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Anyone know of any unique buildings that are different that the normal fast food ones? Im not talking unique fast food places...Im talking normal fast food brands like McDonalds and Wendy that have very unique buildings that stand them apart from all their other buildings.


I enjoy passing time doing things like this on slow days like today.

I tend to notice in the other direction: diners that were obviously once a Pizza Hut, for example.

Oh yes. Many in my town and the next one. I can clearly pick them out from my childhood. Places like Pizza Hut are very easy to spot with the roof line.

Didn't someone post a link a while back to a McD's that was on a paddlewheel boat?

I would think that googling something like "<restaurant of choice> unusual building" would be your best bet.

Case in point:
https://www.mashed.com/651469/the-most- ... n-the-u-s/

Don't make me break out LMGTFY....

Well, there's the McDonald's in Italy that discovered during construction that they'd picked an archaeological site over the old Appian Way (a major Roman road), so they just built over it and put in a glass floor. Now, the skeletal bodies of several ancient men are a tourist attraction.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:28 pm Well, there's the McDonald's in Italy that discovered during construction that they'd picked an archaeological site over the old Appian Way (a major Roman road), so they just built over it and put in a glass floor. Now, the skeletal bodies of several ancient men are a tourist attraction.

Oh ya forgot that one. I even posted about it here. Thnx

The Taco Bell on Armitage. They sell booze too.

Several of the Taco Bell Cantinas around here are like that, just using the existing architecture.

TheMix wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:03 pm Case in point:
https://www.mashed.com/651469/the-most- ... n-the-u-s/

Don't make me break out LMGTFY....

I love that original one in Downy CA. Id love to go there. Amazing looking place frozen in time. I wish all businesses did this. Everyone seems focused on the here and now and the future when a lot of people like me would love to still have something original from time gone by to visit that is still in operation.

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:59 pm The Taco Bell on Armitage. They sell booze too.

Several of the Taco Bell Cantinas around here are like that, just using the existing architecture.

There is/was one in Royal Oak, Mi with liquor license like that. I haven't been that way since 2018, so I'm not sure it's still there. There is also a "rock and roll" McDonald's down river that predates the Hard Rock Cafes by many many years.

Much like Holman, I'm always more intrigued by obvious husks that become other things. Things that were obviously Pizza Huts or Taco Bells or (Elias Brothers) Big Boys where the architecture used to be uniform almost like a prefab at one time or another.

The Thai food truck in Sarasota has a neat look


I miss the look of the old Howard Johnson's Restaurants. Always liked the look of Pizza Hut too.

Way back there was a WWI aviation themed restaurant in Clearwater, but I never managed to get there before it closed long ago. Correction. Oh hell, it just closed last year. Crap I wished I'd gone. Some advertising might have helped since I've thought they were closed for the last 30 years.

The 94th Aero Squadron
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alcomike/29145706888

https://news.yahoo.com/longtime-airport ... 51261.html

haha that van food truck is wild! Like some type of Hot Wheels vehicle.

I used to go to Clearwater for vacation with my dad and step mom in the early 80s. I dont recall that place but it looks neat.

I mean, there is Chicago's "rock n roll" McDonald's

McDonald's in Independence Ohio, near Cleveland. It's also somewhat fancy on the inside.

Inside:

My home town once had was called the "Floating McDonalds." The base was recessed and painted black so the building appeared to be hovering. Some years ago they rebuilt the place and did away with that nonsense.