# Could a Restaurant like This survive?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 17, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-restaurant-like-this-survive/400477 "2007-04-17T15:56:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-restaurant-like-this-survive/400477/21 "2007-04-20T03:19:44Z")

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And, lest we idealize France too much, let’s remember that McDonald’s does HUGE business there. It’s one of the countries where Mickey D’s rakes in the most money.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-restaurant-like-this-survive/400477/22 "2007-04-21T03:59:03Z")

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[QUOTE=astorian]  
And, lest we idealize France too much, let’s remember that McDonald’s does HUGE business there. It’s one of the countries where Mickey D’s rakes in the most money.  
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Try Milan, Italy sometime. Jesus Christ on a stick, the number of McDonalds there is ridiculous. A pair of them welcome you from the train station and they never stop. I joked about it because I liked the fact that they had open bathrooms and I don’t think you could be more than a few blocks from one in the city itself.

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