Cities are banning drive-thrus to improve
Americans' health — but will it work?
MSN Lifestyle,
by
Erica Chayes Wida
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
10/16/2019 6:15:02 PM
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. But fear not, Chick-fil-A fiends, the zoning changes currently in effect only affect new construction. Thus far, cities in California, Missouri and New
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 10/16/2019 6:26:43 PM (No. 209297)
Look at what they say they hope to accomplish. They have arrived at a conclusion and then invented phoney justifications for it. Just as in the corporate world, the real reason is more likely far less honorable; usually involving the lack of a bribe or kickback.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/16/2019 6:31:11 PM (No. 209304)
When you vote for control freaks, you get controls.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 10/16/2019 6:35:15 PM (No. 209310)
Cool. They should name the ordiance the 'Eliminate the Non Living Wage Burger Flipping Act' Just a year or two ago these liberal morons were demanding more burger flipping jobs. Now, in the name of health, they are eliminating those jobs. Think how much these restaurants, and other drive throughs will save by firing those that man the windows now!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dwa 10/16/2019 6:59:12 PM (No. 209325)
This is what you get when you put liberals in charge. Just look at what they've done in CA, WA, OR. They are smarter than we are and feel they should tell us what is good for us since we are too stupid to think for ourselves. Of course, it seems that young women these days want exactly that, the government to be their husband and father.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/16/2019 6:59:36 PM (No. 209326)
We had fat people long before we had drive thrus. As for walkable cities, the ghetto folks are far more dangerous than the windows.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Penney 10/16/2019 7:12:29 PM (No. 209332)
What will the micro-managers dream up next???!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/16/2019 7:26:54 PM (No. 209343)
Are the cities banning old and sick people that are unable to walk into the stores?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
fayebeck 10/16/2019 7:32:56 PM (No. 209348)
Used to be that for my wife's pain pills a phone call and a computer generated refill did the trick for a 4 month refill. Now we are required to drive 40 miles round trip to pick up a prescription and these busy bodies are concerned about drive thru windows. What geniuses.
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More nanny goobermint. There is nothing that over-reaching, busybody libs won't try to control.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
padiva 10/16/2019 7:51:38 PM (No. 209362)
Wow! What a convenience for people with small children or people who are mobility impaired.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/16/2019 7:55:11 PM (No. 209364)
This is rich. South Los Angeles. Compton, Carson, etc. Maxine Waters territory. One of the “food deserts” Mooch hammered on, claiming it was causing obesity, yada yada yada yada… Well, from this article:
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.
"The South Los Angeles fast-food ban may have symbolic value, but it has had no measurable impact in improving diets or reducing obesity," said Roland Sturm, the lead author of the study.
And folks can drive a very short distance to one or more of the myriad fast food drive-throughs that are all over Southern California and the Greater Los Angeles area… What a joke! But other scheeple across the land….
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/16/2019 7:58:05 PM (No. 209367)
PS, in the area northeast of Los Angeles… far enough northeast!! - we are awash in drive-through restaurants and there seems to be a Starbucks on every corner. We also drive through the pharmacy dispensing window at our market… The only Chick-fil-A is located right across the street from a rather liberal community college, and it is absolutely jammed. All the time.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FLCracker 10/16/2019 8:30:32 PM (No. 209387)
How about banning those grocery stores that bring the bags out the people waiting in their cars with the AC running?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 10/16/2019 8:45:58 PM (No. 209393)
Chick Fila “fiends” She said “fiends”
Well excuse me Ms. Wida, but you can pry my number 1 spicy chicken combo with diet lemonade out of my cold dead hands. In my idling SUV
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
SALady 10/16/2019 9:01:35 PM (No. 209399)
Gee, it's so nice to know that these cities have no real problems. So they can spend valuable time and tax dollars passing totally useless "feel good" garbage rules like this!!!
No gangs, no drugs, no terrible schools, no homelessness, etc, etc, etc.
All insane lie-beral run cities!!!!! You get what you vote for!!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
dizzy 10/16/2019 9:04:55 PM (No. 209402)
As a nurse I'm actually supportive of this. 2 reasons: 1. Could improve air quality, especially in the hotter months in big cities 2. If some folks had to walk in to order fast food, they might be less inclined to do it. Could help with the obesity crisis we're dealing with
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Tennman 10/16/2019 9:18:08 PM (No. 209406)
I personally despise drive-thrus. Cars filled with fat, lazy people burning gas, sometimes taking longer than parking and going inside. Yes, there are exceptions - handicapped, parents with numerous kids. With that out of my system, none of the government's d%%% business. Personal choice.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 10/16/2019 9:20:25 PM (No. 209408)
I think I have used a drive through maybe 3 or 4 times in my life. I want to sit at a table and eat.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mc squared 10/16/2019 9:21:53 PM (No. 209411)
And prohibit nearby parking. Make people hoof it to get their food. Start with a quarter mile each way then gradually order a longer walk.
Is there no end to some people's busy-body-ness? Always for our own good too.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 10/16/2019 10:24:47 PM (No. 209438)
My point in post #19 was not to support their insane totalitarian foolishness. Mostly to say that I don't know a lot about drive throughs, almost never use them, but in a free country the government has no business telling a company anything about how to set up it's customer interfacing.
Like gun control, this is all about controlling your lives. They are convinced that they are far smarter than you are and really have to protect your dumb a** from your stupid decisions. Freedom is nowhere in their heads at all.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 10/16/2019 10:25:26 PM (No. 209439)
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First, they went after Freedom of Speech, then it was Freedom of Religion, then it was the Second Amendment. Stay out of my business. I don't even like fast food.
BTW Do you plan to make more parking spaces for the cars that went thru the drive-thru ? When I go to my lovely downtown, I have to circle over and over to find a parking space.
Rev. Martin Niemoller comes to mind here.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Trigger2 10/17/2019 2:15:22 AM (No. 209506)
Why don't these commies ban all their private jets, yachts, and limos spewing carbons around the country? I know. They don't want to be imposed upon. It's easier to impose their BS on the common person who has no say. That's why demonrats promise all these freebees to keep the Jim Jones types voting for them. You can't fix stupid.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 10/17/2019 9:18:48 AM (No. 209741)
"Officials say the ban will help curb pollution, make the city more walkable and improve health problems pertaining to obesity"
Settled science, no doubt.
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The public has not asked for such laws - just busybody liberals.