Abandoned McDonald's - Pittsburgh, Pa *DEMOLISHED* 

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Now I’m kind of mad because once again I’m going to be performing in the St. Patrick’s Day parade where the bloody sin am I going to get breakfast before the thing starts urgh!

Can you do a update on here

YUNGSN1PERBO117 PS4 the building is leveled and gone.

Maybe a Rax? Pittsburgh Dad could do the opening. 😂

Another Primanti Bros? The 'burgh loves PBs, not so much mds!

@@crazeyjoe there is literally a Primantis a street away! LOL!

@@imanobody544 hey if they opened a Rax, I want to be there for the opening as well!

@@WallieB26 The 'burgh could use a Cajun/Creole place. Crafwish boil, po' boys, gator bites, etouffee, gumbo, blackened catfish...ooo yeah!

Mischief MakerStudios im sure the food was better too

Same here! Up here in Grand Rapids, Michigan there still stands a old Arbies building! Now a diff independent restaurant but kept the shape!

Had to be i worked at one around 99 we still had the drive though conveyer belt and that was a franchise had the ps1 and n64 too lol

@@yakamarezlife was that in Springfield MO by any chance?

@f you that's right you do understand that Pittsburgh is a majority White City right? The reason it has bulletproof glass is because it's downtown it got robbed alot

@f you that's right and they pulled out because the club closed that was 95 percent of there business that location is on the Northside there's jackshit there you can't even take a bus over there you have to drive a car or get a ride that's why it closed not a lot of business outside of the weekends

i hate the new look

Neil K Walk 💯💯💯

They don’t make a profit there

@@JTB128650 how?

I was shocked too whenever I went there.

Article is here - triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/mcdonalds-in-pittsburghs-strip-district-closes-without-explanation/

Abandon means no one is keeping up with it/ live there or it’s being in use. So abandon is the right word.

He is quite the Yinzer.

Let’s go dahtahn and watch (insert correct sports team based on the month) at primantis. We’ll eat sammitches an’nat 🤣

I remember that.

just buy some some chips.

That’s usually how it goes. I had a friend who worked for KFC, and they closed that and two other locations nearby. They didn’t tell anyone until the day of closing so that the employees would show up and not just quit early. It’s pretty fucked up.

Unfortunately if you didn't know, it's now a Duncan donuts, the old pizza hut

@@brandyrodgers4329 yeah they did that about a year ago, when this comment was made it was still abandoned Pizza Hut. Atleast they do something with it.

Why

Interesting story. Why was Greenville so against it? Are they a health-conscious town?

Christian Gonzales Wednesday health-conscious. It is backwards maine. They are definitely into small town businesses not major corporations

Increased traffic of strangers especially if its of a highway, sounds small town.

@@aceflys It's probably a town full of cringey ugly liberals.

I just googled street viewed this place, it did have a red roof

Why

Me too.

Yea I work in Penn Center east and was sort of surprised they closed

malika jones yeah it just shut down out of no where. I wonder what happened.

I delivered from that Wendy's at the start of December and was shocked! By the start of this month, it was gone. But theres one further down 22, one in Plum, one in Murrysville... This one was the worst for service anyway. Lol

louierod23 so true lol. It was the worst. I know of the other ones just was surprised it was closed.

@@kendizzle228 I was in there right before it closed. This is going to sound crazy, but I swear they said they were closing so that Popeyes could have a bigger parking lot.

It must have been within the last two weeks. All the advertising you see inside the store is very recent like the Star Wars Happy Meal display and the advertisement for the BBQ Bacon Burger.

Fast food businesses doesn’t make any profit in downtown Pittsburgh. People rather eat healthy food in Pittsburgh. I heard a article in regards to it. I am surprised Wendy’s is still around in Pittsburgh. Lol

@@JTB128650 that's not really downtown tho, and I don't see how the don't make any money cause every time to the actual downtown McDonald's they are always packed. But I do see how in the strip it could have lost business with amount of other restraunts they are available over there now. But in actual downtown not that many.

Shannon Flaherty I posted information about it. They closed it. The owner is waiting until the lease is up.

@@GrnArrow092 I subbed buddy

Multiple around my area

@@ZachArmstrong02 why

@@channelfive7883 bad areas I guess a few moved down the street from the old location

it does i been to this one sad its gone now they relocated i think? most likely they did cause of the new logo they had,

@@adamsATSfan415 Could very well be relocation. Two of the McDonald's in my area with this older building style were replaced with new restaurants down the road built in the current style.

