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Inside the abandoned floating McDonald’s restaurant that’s set for a million pound makeover

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McBarge Friendship 500
The McBarge has seen better days (Picture: Taz / Flickr cc)

We can’t understand what people didn’t like about a floating McDonald’s restaurant, but it seems there just wasn’t the appetite for a floating burger joint back in the 80s.

Built for the Expo ’86 in Vancouver, Canada, the McBarge (official name the Friendship 500) was meant to show off cutting edge tech and design.

After the exhibition, the plan was for the restaurant to be floated to a new location, allowing people to enjoy their Quarter Pounders on the open water.

Rather like today, in 1986, the burger chain was under pressure to tempt young affluent adults back to the Big Mac and… Read the full story


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