A photo of a disturbingly drab Tennessee McDonald's Play Place is going viral online as customers reflect on how the chain restaurant—and society—have changed. In previous decades, parents set ...

The X user captioned the photo "This is so heartbreaking. I’m at a new McDonald's in Franklin, TN, and look at their ‘play place’ for children. Two screens/two chairs." The photo, showing a ...

McDonald's testing straw-less lids 00:23. By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN . For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America's highways.

An open letter published on the McDonald's website outlined new procedures and training that the company is implementing and will be using as a “set of nationwide standards for operations across ...

McDonald's design set off a wave of similar Googie-style architecture at fast-food chains nationwide. ... companies began introducing children's play areas and party rooms to draw families ...

Introduced in California in 1953, McDonald’s design was influenced by ultra-modern coffee shops and roadside stands of Southern California, then the heart of budding fast-food chains.

McDonald's design set off a wave of similar Googie-style architecture at fast-food chains nationwide.Well into the 1970s, the designs were a prominent fixture of the American roadside, "imprinting ...