Editing Milk bar (section)

==Modern era==
===Australia===
[[File:DarlingIslandJunction.jpg|thumb|right|Milk bar film-set from ''[[Strictly Ballroom]]'' at former Darling Island Junction rail yard, [[Pyrmont, New South Wales|Pyrmont]]]]
Milk bars in Australia today almost universally sell [[ice cream]]s, [[candy|lollies]], [[chocolate]] bars, [[soft drink]]s, [[newspaper]]s, [[bread]], [[cigarettes]] and occasionally [[fast food]]. Most generally serve milk (in cartons or bottles) or other dairy related products. Although there are far fewer milk bars than there were during the 1970s and 80s due to changing shopping habits, most people living in suburban areas still have a milk bar within walking distance or a short drive of their home. Today, many of them are owned by [[Immigration|immigrants]] of different generations. In conducting researches on the [[Linguistics|linguistic]] changes occurring in [[Sydney]], Horvath (1985) discussed the case of immigrant milk bar owners and how diverse their social status can be. Some of them run a small family business while others own several chains. This proved relevant for a new approach to concepts of status and class in [[Australia]] as opposed to the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite book |date=January 2003 |chapter=Locating and Selecting Subjects |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470758359.ch2 |journal=Sociolinguistics |pages=23–48 |doi=10.1002/9780470758359.ch2|isbn=978-0-631-22224-8 }}</ref>

===United Kingdom===
In the United Kingdom, the National Milk Bar [[Franchising|franchise]] was founded in 1933 by [[Robert William Griffiths]] as an ordinary café/restaurant chain which is related to the original milk bars in name only.<ref>{{cite web | title=A tribute to National Milk Bars | url=http://www.theresposh.com/NMB/ | website= theresposh.com| publisher= | date= |access-date=2007-06-27}}</ref> Once numbering around 20 outlets, which were located in Wales and in England near the [[England-Wales border|Welsh border]], now only one remains.<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-12038590 |title= One shop left as Aberystwyth National Milk Bar closes| website= bbc.co.uk| publisher= [[BBC News]]| date= 23 December 2010| access-date= }}</ref> In the UK, [[corner shop]]s serve a similar function to milk bars in modern Australia, providing everyday groceries, sweets, newspapers and such.

There is a campaign in the United Kingdom to encourage schoolchildren to consume more [[dairy product]]s, by installing 'milk bars' in schools.{{cn|date=April 2020}} The idea is that if the dairy products are attractively presented and properly stored, the children will be more willing to buy them. The organisers behind the project work to develop links with school caterers, so that the handling of milk and dairy produce can be improved, and they promote milk consumption and encourage milk drinking to become a habit that will be carried into adulthood. The milk bar project has been extremely successful in Scotland for 18 years, and it is currently being extended across England and [[Wales]].{{cn|date=April 2020}}