McDonald’s reveals what the prototype of its new restaurants looks like

Within the fast food sector, the coronavirus brought about simply radical changes. The experience will never be the same and brands like McDonald’s have had to quickly adjust their strategy to recover from the blow that was the period of confinement.

Only in Mexico the numbers indicate that the restaurant sector is one of the most affected by the health emergency.

A recent study signed by Fintonic revealed that, starting with the first case of coronavirus in Mexico, consumers reduced their spending on restaurants in a 30.03 percent.

Between reopens and new models

With the reopening of many branches in different countries, in which the health crisis seems to be under control, industry firms begin to show new operating businesses and, in some cases, business that in the future could be the norm.

In this sense, it is worth acknowledging what McDonald’s is doing in the Netherlands, a market that is located as the ideal environment to test a new restaurant model that hopes to respond to the measures of social isolation that must be followed once the emergency is over. sanitary.

Specifically in the city of Arnhem, the fast food chain has been testing ways to maintain social distance once containment measures are minimized.

Considering what was told to Reuters by Eunice Koekkoek, spokesperson for McDonald’s Netherlands, “we have tried to figure out how to keep our customers and employees safe, while maintaining a restaurant atmosphere. These are drastic changes, but we hope to do them in a way that customers don’t notice too much. ”

It is important to note that the brand expects this new format of restaurants to work in 180 out of 252 establishments with which it has in that country, which although it would not allow it to enter 100 percent of the game if it would give the guideline to attend almost the 70 percent from your regular customers.

The appearance of the new prototype

In this way, the new design of McDonald’s-owned establishments is expected to adapt to health requirements to prevent a second outbreak of the epidemic.

With this in mind, and faced with the requirement to offer service with the rule of keeping 1.5 meters of distance between clients and staff to avoid future infections, McDonald’s plans to modify the way in which its restaurants operate.

The brand ensures that one of the measures that could start after the pandemic would be to take the products purchased by diners in food carts, from where each customer could take their order if there is person-to-person contact to comply with this process.

Now a video has been released showing the possible operation of this prototype of a new restaurant, which although it will begin to be implemented in the Netherlands, could reach new countries in the following months once the sanitary requirements are relaxed. and the reopening processes begin in more countries.