Sorry to say, but having visited France on numerous occasions and having many friends from France, I'd have to say that if you go to France looking like you did in your photo's in the OP, then you are asking for trouble.
Don't confuse the norm in France or the norm in Paris and the norm according to these three persons working for Mac Donald. I'm not even sure that they enforced the norm as seen by Mac Donald, just probably the norm in their little heads. Paris is a very diverse city and if you go to L'Express, corner of rue Saint Antoine and rue du Roule (http://goo.gl/maps/plWf) with a augmented reality setup, I think you'll have a jolly good time and nobody will give you any trouble with it.
Perhaps you will notice the "Brassrie", so as for norm...
As a Parisian, Paris born, Paris educated, I'm just sorry that this gentleman, Steve Mann, took his family to a Mac Donalds on the Champs Elysées where he would get the same thing as can be found in many other locations around the world and not to a probably cheaper, jollier place where he could have sampled some much more pleasant ambiance and food.
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Got to correct myself : not rue Saint Antoine but rue Saint Honoré
Sorry to say, but having visited France on numerous occasions and having many friends from France, I'd have to say that if you go to France looking like you did in your photo's in the OP, then you are asking for trouble.
Don't confuse the norm in France or the norm in Paris and the norm according to these three persons working for Mac Donald. I'm not even sure that they enforced the norm as seen by Mac Donald, just probably the norm in their little heads. Paris is a very diverse city and if you go to L'Express, corner of rue Saint Antoine and rue du Roule (http://goo.gl/maps/plWf) with a augmented reality setup, I think you'll have a jolly good time and nobody will give you any trouble with it.
Perhaps you will notice the "Brassrie", so as for norm ...
As a Parisian, Paris born, Paris educated, I'm just sorry that this gentleman, Steve Mann, took his family to a Mac Donalds on the Champs Elysées where he would get the same thing as can be found in many other locations around the world and not to a probably cheaper, jollier place where he could have sampled some much more pleasant ambiance and food.