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- <title>
- Mar. 02, 1992: Business Notes:Feuds
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 02, 1992 The Angry Voter
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 43
- Business Notes
- FEUDS
- What's The Boeuf?
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- <p> When French master chef Paul Bocuse discovered his picture on
- a poster advertising McDonald's, he was not amused. It's not that
- France's best-known chef is completely intolerant of fast food.
- But he does object to an ad showing a colleague dreaming of a
- Big Mac while Bocuse scrutinizes chickens from the renowned
- Bresse region of France. So he's demanding $2.7 million in
- damages from the Golden Arches.
- </p>
- <p> Although the ads were seen only on McDonald's walls in the
- Netherlands, Bocuse remains unrelenting. "I have licensed my
- face and my name in all the countries of the world," he says.
- "This confusion between fine products, between the art that we
- practice and the sandwichmaking they do cannot be tolerated."
- McDonald's says it is willing to negotiate a settlement with
- Bocuse, who says he will donate whatever award he gets to his
- Ecole des Arts Culinaires d'Ecully, where the new generation of
- topflight French chefs is trained.
- </p>
- <p> "There is nothing that tickles me more than to think that
- McDonald's is going to help train the young chefs practicing the
- art of cooking at my school," he says. "If McDonald's exists and
- functions, it's because it answers a demand that certainly
- exists," explains Bocuse. "But there is a world of difference
- between the art of cooking and what McDonald's does." Mais oui!
- </p>
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