McDonald’s calls it quits in Latin American countries

Bolivia is among the McDonald’s-free Latin American nations, after the fast-food chain struggled to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’ 

But it is only one of  a total of seven countries in which they closed restaurants because of declining profit margins.

  McDonald’s served its last hamburgers in certain  Latin American countries  after announcing a global restructuring plan in which it would close its doors in seven other countries with poor profit margins.

 The failure of McDonald’s in Bolivia had such a deep impact that a documentary titled “Por que quebro McDonald’s en Bolivia” or “Why did McDonald’s Bolivia go Bankrupt,” trying to explain why did Bolivians never crossed-over from their empanadas to Big Macs.

The documentary includes interviews with cooks, sociologists, nutritionists and educators who all seem to agree, Bolivians are not against hamburgers per sé, just against ‘fast food,’ a concept widely unaccepted in the Bolivian community.

 The story has also attracted world-wide attention toward fast foods in Latin America.  El Polvorin blog noted:  “Fast-food represents the complete opposite of what Bolivians consider a meal should be. To be a good meal, food has to have be prepared with love, dedication, certain hygiene standards and proper cook time.”

 From Hispanically Speaking News and other sources