Lunch Shoppe

The article technically didn't mention socioeconomic status with respect to race per se, but I can see the inference.

This paper suggests that poor socioeconomic areas in Canada "just happen" to be the areas with the greatest concentration of fast food joints, which makes me wonder whether fast food businesses target areas with low socioeconomic status, or whether poor neighborhoods congregate and build themselves around fast food locations.

I went to a high school where the student majority was evenly split between blacks and Hispanics. These groups were both low in the socio-economic order. The majority of the students did not have parents who cooked for them at home and who were basically on their own and fending for themselves. Majority of them would usually only get a meal by going to a cheap fast food place, the closest being McDonalds (the ones who were local anyways). The students who were not local to the school lived in areas infested with various fast food joints.

I am assuming the fast food companies are specifically targeting these group of individuals as they likely make up loyal customers. For example, consider how on Telegraph as you get closer to Oakland you start seeing Jack in the Box, Taco Bell, McDonalds.

So I definitely think there is a correlation between obesity and socio-economic status.

That's almost akin to armed forces recruiters targeting low-socioeconomic areas because of the allure of a steady paycheck and payment for college.

Sorry, I forgot to post the paper from my first comment:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18677883