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McDonaldsin vaatimus: ranskalaiset pois ravintoloista olympiakisojen ajaksi

Lontoon olympialaisten virallinen sponsori, pikaruokaketju McDonalds vaatii muita olympiatoimipisteiden yhteydessä toimivia ravintoloita poistamaan ranskalaiset ruokalistoiltaan kisojen ajaksi.

Kisojen johtokunta on määrännyt ranskalaiset perunat poistettaviksi kaikista ruokapisteistä, jotka toimivat olympiakisojen toimipaikkojen yhteydessä. Määräystä perustellaan "sponsorivelvoitteilla".

Hampurilaisaterian tilaaminen ranskalaisten kanssa on siis mahdotonta, ellei ravintolan nimi satu olemaan McDonalds.

Yhden myönnytyksen kieltoon johtokunta on suostunut tekemään. Perinteisen brittiläisen fish and chips -annoksen saa tilata ranskalaisten kanssa myös McDonaldsin ulkopuolella.

Johtokunta julkaisi asiasta tiedotteen, jossa pahoiteltiin McDonaldsin vaatimuksesta syntyneitä pakotteita.

- Olkaa hyvät ja ymmärtäkää, että kyseessä ei ole ravintolahenkilökunnan päätös. Mikäli se olisi mahdollista, he tarjoilisivat ranskalaisia teille mielellään, mutta heillä ei ole lupa tehdä niin, tiedotteessa todettiin.

Lähde: Daily Mail

McDonald's force Olympics bosses to ban all other restaurants from selling chips... unless they're served with fish

Hundreds of restaurants and food retailers expected to be affected
Memo about the change said retailers don't back the decision
All British favourites must be served without chips - except for fish

Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's.

Olympic chiefs have banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations.'

The only loophole in the agreement, announced in a memo to staff, is that chips can be served with fish - safeguarding Britain's most famous dish.

But is seems the bosses have predicted an outrage about the decision, emphasising that the move was not backed by the food retailers.

The memo reads: 'Due to sponsorship obligations with McDonalds, Locog have instructed the catering team they are no longer allowed to serve chips on their own anywhere within the Olympic park.

'The only loophole to this is if it is served with fish.'

'Please understand this is not the decision of the staff serving up your meals, who given the choice would gladly give it you however they are not allowed to.

'This is being escalated through to the directors of L2012C and Locog and the IOC.

'Please do not give the staff grief; this will only lead to us removing fish and chips completely.

'Everyone has a right to work in a none abusive environment.'

Commercial partners Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Cadbury, Nature Valley and Heineken will be the only branded products sold at the games.

The 800 food outlets will serve a mixture of international dishes and great British dishes, with the organising committee boasting that food outlets would 'celebrate the heritage and diversity of British regional products and recipes.'

But the chip ban mean visitors from all over the world will be stopped from enjoying firm British favourites, including sauage and chips, gammon, egg and chips, lasgane and chips, steak and chips and chicken and chips.


Chips will only be allowed to be sold with fish, saving the British classic


Steak and chips will also have to be crossed off the menu


Visitors to the Olympic venues won't be able to tuck into British sausage and chips

Controversy already surrounded some of the sponsors of the Olympic Games, with organisers criticised for accepting deals with companies like McDonald's and Coca-Cola because they conflict with the 'Olympic ideal'.

Jenny Jones, a Green Party assembly member, said the Games have provided 'a glut of sponsored messages for high calorie food and drink that are at odds with the Olympian athletic ideal.’

Last month McDonald's revealed pictures of its biggest restaurant in the world, newly build in London's Olympic Park where the strongest, fittest and fastest athletes in the world will compete.

The vast two-storey restaurant will serve up to 1,200 customers an hour and sell £3million of fast food during the Games.

At 3,000 sq ft the building, next to the Olympic Stadium, is bigger than the current largest McDonald’s, in Moscow.

Ei taida vapaa markkinatalous toteutua missään. Lisäksi McDonalds lienee maksanut messevästi siitä ilosta, että se saa ainoana (pl. kala ja ranskalaiset) olympiakisojen toimipaikkojen yhteydessä olevissa ruokapaikoissa ranskiksia tarjota.

Pikemminkin kyseessä on olympiakomitean ahneus kun on lähtenyt tällaisia yksinoikeuksia myymään. MAcDonaldsia vaan on helppo syyttää.

Ongelman muodostaa myyntioikeuksien säännöstely.

Pikemminkin kyseessä on olympiakomitean ahneus kun on lähtenyt tällaisia yksinoikeuksia myymään. MAcDonaldsia vaan on helppo syyttää.