Inside a McDonald's restaurant in 1990
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2022
- Footage of people inside a Mcdonald's on January 15, 1990.
A family ordering a meal. Video of Styrofoam containers. Cardboard drinks. Happy meals, etc...
Video last around 4 minutes.
#mcdonalds
Im on this weird 80s-90s fast food restaurant video ordering binge. Im glad someone saved these.
The good old days.. My mom used to take me to McDonald's every day after school.. Thank you MOM RIP
❤
Rip to her
Same! I didn’t live with my mom. So she would take me a lot to McDonald’s. I loved it. Best memories. Now it taste like garbage.
3 MEALS FOR 10.00 now it's about 1 meal. the gouging despot heads of everything everywhere are also destroying Civility. and much of it also steals Time.
Same I got fat though 😂
Anyone watching in 2023?
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Yes
Me
33 years later.
“That’ll be $10.84.”
That sounds about right these days…for ONE PERSON!
$10.84 in 1990 is worth $25.46 today (2023) using an inflation calculator. Still seems like a lot because wages aren't keeping up.
Quit fucking thinking this has ANYTHING to do with wages. This has EVERything to do with Corporate America and the Federal Government fucking all of us over@@KelMurphy
@@KelMurphyright.
He gave her back 60 cents change 🤨
Honestly! 😂 It’s actually ridiculous! 😢
That guy working the front counter was so polite and professional....you definitely don't see that nowadays...
People had pride in work back then.
@TheSuperPsychoKiller not really, 1990 wasn't THAT long ago. People have hated working minimum wage jobs for a very long time - it's not a new phenomenon
Be the change you want to see.
You can barely even count on the person taking your order to speak fluent English
Man, the 90s and the early 2000s were a beautiful time.
Paradise compared to now. Everything was so raw and new. We had the perfect combination of modern tech and the old pre-internet world.
the 30s golden, less in 40s, 50s / 60s left completely SOLD US OUT, JUST rolling downhill now.
Everything is pre 911 and post. Bin Laden accelerated the downfall
As a kid in the 80s and early 90s there was something magical about getting your hands on a McDonald’s or White Castle happy meal. I can’t explain it. You had to have lived it . 😢
The Happy Meal boxes were so much fun! I was born in 1989, and my mom took us through the drive thru all the time. Even the toys were fun too. And this is when the Playplace actually existed and parents didn't really care what was at the bottom of those ballpits or in the plastic tubes, if we were good kids, we would sit down and eat there and then go play in the tubes. Funny how Chuck E Cheese is still a thing in some cities but they got rid of every Mcdonald's Playplace. 🙄
I did it was magical. My favorite time, when the Genesis and the Super NES came out, what a time. They still had the characters like hamburglar and grimace.
The quality of the toys or items were amazing and it was special.
1980s Happy Meals were the best. The container and the toys were pretty good quality.
Do you think they taste different nowadays compared to then?
Remember when there would be like 6 people behind the counter. Now you have to peer around a corner looking for one.
I miss the old interiors. The one in my block just got 'renovated', and it looks like a drab brown and grey depressing box. Its like mcdonalds aged into a depressed middle aged man. They even are getting rid of the iconic red roofs. I was like what the hell is this thing
It's a nice metaphor for life. I don't understand why they couldn't have kept what made McDonald's iconic 🤷🏻♂️.
ahhh the 90s a time when people respected people and children were well behaved and customer service was a thing
Hahahaha!
Not the way I remember it at all.
Your not wrong. Sometimes I question if i was born in the 90’s would I actually have a better attitude towards customers. Cause now i just want to cuss every damn one of them out of the building. Oh well ig thats just me, a mad 04 baby. 😂
children in no era were ever behaved
@@Xarai WELL said! Funny and true!
$10.84 to feed a family of 3! Back in 2008 I was able to get a double cheeseburger small fries and a large coke for $5, I miss those days.
Minimum wage was 4$/hr…
Do the math.
Wages are stagnant, and inflation is steadily rising...
Do the math.
Inflation, hon.@@bert_gimspon
I got a double cheese 4 pc small fry and a small coke for like $6 at my McDonald’s last night
@@clockwork1203 XD
Back in 2010, I could get a big mac meal with large fries and a large coke for only $6!!!
