McDonald's to open at the Louvre
McDonald's to open at the Louvre
McDonald's is to open at the Louvre. The chain will be opening a fast food restaurant and a McCafe at the Paris museum before the year is out.
From November, holidaymakers renting
Paris apartments will be able to buy a Big Mac in the Carrousel du Louvre, the underground approach to France's "Mecca of high art". The move marks McDonald's 30th anniversary in
France, explains The Daily Telegraph.
A McCafe is also scheduled to open in the passage before the end of the year. The Louvre is entitled to protest against businesses opening in the shopping area, where commercial activities should be restricted to those of a cultural or touristic nature. However, the gallery told the paper that the new eateries are "in line with the museum's image".
A statement from the museum read: "The Louvre welcomes the fact that the entirety of visitors and customers, French or foreign, can enjoy such a rich and varied restaurant offer, whether in the museum area or the gallery." A new food court is being constructed, where the American McDonald's restaurant and cafe will sit alongside other world cuisines and coffee shops.
However, not everybody is convinced. "This is the last straw," said one art historian working at the Louvre. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odours in the context of a museum." The head of the Art Tribune website, Didier Rykner, thought this was the beginning of a downwards spiral: "Today McDonald's, tomorrow low-cost clothes shops," he exclaimed.
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