What is fast food and why is it so popular? Fast food refers to food that can be prepared and served quickly. Fast food restaurants usually have a walk up counter or drive-thru window where you order and pick up your food. Fast food restaurants are popular because they serve filling foods that taste good and don ’t cost a lot of money. However‚ fast food is usually cheap because it ’s often made with cheaper ingredients such as high fat meat‚ refined grains‚ and added sugar and fats‚ instead
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Fast food Fast food or traditional food? This is a new brand debate between people all around the world specially between older and younger members of families. My mother is a medical doctor and she always prevented me from eating fast food and junky food. In my opinion‚ although fast foods bring some advantages to our nowadays lives‚ they have many disadvantages such as containing a lot of bad lipids and high calories and consist of some refrigerated and synthetic materials. First of all‚ fast
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article “Fast Food‚” fast food industries are criticized in many aspects. Hogan tells that fast food causes many problems like healthy problems first. The fast food industry use low quality materials. Many critics said much of the meat of hamburgers was either spoiled or diseased. The high calorie of fast food can cause fat and other serious health problems. (590-591) Secondly‚ critics condemn fast food industries that increased litter is a big problem. Fast food industry always sells their food in paper
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For several years‚ people have attributed rising fast-food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases of obesity in America. According to the article Fast Food: Is it the Enemy by Registered Dietitian Sarah Muntel (2012)‚ “Since 1970‚ the amount of fast food restaurants in business doubled‚ which equates to about 300‚000 establishments in the United States. Coincidentally‚ 33.8 percent of the U.S. population is affected by obesity and 19 percent of children and adolescents are also affected”
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Americans have been choosing fast food as a replacement for classic homemade meals for many of years. It is fast and convenient‚ but the negative effects outweigh the good effects by a long shot. Eating fast food daily affects Americans’ health‚ diet‚ leaves a hole in their pocket‚ and even changes their everyday mood. The effects might not be seen right away‚ but after time they will start to add up. It has been proved that replacing a homemade meal with fast food has had a huge effect on Americans’
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Essay Fast Food Popularity in China Student’s Name: ******* Student ID #: ********* Teacher: ********* Due Date: 23 May 2013 Word count: 615 Question: Examine the reasons for the popularity of fast food restaurants in your country. When‚ why‚ and how have these restaurants become so popular? (Cause) Demonstrate the impact of this popularity on your country’s culture‚ i.e.‚ food‚ health‚ economy‚ lifestyle. (Effect) You will need to do some research on the fast food chains
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negotiate prices with fast food restaurants. However‚ there is a large degree of internal rivalry in the industry‚ with a very strong cross-price elasticity present in the industry. This encourages low prices due to a strong degree of substitution and gives consumers back some power. 2) To what extent do purchase prices differ from those that would prevail in a market with a large number of fragmented buyers in which buyers act as price takers? a. Answer- In the fast food industry‚ buyers are
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solved. Deterring from eating fast food could solve national issues that the United States has been plagued with for decades. Opposers of this viewpoint would argue that avoiding fast food could not possibly solve the nation’s problems. Afterall‚ eating healthier does not taste as good‚ and it costs more money. Therefore‚ it would send people further into debt and be wasted. Opposers would more than likely be those who do not understand the health problems that fast food causes‚ and those who do not
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popularity of fast food. In recent years‚ there have been many studies conducted on fast food. According to the results of these studies‚ fast food has become an indispensible part of human life and has become quite popular. There are numerous reasons for the popularity of fast food restaurants among which the two most important ones are that they are cheap and easily available. To begin with‚ one of the most significant reasons why many people today opt for fast food restaurants is that fast food
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English 120 11-22-09 Globalization of the Fast Food Industry Imagine a world where almost everyone is overweight‚ and cultural and family traditions do not exist. Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal explores the effects of the spread of fast-food companies like McDonald’s to other countries. In his chapter “Global Realization” Eric Schlosser claims that “The global expansion of American fast food is homogenizing cultural identities; like Las Vegas
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