That same exact order would cost you $29.82 today. A $18.98 surge over 33 years. Imagine what a fast food meal for 3 will cost in the next 33 years 💀
No you are going to spend at least $35.00 for three meals
Wojack knows. He went to the future and then came back to tell me what it was like.
A quarter of a bitcoin 😂
40$.. it’s the biden effect
@@Slayqueen.x
Yes, because the President controls fast food prices.
I miss the 80's & 90's and early 2000's those days are gone forever, I wish I could go back in time.
I’d go back in a heartbeat if I could
When McDonald's was affordable and people were normal.
Damn, memories man. It was treat for us to go to McDonald's back when I was a kid. We didn't have much money at all growing up. We went maybe once every few months or once a year maybe. I wonder what kids now would think about cash only at fast food joints. Lol.
It costs a fortune now.
@@chacaloso361 And taste nasty😫
Kids wouldn't recognize today's McDonald's. No PlayPlace. No "M" Golden Arches.
They used to sell unique items on the menu in our local McDonald's, also gave out free balloons for anyone
If you fell asleep back in 1993 & woke up today you'd be at a loss looking at today's McDonald's. A square brown building w/o a Playplace & absence of a traditional dining area. Three registers w/a pair of touch order kiosks. No presence of Ronald McDonald & friends. No self serve soda or coffee. No smoking allowed. No old school "flip" overhead menu boards. Some traditional restaurants exist, but few & far between. They even changed the buns.
My jaw dropped in disbelief when that family of three ordered all of that food and it only costed them $10.84.
Today in 2023, all of that food would've costed about $50 and more...
I totally agree with you on that. Everything is more expensive these days. Things were much cheaper and more affordable then.
Minimum wage was 4$. Does no one know how inflation works?
“cost” them.
@@bert_gimspon They literally don't. I've had this argument so many times. 99% of American adults do not know what inflation is and just assume everyone was much better off in the past. Marxist "re-education" has completely succeeded.
No way, the app damn near gives away the stuff. Albeit, the food has shrunk.
Really cool footage, takes one back. I love the simplicity of the service, counter and even order taking machines. Cash. And how well dressed the McDonald's employees were. Too bad the PIXILATED compressed video makes seeing the details a bit difficult.
No sneering from the employees at the front counter as they take your order, no feces smeared all over the bathroom stall, no mentally ill junkies yelling at everyone in the dining area. It was a different time for sure..
No die/versity thugs here 😅😂
I think you just live in a terrible area
@@westernsellers9148who are the thugs you speak of?
@@Inaworldoflove😂
@@Inaworldoflovelol
Things seemed so peaceful back then.
They were. Nobody was confused about what a penis or vagina was. Nobody worried about being "canceled" because shaming still existed and therefore nobody ended up doing anything stupid enough to be cancelled. Except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
Sadly, all by design too.
@@robloxvids2233if you can’t call a spade a spade, evil will run amuck.
They weren’t.
@@tylerd1090 crrow777 fan?
Back when happy meal boxes were created with effort.
Watch the people. Nobody's looking at a phone. I miss those days.
They would buy a newspaper on the machine, outside of McDonald's in the 90s and early 2000s to read it. Now, it's smartphones.
As you type your comment into a phone
Excuse me MILFORD. HOW AM I SUPPOS TO ORDA MY CARDEE B MEAL ON THE MICKIE D APP IF NO PHONE? LOL, ARE YOU LUDDITE OR SOMETHING
@@YRFKDM8don’t assume
@@AmazonEnforcershut up
The real McDonald’s when people actually respected and cared about each other now people will fight the manager over a missing coke
People weren’t as demanding as today. The quality of McDonald’s has went down even though there milk shakes were/are made with powder. I remember these times though. The salads were phenomenal.
The chef salad was phenomenal.
as someone who's birthday was celebrated in early 2000's in mcdonalds, I totally feel glad that I enjoyed this as a little kid in that time... I even have a disc and rewatching it, makes that fever dream like nostalgic emotions reborn
Just five years old in 1990...man I miss being a kid.
I was 3
Six years old in 1990 right here.
I was 4 born in 86.
I was in a Mcdonald's today, and a bunch of kids started harassing a homeless
guy, who was harassing the cashier.
I left, before a fight broke out.
1990... the year I was born.
Me 91…
same here 1990 :)
You're a kid. I was born 1973.
@TedTheAtheist sound like boomer lol
@@louio No, you need to learn your dates.
