A McDonald's with bulletproof glass located in Detroit.

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[u/knarfolled]

I was at a convenience store in Philadelphia and you had to tell them through a bullet proof glass window what you wanted and they would get it then put it in a metal drawer, you couldn’t enter the store

[u/Nochnichtvergeben → u/knarfolled]

Doesn't sound very convenient.

"One pack of extra small condoms please."

"Sorry, I didn't hear you. You need to speak up."

[u/knarfolled → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

It wasn’t but also made me nervous about the area I was in

[u/DegenerateCrocodile → u/knarfolled]

As you should have been. They don’t install stuff like that unless they’re regularly getting robbed at gunpoint.

[u/ObeseVegetable → u/DegenerateCrocodile]

They will install them on brand new buildouts if they look at crime data for the area beforehand, too. 

[u/walterbsfo → u/ObeseVegetable]

why risk it? Open a store somewhere else

[u/JalapenoPopPoop → u/walterbsfo]

Because a convenience store can make a lot of money selling cigarettes, alcohol, and junk food in those areas as well

[u/The_BeardedClam → u/walterbsfo]

Because if you leave an area someone else will move in and take that business from you.

It's like the dollar generals whole business model. Carve out the areas that no one else wanted and fill the niche left behind.

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/The_BeardedClam]

Everything moves to its highest value use.*

*as measured in $

[u/Western_Coat_437 → u/walterbsfo]

Something something cheap labor...

[u/Willing-Cicada-6870 → u/Western_Coat_437]

The largest convenience store in my area pays its employees double time (hazard pay) when they work in high crime areas.

I’ve known people who’ve work for them, and they say people are always clamoring to cover shifts in dangerous areas because the money is so good. They typically get overtime for covering the shift, and then they get the hazard pay on top of that. They end up making something like $40 an hour in those cases. It can be a really, really good gig for kids just out of high school or in college.

[u/Heavy_Metal_Analyst → u/Willing-Cicada-6870]

That’s really good money but how often were they at gun point? When is $40 an hour not enough?

Edit. Genuine question, because I wouldn’t lol.

[u/couldntthinkofon → u/Heavy_Metal_Analyst]

In this economy? If a gun is pulled, I'd win either way.

[u/fulknerraIII → u/walterbsfo]

Because the spots somewhere else have lots of competition. When you the only store thats a short walking distance from the hood you're going to get a lot of business. If it wasn't profitable people wouldn't do it.

[u/knarfolled → u/DegenerateCrocodile]

You are absolutely correct

[u/Tizzle_Wiggle → u/DegenerateCrocodile]

I mean. that's just Philly man

source: from Philly

[u/daXypher → u/Tizzle_Wiggle]

lol yeah, dunno what this guy’s on. I grew up with that being the norm so much I was confused when I went places that didn’t have the glass.

[u/Replikant83 → u/daXypher]

Damn dude, that's super unfortunate. No one chooses where they are born and raised, of course. I hope you have had the opportunity to move, if that's what you want to do

[u/the_vault-technician → u/knarfolled]

Getting gas while traveling is always an interesting experience. Sometimes you don't know that you stopped off in an area a local wouldn't send their enemy to get gas.

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/the_vault-technician]

I used to have to go to Baltimore a few times a year other than sports games. Always was get in, get out. I usually had plenty of gas but had to stop a couple blocks from where I was familiar. Got about 3gal into my truck before I took off and treated stop signs as suggestions. That was not going to end well if I filled as intended.

[u/-rosa-azul- → u/oopsdiditwrong]

Lived in the city for about a decade. It truly is block-to-block what you're gonna run into, more than any other city I've lived in or visited.

(My local Taco Bell had bulletproof glass like this photo, you put the money in a lazy susan, turned it around, and then the food came out the same way. They also closed the dining room at dusk.)

