You Want Some Design With Those Fries?

Portfolio.com:

Curing a Big Mac attack with a visit to McDonald’s has gotten a little more chic in a handful of the fast-food giant’s 250 New York City locations. Diners are treated to egg chairs, wide tables, bright walls, and fresh art deco panels, elements based on a store model created by French interior designer Phillipe Avanzi, the mastermind of similar redesign efforts at McDonald’s locations in Europe.

One of the redesigned Manhattan stores belongs to Jim Lewis, a 14-store franchisee who moved to New York from Michigan to help his uncle run the franchise and ended up buying it. Lewis said he was sold on the Euro look last year, when he and corporate officials, along with a handful of other New York City franchisees, visited some of the Avanzi-designed stores in London and in Paris. Read more.

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