It’s far too easy to point at the United States’ globe-spanning businesses and make some snide comment about cultural hegemony and how every McDonalds is, like, just an outpost of the American Empire, man.
And now it officially is. In Austria, at least.
Which… which makes this their ambassador, we guess?
In the European nation McDonalds are now empowered to act as mini-embassies for US travellers in need, including a 24 hour hotline to the US embassy in Vienna.
Why Austria? It’s the brainchild of their ambassador Trevor Traina, because presumably he has a lot of time on his hands to work on these sort of disruptive innovations.
But we’re just delighted that someone has finally catered a service for those people who discover their passport’s been stolen but also really want a McFlurry.