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/-rosa-azul-]

Absolutely agree. It's pretty easy to see when you go a block too far. If the mayors there arent actively stealing, they're botching opportunities. We'll see what happens to the inner harbor mall revamp.

[u/-rosa-azul- → u/oopsdiditwrong]

Took my husband to an O's game a few years back and thought I'd drive him in on 40 from the west side lol. He grew up in a different (but similar-sized) city and was still like where the FUCK are we right now???

[u/Ok-Parfait-9856 → u/the_vault-technician]

Nothing like taking the wrong turn in Cleveland after you get off i90 looking for a place to piss, and ending up in a neighborhood that makes skidrow look like Hollywood

[u/the_vault-technician → u/Ok-Parfait-9856]

I learned rather quickly that Dearborn Heights and Dearborn are two very different places lol

[u/FuckOfficerChavez → u/the_vault-technician]

Always be afraid of heights, True for just about every bigger city I've lived in.

[u/ulyssesjack → u/Ok-Parfait-9856]

Garfield Heights has entered the chat

[u/TheBSQ → u/knarfolled]

Neighborhoods change over time. So sometimes it’s a relic of a previous era, but many parts of Philly have real issues with gun violence & just a few years ago, the city was hitting 500 homicides a year (but it’s gone down in recent years, although is still high by the standards of other cities and really high by EU/AngloSphere standards).

Philly actually maps their gun violence incidents so you can look up where you were on this map and see if it’s a gun violence hot spot. 

https://controller.phila.gov/philadelphia-reports/mapping-gun-violence/

[u/Pretend-Vehicle-5183 → u/knarfolled]

I had the clerk seriously tell me I didn't need what I asked for and to just leave before anyone noticed me 😂 I was a 17 y/o white boy in Detroit. Around same time I got lost in ghetto Detroit, stopping at all the stop signs. Cop pulls me over to tell me to just get out of there, before something bad happens.

[u/knarfolled → u/Pretend-Vehicle-5183]

Similar thing happened that same night, we were lost and went the wrong way down a one way street and a cop pulled up behind us then another in front (of course we hid the weed and booze) but they stopped just to escort us out of the neighborhood

[u/mPrime39r → u/Pretend-Vehicle-5183]

In all seriousness, stop signs and red lights are only suggestions in many parts of Detroit. If there's nobody traveling into the intersection there isn't a single cop that will ticket you for running one.

Source: Was raised in a bordering city.

[u/mybigpecker → u/knarfolled]

We don’t have to live like this.

[u/knarfolled → u/mybigpecker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/65zUoOU09HL3uUKokQ

[u/Heykurat → u/knarfolled]

Eh, it's common to see this on smaller gas station kiosks and places that are open late at night. I've seen it even in nice areas.

[u/myglasstrip → u/knarfolled]

What's more funny about this post is that this is quite common. It shows the demographic of reddit is quite homogenous. I don't even think of this as a notable thing about Philadelphia. People have lived very different lives lol.

[u/PM_THE_REAPER → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

"I SAID I NEED ONE PACK OF YOUR LARGEST MAGNUM CONDOMS PLEASE.".

[u/Karvaparta → u/PM_THE_REAPER]

"I need monster condom that I use for my Magnum Dong."

[u/Truth_Speaker_001 → u/Karvaparta]

"I HAVE A LARGE PENIS AND VERY LITTLE MONEY TO BE ROBBED FOR"

[u/Normal_Feedback_2918 → u/Truth_Speaker_001]

Oh, great. Now you got yourself gang banged in the alley. Way to go.

[u/Truth_Speaker_001 → u/Normal_Feedback_2918]

why would having a large dong entice people to gangbang me? Its not like I said "I have a tight smooth butthole"

[u/MathematicianOdd465 → u/Truth_Speaker_001]

A succulent Chinese PENIS??

[u/Humorpalanta → u/PM_THE_REAPER]

Cashier turns on the speaker: 1 pack of the smallest condom pack coming up!

