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Mapping The Battle Of The Bulge: Russia's War Against McDonalds
Since Russia first began rattling its retaliatory anti-Western-fast-food sabre at McDonalds in April, things have escalated. It started in Crimea, spread to Moscow, and now as Yopolis notes, has spread across much of Russia as more and more McDonalds stores are shuttered by Russia's Food Safety Commission (Rospotrebnadzorom)...
The Map of Hostilities - all the closed McDonalds in Russia...
July 28th. There is information about the checks Rosselkhoznadzor. Experts interested in the quality of the cheese, which is still possible to deliver from the Czech Republic and France.
August 6th. Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning the import of products and raw materials from Europe, the United States and other countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia.
On 20 August. "McDonald's" unexpectedly closes three Moscow restaurant - on Manezh Square, on Prospekt Mira and Malaya Bronnaya street. Company forced to suspend their activities because of the claims Rospotrebnadzora that found numerous violations in the work of institutions. A few days later a restaurant on Manezh Square will be closed for 90 days, the decision of the court of Tver.
Court suspends the very first McDonald's in Russia - Pushkin Square.
On 27 August. 85 days closes McDonalds in Yekaterinburg. The next day, suspend work two places in Sochi and one - in Serpukhov.
On 29 August. banned 12 restaurants across Russia, among them - three in Moscow and two in the suburbs.
September 1st. "McDonald's" makes a statement that eliminate irregularities in three popular restaurants in Moscow. Despite this, the court does not allow them to open ahead of schedule. Around the same time, it appears that the company has filed eight lawsuits in the Pension Fund. The fact that officials refuse to accept the quarterly reports of the "McDonald's", and because of this, the staff could not shape their future retirement.
It turns out that the CPS checks quarter of 440 restaurants, "McDonald's" in Russia. According to the service, their actions are planned and not related to politics.
September 4th. Closes second restaurant network in Yekaterinburg.
September 9 receives information about the penalties for suburban McDonald's - in total they have to pay 500 thousand rubles.
"McDonald's" refuses to salads "Vegetable" and "Caesar" because of the ban on the importation of products from the EU. Company "Belaya Dacha", collaborating with restaurants since 1994, promised to find new channels of supply of raw materials, but in Moscow, salads and have not appeared.
On the website of the Russian "McDonalds" appears statement "planned modernization" restaurants.
September 12th. McDonalds on "Tretyakov" cordoned off by police.
September 16th. CPS finds a breach in the restaurant Novosibirsk.
On 17 September. "McDonald's" increasingly resists. She sued the Government of St. Petersburg with a request to annul the decision of the arbitral tribunal. However, according to local Rospotrebnadzora, the service has not conducted inspections in St. Petersburg.
On 29 September. Temporarily closes the only McDonald's in the Komi Republic. Guide denies Rospotrebnadzora explains closing "technical Rearrangement."
On 8 October. PROSECUTOR starts checking the charity fund "Ronald McDonald House", which helps sick children. In all honesty, organizations questioned the deputy from the "Just Russia" Andrei cool.
October 10th. third McDonalds in Volgograd closed for two months. Total in the region, there are five restaurants of the chain. The first closed in September, the second stopped working after a month. The reason is the same: the violation of sanitary norms and E. coli. After complaining of the court permits the work to one of the restaurants, but without the right to sell food and drinks. Places fined 100 and 150 thousand rubles.
On the same day the company's representatives say they won the case in Veliky Novgorod. The court did not prohibit the restaurant to sell their products, as requested in Roskomnadzor.
In one of the McDonald's Voronezh find E. coli. Allowable rate of bacteria in cucumbers exceeded 1.6 times. Restaurant fined 50 thousand rubles. Another McDonald's closes at center of Nizhny Novgorod.
October 13th. Court in Moscow satisfies the claim Rospotrebnadzora to "McDonald's" in 100 thousand rubles. In the production and reverse actions are - the company wants to make a claim for it to be unfounded.
October 14th. One of the restaurants of the Krasnodar Territory is sentenced to a fine of 300 thousand rubles. "McDonald's" again disagrees with the decision of the court and provides a counter-suit.
