Thursday, June 30, 2011

Fast Food

Although the fast food industry is an important, still expanding and frequently controversial sector, fast food as a product is not easy to define and is becoming increasingly difficult to do so.

It can be feature as a finished product shelf life of usually minutes and on occasions hours. Rapid deterioration occurs beyond these times particularly without holding equipment.

It also featured fast product finishing and service times.

Fast foods restaurants come in a wide variety of forms and carrying product offerings ranging from hamburgers, pizzas, fish, baked potatoes and French bakery products to ethnic foods such as India curries and Chinese meals, Turkish or Greek kebabs, coffee shops and soup outlets.

It is driven by standardized meals, décor and service. It had a great impact on the food service industry.

Multinational fast food chains have now become household names, and in terms of sales and units tend to dominate local markets.

Fast food accounts for the largest and fastest rising shares of sales in the food industry. Sales in fast foods industries now outpace the sales in full-service restaurant. The top four US fast food chains are Mc Donald, Subway, Pizza Hut, and KFC.

Fast food operations date back to the 1920s and 1930s when A&W Root Beer and Howard Johnson’s franchised some of their units. They concentrated mostly on Hamburgers.
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