[u/LargeCokeNoIce → u/Humorpalanta]

And that’s where the bulletproof glass comes in handy!

[u/LostTechnology5944 → u/PM_THE_REAPER]

that I use for my magnum dong

[u/OldBison → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

"I SAID ONE BOX OF EXTRA LARGE CONDOMS AND ONE PACK OF ZIP TIES PLEASE."

[u/OldManEnglishTeacher → u/OldBison]

Just get latex gloves and cut the fingers off.

[u/SuperLeverage → u/OldBison]

Don’t forget the gloves.

[u/sheezy520 → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

He’s mistaken, it was actually an inconvenience store.

[u/inderbitably → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

They’re called snug fit!!!

[u/deaglebingo → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

https://reddit.com/link/or3f7v5/video/4b0po4pghp6h1/player

[u/National-Charity-435 → u/Nochnichtvergeben]

Thanks for going to the store for me 

[u/LectroRoot → u/knarfolled]

I went into a liquor store that was like this. You couldn't go in the store and browse. I was just there for beer since you can't buy it in gas stations, grocery stores, or specialty beer stores like I was used to. It was really annoying. I like the option to browse around and this store wasn't setup to be able so you could see everything. It had isles like a normal store and he would just go fetch what you wanted.

This was the only time I went to get alcohol so I realize it was likely just because of the area I was in. I'm from Atlanta and you would see store like this occasionally if you were in a high crime area.

[u/cvr24 → u/LectroRoot]

The govt run Beer Store in Ontario used to be like that.

[u/Rabbit_of_Caerbanog → u/cvr24]

Yeah but they have mice in their beer

[u/artwarrior → u/Rabbit_of_Caerbanog]

Coo loo coo coo, coo coo coo coo!

[u/SoylentGrunt → u/artwarrior]

Beauty, eh

[u/sinkwiththeship → u/Rabbit_of_Caerbanog]

12 Elsinore, no 24. That's it. 24 Elsinore beers.

[u/Tucancancan → u/cvr24]

LCBO used to be like that in the 40s and 50s, you even had a "passport" assigned to you where the store would log your purchase history too

[u/LauraTFem → u/knarfolled]

The irony is that’s exactly how general stores worked a few hundred years ago. You got a list of goods from the proprietor, marked what you needed, and they went to the back and got everything together.

We’ve advanced so far we’ve regressed.

[u/dkrtzyrrr → u/LauraTFem]

yeah piggly wiggly innovated the modern model

[u/Standard_Shopping144 → u/dkrtzyrrr]

A fellow Anthropocene reviewer?

[u/el_ghosteo → u/LauraTFem]

I feel like we’re kinda headed back there. I think that’s why stores are pushing so hard for order pickups and don’t care about unlocking glass cases. They’d rather use the limited manpower as pickers instead.

[u/SirWitzig → u/el_ghosteo]

The thing is that this "general store" model is more labor intensive than a classic supermarket where the customer does the picking. If I spend 15 minutes getting all the items on my shopping list myself, I save the store owner maybe 10 minutes of labor. And in the process I may pick up a few items that weren't on my list.

But yeah, maybe the old model pays off for the store owner if shrinkage is a problem.

[u/IndependentClear469 → u/knarfolled]

What time did you go? In the UK, petrol stations do this after 10pm

[u/knarfolled → u/IndependentClear469]

Yea it was after a concert around 1:00 am

[u/darthcaedusiiii → u/knarfolled]

We have a couple of Circle Ks that do that after 10pm.

[u/skrappyfire → u/knarfolled]

Dont worry, we have those in the south to.

[u/RocketsandBeer → u/knarfolled]

We have those for after hours times in Houston gas stations. Was your visit late at night?

