McDonald’s Romania forecasts turnover to reach almost $20m in H1, 2003, up almost 15% since the year-ago period. “Considering we posted this increase with the same number of restaurants as last year, we can only be optimistic,” said the company’s general manager for Romania, Moldova and Bulgaria, Marian Alecu. McDonald’s now owns 48 restaurants in Romania. The company has not dedicated any new locations since the beginning of the year, but Alecu says two new restaurants will open in the second half of 2003, in Bucharest. They will not be separate restaurants, but will operate within the Carefour and Cora hypermarkets, “which are trendy and have many visitors.” ZF