The McDonald’s of Korea is so futuristic fans say it’s ‘living in 2050’

McDonald’s successful the UK is simply a ineffable place.

We’d stake it’s lone present wherever fans cheer with joyousness erstwhile the bid fig ’69’ is work out, and wherever one burger tin elicit memories of times gone by.

So it’s hard to believe, that successful immoderate places, the aureate arches aren’t rather specified a large deal. In fact, determination are 123 countries that don’t person Maccies astatine all.

And successful South Korea, portion McDonald’s does exist, it’s not rather arsenic fashionable arsenic Lotteria, the biggest fast-food concatenation successful the country.

Dubbed the McDonald’s of Korea, Lotteria archetypal opened successful Tokyo in September 1972, 2 years earlier McDonald’s hit the UK marketplace – but its caller restaurants are thing but dated.

TikToker Lauren Wolfe shared a peek wrong the Asian fast-food concatenation successful Seoul, claiming it’s ‘living successful 2050’.

Inside Lotteria

The edifice Lauren visited is known arsenic Lotteria L7 – the archetypal unmanned ‘smart-store’ successful the edifice chain, based successful Hongdae, a suburb of Seoul, fashionable with a young, hipster crowd.

While not each Lotteria isn’t rather truthful high-tech, this peculiar subdivision is beauteous impressive.

Slipping done the sleek automatic solid doorway and down a reddish corridor, Lauren heads to the aforesaid service screens. The instrumentality spits retired a receipt with the bid fig on. So far, truthful familiar.

But this is wherever it gets interesting. When the surface tells her to prime up her bid and a large ‘ding-dong’ sounds, Lauren scans her receipt barroom code, which sends her to a container successful the wall.

She knocks connected her numbered container and it opens, revealing each her nutrient neatly prepared connected a tray.

There’s besides vending machines that volition dispense a condiment of your choosing and a self-serve drinks station. And there’s a contactless instrumentality which sterilises your hands aft eating.

The full process involves zero quality enactment which the TikToker says she enjoys – and viewers were loving successful the comments.

‘This is the spy kids microwave,’ wrote @Giselle, portion @llexibb100 wrote: ‘Immediately thought of spy kids erstwhile the nutrient came, anyone else?’

Others branded it an ‘introvert McDonald’s’, but galore liked the modern tech successful store.

‘This is honestly truthful chill and advanced. But also, it’s a robotic mode of living… pros and cons to it. However inactive precise chill and neat,’ wrote @itssjadee99.

Lotteria paper offerings

While Lotteria L7 mightiness beryllium much high-tech than it’s different branches, each Lotterias person a akin paper – andMcRib fans volition privation to instrumentality out. While McDonald’s precocious made headlines with the instrumentality of the beloved burger, Lotteria has a akin offering with its Pork Rib Sandwich.

The akin instauration contains a pork patty, lettuce, smoky and spicy BBQ condiment and chromatic mustard, each successful brushed gallic bread. This is each for the terms of astir £2.75, compared to McDonald’s £4.49 successful the UK.

Other absorbing items see its taco flavoured gallic fries, consommé flavoured fried chickenhearted and its Shrimp Burger with a peculiar tartar sauce.

There are adjacent immoderate pasta-inspired burgers. Lotteria has its Ultimate Spicy Chunky Bolognese Burger for astir £2.90. This whitethorn punctual you of McDonald’s lasagne burger from the summertime of 2022.

Lotteria’s saccharine treats besides dependable beauteous tasty. There’s the constricted variation Chestnut Cream Pie which has 2 layers of chestnut tegument boiled with Hokkaido beverage cream, wrapped successful crispy pastry dough.

This costs astir £1.90, portion McDonald’s staple Baked Apple Pie costs conscionable £1.19.

The concatenation besides sells churros, on with a enactment of blistery and acold flavoured drinks.

Is Lotteria coming to the UK?

While there’s nary motion that the fast-food articulation portion beryllium arriving successful the UK, backmost successful 2022 determination were rumblings that Lotteria was going to get successful the USA.

The institution was reportedly conducting immoderate marketplace probe to spot if determination was an appetite for immoderate Lotteria locations successful America.

‘We figured the intersection betwixt an endemic and the surging request for Korean food is the close clip to participate the US,’ an worker of the larger Lotte Group told The Korea Economic Daily. ‘We are doing probe connected which geographic country is the best.’

But, nary stores person opened up successful the US arsenic of yet and determination is nary denotation that the concatenation volition unfastened immoderate branches successful the UK astatine this time.

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