Is this the End of McDonalds in Bulgaria?
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2024
- It's the end of an era. After decades of serving up delicious burgers, shakes, and fries in Bulgaria, the final McDonald's restaurant has closed its doors.
We take a look at how this iconic fast-food chain has been part of Bulgarian life for so many years in cities like Varna, Burgas, Plovdiv, and Sofia. We talk to some of the locals who will miss their beloved McDonald's, as well as the employees who served us all these years.
We look back at the burgers and shakes that made McDonald's so popular, and how it changed the fast-food landscape in Bulgaria.
It's time to say goodbye to McDonald's in Bulgaria. Join us for a look back at this unique part of Bulgarian history. #Bulgaria #Varna #Burgas #Plovdiv #Sofia
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Let’s hope so
Fingers Crossed 🤞
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What looks promising is this new wave of home made food canteens opening all over(I’m referring to my home town Plovdiv)home food and reasonably priced. The only bad is they usually close by 4-5 pm
Most of those Yambol have all closed. Out of four I’m sure is only one open. But no McD in the city centre only on the highway are two.
McDonald's was hype in the early 2000s, because like you said it was just coming over from the west in freshly liberated Bulgaria. and people, chill, he is talking about only that one in the center. theres still mcdrive and in the malls. its not like there isnt a mcds in Varna. 😂 i dont think the issue is with people not liking it, its just unreasonably expensive for what you get in quantity and quality. there are way better alternatives in hamburgers and doners locally.
Early 2000s? McDonald's opened in 1994... Kids grew up with it's happy meals during the 90s, McDonald's was already dying during the early 2000s.
You are probably just a kid and weren't born during the 90s.
@@dwartbg1 im 92 bro hahah, i just lived in a small town.
@@dwartbg1 сигурен съм че децата в големите градове са им купували. аз чак след 2000 за пръв път ядох в софия. хепи мийла беше яързан с филма тогава на дисни мравките или както и да беше
@@MitkoFilipov I'm slightly older than you and yes I'm from Sofia. I grew up with McDonald's during the 90s. Yes I associate it with happy meal toys of Lion King, Hercules, Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, Flubber, Pocahontas, Mulan etc. We went to the movies to see these shows and then also collected the toys from their accompanying happy meal sets.
Yeah, it's true. It's a bit different growing up in Sofia and not, I understand.
I started working at 16 during the mid 2000s and it already felt like it was dying back then. The massive hype was during the 90s, but correct probably mostly in the bigger cities.
McDonald's is too expensive.
I never could understand why McDonalds don't sell banana milkshakes in Bulgaria. I prefer Hesburger anyway :)
for all the foreigners try the Doners and youll see why mcdonalds is closing xD
Bravo, well said....thanks for the comment
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Do not forget the Finnish Hesburger chain, who are humbly expanding in the country. They have quite reasonable prices, lets be honest.
Last time I checked, they have kinda upsurd prices too.
Of course you like that more... I can see this on the breakfast stuff that they sell in Bulgaria... Big pieces of bread filled with nothing! But, whatever is your liking and everybody their own taste!
Never tried the Hesburger. Though I do see them every where
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As quality they are the same a McDonald's, just slightly cheaper, but still terrible processed meat you feel bad an hour after eating.
I couldn't have said it better, Bulgarian/Balkan/Middle Eastern cuisines are superior to McDonalds, so it doesn't make sense to me as a local to destroy my health in McDonalds unless it's an emergency (meaning no else to go).
Shame it does see to be the case in Sofia, I was there for the first time and McDonalds was full with teenagers
I am an American who has a Bulgarian mother.
When I visited, I tried the McDonalds, it SUCKED.
Though, Bulgarian food literally made me never want to go back to America, it had no right to be that good. 😂
Wow…love that story
i appreciate that you compliment our food dear American ❤
Is it still open in Sofia? My wife talks about it like it was a "fancy" place when it opened in her college years.
Yeah, the one on Vitosha Boulevard is packed out either with kids or foreigners.
Sofia has 15 McDonald's restaurants. It opened in December 1995, but wouldn't say we considered it fancy even back then. If anything it was kind of cheap, especially during the early to mid-2000s. Your wife probably grew up poor.
@@dwartbg1 Not really poor, it was probably more of a college thing, and a big novelty at the time. This is right after it opened. After getting to the US, she realized this was not the case.
@@TheRealRaygor Well, yeah as I said. It was a novelty for sure, it was cool to go there but it wasn't considered fancy. KFC opened one year earlier and wasn't considered fancy too.
Bulgaria wasn't some African tribe before 1989. There were McDonald's bootleg restaurants during the 1980s at least in Sofia, it's not like we didn't know what a hamburger and fries were. We just didn't know how the real McDonald's ones taste like, since we knew about them only from hollywood movies. Don't think of communist Bulgaria as some backwards society where people didn't know anything. We watched Star Wars when it got released, we saw Indiana Jones you name it. We listened to disco and wore haispray and flashy tracksuits during the 1980s etc. Bulgaria is also the first communist country to produce Coca Cola, this happened during the 1960s. We were making coke and Pepsi, and 5uese brands were common everywhere. We didn't have shortage of them like they did in the USSR for example. Bulgaria was a bit more open to the world compared to other communist countries.
@@dwartbg1 Fancy was probably the wrong word to use, cool to go perhaps is a better description of the feeling.
Unfortunately McD’s is being replaced by other junk food like hesburger and donner kebabs, which is even worse!
Nope mac trash beats them all
Overpriced as hell
Tastes like dog shit.
Close all mcdonalds, Bulgarian people know what good clean healthy food IS, it isn't mcdonalds or any fast fried rubish.
Bravo....well said. thanks for the comment.
