Burger Restaurant - One HUGE flaw

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  • AJ2112AJ2112 Posts: 1,417
    edited August 2019

    Depends on size of the city, I live in a small city, all the franchise restaurants in my town are that clean, some are spotless, including bathroom.  Reaon being, majority of customers in town, visit drive thru these day's, I rarely see interior occupation.  20 vehcles in thru lanes.  Reason McD has double lanes.  Drive thru is messy.   Also many customers order digitally and pick up.  Now the ones with alcohol bars, during sporting events, different story, Rofl !!!!   

    Independant and family owned restaurants have flaws, specially older ones from the 80's-90's still in business.   

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  • StezzaStezza Posts: 9,149
    Noah LGP said:

    "One HUGE flaw" is an unfair comment.

    maybe it was misspelled... and should of been floor  angel

     

  • PetraPetra Posts: 1,157

    The fast-food restaurants that I go too I always clean, including toilets.

    I would not go to a place that is dirty.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,323
    mwokee said:

    The germs are there. Can't you see the germs?

    Call the germinator!

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,323
    AllenArt said:

    Here where I'm at the tend to be clean or they wind up on the TV news health report and then after a week get re-reported on to see if they've cleaned up their act They don't last very long if they don't keep the place clean

    In my area if a restaurant fails a health dept. inspection they publish it in the newspaper and online. It can kill a business quickly if they're an eating establishment and they aren't clean.

    Laurie

    Here they get smilies:

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,355
    mwokee said:

    The germs are there. Can't you see the germs?

    Can't see the germs.  I don't believe in things I can't see.  I have a real problem with electrons.  I'll think positive if I stick my finger in a power outlet.cheeky

    Oops, tried it.surprise  Got zapped really bad!crying  They tell me it's because the holes alternate between positive and negative.  Who knew?frown

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,136
    Noah LGP said:

    "One HUGE flaw" is an unfair comment.

    maybe it was misspelled... and should of been floor  angel

     

    no ..what i said ... tables with spilled liquid. ketchup, mustard .. crumbs ... i cannot tell you how many times 've had to take a napkin and brush off the stuff so i could sit down and eat ... sticky floors, wraqppers, etc etc. ... 
    Its great youse guys have never had the displeasure of being in a dirty restaurant. They exist..health department or not. much depends on how busy they are, what time of day you're there. 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,355

    Yeah, having to wipe off a table (or seat) before sitting down always makes me mutter "pigs!" just loud enough that someone might hear me.  Not often, but when it happens I have 5 minutes of really dark thoughts about the term "human nature".  Is it too late to change species?indecision

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,136

    Yeah, having to wipe off a table (or seat) before sitting down always makes me mutter "pigs!" just loud enough that someone might hear me.  Not often, but when it happens I have 5 minutes of really dark thoughts about the term "human nature".  Is it too late to change species?indecision

    for surefrown

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,098
    Sevrin said:
    Noah LGP said:
    daveso said:
    daveso said:

    next time I'm in one, which is getting rarer, i will take a photo ... it will not look anything like this for sure. In fact, i get excited when i go in one and it is clean..wow, the table are clean, and so is the floor. 

    and you still eat their food with it not being clean??!! I would speed away, very fast!

    builds immunity laugh

    as long as you dont die from food poisoning or something. 

     

    "Though salmonella poisoning is generally not a severe illness, it can be fatal in certain people, including young children and the very old"

     

    Some people never wash their hands : "Traces of faeces have been found on every single McDonald’s touchscreen swabbed in an investigation"

     

    But let's be honest.  There's "traces of poop" on everything.  Like your toothbrush.

