Linda Thompkins encourages visitors to Barbados — “the only place in the world where MacDonald's failed” — to eat local. [Editor's note: McDonald's also eventually pulled out of Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica, though they operated considerably longer in those countries than in Barbados, where they apparently lasted only six months!].
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Bolivia would want to be included as well, I think…
I mentioned only the Caribbean franchises as the post referred to Barbados, but you’re absolutely right, TJE – McDonald’s pulled out of Bolivia as well.