1) What does fast food really mean?
Fast food is the kinda of food that is readily available i.e food that has precooked or preheated ingredients, like burgers, french fries etc...
2) To the beginning
We have to know where it all began, so let's you pass through the time machine to discover it origins, though America is always accused of having started this culture, it all seemed to have its roots in early Rome which used to have many road side stalls serving bread and wine, and some sausages this made for an easy morning breakfast for most of it's inhabitants.
3) White Castle
Remember Harold and Kumar go to White Castel, White Castle is credited to have started the second fast food restaurant and the first burger ever which were all intially drive in restaurants, as the business started picking up competition picked up as well.
Now it is a billion dollar industry with players like McDonald's, Papa John's , Domino's Pizza , Sbarro and Pizza, Burger King, Kfc, Subway having thousands of branches all over the world.
In the United States alone people spent $160 billion on these food just in 2012,
with the whole restaurant industry bringing in 660 million dollars the fast food chains make up 1/5 of the market share, these restaurants provide jobs to 4.1 of her citizens. The cost of these foods is also very low because they use heavily subsidized products like beef, corn and soy sauce and hence the wide attraction.
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