New Yorkers take justifiable pride in the city’s amazing restaurants. Beneath the sophisticated veneer, however, lurks a carnal desire for fast food.
“A rush of pleasure surges through my body as it makes contact with my tongue,” a Village Voice reporter wrote after visiting a Manhattan McDonald’s years ago. “The ecstasy is complete as I swallow the first bite of a Big Mac.”
After years outside the ramparts, New York has become a full-fledged member of Fast Food Nation. In place of the nearly 3,000 restaurants that have closed during the Covid-19 pandemic, more than 100 Chipotle, Pizza Hut, Popeye’s, Pret a Manger and Taco Bell
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