McDonald's coming to Vietnam

also clean toilets, at least that was the case for me in china.

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<hr> agree - the locals may well not take to it, I can't get my kids to eat maccas unless there is absolutely no other option at all! <hr></blockquote>

For once I disagree with you. Look how well the 80 (eighty) McDees are doing in Beijing. And KFC seems to be pretty popular here in Vietnam, as are the Lotterias (spelling?).

You can laugh and make all the cracks about Mcdonalds that you want but the place will be packed with people from opening until closing everyday.It happens at the other Asian McDs so it will happen in HCM also.The owner has a license to print money

Hanno, you may well be right, - maybe they will take to it. Although I must say, the food in Beijing does not begin to compare to Vietnamese food! imho :)

The locals with money will go. It won't be different from Thailand, China or Malaysia, all countries with food nobody'd give up for McD...supposedly ;)

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<hr>the food in Beijing does not begin to compare to Vietnamese food! <hr></blockquote>

You went to the wrong restaurants:-))

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<hr>The owner has a license to print money <hr></blockquote>

That is why a friedn and I wanted to apply to open one in Ha Noi 12 years ago. License fee alone was USD 1 Million, not the sort of lose change I have lying around.

At last, there's something for bia hoi lovers: Mc Chicken

>>You can laugh and make all the cracks about Mcdonalds that you want but the place will be packed with people from opening until closing everyday.It happens at the other Asian McDs so it will happen in HCM also.The owner has a license to print money<<

Of course, it is no question that opening a number of McDonald's in Saigon will make money, given how densely populated and how McDonald's itself is a novelty in the region, probability dictates they are made to have customers. But to say of it anymore than that is too early. I have been to KFCs in Saigon quite many a time (mostly to avoid the heat) at lunch hours and every time I saw the place being filled to around 80% capacity, that's a more moderate figure than the optimistic would have wanted. To the average VNese standards, KFC restaurants are at the upper crust of the society, uninteresting and expensive, they would ruin their welcome if they were run on a larger scale, I think.

Lotteria, which is already there, is worse. Much worse.

Lotteria, which is already there, is worse. Much worse.