    So that was you who’s been doing that... would you knock it off... it was funny the first two or six times, but now it’s getting old... Also, if that was you who switched out the Nutella... Good prank, but you didn’t get me... I got suspicious because of the corn.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,737
    McGyver said:
    Sevrin said:
    Noah LGP said:
    daveso said:
    daveso said:

    next time I'm in one, which is getting rarer, i will take a photo ... it will not look anything like this for sure. In fact, i get excited when i go in one and it is clean..wow, the table are clean, and so is the floor. 

    and you still eat their food with it not being clean??!! I would speed away, very fast!

    builds immunity laugh

    as long as you dont die from food poisoning or something. 

     

    "Though salmonella poisoning is generally not a severe illness, it can be fatal in certain people, including young children and the very old"

     

    Some people never wash their hands : "Traces of faeces have been found on every single McDonald’s touchscreen swabbed in an investigation"

     

    But let's be honest.  There's "traces of poop" on everything.  Like your toothbrush.

    So that was you who’s been doing that... would you knock it off... it was funny the first two or six times, but now it’s getting old... Also, if that was you who switched out the Nutella... Good prank, but you didn’t get me... I got suspicious because of the corn.

    Those were just clever diversions. You never even suspected the pudding.  Bwa-ha-ha!!!

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,208

    I think this is the most unappetizing thread on the forum! surprise

  • jjmainorjjmainor Posts: 499

    Actually, it's the norm & expected in any decent restaurant to be squeaky clean, even fast food restaurants. When I worked as a busboy my entire day was premised on keeping the dining room, hallways, and public bathrooms clean.  I hardly ever eat out anymore being both poor and vegetarian but when I do the restaurants are clean.

    What I do find odd, is the world of 3D models seems to have weird obsession about excessive dirt & decay on their models when it's not realistic in the least with the excessive amounts it's portrayed on the 3D models. There are some places let it go unchecked to a degree but every restaurant, homeowner, city, town, and farm spends actually quite a bit of their time & money actively working against dirt & decay. I'm DIY-ing my house & yard. The prior owner of my house replaced it's ceiling 10 years ago. The local WalMarts within a 50 miles radius of me are retiling their floors, repaving their parking lots, and so on. When trash collection stops you know it pretty quick.

    If the restaurants you are eating at aren't clean you should question if you should be eating at them at all as that is a reflection of the cleanliness habits of the workers and a hepatitis A epidemic has spread like wildfire in the western hemisphere. 

    Besides that, have a 3D model scene of a restaurant with every render having the same burger wrapper laying at the same spot on the floor isn't more realistic at all since it's going to show up in umpteen unrelated renders. A spotlessly clean restaurant that shows up in umpteen unrelated renders is much more plausible.

    Are you in America? Most fast food places in gas stations, and any food service inside a Walmart are the absolute worst. I avoid them. Places in older building also look rough as well. However things are improving. There is a trend of fast food places rebuilding and remodeling their places to look better. That has become sort of its own arms race. For example, Chick-fil-a has a standard where every store MUST remodel after a certain period of time, the main company actually does a full inspection of each franchise location every year or so. I think they started this trend because this contributes to the business they do. Chick-fil-a does an insane amount of business, and the old brands are desperately trying to catch up. Every single McDonalds that is around me has done a full remodel of its store in the past two years, I am talking like a 50+ mile radius with dozens of locations. Taco-Bell has also jumped on this trend and many of those have remodeled around here. In some cases, they even tear down the old building and build entirely from scratch, which McDonalds did where I grew up.

    Of all the trends that can on, this is one I can get behind. But a brand new building or remodel doesn't mean the tables will always be clean. I don't know what it is about North Carolina, but any time I travel there the places are never clean, even when its not busy. It doesn't matter where I go. They just don't care. I have not traveled the whole state, but I have seen plenty. However, I gotta eat somewhere! I can't just leave every place I see with dirty tables or I might starve down there.

    Anyway, as for the product here, I am more concerned about the other stuff I do not see. Like Cybersox said, where are the bathrooms? Actually, where is the entrance? I think I see where it might be, but we don't have a picture of a door. And it is kind of odd that we don't see a kitchen or prep area or any hint of one. Though I understand that would have been really tough, but I think it would be pretty cool to have a full fast food building with a kitchen in it. That would allow artists to render up stories of people working in these places.

