/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18242179
Not having a replacement would have put a bunch of local businesses under since the policy of McDonalds foreign subsidiaries is to contract local producers and suppliers. The local factory bakeries producing all their bread would be hard-pressed to find other outlets that matched the sheer amount of product they were producing for their McDonalds contracts, forcing them to downsize. Same with domestic beef farmers/meat packers, potato farmers, etc.
Basically McDonalds cut its contracts and some endeavouring businessman saw the gap and the desperation of its former clients. This isn't exactly an uncommon thing. When McDonald's left Iceland after its economic collapse, even though it only had two restaurants, someone swooped in and nabbed their old contracts to make a ripoff restaurant. Since McDonald's wouldn't touch their economy with a 1000km stick, they let it slide.

tl;dr - THIS HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!

>>18044984
>>18044988
Every time McDonalds leaves a country for economic reasons, a local company almost always pops up, buys out their old contracts, and starts serving the exact same products as before. It happened in Iceland, even though they brag about "kicking out McDonalds" during their economic crash. McDonalds isn't a corporation; it's an ideal. This crystallization of THE fast food restaurant.
McDonalds can exist without McDonalds.

>>18016104
I'd imagine the same as before. Whenever McDonalds leaves a market, someone usually just picks up their old supply contracts. Same shit happened in Iceland when they had their economic collapse. The local McDonalds franchisees opened up "Metro" which served the same products at the same locations.

>>17979284
It's basically like when McDonald's pulled out of Iceland, but the Icelanders were too fond of it so they took over the old restaurants and supply contracts to sell knock-off products under the new name "Metro".