Fast Food

A fast food restaurant?
sometimes known as a quick service restaurant or QSR, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service.

Fast food restaurants are usually part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation, which provisions standardized ingredients and/or partially prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels.

Arguably the first fast food restaurants originated in the United States with White Castle in 1916. Variations on the fast food restaurant concept include fast casual restaurants and catering trucks.

Maid-Rite restaurant is one of the oldest chain fast food restaurants in the United States. Yum! Brands; and Domino's Pizza, a pizza chain known for popularizing home delivery of fast food.

The Subway restaurant chain is the fastest growing restaurant chain in the world surpassing even McDonald's. A&W Restaurants was originally a United States and North American fast food brand, but is currently an International fast food corporation in several countries.
Harvey's is a Canadian burger restaurant chain.

In Hong Kong, although McDonald's and KFC are quite popular, there are 3 major local fast food chains providing Hong Kong Chinese style fast food. These 3 major chains are Café de Coral, Fairwood Fast Food, and Maxim MX. Domino's Pizza is also a popular fast food restaurant.

Non-kosher foods such as cheeseburgers are rare in Israeli fast food chains, even in non-kosher branches. There are many small local fast food chains that serve pizza, burgers and local foods such as falafel.
Fast food outlets have become popular with consumers for several reasons.

HEALTY FAST FOOD

Everyday, one out of four Americans eats fast food. If you are eating out, fast food restaurants are often the cheapest option, but unfortunately, not usually the healthiest one. As an informed customer, you can make healthier choices and still enjoy the convenience of fast food restaurants.
Learning to make healthier choices at fast food restaurants

Making healthier choices at fast food restaurants is easier if you prepare ahead by checking guides that show you the nutritional content of meal choices at your favorite restaurants. You can also choose to patronize
restaurants that focus on natural, high quality food.

Portion control is also important, as many fast food restaurants serve enough food for several meals in the guise of a single serving.
Higher food quality does not mean that all the menu items are healthy.