Could it be the locals are tired of French cusine?
"Aw, gee whiz, Mama -- Huitres Mornay and Navarin d'agneau aux legumes d'hiver with Châteauneuf-du-Pape again?"
“I never understood why McDonald’s is in Paris.”
My lovely little friend Lily is a Parisian, and loves the free wifi, and the coffee, and the best fries on earth.
Could it be the locals are tired of French cuisine?
Youth culture + convenience + tourists.
You can count on a lot of the patrons not being native Parisians.
Though Bolivia grows 800 varieties of potato, the McDonald’s Corporation could not find the Russet potatoes that the company prefers. So they are importing their French fries from Canada while they determine how to cultivate that particular variety in Bolivia.
That could be part of the problem. Better to have done whatever Bolivians do with those 800 varieties of potato, than to try to force French fries down their throats.