Posted on 10/16/2019 6:25:46 PM PDT by Mount Athos
A growing number of local legislatures in cities across the country want to put an end to drive-thru windows.
In August, Minneapolis became the latest city to pass an ordinance banning the construction of new restaurant drive-thrus. Officials say the ban will help curb pollution, make the city more walkable and improve health problems pertaining to obesity. Other places that have enacted similar measures say they are aiming to combat traffic, cut carbon monoxide emissions and litter.
Thus far, cities in California, Missouri and New Jersey have implemented similar bans.
Still, many consumers are worried about one of their favorite conveniences being taken away. Some have pointed out how important drive-thrus are for customers who are disabled, the elderly and parents who may not easily be able to get their kids out of the car for a quick bite.
Other folks say they think the bans won't help decrease CO2 emissions because people may just leave their cars running while they wait for someone else to pick up the food.
There is, however, increasing support for the bans. Some say curbing access to even faster fast food may help aid in reversing urban obesity rates, while also helping to improve road traffic accidents.
According to the National Restaurant Association, 25% of restaurant visits in the U.S. occur at a drive-thru window.
One of the first municipalities to prohibit new and expanded drive-thrus was South Los Angeles in 2008. They also banned the construction of new stand-alone fast-food restaurants. In 2015, a non-profit research organization called RAND published a study examining the ban's impact on diet and obesity in L.A. County from 2007 to 2012. Its researchers found obesity actually increased among residents in the area.
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Shut the drive-through, then the front door.
That will help cure health problems the most.
...”but will it work”?! Bwahahahahaha
Missouri? I thought they were sane?
Just keep voting democrat (communism), especially suburban soccer moms, and there won’t even have a restaurant left to even drive to.
Order through your app and then have the food joint bring it out to your car.
How will the city people survive? They will starve to death without their only source of food.
Liberty?
What’s that?
It will not be too long until traffic lights will have to go to avoid those polluting red lights.
Lake Tahoe did that....no drive thrus....to save the planet....
All the fast food places closed...
Would be interesting if the fast food industry decided to get ahead of this.
Organize and simply withdraw all food safety testing and safe guards for the state in which any city pulls this crap. People don’t realize how much the fast food industry pays for in the food safety system here in this country. Checking the food supply down to the genetic level to ensure its safe on a regular basis.
Shut down all fast food joints in those same cities and not reopen until all members of that city council and mayor have been voted out of office and replaced.
Hmmm. Will bank drive throughs
be banned too? For some strange reason I don’t think so.
Virtue signaling, just more virtue signaling ...
How about pharmacy drive throughs?
It’s about snotty little s***s not liking hamburgers so no one should be allowed to have hamburgers.
So? You can pretty much have anything delivered to your door these days.
There are various companies doing this. Grub Hub comes first to mind.
You can order from any restaurant in town, basically, and have it on your table in 30 minutes or so.
People want to eat fast/restaurant food, and the market will find a way to get it to them.
Anyone else notice that all of the pre-packaged, ‘make a meal at home’ services are no longer advertising? I wonder if they all went bust? Seemed like a dumb idea to me in the first place, but what do I know? I cook three meals a day nearly 365 for us at home. ;)
All part of conditioning folks.
Getting people used to totalitarianism slowly but surely.
BINGO. That is the ultimate goal. That is their end game.
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