    In NC and can attest to it.  Some years ago, I walked into a Boston Market and every table had a literal mountain of trash on it.  It is impossible to overstate how much trash was inside that place.  And there's a MC D's near me where they don't clean anything at the end of the day...the whole place stays filthy overnight until the cleaning person comes in in the morning.

    Even new builds don't take long to get that "trashed" look.  There's a Sheetz near me that's been open a little over a year, and the place is a constant pigstye, with equipment that's broken down more than once in that year.

    And the health inspection scores are almost a joke.  They get points for stupid stuff that has little to nothing to do with the condintions in the kitchen, so it's easier than it should be to get a passing score.

  • backgroundbackground Posts: 916

    I went to a place last week ... there was rubbish everywhere, sure some of it was in bins, but some was piled up against the wall, there were liquid spills and newspapers that had gone yellow with age. The smell was not good and there were flies all around. I asked this one guy if I could get a burger, and he looked at me like I was from another planet, and said " No sir, this is a recycling centre."

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,759
    daveso said:
    Noah LGP said:

    "One HUGE flaw" is an unfair comment.

    maybe it was misspelled... and should of been floor  angel

     

    no ..what i said ... tables with spilled liquid. ketchup, mustard .. crumbs ... i cannot tell you how many times 've had to take a napkin and brush off the stuff so i could sit down and eat ... sticky floors, wraqppers, etc etc. ... 
    Its great youse guys have never had the displeasure of being in a dirty restaurant. They exist..health department or not. much depends on how busy they are, what time of day you're there. 

    In my country a restaurant like that would be closed since long! surprise

    This is why I think that set it's perfect as it is, I never saw a dirty and messy reastaurant.

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,136
    Imago said:
    daveso said:
    Noah LGP said:

    "One HUGE flaw" is an unfair comment.

    maybe it was misspelled... and should of been floor  angel

     

    no ..what i said ... tables with spilled liquid. ketchup, mustard .. crumbs ... i cannot tell you how many times 've had to take a napkin and brush off the stuff so i could sit down and eat ... sticky floors, wraqppers, etc etc. ... 
    Its great youse guys have never had the displeasure of being in a dirty restaurant. They exist..health department or not. much depends on how busy they are, what time of day you're there. 

    In my country a restaurant like that would be closed since long! surprise

    This is why I think that set it's perfect as it is, I never saw a dirty and messy reastaurant.

    wow surprise  I live in the wrong place. 
    Along the interstate wehn driving, the rest stop restaurants are often horrible. Thats why the so clean product surprised me so much and I posted about it. Maybe many places have bad hygeine in the U.S.

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,355
    edited August 2019

    All the McDonalds in this corner of NY State have been remodeled in the last couple years.  The Burger Kings too.  But the Tim Hortons invading from Canada are just overpopulating the area with big and little new sitessurprise.  Honestly. I really don't understand the attraction.  Perhaps that's why the McDonalds and Burger Kings had to step up their game.   The Wendy's are still plodding along, but are always clean and neat.  It's my favorite fast-food place.yes

      My only complaint with Wendy's is the noise in the kitchen.  The noise while standing at the counter trying to order is actually physically painful to me.sad  Loud wide bandwidth clanging and banging and scratchy external takeout speaker, and yelling between kitchen staff and they always have tiny little girls at the cash register who timidly speak in a voice an octave above what I can hear.frown Our conversation goes something like this:  "Hi, I'd like a Four for $Four for here, and a double chilli with one hot sauce and two crackers to take out, and I get a free chocolate mini-Frosty with my keychain dongle".  She says <something>.  I say "What?".  She repeats.  I cup my hand around my ear and finally catch her speech more directly but we often go through this process twice.  I complain about the kitchen noise.  She nods in agreement.  I also apologize that because she has a high voice I can't hear her well.  But of course she can't do anything about her high voice except start talking in louder screeches which almost helps.frown  I finally get my food and quickly find a table as far away from the kitchen as I can.indecision

