Certain McDonald’s restaurants
will reopen in Kyiv from tomorrow, the company’s head of corporate
communications in Ukraine confirmed, as the latest symbol of Ukraine’s success
in fending off the Russian invasion.
Three restaurants in the
Ukrainian capital won’t open for delivery until September 20, followed a week
later by a number of other locations in Kyiv and across the country further
west.
Restaurants will then resume
normal operations in October, according to communications chief Alesya
Mudzhyri, with evacuation plans in case air-raid sirens are triggered by an
incoming threat.
Meanwhile, former Mcdonald’s
restaurants in Russia have been closed and rebranded after the US fast food
giant became one of the thousands of Western companies that withdrew from the
country during the war in Ukraine.
Mudzhyri announced that the
restaurants on Bazhana Avenue, Gagarin Avenue and Hryshka Street would be the
first McDonald’s to reopen in the capital from September 20, with seven more to
follow shortly.
“The newly opened restaurants
will operate to the same high standards of food quality, cleanliness and speed
of service as before,” the comms chief announced in a social media post.
Mudzhyri added that
restaurants will remain open from 9am to 9pm and will close “when air-raid
sirens are activated to enable workers and customers to evacuate to the nearest
shelter” – but not before the team “quickly issues all orders already paid
for.”
McDonald’s will offer its
McDelivery service in partnership with Spanish quick-commerce company Glovo
until it is ready to reopen all stores full-time.
