Ukrainian exchange students - clockwise, from front left: Olena Shapovalova, Vladyslav Ilyin, Yuriy Pylpychyk, Maryna Mashentseva, Khrystyna Mashentseva and Valeriya Polezhako -- are getting a lesson in American culture this summer by working at McDonald's.

Six college students from Ukraine are getting a lesson in American culture this summer by working at McDonald’s.

The exchange students are taking orders, stacking trays and flipping burgers at the restaurant on the Kansas Turnpike, five miles east of Lawrence.

The students are participating in “Face the World,” a program that lines up stateside visits for college students from foreign lands.

Ilyin, who is studying to be a translator at Kharkov Polytechnic University, said he’d already learned plenty. For one, the 10 McDonald’s in Kharkov don’t serve breakfast and don’t have near the number of menu offerings as a U.S. operation.

“It’s quite different from Ukrainian McDonald’s,” Ilyin said. “It’s definitely better to work at McDonald’s in the USA. You get to speak to the customers (more) and learn.”

The students are scheduled to return to Ukraine in early October.