>>64989093mcdonald's is better in most places outside the US. IIRC they serve beer at mcdonald's in france.
basically because most other countries don't (or at least didn't decades ago) have fast food as just a meta thing everyone just accepts exists and is normal, in some places they make it significantly fancier. people there expect any restaurant you go to to be a sit-down place and to put at least some effort into the food because that's normally what it's like for everything else that isn't a street food cart.
in the US the meta is that everyone just-knows that of course, you can go to like 10+ places to get hot burgers (or maybe something else if you're near a taco bell or jack in the box etc) in 2 minutes basically any time of day that are cheap and never were expected to be top-tier gourmet material, but are good-enough to keep you going. you'd think in such a competitive environment mcdonald's would try harder to keep up with other burger places but it seems they for whatever reason don't - I think, because if you have a preferred place in your mind already you're just gonna go to that one most of the time regardless of what the other places are doing, for example I never eat burger king and would rather drive twice+ as far to anywhere else to get a burger besides there.
