McDonalds | Fast Food | New York City | 1974
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- A lovely bit of Americana for the Brits of the 70's.
Thames Televisions 'Wish you were here' presenter Jim Lloyd gives a little insight into the day to day workings of one of the worlds most famous fast food chains 'McDonalds'
first transmitted on 28/01/1974
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"This 9 layer gastronomic indulgence is called a Big Mac"...wow, now thats an eloquent description
How did they decide what counted as a "layer" or not? That's a 2-layer hamburger to me. Are pickles really a "layer"?
BayviewFinch That's a rather intriguing philosophical question if I may say so
BayviewFinch Your mom's a layer.
1 Bottom bun,
2 Bottom Patty,
3 Cheese
4 Middle Bun
5 Top Patty
6 Cheese
7 Top Bun
They must be counting the bottom veggies and top veggies.
The rampant anti-intellectualism has made media as degenerate as it is now.
"Moved into the computer age" As the guy whips out his pen and paper to take an order
Haaa saw that, too. Awesome
he is a computer
Those registers (the ones we grew up with) were new at that time. Before those the individual had to figure out the change. Not a hard task then. But not I bet it would be impossible for most to do.
@Hogans Dubs It was a joke man.
Do you have aspergers or something?
Ye, the computer adds up the bill and works out the change, there might be a future for these things.
Its crazy to think they used to cook the burgers fresh.
chris cocktailz now we just eat hormones
they killed the cow there?
Interestingly, at this time the burgers were not served fresh. Instead, they were cooked, assembled, and then put under heat lamps until sold.
@@rick182z The manager did with his bare hands. Or for speed they would get the parking attendant to run over a couple.
They still do tho
Never thought of the early 70's as the "computer age".
a "comm-püt-err"
Quite true, in-fact. Supercomputing was already established by the end of WWII
+J Lock The first 3D animation was made in 1972. The animation/models were actually very high quality given the time period, they even had shading and stuff.
It's funny that we don't think about this- but computers have actually been out since the late 60s. The first public internet may be associated with He early 80s, first public actual "connect with the world" type of thing in the 90s with dial up, first "smart phone" in the late 90s to early 2000s (flip phones), then 2007 with the iPhone, and then here we are today.
+BrokenMikrofone
Hard to believe that considering social media came out in the early 2000s and actually traces back to the 90s lol! I imagine people will be more likely to think of early 2000s as the "social media age" (with Twitter, CZcams, Facebook, etc) and the 90s as "not the social media age" though social media *technically* came out in the 90s.
I've traced social forums all the way back to 95 as the earliest most common foruming age... there was one time though I even found something from December 30th 1989 O_O
Those 70’s burgers look delicious!🤤
I was there so yes they were much better tasting and used a higher quality meat. It still was fast food though.
0:35 Why does it seem like he just sat down at their table.
D. B, Because he is their husband.
They’re all wearing black and he stands out wearing a gray suit. Lol
@@kyrgyzjeff4550 LooL
@francesco lops wtf 😂💀
Don't say anything, Dorothy. Maybe he'll just leave when he's done.
those burgers of the grill look way better than they do today
Lamu25 because I doubt they used hormones back then for those.
Lamu25 bigger & tastier without chemicals mixed in to kill us like they do know. Government chemicals in everything...
that's because they're real hamburger and you noticed there a lot thicker
A mazing
I was just thinking that when watching
I wonder if the Apple Pie guy is still alive.
he was very enthusiastic while ordering.
z ⸒ ya cause he couldn't wait to inhale that apple pie
z ⸒ An apple pie in the Computer Age is a turning point in that man's life. Today we push a button and a small pill is rehydrated into an apple pie, we don't even have to go out.
The black guy taking the order is like talking under his breath, alright we'll get you an apple pie you fat piece of shit
Oh really? What happened?
Back when McDonald's had some prestige. lol
it used to be an occaisional treat. now it's everyday lunch!
agfagaevart - What?! Who is eating this plastic stuff every day?!
Youd be surprised. A lot of people eat at fast food because they have no time to cook, or no one to cook for them. They would rather work, then eat out then go home.
Weird to think that this generation's children will refer to your profile picture as "olden days" cartoons.
