This ain’t your childhood McDonalds anymore.
Gone are the statues of Ronald McDonald, the Hamburglar, and Grimace.
Gone are the ball pits and playgrounds.
Instead, kids can enjoy a biodiversity walk and a nature trail with rainwater collection.
Because McDonald’s has been subjected to a UK mandate to reduce—and then eliminate—all carbon emissions.
That’s why it opened a new kind of McDonald’s in Shropshire, UK a year ago.
The UK Green Building Council verified the Market Drayton McDonald’s as the first net-zero building in the UK for construction.
To get there, the restaurant had to make some peculiar choices: