About 10 years ago I stopped going to MacDonalds.  This was nothing in particular against the restaurant chain, just the food is really not the healthiest and my wife decided, no more.

Of course I had been eating at MacDonalds since I was sixteen and we frequently took our children there (they do after all cater to kids, who does not like the happy meal toy?)

I thought it was forever!

Given myself and family regularly ate at MacDonalds for over forty years I am quite familiar with the architecture, layout, tables, counter, service methodology and so on.

And really, in forty years there has been little change.  I was eating big Mac’s in the 1960’s and I can still get them today.  The cash registers became digital and I could pay by debit but these were not huge changes.

But I was wrong!

My wife had a dinner engagement tonight and although I am an excellent cook and relatively self sufficient I decided to just do a quick trip to MacDonald’s.

Suddenly I was shocked, MacDonald’s have changed the way you order and receive food.  Maybe for the better but certainly not for a traditionalist.

Is nothing sacred?  Do I really want to custom order a burger from MacDonald’s at a kiosk, or even using my smart phone.  Then wait at a counter for my number to be called.

A number, at MacDonald’s, horrors.

The future is here

Wow, I can rest easy the digital future is here and now it is endemic.  Fortunately MacDonald’s is no longer a fast food choice for us, I don’t think I could go back – unless I can find an old fashioned styled franchise.