Good ole 1990. The beginning of the greatest decade. Oh how I long to go back!
I’m trying to bring back my memory of being in that moment as a 7 year old little boy. Sad that the happiness as a kid can’t be at the present moment of an adult cause reality has changed.
80s and 90s for me, what a great time to be around back then.
I feel like I took it for granted, I miss those years so much.
Me too...I hate the way the world and people are today 😮💨😮💨😮💨
@@leanneb9529 Looking back, you can see it's all through media, tv, music, movies and the internet, ESPECIALLY with social media the past 10 years has really changed things, it's brought out the worst in us.
I took it for granted too because it was just another day to us back then. I would savor everyday if I could live it again
McDonald’s and most other fast food restaurants had a cozy vibe & feel to em. I remember being sooo scared to go up and ask the cashier for ketchup when I was a kid. I’ve found 2 un-remodeled McDonald’s in my city and they still have that 90s look. One of them has the green, teal and pink furniture with framed pictures on the walls, fake plants and a playground area!! The other one I recently found has blue and red chairs, tile floors and cool artwork on the walls (most likely from the late 1980s). The newly remodeled McDonald’s look very depressing, stale and boring. Can’t stand it
I know...the remodels are terrible. It doesn't pop nor stand out.
@@vampirerobot McGulag’s
Starbucks wannabes.
@@TrainmasterCurt yep. Brutalism design continues to be pushed on the people to demoralize us by the you-know-whos.
Demise Media, I dont know if you can see my reply to someone else in the comments, so if you cant, I'll repeat that these remodels and most buildings are based on a style of architecture called Brutalism.
Do an image search on that word. This style is pushed on the masses on purpose to demoralize the people.
This is so cute I like the cashier talking and the when the little boy told the cashier what sauce he wanted and when he got his happy meal ❤❤❤
Right? Wholesome
1:56 Big Mac, Filet Fish, happy meal, hamburger, small fries, and drink all for $10?! Today that would be close to $30!!
A few of the original McDonald's with the golden arches should have been left standing with no drive thru.
I was 7 years old back in 1990, so these were especially good times.
6 years old in 1990 right here. Gen.Y represent!!!
The days when we made eye contact
Ah the good ole days of 80s and early 90s. I remember when people used to dress up when they went to McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Red Lobster, etc. Pizza Hut was my go to in the 80s for that ultimate pizza dining experience. Those cushy red seats and the smell of the Pizza Hut aroma. Miss those days.
BACK WHEN THEY GAVE YOU REAL TOYS WITH THE HAPPYMEAL
I wonder what McDonalds meals in 1990 tasted like compared to today 🤔.
Wayyyyyy better! Especially the McD.L.T. 🥬 🍅 🍔 I was 12 when this vid was taken, I remember it well, and McPizza 🍕 🍟
@@TrainmasterCurt McPizza was McGross.
the fries were waaay better too! They used to be the best.
but now theyre just bland.
@@mstrikesback168 I don't understand why they don't just bring back the original recipe for a limited time. It doesn't have to be forever. They used to be cooked in Beef Tallow.
@@plawson8577 😆😆
No robots, no giant touch screens, no crazy prices.Just real people interacting with real people. Marty, doc, I m waiting guys
In the 90s McDonald's used actual employees in their commercials. My cousins daughter did 3 because they liked her. In the area around Carbondale Illinois. One had Angela saying ' Were better than the guys down the street ' Angela made about $40,000 with residuals. Her Mom was paid $500 a day because Angela was only 17.
Man these videos are great.
So awesome to see this kind of stuff again
I miss the environmentally unfriendly plastic boxes the burgers came in!
Also....
Your burger would either be steaming hot with lots of steam rising off it or it would've been on the rack thing for ages and your quarter pounder burger would be crispy on the edges!
Quarter pounder with cheese was in the yellow box. I use to see my dad eating it as a kid while I nibbled on chicken nuggets.
ever since we stopped using those styrofoam boxes, the environment has gotten better? And when fast food started using paper straws, they saved the world!
Its all a joke. Its beyond obvious at this point.
If they brought back those styrofoam boxes, we wouldnt notice 1 ounce of change. But the sky is constantly polluted by jets, leaving the once blue skies looking dull and faded blue and no one says a word.
ps they didnt stop using styrofoam to 'save the earth'
they didnt it because its cheaper to use cheap paper boxes.
greed.
