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McDonald's Takes Paris

Submitted by MATTHEW ROSE, Jul 12, 2007 04:57

Because I live here, and because I was raised in New York, I find myself forraging about for traces of home. Particularly food. There were a few bagel shops here that failed; one near Chatelet that had the simplicity of a university coffee house was bought out by a French company and was promptly turned into some bagel restaurant, with thin purple trays, waitresses in dresses, a manager in a vest and bagels that more hors d'oeuvres than, well, round boiled/baked bread with holes in them. Plus, they bumped up the prices. You can still get bagels in the Marais (on Rue de Rossiers), but they're not the same hot fresh bagels you love. There was also a deli restaurant off the Champs Elysées that recently disappeared. This Frenchified "deli" offered very serviceable and tasty and delicious sandwiches, even if they were a bit stingy on the pastrami. Now that Starbucks has invaded Paris with expensive "to go" coffee (that's not very good at all), it might be time for the New York entrepreneur to put some real bagels around town, and real New York delicassens in play. When I return home every six months or so, one of the first things I get (sometimes at the airport!) is a Hebrew National frank with that maddeningly yellow mustard! – Waiting in Paris for a New York lunch! Matthew Rose

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I love McDonalds it is the best fast food restuarnt in the world!!!!!!!!!!!! [MORE]	Ashley	Dec 12, 2007 13:46
Because I live here, and because I was raised in New York, I find myself forraging about for traces of...	MATTHEW ROSE	Jul 12, 2007 04:57
i want the characteristics of mcdonalds company [MORE]	ell	Jul 10, 2007 00:49
This line about a Munich, Germany, McDonald's pretty much indicates what is happening to Germany as well as to Western... [MORE]	Bob J.	Jul 6, 2007 20:25
Editor: If you think the French "love" McDonald's you obviously have spent very little time in France. [MORE]	Daniel Guenzel	Jul 6, 2007 10:06
This is not surprising since pro-Americanism is forced upon Europeans nowadays from about kindergarten years, or even before. The situation... [MORE]	Alphysicist	Jul 6, 2007 05:31
Wow. I don't know how you've come to interpret things the way you have, but what you describe is not... [MORE]	Valerie	Jul 15, 2007 13:02
Easy to understand. They are providing food that appeals to local people rather than the same old plan developed in... [MORE]	Frank	Jul 4, 2007 01:23
I am really surprised at the increase in sales. The local Mickey D's has gotten my order wrong 11 out... [MORE]	bikerbob	Sep 26, 2007 18:42
On-target about the food, which has done well in many parts of France (and there are local French restaurant chains,... [MORE]	Michael	Jul 3, 2007 14:11
On the article in general, I did find it very interesting if not a little worrisome that France, a stalwart... [MORE]	Matt	Jul 4, 2007 02:55
Consumerization. Capitalization. Market saturation. Fast-food nation. Not much romantic about lines of sweaty Americans herded in like cattle at the... [MORE]	Kyle	Jul 6, 2007 08:10
You honestly want to try to make other people believe that you've never been on the receiving end of French... [MORE]	Valerie	Jul 15, 2007 12:48
...but then, 35+ years would be a long time for pure luck alone to hold up. I don't expect to... [MORE]	Michael	Jul 15, 2007 17:23
Well, thanks for that answer. You've been living a charmed life. And, no, my personal experience won't be changing until I... [MORE]	Valerie	Jul 16, 2007 13:11
Will McDonald's Inc. please makeover the restaurants in the United States. The garish red and yellow monstrosities that pollute the... [MORE]	Don Elote	Jul 3, 2007 10:08
Which is it? [MORE]	Machida1	Jul 4, 2007 13:32