• zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    It’s all franchise, so McDonald’s doesn’t really own anything, and the ingredients are not flown in from america, so when they shut down officially in Russia all the franchisees just continued operating under a different brand, it’s not hard to see how that happened.

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      2 months ago

      But they probably got their fries from McCain, their ketchup from Heinz, their soft drinks from Coca-Cola. One would assume that sourcing would be more of an issue, considering that all the companies McDonald’s usually sources from are American.