I recognize your name, aren't you one of PottiesInPittsburgh's friends?

@@cfothough no but I'm from Pennsylvania but I go to school in west Virginia

@@adamsATSfan415 I was talking to the AFT guy. Why do you go to school in a whole different state i bet the morning commute sucks

AngieM 420 All fast places are terrible in many ways As should be closed forever

Not true I live in the country and the fast food places are nice and new in my part of mi it’s just the cities that have bad old rausragjtsb

Jaccob Ernst Sac you have so much to learn about these places As there on,y nice to you because they want you to spend money nothing else An do anything they can to eat there garbage

My dads McDonald’s is old I hate that McDonald’s it’s like the food was never cooked that’s the only trouble I had at a McDonald’s

Jaccob Ernst Which is another reason should be closed for good Like you said as the food may look taste good is unhealthy for you As I wonk there seen it all what goes on behind the scenes

I think they closed that one due to criminal activities, also they have two other ones in town that one prob, did not get as much business.

All them older McDonald's had a plaque like that in them. He was the founder of McDonald's restaurants that's why he is on the plaque

@@dennis4187 Kind of, The McDonald Brothers were the ones who technically started the business but Kroc was the one who eventually bought them out while expanding the locations beyond California.

Actually Ray stole mcdonalds from the brothers and he opened the other 3 franchise locations then bought all the lands so alm owners had to pay his new company franchise reality corporation lease payments for land they were on. Later he named the reality company the McDonald's corporation which upset the McDonald's brothers. This is how he told them either do as I want as a partner or since I own your land I'll push you out. They sold their locations to Rat for 2.7 million and a handshake of 3% roalty of sales. RAay never upheld that agreement as he purposely left that out of the signed agreement for 2.7 million stating the franchise owners wouldn't go for the any royalty.

Same thing killed a couple places up here in my part of Michigan. Macaroni Grill demolished last week, becoming a Chic Fillet (allready a super busy Miejer store right off I-96 in Cascade Township) and also had a Quaker Steak And Lube that also failed super fast due too poor service. Quaker Steak had problems with food poisoning and didn't even last two years. Already replaced.

Unfortunately, I have to agree. So many buildings are being refurbished for lofts, this area is becoming nothing but housing.

Yeah PGH is under heavy reconstruction

@@Nenezilla Yeah but who the fuck is going to move into these new apartments and lofts. Aren't they kinda overkilling it?

Huge herpes outbreak in all their food for the last couple of months i heard.

If that was the case, wpxi or Kdka would have done I report on it.

@Dusk Raccoon, well... I can see "Mary Sue Skywalker" as a certain Pittsburgh-area "pop culture comment" YT'er duo would call her. But then again... Yes, I was to say that the SW9:TRoS stand-in would date the store as being open in December, 2019.

Mcdonalds owns the land and this is how they control their franchises. That's how franchisee Roy Croc was able to force the Mcdonalds brothers to sell their 3 locations to him. He strated the franchise reality corporation and bought all of the lands every franchise leased so he could control and make money. Then he bought the Landa of the 3 mcdonalds brothers original locations and forced them to sell

Where?

@@crimsonrose2417 Pittsburgh pa

The rats and roaches knew

Yes it is

That's what I was thinking. Maybe it's going to be rebuilt.

The flags will probably be gone by tomorrow. I mean, look how quickly they removed the menu boards and the exterior signage

When McDonald’s closes a store they always take anything that has the arches and logos off immediately. They don’t want people to know it was a mceds. They will even change the roof line.

@@jamessuchy6292 They also don't want anybody not related to McDonald's to use the golden arches either. Similarly, in Texas when a Whataburger closes down they always make sure to paint the buildings completely white (they use white and orange colors).

@@jamessuchy6292 Why do they do that?

Why

@@channelfive7883 I don't know... Maybe it's because more Pittsburghers want more local kinda food and specialty stuff in the Strip District than some corporate or franchise food places.

@@NathanDavisVideos So are there not many fast food fans in Pittsburg?

@@channelfive7883 I don't know. Maybe... (Unless if it comes to the Big Mac -- which happens to been invented in Pittsburgh.)