Fast food restaurants: 10 unusual buildings - in pictures

A mimetic KFC on Western Avenue, LA. Architecture of this type sometimes represents animals - can you tell what it is yet?
Photograph: Rex Features/Everett Collection

A KFC on the south coast of Barbados with echoes of a plantation house. It's a little different from the standard KFC, but there's absolutely no mistaking what it is ... Photograph: CJG Caribbean/Alamy

... unlike this McDonald's in the old Town Hall of Bray in Co Wicklow, Ireland which, save for the billboard outside, you might not even spot Photograph: Elizabeth Leyden/Alamy

A KFC restaurant in Keflavík, Iceland in the form of four (takeaway?) boxes Photograph: PK Arkitektar

A McDonald's in what used to be the Café Imperial in Porto, Portugal. Any reference to empire-building is entirely coincidental Photograph: Kim Kaminski/Alamy

The 'rock n roll' McDonald's in Chicago is all about individuality, openness and transparency. A separate building on the site houses collections of Elvis and Beatles memorabilia Photograph: Kim Karpeles/Alamy

Make what you will of this large McDonald's uncomfortably close to the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland Photograph: Look Studio/Alamy

Joining the crowds at Yuyuan Gardens and Bazaar in Shanghai, China, you'll have to look carefully for the branch of Starbucks Photograph: Tom Salyer/Alamy

Pret a Manger is the latest in a long line of tenants at 421 Strand, London Photograph: Setchfield/Alamy

Starbucks in the Persian area of the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. How's that for a cutural melange? Photograph: Hemis/Alamy