Last July I read on the Time.com website that LA has put a one year moratorium on new fast food restaurants in their low income district. The rationale behind that move is that this particular low income area is overflowing with obese people. The city council that put this moratorium in place thinks that by putting this restriction in, a better class of restaurants will open in the area, offering healthier foods.
I think that if this is a low income area, the residents will not be able to afford to go to these “better class” of restaurants to eat. You can go to a fast food restaurant and order healthy foods, such as salads. These people are choosing to eat unhealthy foods because they can afford it and they want it. They will get it SOMEWHERE, even if it means going to the grocery store and buying the junk food there.
I’d be really surprised if any of those “better class” of restaurants even TRY to open up in that area, the target market for that type of restaurant does not exist there. It would be a losing proposition.
I wonder how the moratorium is going!