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It all depends in what type of big though. Microsoft is big because of its influence but the company itself only employs 18,000 workers where you have like the Chinese energy companies who don't have as much international notoriety but are size wise huge employing 100,000s of employees. Some of them have to be big because they're international businesses like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Samsung, heck even fast food like McDonald's through licensing and franchising.
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Mixed feelings. Very interesting and eye opening. I remember when an "Orange Julius" opened on St Thomas USVI. A friend of my dad's in the restaurant business and I went in when Orange Julieus first opened. He told me the place would never make it if the menu didn't change. He talked to the franchise owners . They had to broaden the menu to get locals to come in. A family of tourists from "the States", as we called people from the continental US , came in one day. They were not impressed with the local modifications to the menu. The dad said, "Damn I've never seen an Orange Julius like this". What do you expect 1,000 miles or so from home? I still wonder about that. I make it a point to avoid chain restaurants. I like to try local cuisine.
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It's like that for Mc Donalds as well although some of it wasn't bad I missed being Europe McDonald's sold beer that's was cool
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Exactly why we avoid chains period. If we wanted the exact same menus as we could get back home why not stay there and avoid the cost of traveling.
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Interesting that most of the companies discussed are high tech or food where standardization is really a necessity in a global economy.
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