It's absolutely insane. There was a Carrefour a stone's throw away from our apartment with produce imported directly to Doha. All of which was insanely cheap. Mangoes, melons, avocados... All this stuff that's hard to come by up North. In my mother's homeland, eating at fast food restaurants is a status symbol. That kind of thing makes me want to cry because the food that I grew up with is her (very healthy!!) cooking. Yet most people shrug it off as "poor people food." I suspect Qatar is similar. If you can afford to eat at Nando's all the time you have Riyals out the wazoo. But if you need to eat from that non-chain restaurant down the street you probably have no class.