Of course he's Boogie sized. Though really his problem seems to be that he's just pissed about how retarded the sanctions are, and McDonalds is just the proxy for that sentiment. Though I do have to wonder if Russia just decided to nationalizes McDonalds and call it "Putin's Meat Palace" what can McDonalds really do about it? There's probably some international supply chains they'll lose out on, but we've seen places like Asia have their knockoff Starbucks and more, so why can't Russia have a McPutins?
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The biggest obstacle to nationalizing diners has always been corruption.
McDonalds owns it diners but others are franchisees. E.g. KFC has 80 places of its own and 1000 franchisees.
US franchises and Putin's government jointly operate a protection racket. You open a diner and call it Best Cafe, and the health inspector comes knocking and finds a rat. You are made to close for two months to clean up your act, then, bam, another rat, and two roaches in the cocktail machine. You get tired of it and pay for a Burger King franchise. Now it's
a rat in a Burger King, and the Burger King Russia franchise owner (a mafioso) rips the health inspector a new one.
In contrast, the founder of Dodo Pizza (a Russian pizza franchise) got into legal trouble because a visitor was caught selling drugs at one of the franchisee parlors.
Edit: Looks like they have one already
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These kinds of jokey knockoffs survive because they're extremely trashy places which don't share a market niche with McDonalds, and it's unprofitable and a PR nightmare to go for one (I think McDonalds did it once and came to regret it). But McD and the like's independent competitors get fucked hard as described above, thus good fast food only exists in places which don't see enough traffic for a full-sized chain diner. Here's a
Chicken Burger (beef and pork is on the menu, too) in a pop 30000 town.
People are absolutely champing at the bit to replace US chains if Putin promises to stop fucking them over.