The fast food industry all over the world has grown dramatically during the last few years‚ and apparently people in the U.S. spend more money on fast food than in daily life groceries. It seems so wrong to change homemade food for things like pre-elaborated patties‚ frozen fries and soda but there is so much more than the obvious high calories and low nutrients contents in these foods‚ there had been several scandals of all kinds regarding the hygiene and the quality of the products that many fast
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Darden Restaurants vs. Yum! Brands - food industry business models Even though at first glance both Darden Restaurants and Yum! Brands seem to be operating in a fairly similar business environment; through more in detail information on both companies their differences in strategy and business models are obvious. Both companies have multiple highly specialized‚ nowadays famous brands/ restaurant chains‚ which is possibly the only similar strategic factor both companies have in common. Darden Restaurants
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INTRODUCTION : A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in return for money‚ either paid before the meal‚ after the meal‚ or with a running tab. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises‚ but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings‚ including a wide variety of the main chef’s cuisines and service models. While inns and taverns were known from antiquity‚ these were
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In Michelle Chen’s article‚ “Five Myths About Fast-Food Work” she talks about misconceptions associated with people who work at a fast food restaurant. The first issue Chen addresses is the idea that only teenagers work fast food for little to nothing. However‚ Chen explains that the majority of workers are around twenty years old and some are single parents that are trying to provide for their families. The Next misconception associated with fast-food is the idea that workers can eventually work
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Behavior in the Fast-food Industry Yu Wang a‚ Changbo Shi a‚ Yalan Gu b‚ Yong Du c‚* Tourism Management & Cuisine School‚ Harbin University of Commerce‚ Harbin‚ P.R. China b School of Cross Cultural Communication‚ Newcastle University‚ United Kingdom c School of Computer Science & Technology‚ Harbin Institute of Technology‚ Harbin‚ P.R. China a Abstract With the development of Chinese economy‚ the importance of Chinese market is gradually increasing‚ especially in the fast-food industry. Culture
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Life in the Drive-thru Lane: A Look at the Impact of Fast Food on America Weight gain‚ high cholesterol‚ vomiting‚ headaches‚ depression‚ and vanished sex drive; these are the effects of eating nothing but McDonald ’s for a month. That is exactly what happened to Morgan Spurlock‚ a filmmaker who ate McDonald ’s for three meals a day‚ every day‚ for a month for his documentary on the harmful effects of fast food on the body called "Supersize Me." No one expected the amount of harm McDonald ’s
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Period 4 Fast Food Advertising In America: The Direct Link to Rising Childhood Obesity It is definitely not news that a high number of American children are obese‚ but new research shows that the real cause of this obesity is the toxic food environment that we live in. According to Kelly‚ Brownell‚ PhD.‚ co-founder and director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University‚ the problem is not people’s lack of self-control for their obesity‚ but the “strips of fast-food restaurants
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ADVANCED PLACEMENT HUMAN GEOGRAPHY READING ASSIGNMENT – FAST FOOD NATION INTRODUCTION to Fast Food Nation (Amazon.com excerpt) On any given day‚ one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant‚ without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American‚ and harmless‚ as apple pie. But the industry ’s drive for consolidation‚ homogenization‚ and speed has radically transformed America ’s diet
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ON CONSUMER PREFERENCE TOWARDS FAST FOOD OUTLETS IN BANGALORE (NORTH ZONE) INTRODUCTION OF FAST FOOD BUSINESS Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food‚ typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with low quality preparation
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Restaurant Operation Management EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This project is about us being hired as a restaurant manager of a new American ethnic restaurant. It has a seating capacity of 80‚ which it serves mainly American cuisine accompanied with various types of alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages. The operation time is from 11am – 1am and our target market would consist of 50% local and 50% tourist. As restaurant manager‚ we are assigned to produce a proposal for this upcoming restaurant which will
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