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McDonald’s owed its early success to zealous pickiness. Other restaurant chains in the 1960s had similar rules for food preparation and cleanliness. But none enforced them as rigorously, according to “McDonald’s: Behind the Arches”, a history of the company by John Love.
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This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Currency traveller”
Finance & economics August 10th 2024
- The stockmarket rout may not be over
- A global recession is not in prospect
- The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger
- How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
- Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain
- Africa’s two most populous economies brave tough reforms
- Should central bankers argue in public?
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