks like it could be from Baltimore.

[Xyzse]

6. Really? I haven't been there in a long while, so I don't know...

Not to mention, I don't really frequent the golden arches so...

[Chan790]

12. Yes, it looks like the 1st picture.

Very understated signage and visual profile. It's a lovely McDonalds. There are similar ones in the midtown area of NYC.

I don't like the 2nd and 3rd pictures. The 2nd picture looks like the cafeteria of a federal low-sec prison for white-collar criminals. (Minus the artwork.) The third one looks like an airport food-court. Ugly, ugly and discomfiting.

[Xyzse]

16. Well, I am all for a quick trip.

It is only a few miles away from me any how.

[lame54]

2. what's with the cage?

[Number9Dream]

13. Protecting an open stairwell?

Looks to me like an open stairwell (for some reason) toward the right.

[lame54]

14. Ok i see it now...

thanks

[Iggo]

3. Because we can't have nice things.

[cemaphonic]

4. It's like an unholy marriage

of Bauhaus, Apple Store, and 80s kitsch. And it's a McDonalds. Why exactly do we want this in the US?

[Phentex]

5. Doesn't look appealing at all to me...

[KamaAina]

7. Why can't McDonald's taste like food in our country?

Or any country?

[Throd]

8. Like an airport terminal?

[Skittles]

9. I prefer my local McD's

it's got a golf theme - I'm not into golf, but the green Tartan-patterned walls and pictures of Scotland are cool

I do not need "upscale" fast food

[ghostsinthemachine]

10. What? no Ball pit? Screw that.

Gotta have a playland.

[alfredo]

15. That's where anti vax'ers send their kids to die

[kwassa]

11. It would still taste the same.

Unfortunately.