@@mstrikesback168 and you think it took them decades to figure that out?
we had no idea how blessed we were to be alive during these times. I was 5 in 1990, how old were you?
Right? I feel like I took it for granted, compared to the last 15 years and especially the past few years.
I wish there was a time machine, I'd go back in a second.
@@CinHalCedHerChance Yes, absolutely. Cherish every moment and try to stay happy, we’re only here for a short time.
I remember about 8 years ago going to a McDonalds that had a hamburger tree built into the wall. The tree looked in sad shape but was still a nice throw back to see.
Me being born in 2004 videos like these are so cool to me seeing how it was before I was even a thought 💭 😅 also everybody seem so calm and upbeat now it’s different
My earliest memory going to McDonalds was in 1996/1997 (somewhere around there) and yeah, the atmosphere was a lot more chill back then. Also what made it more fun if you were a kid was that some of them had "Game stations" where you could play Nintendo 64's while waiting for your order lol . Mario Kart 64, Banjo Kazooie, and Super Mario 64. I can't remember if they had Smash Bros 64 but I digress lol
It certainly was a different time back then.
I was three and didn't even know McDonald's existed. It would be another two years when we moved from Oaxaca, Mexico to L.A. and was introduced to McDonald's in Echo Park. How time flies. I'm 34 now.
Oh I remember those days and really miss those days!!!
I Love Mcdonald For Years And Now 20 Years Later I Still Love Mcdonald
Had my 5TH Bday at McDonald's it was the 80s and it was awesome 👌 Also what are those smiling people doing at the counter don't they know it's 2023 and you have to frown and point at the kiosk
McDonalds tasted so much better and I miss those Styrofoam container. I miss the 90s. I wish I could go back and spend at least 1 week in the 90s.
Ahh the year i graduated high school. Wish i could go back to my younger self and give myself a little sit down chat of what NOT to do..😊
Well if you hadn't made those mistakes you wouldn't be who you are today
Wow! No machine for debit card or apple pay! Straight cash.
I'm sure people used debit cards back then....
Debit cards were around but they started being used more widely a few years after this was filmed.
I still remember the old cups and paper burger liners. I found a video of me eating a Happy Meal in 1991 when I was 2 🤣 This is when it was actually fun to go inside and eat there! I even got some of the Mcdonaldland audio cassettes. It's sad, McDs isn't anything like it was over 30-40 years ago. Especially inside. Sometimes I'll get an Egg McMuffin and a hash brown and those are still so yummy lol.
Thirty-four years ago. Sobering. Beautiful.
McDonald's was my first job in 1993, I worked there a year and a half. I remember the continual waffles shaped burns on my arms from the fry baskets. I remember a lady giving the styrofoam packaging back to me once in protest of its use. I remember the downstairs freezer, storage area and break 'room'. I was so proud when I was allowed to make salads, my first big promotion. Minimum wage was like $5.45/hr and gas was around $1/gallon. Those shirts bring back memories, thank you for this video.
Ahh the days when everyone used cash to pay for things. I remember when I wondered when they would start taking credit or debit cards since most people don’t carry cash around anymore
And especially Apple Pay. 😁
And we got Klaus Schwab trying to actually wipe out physical cash completely 😞😞😞
The 90's was just 2-3 generation away from last world war. Economy had to restore and grow. So it didn't matter how the money was earned, untill a bunch of scammers created that Euro currency. Only businessmen carried a credit card. Now everybody can get a credit card, oh yes they love the youth getting a creditcard.
Before society collapse
$10.84 for 2 adults and a kid to eat that must be nice!.....if it was in 2023
McDonalds was paying $5/hr back then. So, there's your false economic comparison.
@@milfordcivic6755 the federal reserve has been destroying our fiat dollar on purpose for decades. But you'll see the 'false economic comparison' when they're shut down soon.
Wow! The Fry Kids. I forgot all about them. I remember they used to show them in the McDonald's commercials. Those were the days.
I love this channel
Was finishing up my Senior year of high school when this was filmed, great times so long ago.
The whole point of fast food was to get something cheaper and quicker than a sit-down restaurant. These days McD's has gotten such a big head it literally costs you MORE money to get LESS food than a lot of sit-down places. McD's had its day but seriously needs to close down. Not sure why people are still bothering with their food considering its quality has deteriorated significantly.