Jordan Rios a
The huge bite he takes out of that 9 layer gastronomic indulgence forever encapsulated in the eternal time capsule of the internet.
you should be a philosopher
Big Mac was actually big. They should just change the name to Small Mac now.
naw dude. You're just a fatass now
sappyjohnson I know that's a funny response, but it's friggin true what I said though. When I was a kid (I'm 40 years old), McDonalds was the shit, but the value isn't there any more with the food you get and what you paid. I only get coffee, because their coffee is the dang good, and occasionally the sausage egg mcmuffin. Everything else is rubbish, as the british would say. Nothing there taste good now, besides the aforementioned, that's the saddest thing. The quarter pounder was the shit. Something changed. Most of their foods suck now.
Right up to the early/mid-'70s, employees at each McDonald's sat there peeling and slicing potatoes for the fries. (A friend of mine did that as teenager.) It was in the late-'70s that I first saw someone tear open a bag of pre-cut frozen French fries and dump them into the fry-o-later basket. "What is this world coming to?", I wondered, as I adjusted my Peter Frampton belt buckle.
Ultradude wel CooKed
@@Ultradude604 try out McDonalds fish burger it's the only good thing they offer. The sauce goes so well with the fish burger.
I really dig the old McDonald's interior -- or fast-food joints, in general, back in the day.
I don't. They look vintage. Lol
Renato Lopez That's the point...
Young Vicious that's my point
Head over to the McDonald's I work at then, we literally haven't had a renovation or decoration change since the place was built in 1984, we get people all the time talking about its "retro" look
Benjamin Tekin please tell the location I’m dying to see a retro fast food joint
"Big Mac" has been part of our lexicon for so long it's funny to hear him say it like it's an unusual name
These people going to mcdonalds in a suit and tie, all I see at Mcdonalds now are raggedy ass pajama pants and yoga pants stretched too far
Everyone dresses down to the lowest common ratchet denominator. There is no such thing as class anymore.
And that's just the staff.
Swamp Trap they had to go stretchy as they got fatter
Who cares what people wear to once they feel comfortable wearing them pajamas r wat ever get you head out of ur arse
@@Ggggggggfddxv primitve language and behavior
"Welcome to the computer age" (cut to man with note-pad and biro). Brilliant
the man is an Android
@@mr_wildschwein Good point, but I think he might not be Android but a Mac... a Big Mac ! 😂 Stay safe during the madness Nik. I would love some fries right now... anything normal in fact.
@@nigelcarren Thankya 😊
look at the sear on those burgers, I would like to try a big Mac from then I bet it tastes better.
Yeah, they look so much more authentic and clearly made that way too.
joshin the process they used here is still how it's done.
and if you flip your burger after you get it you will see the bottom of it is pretty dark compared to the top which is what you normally see
burger, fries and a drink for less than a buck.
european-one I don't think so. Whenever I go in McDonalds now, there isn't a guy flipping burgers. on a flat top grill like in a diner. It's now a bunch of machines that ensure the kids don't screw it up.
Ultradude it is, I worked at McDonald's during my time at uni which wasn't all that long ago.
they weren't flipping the burgers just lifting them off after so many minutes. You can see that he is just waiting there.
only difference now is the top of the grill closes to squeeze the meat and cook it faster, and comes up after the set time.
also they don't have separate people for cooking the meat and dressing the buns because screw the staff, they can work twice as hard and McDonald's can pay out half as much.
the entire set I saw here is how they do it at McDonald's.
that's not the say the quality wont have changed, I would expect the ingredients such as meat are worse now since beef is more expensive nowadays.
they claim it is 100% beef in the UK, but who knows
0:34, opens his mouth like he's a dinosaur getting ready to chomp on a bushel of leaves.
I just got through laughing so hard from this comment that I’m exhausted and have to go to bed now.
Bushel? God, that's a very old word that you don't here much at all these days.
big macs were bigger back in the day. I'm not that old and I can remember they were bigger in 1993.
looooooöooooool
@@Jucelegario because you have been Younger, thus smaller
damn, look how juicy those burgers were at the end
goldsackb2 McRealBurger(R)
I like these old films. I used to eat a lot of McDonald's when I was a young person. It was good. Don't eat it anymore because I had a heart attack and bypass surgery. I should have eaten more vegges!
"I used to eat a lot of McDonald's ... and I had a heart attack and bypass surgery."
^ A True American, like Rambo or Rocky.
You know you're old when you remember their POS system and the kitchen; especially the flat grill! What a treat it was when burgers were on a special price for 25 to 35 cents and Dad would buy you a few to munch down quietly in the back of his car. Good times!
1992, Taco Bell had 25 cent tacos once a week. I was a broke art student so I remember.
