The brand’s exit from the Central Asian nation of 20 million divided opinion on social media and among onlookers near one of the Almaty restaurants where workers were taking down the large white letters from the top of the building.“I doubt any other company will be able to compete with McDonald’s in Kazakhstan at the moment as no other fast food chain can replicate the menu that McDonald’s had for the same price.
Chains such KFC, Burger King, and Hardee’s have restaurants in Kazakhstan and Popeyes said last month it would open dozens of restaurants in the former Soviet republican partnership with local firm Centras Group. Industry insiders, however, say certificates and audits required by the U.S. brand were expensive and lengthy, and localmeat producers did not want to bother with them.
They're lucky the didn't loot & burn the whole thing down, the unhealthy junk food is still there, we could learn something...