"McDonald's restaurants to open at the Louvre" - noooooooo...

[demoleft]

Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception – its haute cuisine and fine art – are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafé in the Louvre museum next month.

America's fast food temple is celebrating its 30th anniversary in France with a coup -the opening of its 1,142nd Gallic outlet a few yards from the entrance to the country's Mecca of high art and the world's most visited museum.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france...


even the expression, "restaurant" does not fit the brand. and the smell, the so unique smell of museums - to enjoy art with a cheesburger smell invading into yur nostrils.

i'm sure in a couple of weeks the employees there will have ketch-up stains on their ties and shirts

[Don Caballero]

1. Awful

This is why we are the most hated people worldwide. I wounldn't be too worried though, French farmers usually burn down Western fast food eateries.

[Dorian Gray]

20. It's not like the US government is holding a gun to the

Board at the Louvre and is making them open a McD's there.

It is bizarre, though.

[leftynyc]

32. Nonsense

Is the US government forcing France to open a fast food joint by the Louvre? And cheering arson is in unbelievably bad taste. If the French don't want McDonalds, tell their citizens to stop eating the crap. And for Heavens sake, there are much better reasons for the rest of the world to have problems with the US than the fact that their own citizens like to eat crap.

[Don Caballero]

37. Certainly not advocating arson

It just seems to me every few years farmers in France protest and vandalize western restaurants. Not saying it is right, just a matter of fact.

[leftynyc]

46. Perhaps you can explain

this article from Reuters which puts your whole premise on its heels:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE594...

[mamaleah]

56. Ummm, were they forced to put a McD's in?

Do you have some information on that or are you just making shit up?

[marmar]

2. Sick......Mickey Dee's will be quite the blight on the beautiful Louvre-Rivoli area.....

I remember being horrified by the McDonalds at the Piazza Navona in Rome.

[lunatica]

3. OOO-la-la The French will just love it too!

[Freddie Stubbs]

26. France is McDonald's 2nd biggest market:

http://www.slate.com/id/2221246/pagenum/all/#p2

[Barack_America]

4. They should move the Mona Lisa into the McCafe'.

One stop shopping for American tourists.

[demoleft]

6. haha ;) n/t

[KansDem]

12. You mean the "McMona Lisa," don't you?

[demoleft]

13. damn! here's the next burger creation of the house - i'm sure! ;) n/t

[supernova]

5. What American McD's flunkie thought this up?

They need a rap on the knuckles and to be sent home to the middle of nowhere.

[Freddie Stubbs]

25. McDonald's French division is run by a frenchman:

http://www.slate.com/id/2221246/pagenum/all/#p2

[Odin2005]

7. NOOOO!!!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

8. I'm surprised the French allowed it in that particular location

Maybe they hope to corral the obese Amercian tourists into that area and make more room for the people who eat real food elsewhere.

When I was in Paris we were in a little cafe and there really were 2 American couples seated together who were loudly demnading iced tea and ketchup and making a fuss when the items were not forthcoming. It was very embarassing to be in the same room with them.

[LeftinOH]

9. Article is misleadingly titled; the McD's is located 'close to an underground approach

to the Louvre'.. that is, it's in a food court near an entrance, not inside the museum.

[demoleft]

11. you're right and the article explains it. but you know, the whole area there is sacred! n/t

[KittyWampus]

30. Of COURSE the underground approach to the Louvre's sacred. Isn't it part of some plot in a Dan Brown

novel?

[poverlay]

15. I'm not sure what's the big deal. There's a whole host of low quality "food-court" types in there.

McD's is just one we're familiar with. Though, I wouldn't mind not seeing that lame, primary color, plastic logo all over down there!

[redqueen]

23. So there's already a food court, they're just adding a McD's. A truly fascinating story.

Does anyone read? Do they comprehend what they read?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

28. No, they just see "McDonald's" and "France" and go RAAAAAAAARGGGHHH

I wonder if any of these people have actually been to Paris. McDonald's is all over the place, as well as tons of other fast food joints, including the nasty French/German burger chain whose name escapes me at the moment.

[poverlay]

43. News Just In: "Hot Dogs & More chain has announced that they will be selling hot dogs to any who

might want them at their new kiosk inside Wienershnitzel..."

Fans of the 'Shnitzel have promised mass protests (followed by a weenie roast. ... Which I imagine will be aired exhaustively on Comedy Central with Sen. Kyl as the guest of honor.. Sorry for the digression..)