With each passing day the story gets more and more strange. On Monday, the Moscow Arbitration Court fined the restaurant at ENEA 100 thousand rubles for the illegal sale of toys in the "Happy Meal."
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We are sure this is not helping MCD sales as they suffer the longest streak of losing quarters on record
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A Royale without cheese.
Listen,
No cheeseburgers in paradise.
OT but get this
Dallas' epidemiologist was exposed.
This chick was supposed to know something about all this shit and WTF happens?
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/16/dallas-top-health-epidemiologist-bein...
"You're in Good Hands with the State"
I don't blame them, somebody made so many happy meal toys here, that the kids don't even like them any more, ie: wasted resources.
O 'lil mac, but why waste the time when nuclear power gonna settle things lol
What? No toy in my happy meal? That's fucking disgraceful!!
McDonalds might be a lesson for investors... As is Exxon... If mighty companies like THEM get into trouble for political or other BS reasons, what protections would YOU have?
Invest in Russia, bwa ha ha. Some of the pro-Russian commenters here are not, ahh, confidence inspiring about outsiders placing money there...
There is a whole world out there to invest in.
European banks and British oil companies are not thrilled by US political harassment in the USA either
Screw MacDonalds. We know their crap is bad for us. Just look around at the average American, and compare them to pictures of crowds 40 years ago. You would be shocked.
Maybe not McDonalds, but I'd sure as hell invest in their Russian owned competition..LOL. They'll have the market to themselves now, and Russians are NOT about to stop eating cheeseburgers;)
Sucks if your a russian McD franchise owner though. Hopefully the pressure is more on the corperate owned restaurants and less on small biz owners. Not making payroll for your people sucks for everyone.
that article is interesting because it states that the first infected nurse was with Duncan before ebola was confirmed.
You oHH so nailed it with that one.+++++
When MichelleO talks down fast food she's a Marxist. When Putin decides that his subjects literally have no choice in the matter, he's a freedom fighter. Got it.
If say 20 years ago a person(capitalist) invested a thousand dollars in McDonalds stock they would be a millionare today because of government growth inflation policy. A McDonalds "worker" making minimum wage 20 years ago and is still working for McDonalds corporation is poorer today than he was 20 years ago because of government growth inflation policy.
McDonald's traded at $10/share in 1994. It's currently trading around $90. So your $1000 investment would be worth $9000, plus dividends. Not that this has anything to do with the utter hypocrisy of ZH when it comes to Putin the Great.
I was thinking more like if I had bought 1000 dollars worth in the 80's counting splits and rolled over the dividends. The comment was off the cuff but you missed the point?
Yes, I missed. the point. What is it?
Not hard to take your point, which I find pointless. It really detracts from your message when you get your facts bollixed up: 2014-20= 1994 vesus "80's". $9,000 or so versus $ miliions.
oh--ok--nevermind. sorry sir IDK maybe there was a point there--hmmm... maybe there is something to this lopsided battle between capital and labor?
I do know that a lot of ZH posters like to adhere to old school Austrians that wrote when labor had the upper hand. I don't know if you have noticed--some people say it is cyclical...but it seems to me that capital(and governments) have had the upper hand for awhile now wouldn't you?
Deflator -- if you've ever read my posts, you will realize I am not anti-labor. But Putin banning McDonald's is not going to help labor, and it is utterly hypocritical for the anti-government types on ZH to applaud him for doing what they would consider treason against capitalism if anyone in the West did the same.
Yes, LTER! Nor will Putler attract much foreign capital either. All any outsider has to do is see what Putin has done to Exxon and Big Mac.
Any investment decision re Russia is easy: don't invest there!
BS. Obola and the State Dept did in Exxon over the criminal junta in Kiev.
Freddie, I dislike Obola as much as the next guy. But, irrespective of who "in the USA" did in EXXON, would YOU invest YOUR money in Russia?
I didn't invest MY money in Russia!
I saw the 'Big Mac' gap coming DECADES ago!
