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Tag: Fast Food

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15th May 1940: The first McDonald’s restaurant opened in San Bernadino, California

15th May 2019
Tagged as: America, California, Culture, Fast Food, Food, Franchise, Globalisation, Restaurant, USA

Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

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31st January 1990: First McDonald’s opens in the USSR

31st January 2019
Tagged as: Canada, Capitalism, Communism, Fast Food, Food, Glasnost, McDonalds, Moscow, Perestroika, Soviet Union, USSR

On the 31^st January 1990, fast food chain McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin Square.

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