Fast-food restaurant
A fast-food restaurant is a restaurant that serves fast-food. Usually, these restataurants mostly serve food to take away. Many of them do not have a large seating capacity, and often, seating is not very comfortable. The type of restaurant is also known as quick-service restaurant (QSR). The food choice is limited, and usually prepared in bulk in advance. It is either kept hot, or heated up, before it is served. The kind of food is often of a "meat-sweet diet". Very often, fast-food restaurants are part of a restaurant chain or a franchise. The chain or franchise will provide partly-prepared standardized products or ingredients.
The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951.[1]
Variations on the fast-food restaurant concept include fast-casual restaurants and catering trucks. Fast-casual restaurants have higher sit-in ratios, offering a mix between counter-service typical at fast-food restaurants and a traditional table service restaurant. Catering trucks (also called food trucks) often park just outside worksites and are popular with factory workers.
Fast-food Restaurant Media
A McDonald's restaurant in New York City
A Café de Coral restaurant in Hong Kong
The Big Mac hamburger made its debut in 1967.
The Burger King Whopper sandwich made its debut in 1957.
Neighboring fast-food restaurant advertisement signs in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Here, KFC, Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Krystal Burgers can be seen.
McDonald's fast-food restaurant at Dublin Airport
References
- ↑ "Jack In The Box Inc". Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2017.