date:Feb 22, 2013
. Gone are the two-hour lunches. Traditional bakeries stand in as sandwich shops while supermarkets provide industrially-prepared meals.
The French need prepared dishes because women work. We don't have time to cook. It's really a change in lifestyle that began in the 1970s, said Pascale Hebel, director of the consumer affairs department at CREDOC, a research center.
Hebel said France has the highest proportion of households in Europe with working parents and these markets are growing.
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