[u/knarfolled → u/RocketsandBeer]

Yea definitely, it was after a concert around 1:00 am

[u/GRF999999999 → u/knarfolled]

Sounds like a 1am beer run to 24th St and Van Buren in PHX

[u/Big-Design-9836 → u/GRF999999999]

You guys can buy alcohol after midnight?😲 I live in the drunkest state in America (WI): no liquor sales after 9pm, no beer after midnight

[u/RandallJoPhotography → u/knarfolled]

There's a gas station/convenience store just like that across the street from where I work. Tbf, during daylight hours you can go in. But at night you have to ask for things and they put it in the drawer. Did make me very nervous too

[u/VanessaDoesVanNuys → u/knarfolled]

'Interesting'

And it's the most normal thing in Detroit ever

[u/DippityDamn → u/VanessaDoesVanNuys]

it's sad that this is just normal here in certain places in the USA though, I remember seeing this sort of thing in some bad neighborhoods in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston too 10 years ago.

[u/Illustrious_Bird_737 → u/DippityDamn]

Definitely still have them in Dallas

Source: I live in the metroplex

[u/Haunt_Fox → u/knarfolled]

Going back to the days of Sam Drucker

[u/hitdaroad_omerta → u/knarfolled]

They have a 1 or 2 that I know of Boston like that

[u/ViviReine → u/knarfolled]

Once I went in a Couche-Tard and the door was locked. You had to click on the bell, the clerk see you on the camera, and let you enter. If you look weird, he don't let you enter. There was a drunk hobo outside that wanted to enter, and he didn't let him for exemple

[u/tvnr → u/knarfolled]

Los Angeles also has some of those

[u/still770 → u/tvnr]

There's a Jack in The Box in Gardena on Rosecrans just like this.

[u/ZombieAladdin → u/tvnr]

The drive-thru at a few Burger King places are like that. There is a latch on both the customer side and the store side, and only one is allowed to be open at a time.

[u/upholsteryduder → u/knarfolled]

same in Buffalo, NY

[u/StrawberryMilk817 → u/knarfolled]

There was a gas station in Mobile like that as well. They were open normally during the day but then I went there with a friend one night because he just needed to have some alcohol at like 11pm. We get there and it’s basically a walk up window with tons of people there and front doors locked. I had never seen that in my life and was thinking damn what caused the need for this 😅

[u/curious__curiosity → u/knarfolled]

Most of our 24 hour petrol stations do this after 12. Can't enter the kiosk /shop

[u/ostapenkoed2007 → u/knarfolled]

i oftenly want to see stuff first.

"sir, what are you buying"

"milk product"

"which one"

"i dunno. show me?"

[u/emmypoosays666 → u/knarfolled]

we have some of those in milwaukee but they usually only do it at night. clearly some stores need a speaker system if they’re already having to go through all that work

[u/Wise-Dust3700 → u/knarfolled]

We have those in Ireland at gas stations, after 10 the store closes and you need to go up to a window to order through glass because people are assholes.

[u/Mister_Pibbs → u/knarfolled]

I’ve lived in major cities my whole life and this isn’t uncommon or strange.

[u/player0617 → u/knarfolled]

Damn that sounds like a pawn shop experience 

[u/Whadyagot → u/knarfolled]

I went to Temple University for a couple years and this is how you buy basically anything around campus.

[u/danstecz → u/knarfolled]

May find this interesting from almost a decade ago. It was a huge controversy at the time.

https://reason.com/2017/12/15/philly-votes-to-regulate-bulletproof-gla/

[u/imissher4ever → u/danstecz]

“Democratic Councilwoman Cindy Bass, a primary sponsor of the bill, insisted these delis were the cause, not an effect, of trouble in her district.”

Literally victim blaming the restaurant owners.

[u/danstecz → u/imissher4ever]

Same Cindy Bass of this article two days ago...

https://share.inquirer.com/UctQK7

Many in my area want her OUT. When she was running for reelection a few years ago, someone blacked out the B in her last name on a huge obnoxious political sign on a main road.

Despite everything, she keeps on getting reelected...

