Dominos went away from Italy in 2022 after they couldn't compete with the prices of the many (many many many) local restaurant who offered better quality products for lower prices
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Domino's in Italy?
The fucking audacity lmao
We recently went to Italy. Went to a local restaurant, three kids and us two adults. The kids wanted some specific pizza each, but they also offered a family Margherita for 14 bucks, so we ordered this together with the kids' pizza, assuming us two parents could eat that and maybe some leftovers.
That fucker was huge. I think 50 cm diameter? The family pizza alone probably would have fed all of us, the regular ones weren't small either. With prices being what they are, I'm sometimes happy if I can eat properly for 14 bucks in a restaurant. A meal for two for that price would be a good deal. Taking three kids to a restaurant for that price was a damn steal.
The next day the leftovers alone were enough for lunch and supper. The day after that we went back to the same place.
Lmao yeah the "family" size usually is for 4/6 people and is often referred as "pizza al metro" which means "pizza by meter" (as in a literal meter or 2 of pizza) and is usually bought for parties
IM SHOCKED
Wendy's can't open shops in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg because there is a guy with a snackbar with a similar name in Goes that has the right to the name since 1995 in the Benelux.
The best part is that if they asked the guy nicely heβd be all too happy to struck a deal for an early retirement, but in typical American fashion they immediately showed up with lawyers and sued.
He made provisions since to ensure the US Wendyβs will never get that name, including opening more locations so that theyβre now a βfast food chainβ as well.
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We have dunkin' donuts in the Netherlands.
Yeah was about to say the same. Also, do we really have pizza hut here? Never seen one.
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Another unsourced map with probably heaps of inaccuracies. Everyone will becalling out errors in this map. I know at least one: Netherlands has Dunkin' Donuts.
Can we have a rule against unsourced informational maps? They're always wrong
You're right, we probably need to be more vigilant against map misinfo in the future. This one seems harmless but of course there are more serious maps posted here too.
Fwiw, this map has a (very vague) source information:
And from what I could see, it seemed at least partly accurateβe.g. Spain has Taco Bell, but Germany does not. The major issue is that there is no year indicated here, so all information is probably pre-2022.
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I really wouldn't mind, if they all disappeared.
Many of us who live in the U.S. feel the same way.
Not a lot of fake Mexican food fans in Europe I guess lol
They don't have many real Mexican food restaurants either
i'm not gonna vouch for authenticity but mexican and texmex is pretty standard fare in pretty much any medium sized town (in Germany)
In Norway, taco is consumed every single Friday by pretty much everyone. We're crazy about it. I eat it all the time.
It's almost impossible to find good Mexican food though. Rumour has it a good shop has popped up in Oslo recently.
Our "taco" is a bastardization of tex-mex, which arrived in Norway in the 1980s and has lived a life of its own since. It is delicious, but calling it Mexican would be more than generous.
oh i know about the scandinavification of texmex.
my fave is my partner's "tacopaj". Absurd and absurdly delicious.
Holy shit - it seems like the Swedes are getting the upper hand! I have never heard of this monstrosity before. I am in awe.
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Depending on your definition of "Mexican" food.
Taco Bell is definitely not real Mexican food! That's why I specified "fake" lol
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Sweden does fake mexican well enough by itself. In fact, itβd be hard to be any faker.
Not really many mexican immigrants here so mexican food isn't that big either. mexican food here is something you do at home for weekdays and it is often wheat tortillas with ground beef spiced with a ready made spice packet, salsa from a jar, perhaps also fake quacamole from a jar, cheese, french cream or often a local similar lower fat diary product i don't know the name of in english, onion tomato and lettuce, sometimes also ketchup. Living in finland in my city there are taco bells(never tried and never will) and like 1 decent mexican restaurant(not authentic mexican but still actually good)
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I doubt the accuracy of this map. I have never seen a dominos in Sweden and I've seen a few dunkin donuts so the map is, at least not fully accurate. Also didn't McDonald's shut down in Russia?
Could you please post a source for this map?
I don't speak Swedish, but there seem to be plenty of Dominos in Sweden.
https://www.dominos.se/butiker
Edit: and no Dunkins since 2018
EditEdit: late to the party, [email protected] wrote the same a few hours ago.
McDonalds in Russia, like most other companies, βshut downβ in name only. All the same locations operate and sell the same burgers and fries, only the branding changed.
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This map is incorrect. Denmark has one last Pizza Hut in Roskilde and there's literally a Dunkin Donuts in Cooenhagen Central
You have to be careful when you have a case of the dunks it spreads
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Map is either pre 2017 or wrong, Dunking opened at least 1 location in Switzerland around 2018.
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I was in Nederlands a week ago and saw a Dunkin' there. So this is wrong :O
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A little big wrong. Finland has had KFC for 2-3 years now.
I feel like a map of actual locations would be more informative than coloring the entire country because they may have 1 franchise location...
Starbucks map is a joke for Sweden in any case. We only have two, both in central Stockholm.
Electoral college maps, now coming to Europe!
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Is this what the people on 9g*g are alluding to when they keep telling me that European culture is being destroyed by foreign invaders?
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There are Dunkin' donuts in Switzerland. Don't know when this map was made
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I've lived in Norway for basically my entire life, and I've never seen a pizza hut here...
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There's no Taco Bell in Sweden? What is the point of living there then?
is this a joke? we have Taco Bell in Finland and it's by far the worst fast food there is.
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Sweden here. We have Starbucks but it is far far from popular, I think the main demographic is young women, Swedes don't typically go for sweet/weak coffee like what they serve.
Dunkin' has existed but I think it absolutely failed.
Pizza hut exists, but not in many locations, however they have been around a long time and I think they are moderately successful.
Burger King snd McDonalds thrive and have many locations. McDonalds struggle in the northern region where people swear by Max burgers instead.
Subway exist with moderate amounts of locations, have been for a long time. Probably doing okay.
Kfc is rare, but exists in the larger cities.
Dominos exists but I don't know who is buying, in my opinion its sub par pizza at a high price point with poor service and long delivery times.
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As a Brit, I can't say I'm surprised that Spain and ourselves are the only ones who every single one of these chains in our countries.
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This image needs some correction for Norway. Only SubWay, MCD and BK are prevalent. Dominos have mainly places on Oslo, and a the rest are mainly in the larger cities. Starbucks 10. Most in downtown Oslo. Think Pizza Hut pulled out of Norway years ago
It should have been a color gradient per capita. Starbucks has a very poor holding in Portugal because Portuguese people like good espressos, not dirty water.
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I hate this so much. Even if I have the time and money to escape this dump it's spread so far I'd have to go live in North Korea to actually escape it, entirely defeating the purpose.
Even though they have spread across Europe, I think most countries still have dramatically less of these chain restaurants than in the US
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