Yet there seem to be no shortage of facilities that cater to the elderly in the neighborhood. Civic centers dot the blocks, featuring parlors for baduk, an Asian board game, and classes in subjects from calisthenics to English. Mr. Lee, who comes to the McDonald’s from Bayside, passes several senior centers en route. One is a Korean Community Service center in Flushing, which recently changed a room in the basement into a cafe with 25-cent coffee after its president, Kwang S. Kim, got word of the McDonald’s standoff.No one has come.
“I think I have to go to McDonald’s and ask why they’re there,” Mr. Kim said.
I did read the whole article and that makes me suspicious that this is a consortium intent on driving the business out.
Quietly, methodically destroying the profitability until the franchise owner sells out.
Agreed, like one of their own homes!