Those hamburgers look WAY better. They actually look like real burgers that were cooked on a real grill and not something that came out of a 3d printer. The kitchen is also a regular looking restaurant kitchen. So different before the franchise got bigger and took over the world
+Jeremy B. Fappin They're still made the some way. They only had the chefs put their all into the food because they were being interviewed.
Matt Ward Not even. Food is not the same as it was back then, including fast food. Food started changing and becoming more processed in the mid 90s
@@TechnologicallyTechnical As someone who was actually alive back then I can assure you the food there is not nearly the same now as it was then.
Is that you Wendy?
White Castle hasn't changed. I'm happy about it.
That McDonald's computer today is simply a pocket calculator.
I remember going to McDonald's for the very first time after arriving from Mexico in 1989. I got a happy meal and loved the smell of the small cheeseburger. I took a bite and was disappointed. All of those flavors we're so new that I could not eat it. But now, oooooh weeeeeh. I love me some McDonald's.
The time you jumped the boarder and hated the food
@@user-fw8rd5ud4q Better than jumping a whole ocean tho.
I think McDonald's has defenitely improved over the years, I remember the food looking and tasting bad or not great, which was the early 2010's.
Now the food is much better, in my opinion anyway.
I don't think I've ever heard any food at McD's referred to as a gastronomic indulgence.
Well it’s what they are
Those burgers looked more like real meat than what you get nowadays 🤯
0:53 Look at the size of those buns and burgers! The size of McDonald's burgers has decreased by about 40% since 1974. My first job was working at McD's in 1989 and even back then the burgers were substantially larger. Nowadays they're like little bite-sized things.
A Dunkin Donut is FAR smaller than it was in the 1990's.
computers will never work
What a fad.
Just a passing fad.
Fast forward another 43 years from 2017: McDonalds is now the sole producer and distributor of baby foods. Every house and apartment has a McDonalds screen and a chute through which you can order and receive your HAPPINESS (c) meal.
Notice how it wasn't only young people working at McDonald's in those days.
Sere Rainbow I was more in awe that they spoke English
Well, there was not a need for older workers back then. There were enough baby boomers to fill the need.
@@danieldaniels7571 LOL to your comment BUT NOT TO THE SITUATION THE GOVERNMENT CREATED IN THE AUSTRALIAN WORK FORCE WHEN THEY TOOK THE JOBS AWAY FROM CITIZENS.
Come to McDonalds in Japan - not unusual to see older people working there.
@Cradleof FilthySabotage......and they were paid a LOT better.
Apple pie . More like apple strudel for which you'll need a Teflon mouth.
Jay Sterling
I know. The filling is the same temperature as lava.
Juan Trippe it's hotter than the sun!
Ben Potter it looks like a mouse!
Could go your way, could go mine. Either way, one of us is going down.
Gary Masters It's hotter than the Sun!
The guy opens his mouth to bite the burger like he’s about to eat a football.
facts megalodon maybe
lmao
This McDonalds at 71st street and Amsterdam is still open in 2020.
Dude those big macs look legit. The meat looks real
they dont make em like the used to. fahk
It's crazy to think that just a Big Mac at McDonald's cost $4 today.
Whoa I can't wait for this to come to every McDonald's!
wow those burgers are big and the patties look good, their quality has gone way down.
Majority of fast food chains has downsized their products, it is what we call in business a company at its maturity age, which tends to cut budgets and quality a lot.
Here in Washington State, we have new fast food chain called Hawaiian BBQ, where you can order a big 3 entrees dish with lots of meat, enough for 2 meals.
I remember paying 25 cents for small fries back then.
.35 for a hamburger.
Have a clear resolution image of McDonald's, only McDonald's, taken around the same year in Brooklyn with a Nikon camera running on Mercury batteries. The McDonald's is still there.
they're actually grilling the burgers
They are still grilled though. The machines look similar
"This 9 layered gastronomic indulgence" This is by far the best description of a Big Mac
4 years later, and I get this recommended to me. Time to have me a 9 layer gastronomic indulgence
I love technology, however, things seem to get worse every year as it advances :(
That guy was the epitome of the supersize Idea
Man it looks so much better.
We need more commercial presenters like this guy
Big Mac? It'll never catch on.
yeh its jst way to big the american population will become very obese wat an stupid idea.
Angel Eyes
“Ma’am, would you mind wiping the coronavirus off your hands before you press your fingers into my burgers? Please?”
