In recent times, the expansion of fast food businesses has taken an upward trend at an alarming rate, with enormous potential to grow even further than it already has. There are now more than 30,000 McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, serving around 69 million people PER DAY.

This may seem like an incredible fact, as McDonald’s undoubtedly is serving low cost food to people all over, however, a large problem still arises. McDonalds, along with every other fast food restaurant expanding out of the U.S. of A. is eroding, rather demolishing, local cultures and traditions across the globe! This Americanization of the world needs to be put to a halt before the only culture we have left in the world is that of McDonalds itself.

One example of this globalization is in Baghdad, new McDonald’s restaurants are being built on a daily basis and this is posing serious problems for consumers. Many of the consumers are U.S. Military personnel, which poses some very serious threats for the restaurant itself. When a group of soldiers from the U.S. Military go in for a bite to eat, the McDonald’s, and the citizens working in it, instantly become a military target. Also, the armored trucks and helicopters that with bring in the food to the restaurants are constantly tasked with obscurities like bombings and bridges falling apart.

Though these high level problems are very real, fast food businesses still expand throughout the Middle East in attempts to expand the empire of fast food chains across the globe.

Max Kaplan

Bath