News Agencies – September 6, 2010 In order to lure Muslim populace, French fast food chain Quick has started serving halal-only foods in 22 of its outlets. Sitting at the second position in France following McDonald’s, Quick has 346 restaurants across the country. It revealed that its sales have twofolded at eight outlets, where they…
Le Figaro – August 18, 2010 Beginning on the 1st of September, French fastfood chain Quick will add 14 additional restaurants to offer halal food options. Restaurants in Toulouse, Argenteuil and Garges-les-Gonesse (Val d’Oise), Buchelay (Yvelines), Villeurbanne (Rhône), Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) and Roubaix (Nord) already offer halal hamburgers and smoked turkey in the place of bacon.
Traditional French dishes are becoming increasing available in halal versions in Paris. hat he could never taste because they were forbidden by Muslim precepts. The website paris-hallal.com, dedicated to promoting halal restaurants, lists 250 sit-down places serving only halal meat and no alcohol. As well as traditional Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, they include…
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In this opinion piece in Libération, Florence Blackler, sociologist at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (Institut de recherché sur le monde arabe et musulman), argues that the recent debate about halal meat in the Quick restaurants in France is overstated. Blackler claims that in the last ten years…