Relax.
Ya, hit me with that ol fashioned influenza.
Ive worked in restaurant for YEARS high end, the highest and most kitchen staff DO NOT WEAR gloves.
Kit Richardson oh please 🙄
People weren't as sensitive in those days as long as the food was hot and delicious. Most of those people came from the Depression and War, so they were just happy to have something to eat, no complaining.
0:54 boy has time changed
0:54. If this was filmed in London, it must’ve been filmed before 1971 because tenpunce was a form of money used before decimalisation of 1971
😳 Those actually grilled meat patties. How much better the burgers must've tasted then.
They still do.
I remember the burgers used to be so super juicy in the 80s. Now they're so dry.
mrednblack6 The juiciness of the the patty is what’s missing now. Not gonna lie the burgers still tasty even though I don’t get them that often, but they’re just not as savory as they used to be.
@@Rizzdice nah the burgers were bigger then and of a higher grade of beef. Now they use the minimum grade allowed under law for human consumption.
@@ravilcn I mean, that's not true but you carry on with your tinfoil hat bullshit.
"A Beeg Mak"
First time I ate a Big Mac was in 1993. I will never forget it. It was awesome!
Did it ever taste better since then?
there were well dressed humans inside Mcdonalds back then, how times have changed!
The beginning of the end. Shhh, you can hear the arteries hardening and two generations of obesity about to be born.
BaronOfAnarchy hahahahahahahaha!!!😂😂😂😂 well said
Over here in Australia 63% of adults are over weight and 70% of children have to much sugar in their diets 😨😨😨😨
@@jacobsaccount9353 and we didn't have fast food until much later!
pearl oh the humanity! 😂
Damn you maccas!
Danm you all to hell!😂😂😂
@but ton my bad! i was referring to my area (my small town that didn't have mcdonalds until 2002)
I immediately recognized this McDonald's the moment I saw it from my childhood. Trying to figure out the exact location, pretty sure it was the upper East Side of Manhattan. Anyone?
Neverrmind, I found it on Google maps! The buildings are still there (2018) @70th street and 2nd avenue, SW corner:
www.google.com/maps/@40.7673889,-73.959522,3a,34.3y,336.8h,88.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sorAMlC3P9qwN3zu7dIeoIA!2e0!5s20090501T000000!7i13312!8i6656
I lived up on 85th and 5th avenue, but I went to 70th street because they had a pool at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association up the block.
The Cinema Cafe shown on Google maps from 2009 is now gone as well. The food there was very good.
Oh man, look at him grilling those patties fresh. Definitely not that way anymore.
The 70s were very likely the most important decade for the history of computer science
Their old apple pies, with the deep fried crust, were awesome. But they were so burning hot inside you could get third degree burns on your tongue if you bit into one without waiting a few hours for it to cool. The same kind of scorching temperature their coffee and hot chocolate used to be.
Still have those in the UK.
When McDonald's actually cook their beef on the grill
They still do. It's a duplex contact grill.
RK831 the quality of the meat went down dramatically when they switched to that type of grill from a traditional flat gas grill. I worked at McDonald’s in the late ‘80s when that happened.
There's nothing wrong with that shit..
Wat
I really want a damn Big Mac now
That last guy was cooking quarter pounders...that that was my job....
I feel this burgers where way more natural back in the days…
24p for a Big Mac. Damn inflation.
Today you can't get a Big Mac for 480 or even 720 p!
adjusted for inflation that's £2.52, which is still 20% less than a Big Mac today (£3.19)
Take a look pal and you'll underetood damn inflation czcams.com/video/mII9NZ8MMVM/video.html
Anyone else have Willy Wonka vibes from watching this. He talks like the Candyman can guy.
What would a computer do with a lifetime's supply of chocolate?
Wonka was born to be a candy man, just like you were born to be a Wonkarer.
A Big Mac today tastes totally different than A Big Mac 40 years ago . Back then it was a joy to have one .
The birth of todays' America, love these clips
You kids have no idea how awesome McDonalds was in the 80’s. Old people shook their heads at us young people that ate at McDonalds ‘cause they ate at diner style places for hamburgers and McDonalds was the hip place to be for kids and young adults (though I was more crazy about Taco Bell). In the 80’s being in McDonalds was like being in an Apple store, LOL!
I remember some goofy 80’s movie with a young Kevin Costner about cycling and they were healthy athletic cyclists and in the “racing their way to the top” montage they kept showing their race team going into McDonalds, pretty funny today...
