McDonald’s leaves Russia – level 1

30-05-2022 07:00

McDonald’s is a fast food company. It has restaurants in all world. It has 850 restaurants in Russia.

In March, McDonald’s closes its restaurants in Russia. The company thinks that it will be only for some time. But it costs $55 million every month. 62,000 people work for McDonald’s in Russia. The company decides to sell all its restaurants in Russia.

A man buys the restaurants. He already runs some restaurants in Siberia. The man will change the name of the restaurant. On Mondays, workers take down the first logo at a restaurant near Moscow. The logo is two golden arches.

Difficult words: fast food (meal which people can eat quickly, such as pizza or burgers), logo (a picture of symbol, which represents something), arch (a curved structure, which holds up a bridge or wall).

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