カザフの旧マクドナルド、ロゴなしで営業再開

【アスタナＡＦＰ＝時事】中央アジアのカザフスタンで２５日、原材料の供給不足で同国から撤退した米ファストフードチェーン大手マクドナルドの旧店舗が、同チェーンのロゴなしで営業を再開した。（写真はカザフスタンのアルマトイで営業を再開した旧マクドナルドの店舗）
　カザフでマクドナルドのフランチャイズ店を運営していた「フード・ソリューションズＫＺ」は、首都アスタナで３店舗の営業を再開したと報告。新名称とメニューは近日中に発表するとした。
　これらの店舗にマクドナルドのロゴはなく、代わりにカザフ語で「営業中」を意味する言葉の頭文字「Ｍ」が目立つように黄色で表示されている。商品名も若干変更されていた。
　２３日には最大都市アルマトイでも、一部の旧店舗が再開された。
　マクドナルドは２０１６年にカザフに進出。フード・ソリューションズＫＺが、６都市で２４店舗を運営していた。
　同社は今月、原材料の供給不足を理由にマクドナルドの撤退を発表した。後に農業省は、マクドナルドがロシアから撤退したため同国産の肉などの供給に問題が生じたと説明していた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/01/26-13:31）

Several restaurants that used to work under the McDonald's brand in Kazakhstan reopened on Wednesday without the chain's logo, weeks after the fast-food giant exited the country over supply problems.
Food Solutions KZ, the company that used to operate the local McDonald's franchise, said three restaurants were resuming operations in the capital Astana and information aboud their new name and menu would come soon.
The McDonald's logo no longer appeared on the reopened restaurants, with only a yellow capital M in the words My Otkryty (We Are Open).
The names of items on the menu have also been slightly altered.
On Monday, some of the former McDonald's restaurants also reopened in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city and economic hub.
McDonald's opened its first restaurant in the vast Central Asian country in 2016.
It operated 24 restaurants across six cities in Kazakhstan, with the local franchise run by Kairat Boranbayev, a relative of Kazakhstan's first president Nursultan Nazarbayev
Boranbayev, Kazakhstan's 14th richest person in 2021 according to Forbes, was in March accused of embezzlement.
In early January, the local operator said McDonald's would close its doors in Kazakhstan due to supply restrictions.
The Kazakh agriculture ministry later said that there were issues with the supply of Russian-produced meats and other products due to McDonald's leaving Russia.
Like many Western brand giants, McDonald's left neighbouring Russia last year after the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
In Russia, McDonald's was bought by a Russian businessman and renamed Delicious. Full Stop (Vkusno i Tochka in Russian).