Look at the difference in Quality of the food .
I was recently in Europe and had McDonalds in Ukraine and Poland, was still great there.
I don't think the people who made this quite understood what the Computer Age was about. I also don't think they grasped the concept of the fast-food restaurant but, hell, it'd only been around for about 20 years before that...
and an Apple Pie! please make it nuclear hot so that I can feel the skin peeling in my mouth for two days afterwards
So they use cash registers? How incredible.
Nice. 1974. The year I was born.
The Big Mac looked like it was about to start fighting back when he took a bite! 😂
Manager has memorized his favorite client's order.
I’d like a Big Mac, a large order of fries, a coke, and an apple pppaaaayyyyyee
24 pence for a Big Mac. Classic lol. Fantastic. I need to find a time machine and grab me some of those lol.
Big Mac layers:
1 - Top Bun
2 - Pickles
3 - Onions
4 - Special Sauce
5 - Top Beef Patty
1 - Middle Bun
6 - Cheese
7 - Bottom Beef Patty
1 - Bottom Bun
now u see that? those were real damn burger patties back then
Look how big those burgers are compared to now...
More like, look how small the people are compared to the burgers.
thats cool that records in that times looks real not fake like today, today when they record from the work places they direct and script everything and everyone
Wow the Big Mac’s were actually Big back then, I’m old enough to remember this ! Patties were a total 8oz vs 3.2 oz before cooking!
when a hamburger moves into the computer age, it becomes a big mac.
Haha. Really great comment!
The food was better back then, I would guess
I think it's about 50/50. The twenty-first century we now live in is much more health conscious in terms of caloric intake and eliminating trans fats in using alternate oils. The 1970s did not list the caloric amounts on their menu; cooking oil was a one brand fits all kind of brand, probably more fat and worse on the arteries.
Negative. More fat, more issues. Healthy eating hasn't been officially engrained in people since the era of the great depression. The irony of the worst of those days is that people ate more vegetables and less meat, thus creating a better body and expanding their lifespan.
The problem with 21st century eating is that people are fixated on the word protein. Protein is important, but it really doesn't have to be consumed in every meal and certainly not multiple days in a week. Continuous protein consumption leads to weight gain; weight gain then leads to high blood pressure. It also overworks the kidneys.
@@eclecticreader961 eating meat that's full of antibiotics is not good for your health either.
Not an issue back then
Well they took time to cook it too, you had to wait. Now it's just pop it in the micro....
Yes, food was less processed back then. What Eclectic Reader failed to address is how there are so many more unnatural preservatives and chemicals in the food nowadays that automatically makes it less healthy. Regardless if people were health conscious or not, healthy food was always available everywhere back then--healthy as in wholesome food with better nutrition and less preservatives. Nowadays, people have to look for healthy food via farmer's market or grow/farm their own food for the best benefits. Quality in everything has declined.
0:10 - 0:15 that guy has totally been replaced by a kiosk now! Lol 😂
They make it sound as if Mcdonald's was a revelation to the world in 1974.
It's a British program. The first McDonald's opened in the U.K. in 1974, the same year this was filmed, so I imagine McDonald's would have largely been unknown in Britain when this was made, hence why it's presented in this style.
Love that dude as he craned his mouth open to eat that burger 🍔
0:34 that is the most offensive way to eat Bic Mac
The Apple pie guy would be about 80 years old now
They don’t make anything like they use too. This world needs a major reset. Everything back in the day was made with perfection....people took pride in what they did....Great footage...thanks for sharing!!!
Facts
Wow did you see the way that guy took a bite out of that Big Mac. It's was like he was scared
0:10 he so excited
I would to
I had a McDonald's advert for this video lol
Man I actually had no idea McDonalds used to sell high quality food. In my mind it was always processed meat sitting in warming drawers
Before I was born...wow...!!
McDonald's clientele over the years has changed..!!! 🍔🍟
The employees do a great job but I see a lot of chav/drunk clientele in mcdonalds talking to them with no respect at all!
It's the only place thats open at night 😂
Now you can go on CZcams and find a video called. Best Mcdonalds fights . ..lol ppl are shit now
0:10 sounds like reciting a poem... extra large for this dude... he will be hungry in no time...
This felt like yesterday. I was 68 in this video
Moved into the computer age" As the guy whips out his pen and paper to take an order.
The beginning of the end, when Europe discovered yank fast food.