MCDONALD'S customers have been crying out after the confirmation of a restaurant demolition.
The closure marks the end of the last remaining "classic" location in one state.
While some might think of the giant golden arches going through the building and advertisements of 15-cent burgers as "classic" McDonald's, it's 2024.
That means "classic" McDonald's to many are the designs millennials will recognize from the 1980s, 90s, and early 2000s.
They featured a bright red mansard roof with yellow arches across the top and even a playground area before most were eliminated.
McDonald's later began modernizing and moving away from the designs and committed $6 billion to the cause for around 8,700 locations in 2018, per Food Business News.
Still, one "classic" location remained in Middletown, New Jersey, for residents this year.
It was recently torn down, however, and is still awaiting a remodel, per local radio station WKXW.
A notice released to the public in April noted improvements to the site with expanded parking and updated lighting, landscaping, signs, menu boards, and more.
Kenneth Hullings, the owner and operator of the Middletown location, said he'd been trying to get it re-done for nearly 20 years, according to the Asbury Park Press.
"We have been in discussions with the corporation, believe it or not, since 2005 to get this restaurant remodeled and make it appropriate for the town, make it better for the residents, and also make it better for us," Hullings told the outlet.
The Middletown location was first constructed in 1971.
It remains unclear when the renovations will be completed, and some customers have mixed feelings about the change.
A saddened local argued that the McDonald's location would go "from vibrant colors to gloom and doom colors" with renovations in a thread on Facebook.
"I miss it already, I hate driving by and seeing it gone and the construction," another wrote.
"My heart will go on," a third added.
While McDonald's has redesigned and modernized most of its now 14,300 restaurants in the United States over time, one has been kept almost the same for over 50 years.
That would be the oldest remaining McDonald's from when Richard and Maurice McDonald started what would become a worldwide franchise after the involvement of Ray Kroc.
It resides in Downey, California, about 13 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, and is a major tourist attraction, per Eater LA.
The restaurant was just the third ever opened by the McDonald brothers and still has a drive-in style and old-timey art and colors.
McDonald's has caused commotion among customers nationwide for other reasons recently.