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RogueOne4/28/2011 4:27:05 am PDT

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Why is there so much violent crime at fast-food restaurants?
slate.com


Fast-food restaurants haven’t entirely replaced banks as crime targets, and criminal activity in such places is no longer on the rise. (Crimes like this, however, are.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the number of homicides at “limited service restaurants,” which include fast-food chains like McDonald’s and KFC, has declined from 35 in 2007 to 15 in 2009. But fast-food establishments like Wendy’s and Burger King do see more crime than their “full-service” counterparts, like Ruby Tuesday’s or the Olive Garden. BLS estimates that the rate of assaults at limited-service restaurants is more than twice as high as at full-service restaurants. Whereas sit-down restaurants had 0.8 assaults per 10,000 employees in 2009, fast-food joints had 1.8.