McDonald's has scrapped its plan to sell Big Macs for five cents each in Moscow over fears that droves of diners could spread the deadly coronavirus. A man shovels the snow outside a McDonald's restaurant in Pushkin Square, the first to have opened in the Soviet UnionA Big Mac is served up at a Moscow McDonald's. McDonald's opened its first restaurant in then-Soviet Russia on January 31, 1990 in a move hailed as symbolic of a thaw between the Soviet Union and the West. Huge crowds queued for hours outside the restaurant in central Moscow to try their first ever Big Mac. China accounts for nine percent of all McDonald's restaurants but only about four to five percent of its sales and three percent of its income, he said.

Source: Daily Mail January 30, 2020 13:35 UTC