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相信最近小伙伴们的朋友圈都被金拱门刷爆了!


就在很多人以为麦当劳改名这事是在开玩笑的时候,一波波实锤接踵而至,让很多吃货都表示不能接受!


McDonald’s China changed its business name, and consumers aren’t lovin’ it.



先是在25日晚,有媒体相继报道,麦当劳中国总部的企业名称变更为“金拱门(中国)有限公司”。


Chinese media reported on Wednesday evening that McDonald’s Chinese business changed its company’s name from Maidanglao, a loose transliteration of the English name, to Jingongmen, or Golden Arches, on Oct. 12.

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改了名还是我们熟悉的麦当劳吗?还有麦乐鸡、巨无霸和麦辣鸡腿汉堡吗?我们还能一起愉快地吃饭吗?!


一时间喧嚣四起,那感觉就像江湖上称霸多年的武林盟主,突然金盆洗手。


麦当劳官方微博终于坐不住了,正式表态:


据澎湃新闻报道,麦当劳与中信及凯雷成为战略合作伙伴后,因业务发展需要,自2017年10月12日起,麦当劳中国总部的企业名称变更为“金拱门(中国)有限公司”。这一变更主要在证照层面,日常的业务不会受到任何影响。麦当劳餐厅名称、食品安全标准、营运流程等保持不变。


这下吃货们悬着的心都放下来了,大M还在,美食也还在。


不过,“金拱门”这仨字却也成了调侃的对象。


Although the fast food chain reassured its fans on its Weibo microblog that stores in China will still bear the old name, the new moniker was immediately ridiculed by net users for sounding unsophisticated.


有网友表示,金拱门的名字,太接地气了:“金拱门”听上去更像烤鸭店或中药店,配上老字号招牌毫无违和感!


“Jingongmen sounds like a name for a Peking duck restaurant or a traditional Chinese medicine store,” one Weibo user wrote, suggesting the company add “time-honored brand” to double down on the new name’s old-fashioned connotations.


毕竟,诸如小肠陈、馄饨侯、汉堡王这样的名字,都属于传统美食,对吧~


也有网友表示这名字怎么有点儿土?


也有网友认为,改完名字后,金拱门意外的霸气测漏……


名字改了,菜单不改一波?


会不会有品牌来跟风?


好了,调侃归调侃,玩笑归玩笑,那么问题来了:


起啥名不好,麦当劳那就相中了金拱门呢?


这就要看麦当劳的历史了。麦当劳这个硕大的黄色M,西方有个著名的昵称——Golden Arches,直译过来就是“金拱门”。现在大家熟识的麦当劳logo,还要从 1952年说起,创始人麦当劳兄弟走访了三位建筑师,想把餐厅设计成两侧各有一道半圆形拱门的样子,然而当时这三位建筑师都对此设计表示质疑……


The now iconic logo had its start in 1952, when the McDonald’s brothers were interviewing architects to design the first McDonald's location. The first three architects were skeptical of the brother's plan to construct a restaurant with two arches, shaped like semicircles, on each side.


后来麦当劳兄弟找到了Stanley Clark Meston,他让麦当劳餐厅在周边建筑中变得格外醒目,紧紧抓住了饥肠辘辘司机们的眼球,让他们能停下车快速地买个汉堡。这就是餐厅两侧的金色拱门所起到的作用。


Then, they found Stanley Clark Meston. Meston designed the McDonald's location to stand out amongst the surrounding buildings, grabbing the attention of hungry drivers who could be convinced to pull over and buy a quick burger. Two golden arches, one on each side of the building, did just that.


看到图片你就明白了,这两道拱门在一开始并非意味着要构造成字母M,但是随着餐厅越来越知名,麦当劳希望设计出一款logo,足以抽象表达出餐厅的外形,所以双拱门中间加斜线的logo诞生了。


Originally, the two arches were not meant to form an "M," as they do today in the chain's logo. However, as the building design became famous, the chain created a logo intended to be a minimalist view of a McDonald's location, with a slanted roof and two arches lining up to form an M.


而到了60年代末,麦当劳的双拱门设计被摒弃,取而代之的是现在的金拱门造型。传奇商人Ray Kroc接管后,麦当劳的金拱门不再是建筑象征,而是品牌logo,迅速在全美得到授权经营。


By the late 1960s, McDonald's had ditched the two-arch design, with the golden arches appearing instead on signs. This is the era in which Ray Kroc had taken over the business and was swiftly franchising McDonald’s across the US, using the golden arches as a logo, not as an architectural instruction.


所以,麦当劳中国的名字变成金拱门,是不是还有点返璞归真的复古感?


另据网友考证:“金拱门”之名其实来源于西方的一个童话传说:故事说的是有一个红衣老人,每到冬天就骑着驯鹿穿过金拱门,来到每家每户为孩子带来礼物和美食。为了纪念这个节日,西方人在金拱门前立了一个金拱碑,还有歌谣传唱:金拱碑,金拱碑,金拱偶的胃……


金色拱门其实名气不局限于在快餐界,《金融时报》就曾报道过,将近20年前, Friedman)提出了“预防冲突的金色拱门理论”(Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention),认为任何两个开设了麦当劳(McDonald’s)门店的国家都不会彼此开战。这个理论适用于冷战结束后令人陶醉的1990年代,那时人们认为,人类将转而追求后意识形态目标,比如消除饥饿。它给出了一种“经济人”前景——人类将用巨无霸(Big Mac)和炸薯条取代对战争的欲望。


“断裂的金色拱门”


Nearly two decades ago, Thomas Friedman came up with his “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention”. No two countries that had McDonald’s restaurants would go to war. The idea suited the heady post-cold war 1990s when people thought humanity would turn to post-ideological goals, like ending hunger. It offered the prospect of ‘homo economicus’ replacing its appetite for war with a Big Mac and fries.


2015年3月,浙江大学出版社也曾出版过相关作品,描述麦当劳在东亚五大城市:台北、香港、北京、东京、首尔,如何融入当地文化的成功经验。这本书的名字叫作:《金拱向东》。


所以这样看来,金拱门的名字其实还是蛮考究的,本地化的并不突兀,只是会让人觉得有些土罢了。


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