Undercover McDonald's lab resembles a hipster cafe

Do you want quinoa with that? Dubbed “The Corner,” McDonald’s has a food-testing lab operating in Australia in the inner-city of a Sydney suburb, that looks much more like a hipster cafe than a fast-food enterprise.

The cafe, which features staff dressed in chambray shirts and dark jeans serving food on wooden sandwich boards, is designed as a testing site for new menu items that could be sold in other stores, according to the Guardian.

Menu items include an egg and bacon roll with spinach and chutney on a brioche bun, $6; chorizo and egg roll on brioche, $6; pre-packaged brown rice and quinoa with fresh vegetables salad, $4; and a four-cheese toastie on sourdough, $6.

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