"Going abroad for help
Foreign labor supplements some local business
BY JUSTIN GERARD
Published:
Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:05 AM CDT
Larry Storo, the franchise owner of the Buffalo and Sheridan McDonald’s restaurants, is stimulating the local economy not by hiring local workers but by bringing foreign laborers to Buffalo.
Murat Mucur and Tylan Bozkurt, both 20 and from Ankara, Turkey, have been working for the past few months at McDonald’s in Buffalo while experiencing American culture through their encounters here.
It’s an immense change of pace, being that Ankara, the capital, is the second largest city in Turkey with a population of more than 4.7 million, but they have adjusted well.
They came to Buffalo to work and travel, and although they were not sure what was in Buffalo, or what they were getting themselves into, they were happy to have the opportunity from McDonald’s.
“Americans are very hospitable and happy here,” Mucur said.
Mucur and Bozkurt will be leaving in a few weeks to return to Turkey and go back to college to study engineering where they will work as waiters and bar men.
“Development is very different here from Turkey,” said Bozkurt.
Bozkurt is fascinated in the capitalistic system here in America.
“Many people spend their money at McDonald’s instead of making their own food, and it is all about selling and making money,” he said."
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