No, as long as the line was 32 years ago, when McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the Soviet Union, this time it’s not. Nevertheless, there are dozens of curious people at the same branch on Pushkin Square in Moscow who want to try the new snack bar. They had to wait three months before they could sink their teeth into a hamburger again.
After all, in mid-March, the American hamburger giant McDonald’s closed the doors of its 850 restaurants (of which 130 franchised) across Russia, because of the ‘military operation’ of the Russian army in Ukraine. McDonald’s withdrew from Russia for good in mid-May. But soon there was a Russian catering entrepreneur who saw potential in taking over the branches.