Fast-food giant McDonald's expects to start a home-delivery service in Canberra as part of a national rollout after successful trials elsewhere in Australia.
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No dates have been set for the ACT launch, but the service has proved popular in NSW and more recently has been trialled in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia.
A spokesman for McDonald's said the company ran a delivery service from seven of its Sydney restaurants - in North Parramatta, Westmead, Waterloo, Rosehill, Stanmore, Sydney Airport Gateway and Kingsford. It also had home delivery from a Victorian outlet in South Melbourne, one in Queensland at Hervey Bay and another in WA at Karratha.
The decision to roll out the delivery service more broadly has caused concern among healthy-eating advocates who believe it will undermine efforts to get Australia's obesity epidemic under control.
Dietitians Association of Australia spokeswoman Kate Gudorf said increased access to fast food meant increased consumption.
"The research shows the closer proximity of quick-service restaurants to your home, and the more choice you have in the variety of fast food, the more likely you are to eat it regularly," she said.
Ms Gudorf said there obviously was profit to be made in home delivery and she hoped that other "players" would enter the market.
"We know that if healthy food is more accessible then people are more likely to choose it," she said.
"It's unfortunate fast food is always being made more convenient and accessible for people. I would really like to see some other things home-delivered - which you can already find in shopping-centre food courts.
"Things like sushi, a plain hamburger with extra salad, thin-crust pizza with lots of vegetable toppings and sandwiches with lean meat and lots of salad are all good healthy options."
The McDonald's spokesman said the first Macca's outlet to offer home delivery was North Parramatta late last year.
It included a $4.95 delivery fee and a $25 minimum spend.
At the time it attracted criticism from nutritionist Rosemary Stanton, in part because of the high levels of obesity in the North Parramatta area.
The area has the second highest number of overweight or obese adults in NSW, just behind south-western Sydney.
However, McDonald's said it had modelled its service on home delivery offered in Asia - including Singapore, Malaysia and Korea - and the store was chosen based on the population, density and accessibility of the area.