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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Prices of MCD burgers in Eastern Europe are usually even higher than in US. And average wages of people are maybe 3 times lower than in US.
MCD is not a cheap eat there, if you can eat daily, you are considered well off.
And there is no culture of eating there daily, maybe once in a while.
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That's what I'm talking about - from the franchise owner's perspective, you pay your burger flipper $ 2.50 per hour yet you sell more pricey sandwiches at about $4 - $5 a piece or a menu for $ 7.
So you get an idea about the profit margins, it's no surprise many prime locations in the city centers are rented by McDonald's franchise owners.
Now the paradox is that this is pretty much an equivalent of price that you would pay in a real restaurant or bistro for real food (that's really cheap), yet that obviously doesn't prevent locals from spending money on overpriced junk food.