Dar Williams, co-author of The Tofu Tollbooth , a guide to finding healthy food while traveling, says people seem to want to eat better these days. Except when they travel. Banning Burgers Help is coming from the most unlikely of places. Some popular travel destinations are keeping out fast-food restaurants. Last month in Bermuda, a court upheld a ban on fast-food restaurants after a group of investors led by the former prime minister tried to open a McDonald's franchise.
People come here because it's different.
There are a lot of people who are opposed to fast food on principle. The upstate New York village of Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, has no room for fast food franchises. But we just don't have any room for them. Ditto for built-up Sanibel Island, Fla., which is fighting to preserve the last of its unpaved wetlands. It's got one McDonald's, but signage laws prevent the restaurant from drawing too many visitors.