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i can say the secondmcdonaldsin bulgaria its open in 1996 in sofia orion and its the first drive try restaurant in bulgaria
🤔
No more McDonalds?🤔🤔🤔 Doesn’t sound like a bad sign to me.
Would be nice....
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I dont like artificial food, full of conservant chems... so I never even tried anything from McDonalds. Last time I was near one, was actualy in Bulgaria (Burgas airport) and the smell was awful. And I like fast food in general, but not this industrial products. Also McDonalds is terribly overpriced, what may be the reason it ends in Bulgaria after recent money inflation wave.
You can't judge and say that you don't like something if you never tried it! So all your arguments are based on nothing and no experience!
McDonald's is too expensive.
Mcdonalds in Bulgaria is not only worse in taste and quality compared to Germany or Austria for example, but it's even more expensive. Last week I got a double cheeseburger in Sofia for 4 euros and a few days later I got one in Vienna for 2.60. Now consider the local wages and the fact that you can get a Kebab for less and it starts making sense why their restaurants are empty. It's like they are increasing margins just to stay afloat because of a catastrophic business model that's been driving the company into the ground for the past decade. I don't know how they dropped the ball so hard. Mcdonalds in Bulgaria used to be always full back in the day.
Thanks crazy how things there are cheaper than here....I will look into these things for future videos. I’m Also doing a live online premier of my new video today 16:00 Bulgarian Time (EET) that I’d like to invite you to, It’s about my First experience in Sofia and a sleeper train from Varna
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I think they started using low quality meat. I remember when KFC opened in Ruse in the 90's and the chicken was pretty high quality, but the prices were insane. Same with the McDonald's in Ruse so it closed very fast as people didn't want to pay 5-6 lv for a burger when you could buy way better food for cheaper. Couple a years ago tried the one in Turnovo and oh boy, the meat was terrible- processed and like a shoe in your mouth.
Oh, before I forget...🤣😂this one in the center maybe closed, but 2 weeks ago I was in Varna and my friends and me ate in....McDonald's 😂🤣🤣😂🤣
On another note that's not popular in bulgaria at all but I'm hoping there's more vegetarian places to eat....I've read they have them en masse in india but bulgaria has the chinese mentality 'the more meat, the better'.
My wife is Bulgarian, and we are vegetarian. We've been visiting BG for more than 20 years, and we haven't had too much of a problem finding food at the restaurants.
There are a lot of meat dishes....and does seem like people really love their meat
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Sofia has a good few stores
Yes they do....Its also the most westernised city in Bulgaria
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it's way too expensive for me to eat McDonalds nowadays, I blame inflation for this... so in terms of junk food I turned to Subway for example instead... bulgarians might be against mcdonalds because they want to eat healthy food not junk food like westerners...
This could be the reasons, though a lot of the youngster are getting trapped in.
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If they closed and leave maybe because they know something we don't even suspect like war coming in this way ? they never run away without a huge reason $$$.
Wherever I walk into a McDonald's the odor immediately turns my stomach. Anything that cheap isn't good
Hahahah, well said 😉👌
Bulgarian here. One must be crazy to eat that garbage with all the fresh food we have here.
Great comment, thanks for the input 👍😉
McDonalds is out of the bulgarian taste for food. When Iv'e tried it (once only, I would never try it again) it was awful - artificial taste of everything - meal, bread, salad, potatoes, drink, even coffee is awful taste, artificial and plastic. Why should we go to McDonalds ? Why should even exist so bad food? Hope all McDonalds closes in bulgaria
bravo, thanks for adding this comment.
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Vt has one👍
They. might even have a couple of them....
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if you are wondering why its because bulgarians think thatmcdonalds food quality is bad tbh Im with them
They got it right
When Eastern Europe was communist, they all dreamed of Western stuff. Now they don't
The Irony.....but I guess this is Human. You always want what you can't have
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hessburger like tis
I’ve not tried it
@@ATasteofBulgaria hess is awful
Its okay they have hesburger
Not a fan of McD's that much...😜except the vanilla milkshake...😋
No great loss to the world🌎🌍🌏 or BG🇧🇬
My ex-Bulgarian girlfriend, (also from Varna/Bapha), said: "Yuck!" when I said: "Let's try McDonalds."🤡🍔
Got to say, the milkshakes are good. But do you know how unhealthy they are
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Bulgaria had Coca Cola even in communist times. You can find some rellic Coca Cola bottles written in Bulgarian and the logo in Cyrillic from that period.
Also, like you said we think our food is supperior to McDonalds so we just don't go there. I personally was in McDonalds only 2 times in my life and don't plan to go there again.
I’ve seen some of those bottles, and the food is definitely for superior
Oh i hate Mc Nasties.
Thanks for the input....its appreciated
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I love McDonalds, it's my favorite fast food restaurant. I am a costumer for 48 years! Also what some people say that it is artificial food is completely BS... I worked for a company in The Netherlands that checks everything from what goes in the food and everything else! This is a governmental institution... They test and control everything from all supermarkets and restaurants... For example, the hamburger in McDonald's is 100% PURE BEEF... If you don't like it and if you think it is to expensive that I can understand! But you can never compare homemade food with food from a fast food restaurant or basically and franchise chain of restaurants like Subway, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald's!
I am a big fan of McDonald's and for sure the restaurant chain will stay in Bulgaria! 100% sure...👍😂🤣
What is your weight, my "48 years McDonalds fan" friend?
@stojan stojanov ask Gareth... he is a friend of mine..🤣😂
But you are very funny! 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣such an original question! Are you born like this with half a brain or did you follow some education for that??? Cause this is a funny question!
Run fatboy run
Don’t like McDonalds at all. Its too expensive and I feel like shit after eating
Well said 👍😉🤣
Aaaand good riddance too!
YEAH 👍🤣