No, to answer your question:
no they don't.

TIME -waaaster

as is this reply, but I'm in a bit of a mood with some of these people

[Botany]

10. Wonderful Restaurants close to the Louvre

I still remember the chocolate mousse.

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It used to kill me to see young French people in McDonalds, KFC, Burger KIng, and so on .......
when for just about the same price you could get fresh bread, cheese, and fruit at a market
all over France.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. McDonalds wouldn't invest in such a location if it wasn't certain they would be

patronized by native French as well as expatriot Americans.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Ugh!

[Mudoria]

17. Probably be among the busiest food places there when it opens

Good for Macadee's..

[izquierdista]

18. Maybe they heard it wrong

It was "McDonald's restaurant to open in the loo"

(which is an appropriate place for one)

[lunatica]

22. That's the one in London, close to Buckingham Palace

[Zywiec]

19. There's a Burger King and McDonald's on the Champs-Elisée

within spiting distance of the Arc de Triomphe.

As a previous poster noted, they aren't just for American tourists. I've been throughout Eastern Europe where no Americans typically travel and the Mickey D's are full of natives.

[Mollis]

40. And a Quick, right?

Not American...but still fast food.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

58. Thank you.

I was trying to remember the name of that place earlier today and kept drawing a blank.

[Orsino]

21. I can't wait for Dan Brown's next book!

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon embarks on a quest through the freezers of McDonald's at every major landmark, assisted by the beautiful cashier who knows that something is very wrong in corporate America.

Watch for Arches Of Gold, on shelves next fall.

[datasuspect]

24. uSA!!!!111 1#, ,, IN YOU"RE FACE!!!!!!!!1111

[TexasObserver]

27. I still can't believe people eat that shit.

The sausage biscuit is the only thing McDonald's makes that isn't disgusting.

[petronius]

29. That one's good - in a guaranteed-heartburn kind of way

For me, the egg mcmuffin is my typical treat at the start of a long roadtrip. I also think they have better coffee than other fast food places...

[ddeclue]

31. Mona Lisa posters to be sold by Walmart owned museum gift shop?

C'est la fin du monde! Mon dieu!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

33. Sacrebleu!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocod...

[Critters2]

34. I still find that less disturbing than the McDonald's in the basement of the hospital

that houses the Iowa Heart Center. I guess they're keeping themselves employed.

[proteus_lives]

35. What's the big deal?

Europeans like McDs. Everytime I've been to Europe and seen a Mcd's it was always full.

Somehow I doubt the artworks will burst into flames once they start selling french fries.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

38. Isn't it usually full with American tourists?

[proteus_lives]

47. Not the ones I went into.

All Spanish and French.

[cherokeeprogressive]

36. Of course the French didn't have anything to do with it.

They don't have their own minds, or do they? Naw, if they have a single McDonald's in France it's because it was pushed on them. Right?

[Stevenmarc]

39. I'll have mine with extra Foie Gras, s'il vous plait

[DavidDvorkin]

41. Our French relatives and their friends love McDonalds

Good prices, good service. That's what they tell us.

[NYC Democrat]

44. well the prices ARE good it just the food isn't to great.

[DavidDvorkin]

53. They also praised the service repeatedly

The French don't like rude restaurant staff, either.

[PVnRT]

42. So, McD's is moving into a food court where there are similar outfits

What's the problem again?

[Dirtyhairy]

45. OMG! I love McDonald's.

[slackmaster]

48. I know a woman who didn't like the Louvre because it was too hard for her to get to a bathroom

Maybe McD's will have a more convenient one.

[Libertas1776]

49. When I was in Paris

not too long ago, I remember passing plenty of McDonald's with most of them packed, and some with lines sticking out of them. And this wasn't on the Champs Elysees or anything.

Plus, I didn't hear a lick of English being spoke. It surprised the hell out of us. Hopefully the novelty or whatever you want to call it will wear off for Parisians.

[BlooInBloo]

50. Wow - I didn't think the French were psychologically so constituted as to allow that.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

57. What? McDonald's?

[berni_mccoy]

51. Bahda da da da daaaaa I'm Louvreing it!

Sorry, had to be done.

[BlooInBloo]

54. (facepalm)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

52. Do you want frieze with that?

oui, and a large Fresco.

[busybl]

55. the end of civilization