Transcript: Los Angeles Limits New Fast Food Restaurants

RENEE MONTAGNE
NPR Morning Edition
07-30-2008
Los Angeles Limits New Fast Food Restaurants

Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time 11:00-12:00 PM


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And while sit-down chains like Bennigan's struggle to survive, fast food chains like McDonald's are faring well. But they won't be expanding in one area of L.A., at least for the next year. Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council passed a one year moratorium on new fast food restaurants in a section of the city that already has plenty of fast food and a high child obesity rate. NPR's Karen Grigsby-Bates reports.

KAREN GRIGSBY-BATES: Crenshaw Boulevard is one of the major northwest streets in south L.A., and it's larded with ...

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