INVESTIGATION – What is happening in the city of corks, quenelle and Paul Bocuse? For several months, the arrival of several large fast-food brands has sparked an outcry from elected officials and business owners in Lyon.
Burgers and tacos instead of traffic jams? The recent installation of a KFC on rue de la République, in the heart of Lyon, a stone's throw from the town hall, has increased the fast food offering (Quick, McDonald's, Five Guys, Prêt à Manger) in the hypercenter of the city. The omnipresence of these symbols of “junk food” has made the environmentalist deputy Boris Tavernier step up to the plate, who proposes arming cities against the arrival of these fast sandwich multinationals. Has Lyon, the city of Bouchons, recognized as the “world capital of gastronomy” in 1935 by the culinary critic Maurice Edmond Sailland, alias Curnonsky, become the “junk food capital”?
«In the center of Lyon, as elsewhere, the choice is increasingly reduced with an invasion of fast food restaurants. There are now more fast food restaurants than traditional restaurants, it's a big shiftworries Boris Tavernier, deploring a “standardization” from the city center. Now, I am for…
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