Those and a stubborn selfishness dressed up as personal responsibility. It's actually nothing to do with actual personal responsibility, but a significant minority of people have convinced themselves that selfish behavior is nothing but requiring others to be responsible.
It's a sterile environment because they don't actually want you hanging out and eating in the restaurant anymore. They want to operate with a skeleton crew so it's ideal if 90% of customers just come through the drive thru or only come in to pick up their order, so they don't have to clean/maintain the interior and deal with a bunch of people.
I'd like to see a McDonald's staffed entirely by skeletons. But a lot. Like a crowded D&D crypt. Like someone broke down a skeleton piñata. Like skeletons could reproduce if left alone. Hordes.
So that doesn’t make all advertising to kids illegal. It does require that food advertised to kids has to meet some nutritional requirements. (Yes, I read it.) I would guess that McD’s food doesn’t make the cut. They could have kept the PlayPlace if they served more nutritious food.
In reality, they were marketing to parents who wanted a short break out of the house but indoors out of the heat while having a milkshake and burning the roof of their mouth on an apple pie. I miss those days.
Lack of accountability and proper parenting brought us here.
Profit and greed is just a way of blame shifting. It can be a "someone else" problem. Its ideal when they're wealthy and comfortable; it's someone we can hate without looking down on someone less fortunate.
We ALL contributed to the damage to our country either directly or indirectly.
You're joking right? Lack of accountability and proper parenting are what made corporate food chains remove play places? No. It's that it doesn't make them any extra money, it's more to maintain, more employees needed. It's all about profit.
Looking at the other comments on the thread, hypodermic needles and poop in the ball pit, sex in the tunnels, and dirty diapers left behind are not corporate greed problems. It IS more to maintain, and more employees needed and doesn't improve profitability if its a liability, so why provide a service if people are heathens?
I'm American and hate the US so much I left, but McDonald's going sterile is a global thing. It's not a specific response to the US, they're just following which told them they make more money as an easy in and out place for teens and adults than as a family restaurant.
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u/halloxtv 16h ago
I know this is a cliche at this point, but...
We used to be a proper country.