Why the French are turning to fast food

[Anthea]

BBC News

Growing numbers of French people are choosing to eat low-cost fast food as the cost of living in the country continues to rise.

Last year 54% of total restaurant turnover went to fast food and sandwich shops - the first time "convenience" food outstripped the market of the traditional French brasserie.

France the home of the best food in the world - the country that set standards others try to achieve

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American fashion, probably. Or because when people are at work, fast food is the cheapest and fastest way to eat something. Or because they don't know cook themselves.

I don't eat at lunch but if I would do, I should have chosen with expensive brasseries or a sandwich (I don't like panini and I hate bad pizzas or hamburgers. If I want to eat I have a Japanese Bento and I eat at work.

French brasseries are not better btw. They serve ready-made meal, which were frozen or 'sous-vide', for a twice or thrice of their price : the paper talk about Paris, which is a trap for tourists

The last 10 years, we have watched a serious invasion of kebab salon. One of the most horrible places where to eat, full of dirty old cow meat.