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In Germany they want to lower the taxes for restaurants. One of the big winners will be McDonald's. 🙁
Define “garbage restaurant”. Is a Starbucks a garbage restaurant? What about a shaved ice cart with sugar-laden syrups? Tacos? Are tacos garbage? How about a salad place that serves ranch dressing?
Independent restaurants - which are not linked to a brand by a franchise agreement - as well as subsidiaries integrated into fast food chains would not be affected by this taxation.
Translated but roughly - the tax applies to restaurants that are sprawling multiple chains that serve capitalism more than food.
that's an excellent move
They should be. An avenue next to my place has a kebab sandwich shop (or fried chicken, as the other random cheap junk) every twenty metres. While I'm fine with having a few of those here and there, this is just ridiculous.
Did you read the article? Because it gets clarified in there.
I don't know what's up with the thread name though, the article seems to have a different headline?
Usually caused by the sadly completely normal media bullshit nowadays.
They link stuff in multiple locations with different headlines, try sub headlines as links, or simply rotate through several headlines of an article within the first few hours of it being online to see which is the most effective clickbait. Because that's all that matters.
I read it. Seems to target franchises only. So if you’re a privately owned taco truck serving high calorie fried food, or a sugar-laden ice cream parlor you’re a-ok. But if you’re a franchise salad place you’re screwed.
My point being that it’s a slippery slope to target businesses based on “feelings” instead of facts. Taxing high calorie foods, or added sugars, or fried foods, or any number of health-related measurable things would probably be more productive than aiming at “fast food” or “franchises”.
I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with the proposal but to quote the article (translated into english)
However, the study notes that the sector owes much of its growth to the opening of new outlets rather than to restaurant attendance, which has actually declined slightly. This is precisely one of the arguments put forward by Green Party lawmakers in their amendment to curb the opening of fast-food restaurants.
Which seems to me more like a factually based proposal than one based on 'feelings'.
However I'll agree that if the purpose were to tackle health issues stemming from nutrition there would be better ways to tackle the issue. On the other hand, even while not necessarily the best way to deal with this, coming from a health issue related viewpoint, a decline in growth of big fast food chains like McDonalds, would inadvertely aid in health related issues either way.
Either way I doubt the main goal of this proposal is to improve on health issues though, to me it seems to come from a ecological background.
People got your point the first time, it's just rubbish. Your stance of superimposed neutrality is what led in a race to the bottom in a lot of countries' cuisine. We can't act like every food is equally valid just because some outliers might fall through the cracks, thus protecting international mega corporations. Any regulation would be a net benefit for the population's nutrition.
Maybe it's a bad translation of something that approximates "junk food" in French?
You could always read the article to find out!
Your examples are treats and food with at least some nutritional value.
Starbucks fuck if I know what they offer besides overpriced coffee (which I'd classify as a treat) - never been never will.
Places like McDonalds don't offer anything of actual nutritional value. It's all fats and salts and sugars. Even their "healthy" options are the equivalent of Vitamin Water.
If you go to a real taco place (not taco bell) it may not be "healthy" healthy, but it's not garbage either - it's more of a "neutral" healthyness. You won't literally die if that's all you eat.
It's the french, with their cultural pride in cuisine most restaurants are considered garbage
If you go to france, you will see a lot of burger and other quick service restaurants. And they are also quite popular with the natives and not only in touristy areas. The whole idea of french food snobbery really is snobbery of a small elite, but normal french people are totally in line with the rest of the world.
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