MOSCOW – McDonald’s on Wednesday reopened its flagship outlet in central Moscow for the first time in four months after Russia clamped down on the fast-food chain for alleged hygiene violations following Western sanctions over Ukraine.”We have obtained agreement from the Russian public health agency to reopen our Pushkin Square restaurant,” McDonald’s spokeswoman Svetlana Polyakova told AFP.Symbolically, the restaurant was the first ever branch of McDonald’s to open in the Soviet Union in 1990, when people queued for hours around the square to try their first ever Big Mac.On Wednesday, only a dozen Russians waited for the restaurant to reopen …read more
Source: AsiaOne
