re: #33 iceweasel

Odd thing about Germany is that outside of McD and Burger King (and more recently Subway), there are very few restaurant chains here. There is Nordsee, a seafood chain and Wienerwald, which despite its sausage-sounding name specializes in chicken, but most restaurants are family operations.

I believe it is because of labor laws: any operation with fewer than 50 employees does not have to be unionized, so owners want to keep things small and do not think in terms of starting chains.