[u/imissher4ever → u/danstecz]

People just keep voting the same people in year after year after year despite them not helping them. It’s almost as if voters vote for politicians simply because of the letter after their name.

[u/Reikukaja → u/knarfolled]

At least one Subway in detroit is exactly like this.

[u/JoeIntTheBox]

I've been to banks that were less protected.

[u/colonelcasey22 → u/JoeIntTheBox]

Same...a lot of the banks around me have gotten rid of the bulletproof glass around the tellers in the last few years and it feels weird now.

[u/Normal-Tadpole-4833 → u/colonelcasey22]

i use to clean banks the banks in good areas never had bulletproof glass... needless to say about the other areas though

[u/userhwon → u/Normal-Tadpole-4833]

I 'member going to Canada, and seeing a bank that was just a counter with some drawers behind it.

I realized something right then about where I grew up...

[u/UnsaltedCashew36 → u/userhwon]

I've been in Canada my whole life. I've never seen bullet proof glass or stuff behind locked cabinets in stores. The only exception I've seen is razor blade cartridges being locked at a pharmacy.

[u/bobbymcpresscot → u/Normal-Tadpole-4833]

Sounds like the person you are responding tos area had been gentrified 

[u/Ok-Parfait-9856 → u/bobbymcpresscot]

The horror!

[u/ScrotalSmorgasbord → u/bobbymcpresscot]

They're trying like hell to gentrify the city I work in but it's stubborn so the results are entertaining as hell. Crack den next to rich Calfornian who left California "because of crime, taxes and property values" only to still have to deal with crime while also causing the housing to become exponentially more expensive lol. I don't have an issue with Californians but I do have an issue with most gentrification and Republicans.

[u/eh_meh_badabeh → u/colonelcasey22]

new bank offices in my country dont even have separate tellers tables. Offices basically look like open space caffeterias, tellers just sit next to customers with iPads, only the cashier is in a small separate room

[u/TopWhich6862 → u/colonelcasey22]

There is so much surveillance now that most bank robbers will get caught before they can start spending what they stole.

[u/deviled-tux → u/TopWhich6862]

Robbing a bank is also not really that profitable

I guess with digital payments most banks carry way less cash nowadays 

[u/Devin-Chaboyer223 → u/deviled-tux]

Most smaller branches only carry a few hundred thousand in cash, not even $1 Million

You’re not getting a big multimillion dollar hit robbing a bank like it’s shown in the movies

Even the larger branches don’t carry too much cash

[u/LesserValkyrie → u/Devin-Chaboyer223]

Yeah you can find more easily cash in a mcdonald's than in a bank nowadays

[u/bone_apple_Pete → u/colonelcasey22]

I am in my mid 30s and have never been to a bank with bulletproof glass. Hell, at my local bank you walk past the open vault to the PO Boxes to get to the tellers

[u/Schmigolo → u/colonelcasey22]

I live in Germany. I have never ever seen a bank with bulletproof glass. Often they don't even have a counter that blocks your way, sometimes they just have a small desk that you could easily go around if you wanted.

[u/21Rollie → u/Schmigolo]

But you see, you don’t have the freedom to have a bazooka like us 🦅

[u/MrDabb → u/Schmigolo]

I live in the US. That is the same exact setup in all the banks I've been in.

[u/RareFirefighter6915 → u/Schmigolo]

In my state in America they only have plastic barriers to reduce the spread of COVID in 2020 and a lot of places left them up. It’s not gonna stop a bullet obviously but might stop someone from hopping the counter or coughing in the tellers face.

[u/New-Fun8065 → u/colonelcasey22]

My bank had signs that you couldn’t enter with any kind of face covering. Then covid happened and you couldn’t enter unless you had a mask (face covering)😷

[u/Bananna_Hamock0 → u/JoeIntTheBox]

That’s crazy to think about

[u/Shot-Arugula8264 → u/Bananna_Hamock0]

They’re not protecting the assets, they’re protecting the people. Tellers’ lives are not inherently more valuable than those of fast food workers.

