P.M. BRIEFING : Hungary Gets 2nd McDonald’s
Hungary’s second McDonald’s fast food restaurant opened today in an airy railroad station which was constructed by the company that built the Eiffel Tower.
“Without exaggeration I can say it is the most beautiful McDonald’s in Europe,” said Endre Fazekas, managing director of the U.S.-Hungarian joint venture responsible for Big Macs in Hungary.
Hungary’s first McDonald’s restaurant, the first in any Warsaw Pact country, was opened in central Budapest two years ago.
Thronged from morning to night, it served 2.5 million customers to become the second-busiest of the 11,000 McDonald’s eateries worldwide.
Budapest’s Western Railway Station, where the new 250-seat McDonald’s has been installed in the former railway restaurant, was erected in 1874-77 by the Paris firm of Gustave Eiffel and is listed as a historic monument.
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