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- BUSINESS, Page 83Business NotesFAST FOODMac in The U.S.S.R.?
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- They didn't make Phi Beta Kappa, but five Soviet managers
- got a degree in hamburgerology last week. After six months of
- management training in the art of flipping burgers and slinging
- fries, the Soviet businessmen graduated from McDonald's
- Hamburger University in suburban Chicago. Their training is a
- prelude to a planned Big Mac Attack on Moscow sometime next
- year, when McDonald's hopes to open its first Soviet restaurant,
- in Pushkin Square.
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- The restaurant would be the world's largest McDonald's
- outlet, with 900 seats. But the Moscow Mac's development has
- been a long slog, in part because of logistic and bureaucratic
- hassles. McDonald's may prove to be a hard sell to Muscovites,
- most of whom have never heard of a hamburger or couldn't afford
- one. Even so, last week's graduates were bullish. Says Khamzat
- Khazbulatov, 33: "We will bring back all the skills that result
- in excellent profits and sales."
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