# Will Feng Sui Spur Fast food? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 26, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136 "2008-02-26T00:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/1 "2008-02-26T00:03:34Z")
A McDonald’s in CA has been designed with Feng Sui principles:[Yahoo Finance - Stock Market Live, Quotes, Business & Finance News](http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080224/zen_fast_food.html?.v=5) So, does “CHI” help you sell Big Macs? Any chance other restaurants will follow up? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/2 "2008-02-26T00:08:43Z")
Well, I don’t buy the “chi” aspect of it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it attracted more customers due to novelty value, and it’s certainly conceivable that certain interiors make patrons more or less hungry for whatever psychological reasons. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/3 "2008-02-26T00:08:47Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] A McDonald’s in CA has been designed with Feng Sui principles:[http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080224/zen\_fast\_food.html?.v=5](http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080224/zen_fast_food.html?.v=5) So, does “CHI” help you sell Big Macs? Any chance other restaurants will follow up? [/QUOTE] Chop Sui? Personally, I doubt it will have much effect one way or another, except perhaps initially from what I can only call “tourist” draw. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/4 "2008-02-26T00:33:17Z")
Oh ye of little faith! > [@](#): > > So, does “CHI” help you sell Big Macs? Of course it does (sorry, no cite…my post is my cite and all that). It also makes your teeth brighter and your tail bushier, puts a spring in your step and gives you 4 hour erections… > [@](#): > > Any chance other restaurants will follow up? Undoubtedly. If McDonald’s gets any kind of boost at all in sales from this (which they most likely will…just from the new age crowd going in to check it out if nothing else) then you will see a flurry of other restaurants following suit and trying to get on the bandwagon. I hear Wendy’s is planning to put in giant metal pyramids over their restaurants to focus primal energy and better give you the burger you always wanted… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/5 "2008-02-26T01:19:46Z")
[QUOTE=xtisme] I hear Wendy’s is planning to put in giant metal pyramids over their restaurants to focus primal energy and better give you the burger you always wanted… -XT [/QUOTE] And prevent spoilage no doubt. And keep their knives sharp. (Does Wendy’s and the like even have knives?) BTW, my dog is named Ki (not by us) and he’ll happily eat all the Big Macs you give him. And barf them right on your shoes. Isn’t that a great metaphor for life? ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/6 "2008-02-26T13:21:46Z")
I was watching the Penn and Teller episode of B\*\*\*\*hit on Feng Shui when my dauther walked in from school. “What are they talking about? What’s Feng Shui?” “Well sweetheart, some folks think that the way you decorate and arrange your furniture and stuff can improve your life, luck, and health.” big pause from the 11 year old (at the time). “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” I love my kids. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/7 "2008-02-26T13:50:02Z")
I think this fad had pretty much played itself out. Marc ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/8 "2008-02-26T18:22:09Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] And prevent spoilage no doubt. And keep their knives sharp. (Does Wendy’s and the like even have knives?) BTW, my dog is named Ki (not by us) and he’ll happily eat all the Big Macs you give him. And barf them right on your shoes. Isn’t that a great metaphor for life? [/QUOTE] I don’t know about today’s Wendy’s, but the fast-food place I briefly worked had knives. It was somebody’s job to stand in the kitchen and cut tomatoes and lemons (pickles and onions came pre-cut.). For the lettuce, though, they had this big chopper thingie that you’d put the whole head in and slice it into little square pieces. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-feng-sui-spur-fast-food/439136/9 "2008-02-26T18:26:43Z")
The giant metal pyramids should keep those knives sharp and the produce crisp then (I know it didn’t work on Mythbusters, but that show is a fraud! They couldn’t even make the PoaT work ‘right’…). It will make the customers happier (and all have read hair and pigtails), and more satisfied…and they will also produce free energy and produce peace on earth and good will toward men (and women too I assume)! -XT