    Unlike our local McDonalds who has seen fit to reduce kitchen staff to 3 less than necessary to qualify as a FAST-food joint, the Wendy's has retained 3 more people than necessary but for some reason all need to talk to each other in loud voices to overcome the clanging and banging.indecision  But since Wendy's is and has always been a single server queue it has never been a fast place when there are more than three people in line regardless of the number of people in the kitchen.sad  One has to time one's visit to Wendys to not coincide with lunch.enlightened (A snippet of wisdom from an ancient one)devil

    Here's a blast from the past:  Back in the early '80s when Wendy's was still relatively new.  We would go to one in Orlando where the trash cans were located in a closed cupboard out of sight and intimidatingly inaccessible to the public.  A staff person was always in the dining room wiping your table as soon as you left and taking your trays to the cupboard, opening the doors, and dumping the trash.  That level of service didn't last long.sad

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  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,737

    All the McDonalds in this corner of NY State have been remodeled in the last couple years.  The Burger Kings too.  But the Tim Hortons invading from Canada are just overpopulating the area with big and little new sitessurprise.  Honestly. I really don't understand the attraction.  Perhaps that's why the McDonalds and Burger Kings had to step up their game.   T

    Actually, Tim Horton's owns Burger King now, though it was one of those backwards acquisitions where part of the main goal of the bigger comapny (Burger King) was to change the country that they were based in. 

    That said, the proliferation of coffee chains like Starbucks and Horton's was definitely the reason McDs began putting free wifi in all their restaurants and added the McCafe items like Frappucinos, but the big motivator behind McD and the other's trying to spiff up is the wave of "higher end" burger places like the Shake Sack, SmashBurger and Five Guys chains, which are grabbing up a huge percentage of the market share by selling the perception of a superior product and an environment that isn't filled with rampaging children.  

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,737
    jjmainor said:
     

    And the health inspection scores are almost a joke.  They get points for stupid stuff that has little to nothing to do with the condintions in the kitchen, so it's easier than it should be to get a passing score.

    Whereas, in Texas, the news stations make a regular point of reading out the health violations out as a regular feature. Anyone who thinks that there's no such thing as bad publicity hasn't seen a restaurant report that highlights rat droppings, roaches and spoiled food. In Houston we had a famous advocate/newsperson named Marvin Zindler (yes, the very same guy who was portrayed as the 'villain' in the musical  Best Little Whorehouse In Texas) whose constant refrain of "Slime in the ice machine!" became so iconic that it's now part of the general popular culture. 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,355
    Cybersox said:

    All the McDonalds in this corner of NY State have been remodeled in the last couple years.  The Burger Kings too.  But the Tim Hortons invading from Canada are just overpopulating the area with big and little new sitessurprise.  Honestly. I really don't understand the attraction.  Perhaps that's why the McDonalds and Burger Kings had to step up their game.   T

    Actually, Tim Horton's owns Burger King now, though it was one of those backwards acquisitions where part of the main goal of the bigger comapny (Burger King) was to change the country that they were based in. 

    That said, the proliferation of coffee chains like Starbucks and Horton's was definitely the reason McDs began putting free wifi in all their restaurants and added the McCafe items like Frappucinos, but the big motivator behind McD and the other's trying to spiff up is the wave of "higher end" burger places like the Shake Sack, SmashBurger and Five Guys chains, which are grabbing up a huge percentage of the market share by selling the perception of a superior product and an environment that isn't filled with rampaging children.  

