ap human geography article
Russia Becomes a Magnet for U.S. Fast-Food Chains
By Andrew Kramer
This article explains the expansion of all the different fast-food restaurants in Russia and delves into Papa John’s. Also, it talks about their owner in Russia, Christopher Wynne who had previously worked in the U.S.
In this article, the concept of cultural landscape is used in a way in which the fast food industry decides to modify the traditional landscape of Russia, with it not having fast food restaurants, to now having hundreds of Papa John’s, Taco Bell, Sbarro, etc. The owners of these companies decided to put their restaurants there in order to attract business, while thinking of specific places to put it by using the concept of concentration in a particular place. These owners thought that the certain places they placed their fast-food joints had a clustered concentration.
Near the beginning of this article, it talks about fast-food places on a global scale, then on a national scale, then on a local scale which brings another concept into play, the spatial scale. The next concept is a type of diffusion called contagious diffusion which relates to the article through which the fast-food industry went big in India and China, spread to Russia and became a big deal, and now all the locals now eat from there! In this article, it also explains the idea of situation in the sense that when the author was talking about Valery Mamayev, he said that Mamayev has been a Papa John’s fan ever since it has open near his district. This district is called the Maryino district and which is an hour’s drive from Central Moscow.
By Andrew Kramer
This article explains the expansion of all the different fast-food restaurants in Russia and delves into Papa John’s. Also, it talks about their owner in Russia, Christopher Wynne who had previously worked in the U.S.
In this article, the concept of cultural landscape is used in a way in which the fast food industry decides to modify the traditional landscape of Russia, with it not having fast food restaurants, to now having hundreds of Papa John’s, Taco Bell, Sbarro, etc. The owners of these companies decided to put their restaurants there in order to attract business, while thinking of specific places to put it by using the concept of concentration in a particular place. These owners thought that the certain places they placed their fast-food joints had a clustered concentration.
Near the beginning of this article, it talks about fast-food places on a global scale, then on a national scale, then on a local scale which brings another concept into play, the spatial scale. The next concept is a type of diffusion called contagious diffusion which relates to the article through which the fast-food industry went big in India and China, spread to Russia and became a big deal, and now all the locals now eat from there! In this article, it also explains the idea of situation in the sense that when the author was talking about Valery Mamayev, he said that Mamayev has been a Papa John’s fan ever since it has open near his district. This district is called the Maryino district and which is an hour’s drive from Central Moscow.