If I can't stroll down a street in Novosibirsk and duck into a McDonald's and order a Crappy meal and sit down and warm myself and taste the 'Special Sauce' in my Big Mac (whatever 'royale' they like to call it), and slurp on a 33.8 ounce 'Coca-Cola', and dip my oversalted and soggy Idaho 'freedom fries' in a pre-sealed and processed aluminized pouch of Kerry-Heinz Ketchup, while arranging the next 'glasnost disarmarment' by coordinating Summa Corporation employees to work in conjunction with the Sikorsky Design Bureau, then I might as well resign (and take up COSCO on their lucrative offer).
Bejing (or Peking, or Nanking, or whatever) STILL has McDonald's 'restaurants', don't they?
Everyone you meet in the U.S. is an expert at economics and everyone is an expert energy analyst..sarc
You could hypothetically say that EXXON is reducing it's exposure to retail gasoline stations in the U.S. and just about everyone will say, "there are plenty of EXXON stations, I see them everywhere..." nevermind that there is an actual reduction of EXXON stations.
Hey 'Rand, have you ever considered that the MacDonalds organisations in Russia, China, Brazil and nearly everwhere else, have been co-opted into an being a significant component of the subversive coup-de-tat/colour revolution campaigns created and administered by the NED and US State dept world wide.
So perhaps its not the food Putin is going after but the "apparatus" of covert operations...
Thanks for your order!
Would you like fries or an Apple Pie with your order today? NO? Well...
Your total is $4.22. Pull up to the second window, you fucking asshole.
McDonald's locations EVERYWHERE are actually CIA 'covert operations', you know. Those 'Monopoly' 'scratch tickets' are ACTUALLY subquteneous RFID transponders that record your DNA print and send them via the antennae in the wrappers of Big Macs to central headquarters (somewhere in fucking ILLINOIS). Since you already swiped your card at the 'paypoint', GOOGLE is busy (even now) downloading advertisements 'personalized' to your computer, urging you on to further offerings from McDonald's.
Save us, Obi-wan-Putin! YOU are our ONLY HOPE...
(SOME truth is posted in my comment. It is up to YOU to sort out the truth from the parody)
I'd like to know what is the breakdown between company-owned stores and franchisee owned stores that the regulators have acted against. I think there are only a handful of franchise shops since the Rosinter deal was announced in 2012. But if Putin the Great's minions are picking on the local business owners in order to settle scores with a multinational corporate behemoth or the USSA, then they need to be reigned in and redirected.
excellent remark and questions. a further question: do Putin's minions care if they are hitting on a megacompany or on small/medium local franchising business people?
Authoritarian Rule is seldom nice to Small Biz. Top-Down approaches find it much, much easier to find supporting agreements with Big Biz. The very reason for fascist or crony-socialist or crony-capitalistic setups, all three corruptions of conservative, socialist or (classic) liberal setups
My personal litmus test for how authoritarian/corrupt a country is... is actually how Small Biz fares. That simple. The small entrepreneur is the one individual most at risk from politics of corruption, in his business and as individual
The Worker can find some shelter in masses, trade unions, socialist politics. Big Biz can move offshore, can bribe big style, can buy whole media outlets, the works
The Small Business owner? He depends from the two other great forces to set rules that don't choke him
Wrong--She's a Wookie
I hear Centaurs like Wookies. They seem to have similar ideas.
I can't argue with you after that. Too good.
LOL! Looks like she has a flamethrower to kill ebola or obala.
KRONIES!
They're 'KONNECTED':
http://thekronies.com/
...and WB7 shoots another ball out of the park...
With those gnashers she has a too-close resemblance to the Alien. Picture of her bursting out of someone's chest?
You likely got special sauce all over your keyboard when you chose to educate us on the benefits of poisonous corporate entitlement. And I think you meant "chokes down". Literally.
Good luck getting a big gulp in New York, Rand
Bloomberg was a complete asshole for banning Big Gulps. Do you agree that Putin is a complete asshole or does he get a pass because of the pecs?