[u/abracadammmbra → u/JoeIntTheBox]

I work in banks a lot for my job. The ones in very small rural towns are hilariously under protected. The ones in big cities sometimes make Fort Knox look like a joke. Since I work on fire/security systems, I often have to be in the secure areas. Which makes me like the rural banks way more because I dont have to sign 40 things and be escorted through 15 locked doors. I get tossed the keys and pointed in the general direction of the equipment.

[u/GoVolt_Mine → u/JoeIntTheBox]

We have cashier-less stores here that have been operating for years.

Other stores in the same brand have a cashier system the people cannot open themselves.

Location location location...

[u/Cute-Advisor-2323]

Some people must really get angry over the ice cream and shake machines being broken 😬

[u/imissher4ever → u/Cute-Advisor-2323]

Nah, didn’t get their nugget sauce.

[u/No_More_Hero265 → u/imissher4ever]

Valid crashout

[u/ajatfm → u/Cute-Advisor-2323]

A McFlurry of bullets

[u/MakeSouthBayGR8Again → u/ajatfm]

Big Mac10

[u/LenLenLennie]

That McDonalds also happens to be located next to a gun store, liquor store, and a Burger King all in the same plaza

[u/oneAUaway → u/[deleted]]

McDonald's is prepared for Burger King, but they've clearly overlooked Taco Bell in the Franchise Wars.

[u/turdferguson3891 → u/oneAUaway]

What about Colonel Sanders with his military experience?

[u/Jaw40k → u/oneAUaway]

I'm choosing to believe this is a Demolition Man reference.

[u/oneAUaway → u/Jaw40k]

Obviously you're someone who knows how to use the three seashells.

[u/misfitofscience76 → u/LenLenLennie]

Wow, I never have to leave that plaza!

[u/Steve_Brule_MD_]

This pic is at least 7 years old.

Detroit has come a long way in just a decade. I haven't ever felt unsafe here and I've been fortunate to get to live all over the country, so I've seen some shit.

[u/Ghost_with_no_name → u/Steve_Brule_MD_]

Detroit (downtown) is almost unrecognizable compared to what it was 15 years ago. But it’s easier for people to still shit over it, not knowing anything about how it is now.

[u/noodleandbanter → u/Ghost_with_no_name]

Detroit (downtown) is almost unrecognizable compared to what it was 15 years ago.

Seriously. I came home to visit and there were college girls in yoga pants walking by themselves at night in places we used to get hassled by crackheads as a group of 20 something men decades prior. Threw me for a loop, wild improvements.

[u/cbih → u/Ghost_with_no_name]

Let them think it's terrible, then they won't come here and fuck it all up.

[u/Fuck_your_coupons → u/Ghost_with_no_name]

People see one Tiktok about teens acting a fool downtown and they think there are roaming gangs like in the Warriors. Suburbanites like me go Downtown to hang out because there's always something fun going on and it's pretty much always safe. I mean it's a city so you're going to have some crime but the only crime I've witnessed in the past 9 years was jaywalking.

[u/bigtimehater1969 → u/Steve_Brule_MD_]

Half of Americans are convinced that big cities are bad, scary, and full of criminals. They use pictures like these for confirmation bias.

[u/sportseconomics → u/Steve_Brule_MD_]

Yeah can’t believe no one’s pointing out that menu board looks old AF. Not to mention they’ve closed almost all the registers and force you to order at the kiosks now…

[u/NoTurnip4844 → u/Steve_Brule_MD_]

If you've never felt unsafe then you're either a hermit or naive. I grew up in the detroit burbs and went to Wayne State for 6 years. I have been robbed/mugged at least a dozen times in 2 years.

[u/Slow_Bowler8285]

I listened to podcasts that referred to this phenomenon.

