With the scarcity of the type of potato needed to make french fries, the popular garnish to accompany burgers is off the menu of “Tasty and That’s It” restaurants, which replaced the American fast food giant.
The company says it expects to have fries back on the menu in the autumn of the north, the BBC reports.
French fries are off the menu at the recently opened fast food restaurants at former McDonald’s outlets in Russia. (Photo by AP / Dmitry Serebryakov) (AP)
McDonald’s joined the exodus of multinational companies after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th.
The American company sold its restaurants to a Russian businessman, and in June several of its outlets reopened under the name “Vkusno and Tochka,” or “Tasty and That’s It.”
But just a few weeks after the launch, the popular garnish is in short supply.
The PBO System company that now manages the former McDonald’s restaurants told Russian news agency Tass that last year’s poor harvest affected supplies of the potato variety needed to make chips.
He also said that while trying to use potatoes from Russia, he had not been able to get them from foreign producers.
McDonald’s sold its nearly 850 restaurants in Russia under a local license after the invasion of Ukraine. (AP)
Russia’s first McDonald’s opened in the middle of Moscow more than three decades ago, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a powerful symbol of the reduction of Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
McDonald’s was the first American fast food restaurant to open in the Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991.
McDonald’s decision to leave came when other US food and beverage giants, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Starbucks, halted or closed down operations in Russia in the face of Western sanctions.
McDonald’s said it expects to record a charge against earnings of between $ 1.2 billion and $ 1.4 billion to leave Russia.
– He reported to the Associated Press
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