You are the one who brought up choice Rand
Bloomberg's ban was banned by the Courts. Putin's ban remains. Both countries are not free, but one is slightly less free and it seems to be a favorite around here.
Revel in your right to eat sawdust ,Rand...the clown has your back
Okay. Now I understand. It's best for a politician to tell me what not to eat so long as he's anti-American.
courts are supposedly non political , and BTW that self-inflicted bullet hole in your foot looks nasty
So this is the point where I realize that I've been arguing with an idiot.
I really did ask the Tylers to delete my account, even asked politely. I am sure that they will get around to it eventually.
In the meantime I will occasionally come to ZH to:
1) plug my blog
2) pop-off my opinions more freely
3) upvote my friends! Like LTER.
Thank, DoChen! See you at FEMA Camp 7.
P.S. His name was Fonz.
Fonz also asked that his account be deleted. It was, but only after he called out the Tylers.
His name was Fonz.
I have no quarrel with the Tylers.
See ya in camp! Unless ZH deletes my account AND "they" forget about me... But, databases never forget!
There is an easy way to get deleted. Just do as your friends and start posting about how your grandma earns extra cash, no doubt with their keyboard commando skills while not posting on ZH.
FWIW, I think they will not have free WIFI at the camp. bloggers beware.
"Would you like Ebola or Obola with those fries Comrade?"
Nyet!
LOL! John Kerry mega douchebag, No Heinz CatSup either.
I'm Lovin' it.
my neighbor's ex-wife makes $77 /hour on the computer . She has been unemployed for seven months but last month her payment was $15804 just working on the computer for a few hours. go to the website... www.job-reports.com
2 birds w one stone. healthier population. bendover westerners.
its really too bad so many tribe members own McDonalds in Russia
I quit eating at McD's a long time ago.
Listen.
After the operation for clogged arteries?
OH!
Ba ba ba ba da dum.. I'm lovin it
Why doesn't some Russkie Genius open a "Silver Arches"?
Mickey Knees. Get a Scotchman there in a kilt and bagpipes.
Maybe a clown or two and some Argentine beef.
C'mon Russkies. Think like Eddie Murphy working at McDowell's Golden Arches in "Coming To America."
Images for McDowell's in Coming to America
WWPD - What Would Putin Do?
Good riddance pink slime!
gee, I guess being a disgraceful douchebag and embarrasing the nation and the miltary is a Biden family trait, ay???
Biden’s Son Hunter Discharged From Navy Reserve After Failing Cocaine Testhttp://online.wsj.com/articles/bidens-son-hunter-discharged-from-navy-reserve-after-failing-cocaine-test-1413499657
I guess that awesome gas company gig in Ukraine was his reward for that stellar and heroic service in the Navy he washed out of after just a couple years of priveleged treatment. What an ingrate. Ya see...they're all fucking sociopaths at that level...plain and simple.
So is he still a veteran with all of the priveledges and benefits thereof?
That explain the shit eating grin....
(from the Ukraine job photo ZH posted)
Yeah, but just think, when the culling begins these are the Elites that will be protected and will continue to run the world.
The main consolation we have is that these idiots will self-destruct within a couple of generations.
"Clogs to clogs in three generations", is the old rule.
Um the mcdonalds that should be closing due to health concerns are the ones in the us. Lets see, what the fuck are the usda, cdc, dhhs, etc etc spending their time on if they are not shutting down theses sawdust dispenseries???? Last I checked wood is not a food and when a company like mcdonalds tries to pass it off as such, they should have their fucking doors closed and the pos in the company responsible should get jail time, their fingers chopped off, or both. I personally like the fingering chopping.
Those agencies are too busy kicking in the doors of Amish farmers who dare to sell unpasteurized milk.
I was in a crowded Chick Fil A the other day. The parking lot is jammed at noon while McD is a ghost town. Two guys were standing there who were probably electricians or something. The one guy never had been there. The other guy said "oh yeah it is great - they sell reall food here" The new guy said great because McDonalds food is garbage and it is not real food.
I chuckled and was going to tell them about ZeroHedge and bitcoins.
