McDonald’s scared away by Armenian fastfood
16.06.2016,
15:50
McDonald's does not plan to open a restaurant in Armenia, Jonathan Coles, a spokesman for McDonald's restaurants in Europe, told Novosti Armenia.
YEREVAN, June 16. /ARKA/. McDonald's does not plan to open a restaurant in Armenia, Jonathan Coles, a spokesman for McDonald's restaurants in Europe, told Novosti Armenia.
Of late Armenian mass media were quoting a Georgian businessman Temur Chkonia as saying that he was opening the first of the chain’s restaurants in Armenia.
“I got agreement from McDonald’s main office to open a fast food branch in Armenia. The next are negotiations with the Armenian government. I am 100% sure that we will open a McDonald’s there. It is only a matter of time,” he said to an Armenian news agency.
Chkonia specified that the plan was to build eight restaurants in Armenia and employ about 1,000 people.
"In considering the question whether to open or not a McDonald's in a country, we study and analyze the various economic and business factors. At present we have no plans to open a McDonald's in Armenia," Coles told Novosti Armenia in an e-mailed response to a request to comment on Chkonia’s statement.
So, one can only guess what makes Chkonia come out with such statements. According to open sources of information, Chkonia is head of Coca-Cola Bottlers Georgia and the owner of Castel-Georgia brewery.
Novosti Armenia asked also a dietitian from the Armenian Institute of Health and Resort Vardanush Petrosyan whether Armenians need another fast food?
"No fast food is useful, especially such as McDonald's," she said categorically. She emphasized that McDonald's conducts an aggressive advertising campaign positioning its fast food as healthy, however, it is not a secret that the food at McDonald’s restaurants contains large amounts of salt and trans fats, which makes it simply unacceptable and even dangerous to the human body.
"It is much more preferable that Armenians remember their traditional dishes and eat home-made food,' she said.-0-
Of late Armenian mass media were quoting a Georgian businessman Temur Chkonia as saying that he was opening the first of the chain’s restaurants in Armenia.
“I got agreement from McDonald’s main office to open a fast food branch in Armenia. The next are negotiations with the Armenian government. I am 100% sure that we will open a McDonald’s there. It is only a matter of time,” he said to an Armenian news agency.
Chkonia specified that the plan was to build eight restaurants in Armenia and employ about 1,000 people.
"In considering the question whether to open or not a McDonald's in a country, we study and analyze the various economic and business factors. At present we have no plans to open a McDonald's in Armenia," Coles told Novosti Armenia in an e-mailed response to a request to comment on Chkonia’s statement.
So, one can only guess what makes Chkonia come out with such statements. According to open sources of information, Chkonia is head of Coca-Cola Bottlers Georgia and the owner of Castel-Georgia brewery.
Novosti Armenia asked also a dietitian from the Armenian Institute of Health and Resort Vardanush Petrosyan whether Armenians need another fast food?
"No fast food is useful, especially such as McDonald's," she said categorically. She emphasized that McDonald's conducts an aggressive advertising campaign positioning its fast food as healthy, however, it is not a secret that the food at McDonald’s restaurants contains large amounts of salt and trans fats, which makes it simply unacceptable and even dangerous to the human body.
"It is much more preferable that Armenians remember their traditional dishes and eat home-made food,' she said.-0-