The good ole days I miss the 1980s and 1990s😊
I remember my first Happy Meal which was when I immigrated to America in March of 1989 with my parents. My first figure was Garfield & Friends.
Hi, how can I help you? Haven’t heard that in years. Lol.
Good old days. Used to work cash back in the early 2000’s and I enjoyed every min of it.
Dang it now I’m hungry!
🤣🤣
Right!! I'm also hungry for those cheaper Mcdonalds prices back then too
@@vampirerobot😂😂😂
Funny thing is even though I am a 2k kid the mcdonalds near my house used to have this 90s look all the way till early 10s.
I still remember having birthday parties at McDonald’s. I absolutely loved going to those.
I never had birthday parties at none of my McDonalds as I never knew they existed in the 90's/2000's there. I however loved the play areas . One of mine had Nintendo 64 kiosks and my brother and I played Mario Kart 64 with no other kid there. Our mom had an interview that day, really fun game. We didn't go into the playplace though as it wasn't long.
I enjoyed it. Good old days: everyone just doing their thing. 😎❤❤
Wonderful memories, my 1st job
Cant believe how quick the service is
I’m here 2024… April… minimum wage in California for all restaurant workers is now $20 a hour…. Im flabbergasted
Love the Styrofoam containers and he has big mac and fish in like 20 seconds, wow!
Hi! Did you used to have a lot of network news clips on this channel recorded in Nashville? LOVED the old World News Tonight clips and miss those
That was probably btm0815ma
@@vampirerobot any idea how to reach them?
No. I do not. I wish.
so nostagic I was born in 1990 but remember mc donalds where it was the place to hangout.
GREAT FOOTAGE GARY THIS IS GOING STRAIGHT ONTO THE 6 O'CLOCK NEWS
Everyday we keep finding examples of how much life was better in the past.
I remember the cash register being that way in 1999 when I worked at McDonald’s in Brooklyn New York .
I love the old packaging.and the meat was different back in 70's 80's and 90's.
Back when even the architecture was inviting, before the dark times of the generic "office space for rent" design of current McDs.
That first customer reminds me why I stop wrking in fast food😒
I really hate when customers put the money on the counter. Once, I had a customer do that so I put their change on the counter & they looked offended. I ain't gaf🤣
What's worse than that Is when the customer puts crumpled money on the counter or in your hands Especially if their an adult and should know better than to conduct business in that manner
The first customer seemed fine. Just paying for his meal. 😃
Exactly,its rude and bad manners not to put the money into people's hand.
A couple of things to mention in the video. First, the woman paid. The family is well dressed which could mean that going out to eat was a bit pricey therefore it was valued and seem as an occasion to look nice. The employees are dressed nice which goes back to getting out and making it a pleasurable time. The simplicity is the most nostalgic thing about it.
i think they werent considered "well dressed" .. its just how they dressed.. I think most of us dress kinda sloppy these days.. especially to mcdonalds :P
You seem to be reading too much into everything.
Remember trays?! I miss when you'd get everything on a tray and it was all ready and warmed behind them. All this "made to order" stuff ruined fast food.
This restaurant was nearly identical to the one by my Grandparents' home. Franchisees could design their restaurant based on a few interior options to chose from. This one was definitely the preferred choice in the late 80s with the light blue and brown interior. The one by my Grandparents' maintained this look (and with excellent upkeep) until the 2010s and is now a sad, grey, remodeled location.
So that's how they film all those training videos.
Daddy there at 1:26 could just jump behind the counter and start taking orders.
he could, but they weren't degenerates like mcdonalds core customers are today. they were civilized back then.
Back then these places were run by one 25 year old and six 16 year olds. Now it takes 12 adults to do 1/5th as good of a job.
...and they could speak clearly,count and say THANK YOU!!
1990 was a great year! I was 19 and the world was my oyster! Then came marriage, mortgages, kids, divorce, careers, and more kids...
Why do these keep coming into my feed
Which McDonald's location is this (City or State)?
I am assuming that it's a location in the United States.
Where was this location?
I hope that little boy with his parents ordering knows of this video existing
That comes to $1.93 PLEASE? You wont hear the word please in todays fast food restaraunts
Not a self order kiosk in sight
I miss my 1990s, when people were real… F MODERN CULTURE
90s were not my favorite time at all. Especially the late 90s.
“Ketchup!”
Awww
I’m watching in April 2024 34 years later I was twenty yo back then