Also what kind of oil does McDonalds and Berber King use anymore? Tastes like ***king used motor oil. I stopped eating at both of those places years ago.
Karma
If you miss your McDonalds burgers in Russia, you can buy a 14 year supply today and you are covered:
14-year-old McDonald's hamburger looks almost newA Utah man says he's hung on to a McDonald's hamburger for 14 years, but even stranger than that --the burger looks almost new.
David Whipple claims that he first bought it in July, 1999 as an experiment to show friends how enzymes work in preserving food, ABC News reported. Whipple kept the burger in the original paper bag from the fast food chain before forgetting about it in his coat’s pocket. Two years later his wife, Beverly, discovered there.
“We looked at it and said, ‘Oh, my gosh. It’s two years old, it looks like it’s brand new,’” he told ABC. “I said, ‘I wonder how long this thing is going to last?’”.
They didn't have much time to think about it. The father of seven says he got caught up with life's other priorities and the burger was placed back in its wrapper and forgotten about again until closer to six years later, around 2006. After moving house, they discovered it again.
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/04/25/14-year-old-mcdonald-hamburger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfdg4ymCiT8
American kids are fed food specks by order of Moochie Dances with Turnips, who pops lobsters in her maw like bonbons, trade protectionisn dressed up as support for MaidanNazis backfires in OlymDick's face.
Today, break have you.
I guess they don't have too many blacks in Russia otherwise where would they get anything to eat? Oh wait a minute, they have KFC right?
Russians have absolutely no excuse even looking in the direction of this suicidal establishment. This shit is absolutely disgusting, poisonous and debilitating, not to mention that this zombie food is owned by the empire that is encircling Russian lands and would do anything in order to destroy and loot it. I’d rather eat my old sandals then abusing myself with these cancer pumped substances.
Many fast food ingredients come from local vendors. Since the food in Russia is much healthier than in the US, same fries, same burgers, same pretend-beef and vegetable oil will not do as much harm, but it's no excuse to endulge in fast food regardless. Over time these types of establishments begin dictating how the food is grown and processed. If fast food joints become popular, you can be sure, the farms next door will eventually start planting GMO seeds, the cows will move from open fields into concentration-camp barns and everything else will go to shit.
McDonalds is an enabler of certain business practices. It destroys the food industry much like WalMarts destroy self-sustaining small businesses, and much like Stabucks drives every non-Starbucks coffee joint across the street out of business.
If fast food goes away, I won't miss it one bit... but it won't. Not here at least. Russia is still early in its assimilation process, so it has better odds of kicking this relatively fresh habit. I wish them luck.
If Ronald offers you a helping hand, kick him in the balls and walk away.
Ukraine isn't a 'Russian land', Bob. Neither is Georgia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Tajikistan...even you get the idea.
burgers have human dna in them.
fizzy gmo corn syrup drinks feed cancer cells
these products are slow kill.
meat doses cancer in the host coke feeds it um nice.
putin was happy with this horrible state of affairs for years
i say dumbos eat it fill your boots you adult scum.
but if you feed it to your kids you are a demonic cancerous cunts
I had a sausage biscut break fast in the mountains of California yesterday, just remodeled store in high end area. The biscut was hard as rock, the orange juice tasted about 50% more watery than the last time I remember and the sausage patty was 1/4" thick. This was at 8am not like 11am last call breakfast with old stuff. The cost?
$6:50 something
I swear I just laughed. I don't normally eat crap breakfast, but we have been slammed busy and my helper eats 7-11 microwave egg a muffins and they were 300% percent better at 7-11, the two I actually ate last week. The sausage was way bigger and way juicier. I think the food at 7-11 is better and you can buy booze and beer there too.
Learn make Blini
buckwheat meal, milk, eggs main ingredients then imagination
bake or fry
freeze, and carry meal
buckwheat is not a grain, but replaces grains no gluten and far healthier
buckwheat meal bulk 25 and 50 # very inexpensive in US
Actually, buckwheat (gretchka) is a fruit.
yes
but if not informed of that...one would hardly know
good for bread also. all baking
even we make ramen noodle, pastas, pizza
good with tomatoe and cheese,onion, lambsquarter, brocolli
I make a delicious 'Blini Borodino".
