After-school snacking at Maccas creates new drive-through 'peak hour'

After-school snacking at fast food restaurants has created a new drive-through peak hour, with up to four times as many motorists pulling in for a mid-afternoon feed than 20 years ago.

"The 'after school' peak period around 3.30pm observed in the current study on weekdays was not present in the 1993 study, potentially indicating that after school McDonald's trips are a newer development," the RMS report said. Saturday lunchtime was typically the busiest time at the 26 takeaway sites in the study, but not all. McDonald's Liverpool was busiest on Wednesday with a peak of 272 trips in the hour starting at 3pm."The growth we've seen in the mid-afternoon period is driven primarily by older Millennials, people over the age of 25, including tradies and young professionals, not those at school," she said.

The last national nutrition survey, from 2011/12, showed that about one-third of Australians food intake came from junk food but young people consume more than other age groups with about 40 per cent of their diet filled with junk.Fast food outlets devoured the biggest slice of Australia's food and beverage market pie in 2017 with about $6.5 billion in revenue flowing their way. Restaurants made about $4.5 billion.

It's the 'over managed' little lords & ladies. They need a snack on the way to music, dancing, swimming & sport. Then they crash on Friday! Whatever happened to free play at home & snacks at home?

. I thought all those woke anti-McDonalds documentaries like 'Super Size Me' and various GetUp! campaigns had Maccas on the brink of extinction? . But then 'Fat Activism' became a thing, didn't it?

Parents feed their children garbage and wonder why there’s an obesity epidemic - then demand government intervention. This is Australia in 2019 auspol

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No wonder so many people are obese.

oh Yum...The barbaric abuse of cattle standing knee deep in their own shit, pumped full of chems to fatten them up then slaughtered in front of each other on a production line for a cheap burger - each with an ACTUAL cost of over $200 per burger to society. Good one.

Those poor kiddies, raised on grease, salt and chemicals and empty calories. You are what you eat FakeFood negligentParenting OneNationUnderMacdonalds

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