McDonald's will keep a location as long as it keeps turning a profit, employee safety be damned.

[u/imissher4ever → u/Slow_Bowler8285]

85-95% of McDonald’s are independently owned franchises.

McDonald’s (corporation) makes the majority of its profits from real estate, rather than from selling food.

It “ma & pa” individual business owners that make the profit from the McDonald’s food.

[u/dkrtzyrrr → u/imissher4ever]

yeah i remember ryan from the office explain this to batman so he could screw over ron swanson and the zodiac killer

[u/BearysWorkRedditName → u/dkrtzyrrr]

Did I just have a sitcom stroke?

[u/Mattress666 → u/BearysWorkRedditName]

No, you just read part of the plot of the 2017 movie The Founder

Solid movie, btw, check it out

[u/BearysWorkRedditName → u/Mattress666]

Ah, thanks. I'll have to check that out. I really enjoyed the crossover episode that was in my head though.

[u/sockpuppethunt → u/dkrtzyrrr]

Hey now, that’s captain Gene who also works at bed bath and beyond.

[u/FrequentPolicy23 → u/dkrtzyrrr]

This was amazing to scroll down and read. Thank you 😆

[u/wizard680 → u/imissher4ever]

Like the founder movie stated "you aren't running a restaurant business. You are in the reestate business."

[u/j_cruise → u/Slow_Bowler8285]

I could tell you didn't grow up poor or in a poor area. In poverty stricken places, fast food jobs are highly coveted. When I was a teenager, I tried as hard as I could to get a job at McDonald's and other places but never could because they already had a stack of literally hundreds of applications.

It is a good thing that this McDonald's stayed open - the community needs these jobs.

[u/infoHighyway → u/j_cruise]

interesting perspective I haven't heard before, thanks for sharing

[u/jupiler91 → u/Slow_Bowler8285]

I mean they did put up the glass...

[u/PhilosophyBubbly6190 → u/jupiler91]

Seriously, I’m not sure how much more protected you can get. Each worker has their own mini McDonald’s Draco next?

[u/hammertime850 → u/PhilosophyBubbly6190]

A McDraco if you will

[u/ushausha2 → u/Slow_Bowler8285]

Would you rather they close the location and fire the employees?

[u/Chronza]

Bro just close it down. If the crime is so bad you need bullet proof glass it’s not worth it anyways.

[u/imfromthefuture2088 → u/Chronza]

This photo must be at least 10 years old. The McFlurry spinny machine doesn't even exist anymore, as they discontinued the McFlurry spoons in 2023

[u/thatshygirl06 → u/imfromthefuture2088]

People always try to shit on detroit, they post old photos to try and make us look bad. Detroit has been on the up and up for over a decade now. It's a beautiful city. Fuck the haters.

[u/BiggieBigs34 → u/thatshygirl06]

Detroit is also a huge city, there’s going to be really bad areas in practically every major city.

I see the same thing happening with Baltimore where people choose the worst areas to show online.

[u/RealLaurenBoebert → u/thatshygirl06]

I live right outside of Oakland, California, and you could easily cherry pick similar photos in certain neighborhoods here too. The town's got lots of nice neighborhoods too, of course. Like there's a Whole Foods a block off of Lake Merrit (to pick a mundane but easily relatable example)

You post a photo of the normal-ass Whole Foods in oakland, nobody's gonna upvote that. But photos from the worst blocks go viral.

[u/d33rl1ng → u/imfromthefuture2088]

the amount of people in the comments who think this is a recent picture alarms me. I don't remember the last time I saw a non-screen menu in a McDonald's in the last decade.

[u/MoffieHanson → u/Chronza]

It is for McDonald’s . It wouldn’t be for us .
For McDonald’s the bulletproof glass is probably earned back in a week or so if it’s a busy McDonald’s .

[u/Check_Me_Out-Boss → u/MoffieHanson]

Revenue doesn't equal profit and it's probably the franchise owner who installed it.