The blini, which are fried, are 50/50 white flour and buckwheat, as not to overwhelm the taste of the Beluga caviar. Creme fraiche and finely chopped hard cooked eggyoke and onion round out the dish.
I served them at the beanfest we had to celebrate the 200th anniversary of that famous Franco-Russian battle a couple of years ago.
Next time you're in Southern California you must come over and try them.
Russian milk vending machine
http://windowstorussia.com/vending-milk-dispenser-in-moscow-russia.html
This is Kyle Keaton's site, Missouri Farm raised Nam Sniper, Cordon Bleu Chef, met Russian Lady, married and live near Moscow and also remote village.
Much balanced having lived both US and now Russia
The Russian village is the best and yes that is me! If you so desire to know? If you don't? Then now you know anyway and yes I can be a Grouchy-Bear, just ask the Russians...
Let's serve the McDoubleVodka.
Go vegan!
"You know how you only use 10% of your brain? That's because the other 90% is filled with curds and whey."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqqGZBRBLcM
Problem is, flatulence causes global warming.
McDonalds is a class joint in Russia...great food for them....they are going to miss the Golden arches..Cabbage gets old after awhile...more people like McDonalds in russia than they do Putin...
youngman
you never see the talmudic tora bora rabbi in mc die i wonder why?
youngman
I would not know about Russia, but in Peru McDonalds is respected.
The Y/Y chart perfectly matches the increased suck factor of McDonalds' food. The last time I ate a Quarter Pounder after not eating there for two years I thought that it had the texture of sawdust as I took my first bite. Three days later I learned that it really was sawdust. I'll never eat there again. I get better burgers for a whole two more dollars at a local burger joint.
Russia will be better off in the long run.
Obama will turn out to be the worst President in the history of the USA.
Should be allowed to up-vote simple truths more than once.
The problem is, the-powers-that-be will re-write history to show something far from the truth, just like Stalin did.
In fact, they've already started.
Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize after only one month in office. Since then he has bombed at least 8 countries that I can think of, and has boasted about how good he is at killing people (with drones).
Predictable . Will soon be happening all over Europe .
Waiting for the third shoe to drop :
see
https://www.academia.edu/8816411/Rogue_Swan_EU_disintegration
Eat shit....
Feel like shit.
Simple
What are you, Stupid? Don't stop McDonald's stop Goldman Sachs F'Kers.
Well at least the Russians got it right - McDonalds is plain and simple industrial food warfare.
On the other hand McDonalds fits right in with the US government agenda. Eat shit and die.
if ever obambam wanted the public to rise against tsar putin he should take advantage of this news that putin is shutting down mcds because depraving the russian populace of their right to bad food is something the average dumbass american can get real upset about.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/bidens-son-hunter-discharged-from-navy-re...
How's that Ukraine oil thingy going for you hunter?
coke
ho's
This is not strange at all. Russia is using the sanctions as an excuse to go after McD's for healthcode, food quality, and other violations. They can easily state it is to safeguard health - high fat, HFCS, and all that nonsense.
"YOU DON"T DESERVE A BREAK TODAY!"
- Rodney Dangerfield
1. McDonalds is shit food. 2. Stop feeding it to your kids, don't they deserve better? 3. Stop going to McDonalds full stop. 4. Take back some power from the globalists. 5. Think people, think.
A lot of US food - especially fast food - is full of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) which is largely responsible for the epidemic of obesity and diabetes so the Russians are doing themselves a favor.
There goes 0.0004% of McDonald's revenue.
Cartman to ZH for this absurd love to Putin
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMhuMs4roE
Cartman to you for being a cocksucking troll:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMhuMs4roE
I hope Russia removes McDonald's from the country. Besides Russia has better fast food that is homegrown...
Love them pancakes, wrapped around a slice of ham, mushrooms and cheese...
Yummy...