    "Five Guys" restaurants.indecision  We've got one here in the local (nearly defunct) mall.  I tried it a couple times.  Made the mistake of not saying "no fries" and actually ended up eating some.  Oh, wow they were good.yes   But after the first 5 I knew I'd have a heart attack if I finished the rest of them.  Five Guys is definately for the big eaters who don't mind dropping dead at 35.  I hear that Five Guys fries can be wrapped on a stick and used as torches.surprise  Rumor is that people hoard them for heating fuel in the winter.devil  And their burgers require a third hand to help support them during consumption.smiley  Perhaps 40 years ago I could have gotten away with eating a full burger and order of fries there but now I'd need to get a doctor's permission slip before smelling while walking past the store.frown

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,114

    I love Five Guys. I actually love the free complementary peanuts! Mmmm.

    Also, as a diabetic, I appreciate that they have lettuce wrap burgers. In the past I haven't been a fan of them at other places, but at Five Guys I find the lettuce is, first, reasonably crisp but also that the lettuce helps offset how sloppy greasy the burgers are.

     

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,136
    Oso3D said:

    I love Five Guys. I actually love the free complementary peanuts! Mmmm.

    Also, as a diabetic, I appreciate that they have lettuce wrap burgers. In the past I haven't been a fan of them at other places, but at Five Guys I find the lettuce is, first, reasonably crisp but also that the lettuce helps offset how sloppy greasy the burgers are.

     

    the floors must be slick 

  • RKane_1RKane_1 Posts: 3,039

    Um... what is missing?

    Bathrooms.... or just the doorway to get to them. Jeesh. :) 

    What happens when that taco just goes right through me? :(

  • daveso said:

    Usually stuff spilled, the tables are a mess, wrappers, crumbs on the floor, greazy looking most of the time.... 

    Where's the dirt? 
     

    If I've ever been in a burger joint with all those issues, simultaneously, I haven't been in there long.

    Still - a little normal wear would be good - one or two tables that hadn't been bussed yet, some floor debris... yeah, I can agree there.

  • Cybersox said:

    By the way, although this is an instant pickup for me as there are far too few usable fast food restaurants in the DAZ/poser world, there ARE three issues that I do have with it,.. four, if you count the lack of a drive through wiindow area, though since this seems to be designed as one of those downtown metro area/open to the air designs, hence the lack of any windows, which that explains that ommission.  What I do find lacking, however, are 1.) the fact that whiule it's clearly a burger restaurant, there's no seperate food prep area visible for grills, fryers, etc., and even if one assumes that there's a slot in the wall, the food staging area isn't remotely large enough to handle any kind of traffic or prep without the food stacking up or the emplyees falling over each other, 2.) the lack of even a partial exterior for outside-looking in shots and 3) no Bathrooms!      

    One thing that's demonstrably better about Facebook and that forum software should have adopted almost immediately is the "like" button.

    A lot of big city / metro / downtown restaurants don't have drive-throughs, though - there's just no place to put them unless you want to knock down a million-dollar building. Should have been an option, though.  There's a door back behind the counter, but it's going to be a heck of a bottleneck - and there would probably be a pass-through window for orders.

    I wonder - does the PA have a kitchen planned, or would that be a reasonable add-on for someone to make?  I spent enough of my younger life back in those kitchens, I could probably remember how one goes. ;)

  • RKane_1 said:

    Um... what is missing?

    Bathrooms.... or just the doorway to get to them. Jeesh. :) 

    What happens when that taco just goes right through me? :(

    I'm guessing this establishment could be part of a larger structure where the restrooms are outside and down a hall from it... say if this place was built into a hotel building or a mall.  I was in a diner that was maybe half the size of this place, inside a hotel building, and the bathrooms were outside and down a hall.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 27,208

    All this discussion, and not a single render?

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,205
    barbult said:

    All this discussion, and not a single render?

    I don’t own it so was curious too

  • davesodaveso Posts: 8,136

    i had it in my cart until i missed the rebate deal..and chucked it. I have several diner products that i dont use as it is., they're too clean too.

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