Sunday, March 20, is the 30th anniversary of the opening of the first branch of the fast-food chain McDonald’s in the then Czechoslovakia.
An estimated 11,000 people turned up for the opening of the company’s first outlet on Prague’s Vodičkova street on 20 March 1992, iDnes.cz wrote.
In 1993, a Big Mac cost CZK 50, while the average salary was less than 6,000 crowns. But even the high cost did not deter customers from coming.
In its first year, the company opened three restaurants in the Czech Republic, which attracted over three million customers.
The first restaurant outside the capital opened a year later in the eastern city of Ostrava. And there was even a famous photograph of the former general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Miloš Jakeš, sitting down for a McDonald’s meal a few years later.
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