Iran Haven’t Got McDonald’s But They Do Have Mash Donald’s and Pizza Hat

Hope mash potato is on the menu (Picture: Twitter/SophieGeeking)

Isolation from the international community has not only prevented Iran from creating his own homegrown versions of the West’s favourite fast food chains.

Who needs McDonalds when you can visit Mash Donalds, Pizza Hat and ZFC?

The owners of these copycat restaurants are careful not to use the original names not for copyright reasons but to avoid the wrath of hardliners.

Hassan, who owns a Mash Donald’s told the New York Times: ‘We are trying to get as close as we can get to the McDonald’s experience

‘If I had called my restaurant McDonald’s, I’d get a visit from the hardliners. So my son advised me to go for Mash Donald’s. It sort of sounds the same.’

While Government officials and hardliners still visit and tell Hasan his shop is too ‘Western’ but ‘after a while, they got used to it’.

McDonald’s have made a somewhat ambiguous statement on their website: ‘We have not set a firm date for the development of McDonald’s restaurants in Iran.’

Putting aside the the serious implications of the Iran Nuclear Deal - the fedora used in the Pizza Hat logo is pure genius.

Very tasty (Picture: Twitter/SophieGeeking)