Photograph: Bryan O'BrienPre-tax profits at the operator of what was first McDonald’s outlet in Ireland on Dublin’s Grafton Street last year fell by 29 per cent to €3.3 million. Owned by Amir Afsar, Persian Restaurants Ltd operates 12 McDonald’s restaurants in Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford including the outlet on Dublin’s premier shopping street. Persian Restaurants also operates McDonalds restaurants at the Nutgrove Shopping Centre and the Frascati Shopping Centre in Dublin. The Grafton Street outlet is the State’s oldest McDonald’s, having opened in 1977. Another McDonald’s franchisee, Elaine Sterio, saw pretax profits at her Glenellen Restaurants Ltd increase by 65 per cent to €1.62 million last year.
