Showing posts with label Pushkin Square. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pushkin Square. Show all posts
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Pushkin Square buskers 1993
One way Muscovites keep warm in mid-Winter is to dance in the street. Although it was January when I took this picture, it was unseasonably warm - about null gradusov (zero degrees) but the damp weather still chilled to the bone. What better way to stave off the chill than to dance along to a jazz quintet!
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| Me - too miserable to take part in the dancing |
Ten McDonald’s Restaurants Closed in Russia
McDonald's has 451 restaurants in Russia. Since August, Russian consumer protection officials have carried out over 200 safety inspections at various McDonald's premises throughout the country. Even the flagship McDonald's on Pushkin Square in Moscow has fallen victim to these failed inspections.
Moscow’s first McDonald’s, the first one in Russia or the Soviet Union, was the largest McDonald’s in the world when it opened on Pushkin Square, 31st January 1990. On that opening day, there was a line of customers of snaking around Pushkin Square. 30,000 customers were served during the restaurant's first day of business, a record for the opening day of a McDonald's restaurant. The queues to get in would exist for quite some time after the opening, because at the time, it was one of the few places in Moscow where you could dine informally, in comfort, relatively cheaply, and where you would be served quickly by friendly staff. Oh, and it had the best toilets in Moscow!
I went in 1993, and while there weren't any queues to get it, it was still very busy.
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| View of Pushkin Square from inside McDonald's |
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