In a Town in Northern France, a Mayor Fights Against Junk Food

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In Fère-en-Tardenois there is only one restaurant with traditional cuisine, but six kebab, tacos and burger shops. Now the mayor wants to save his town from even more "malbouffe".

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In Fère-en-Tardenois, a small town with 3,000 inhabitants located in Aisne, the culinary landscape has changed radically in a few years. Burgers, tacos, pizzas, kebabs: fast food has taken an overwhelming place. Of the seven restaurants in the municipality, six are fast food. A situation which, for the mayor, threatens as much the local economic balance as the image of the city. Faced with this multiplication of the signs, Jean-Paul Roseleux, ma…