Drone food delivery is spreading across Australia. Research suggests we will eat more junk food as a result
By Rebecca Bennett, PhD Student, Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University
Kathryn Backholer, Co-Director, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University
Last week, a drone delivery company called Wing (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet) started operating in Melbourne. Some 250,000 residents in parts of the city’s eastern suburbs can now order food from cafes and restaurants via the DoorDash app and have it brought to them in minutes by a small aircraft.
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