Thread Number: 71669
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Restaurant remodels/replacements |
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Post# 948449 , Reply# 4   7/16/2017 at 10:55 (2,447 days old) by ClassicTVMan81X (Milwaukie, Oregon, USA)   |   | |
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I've been fascinated by this subject for years now!
In my area... Our Burger King first opened around 1975, and was last remodeled in 2012. Our current McDonald's replaced in 2000 the original location that was built in 1963. It has had only minor inside remodels since. The Kentucky Fried Chicken... first opened around December 1966, was remodeled in the '70s, '80s and '90s... then closed in 2009, became a Taco Time, and finally demolished in 2012 to make room for a Walgreens store. The Wendy's was first built around 1979, but has only had minor remodels recently. The Victorian roof was unchanged from the 1980s. ~Ben |
Post# 948479 , Reply# 7   7/16/2017 at 15:52 (2,447 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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All of the fast food places here in town have been remodelled or rebuilt at least once if not twice over the past 30-40 years with one glaring exception.. our one Taco Bell from the early 80's. It's still the same inside and outside and boy is it decrepit inside with chipped flooring, chipped and broken laminate on the tables, faded ugly paint, stained ceiling tiles.. you really feel dirty eating in there. I'm actually surprised that the head office hasn't forced the franchisee to rebuild it or at least put in a new interior. It's the same Taco Bell that was featured in Michael Moores movie Bowling For Columbine when he was here interviewing local students about something or other. CLICK HERE TO GO TO petek's LINK |
Post# 948646 , Reply# 10   7/17/2017 at 18:09 (2,446 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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I worked in corporate at KFC Corporation 30 years ago (gawd I'm getting old) as a mystery shopper (!) so made my way around most of the country (cities, primarily) visiting corporate-owned KFC restaurants. In those days, there were only a few (roughly a dozen) corporate (as opposed to franchise) restaurants which dated from the '60s...the replacement cycle was roughly 25 years. In those days, there were a couple old restaurants in the far Atlanta suburbs (Cumming comes to mind) which were late 60s builds. There were 2-3 left in Memphis, a few in Chicagoland, and a few in Pittsburgh, and one in Minneapolis. These generally had the old chandeliers (milk-glass globes the shape of the bucket with the So Tender...So Tasty...North American's Hospitality Dish branding). They were clearly on the way out---every time we went back to a market (roughly every 6 months) they were closing. Fast food restaurants have changed significantly in how they proportion their space---much more prep work is occurring outside of the restaurant (as a f'rinstance, they still grated cabbage and mixed biscuits 30 years ago in the stores; Taco Bell similarly actually cooked in that era. Those days are long gone. You see it in how good bagged produce (shredded lettuce, etc) has become...that's been replicated many times over. Lots of technology and thought going into how to centralize and idiot-proof processes. I was recently in Kansas City and saw the first 3-in-1 (KenTacoHut) at 119/Metcalf has been scraped and is being rebuilt---the 30 year life is the truth. Be glad to answer any questions you might have!
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Post# 948656 , Reply# 11   7/17/2017 at 19:44 (2,445 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 949014 , Reply# 13   7/19/2017 at 21:36 (2,443 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 949015 , Reply# 14   7/19/2017 at 21:40 (2,443 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 949205 , Reply# 16   7/21/2017 at 03:21 (2,442 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Somehow next to the old McDonald's before it got its play area was an Arthur Treacher's-turned-Seafood Bay, gaining its share of customers, not necessarily any unfair competition, just people looking for an alternative, often amid parents with children shouting "We want McDonald's, we want McDonald's!"...
Just unfair competition for it, as--you guessed it!--it never became Long John Silver's, just became a rental car outlet for the Ford dealer down the road, getting a few remnants of stock around the building, which afterwards sat vacant and unused, and after being torn down (a Poppin Fresh Pies, which became Bakers Square was once in the other side, getting leveled off, then nowadays is a storage place, like your a Public Storage, et. Al, I forgot the name of--but it's huge, two level and climate control, beside it a funeral home, which probabaly scared patrons of the former pie places it was next to) years later, a White Castle now stands, although closer to the main road, hence that block or two down, McD's is at and a similar distance from the street... Similarly my Burger King that I'd once worked at, slinging hamburgers, went from a freestanding building to some upscale storefront type o' place, I'd eaten at a couple or more times... Somehow Wendy's, Taco Bell's, and even Big Boy's that I had known, also became as mobile, so long stories, there, on their moves/developments! -- Dave |
Post# 949262 , Reply# 17   7/21/2017 at 10:42 (2,442 days old) by ClassicTVMan81X (Milwaukie, Oregon, USA)   |   | |
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