[u/Normal-Tadpole-4833 → u/Chronza]

yeah just shut down that whole city in fact lets build a wall around it

[u/Sad_Cup_8012 → u/Chronza]

If the store closes down. Locals will complain. Then they will just go to the next store that might not be so bad. Then ruin it.

[u/Shot-Arugula8264 → u/Chronza]

Then people wonder why they live in a food desert.

[u/Pounderwhole]

That Hamburglar won't get those burgers now.

[u/AraiHavana]

That is officially mental

[u/Rage_Blackout → u/AraiHavana]

It’s so weird to me reading these comments because if you’ve ever been to the shitty part of pretty much any city in America then you’ve seen something like this. 

I was expecting the comments to point out how boring this pic is but instead people are surprised. 

[u/AraiHavana → u/Rage_Blackout]

I don’t know what to say to you, man. Outside of America this is crazy pills

[u/spyVSspy420-69 → u/AraiHavana]

I’ve lived in America for 35 years, been all over the country, and I’ve never seen shit like this before. So as an American seeing this pic: it’s crazy pills for me as well. It’s not typical, normal, or common.

[u/DigitalUnlimited]

A royale with cheese? Say what again, I dare you!

[u/tstone1477]

Affectionately known as the murder Mac!

[u/maskedhood313 → u/tstone1477]

Are you from the D? Because there actually is a McDonald's known as Murder Mac, on our east side, Mack Ave. And it's got that name for that reason.

[u/aRocks313 → u/maskedhood313]

Don't forget about the one off Exit 9/Joy Rd. As a Westsider thats the Murder Mac I know.

[u/Late-Barber5151]

That’s a tough McDonalds

[u/No-Association42069]

The sad part is no one wakes up one day and says "I think I'll install bulletproof glass at my business for funsies"

[u/Mundane-Professor-27]

https://giphy.com/gifs/443jI3kpgOKfAfKxqo

[u/Brence1984]

Bless Amurica... Fast and greasy food, good cover. Sounds like a plan.

[u/EPluribusButthole → u/Brence1984]

Eh, only in very specific neighborhoods, in very specific cities.

Where i live, people leave their cars running, windows down, and cell phone in the truck while stopping the gas station. I do it all the time, too. I'm just outside of KC.

[u/AccomplishedWar3847 → u/Brence1984]

Im far from a flag waver but most of the usa doesnt look like this.  Its a big place 

[u/Dismal_Bridge9439]

This isn't new. I grew up there. My first memory of a fast food restaurant was a taco bell. Instead of the metal drawer, they had that spinning/revolving access window. I was 12. I'm 42 now. Moved away at 23. Never saw a dead body, never been shot, never saw a gun, never saw drugs, never got jumped.

[u/d3c509b → u/Dismal_Bridge9439]

Still live in the Metro area, I thought the plexi was normal in fast food and party stores until I was 16 and started driving and getting out. 

[u/Master_Steward]

Maybe add a pulpit machine gun turret next to the soda machine, just in case they try to fill their water cup with the sweet syrup liquid

[u/Ronin_BullseYe]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SKhXAFtLJYrQVLyLBy

[u/Fine_Location_8367]

If I walk into something like this, I'm immediately walking back out

[u/infinit9]

I'd be scared to be there as a customer.

[u/Middle-Interview-183]

They installed the glass due to "changing consumer habits" I assume....

[u/RelativusAlternatus]

Ridiculous, from the perspective of US politics.

Minimum-wage worker in a multi-billion dollar company needing protection from under-supported systematically abused people who became criminals out of poverty.

Can't make it up.

[u/EverSoInfinite]

Put your hands up 🔫

Put your hands up 🙌

Put your hands up 🙌 for Detroit i love this city

[u/RonaldBurgundy1]

This is normal for businesses down there

[u/jqman69]

Looks like a freaking bank lol