Bite put on fast-food chain over halal menu
Police in the northern city of Lille have launched an investigation into claims a fast-food restaurant was discriminating against non-Muslim customers by dropping bacon burgers from its menu and using only halal meat. The public prosecutor ordered the probe after the Socialist mayor of the nearby town of Roubaix sued the Quick fast-food chain for switching to Muslim dietary laws in eight of its 350 branches.
Quick — a rival to far larger global chains, such as McDonald’s, in France and Belgium — now offers smoked turkey and halal beef and no pork in those branches. “Why should the people of Roubaix be forced to go to Lille or elsewhere to find bacon?” asked Franck Berton, the lawyer for Mayor René Vandierendonck, when we queried him on the case.
