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The first mass produced car in the united states was mad in 1908(model t ford)
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By 1940 there where a million cars in la
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1948 McDonalds gets rid of car hops
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In the early 1960’s KFC was the biggest
 fast food chain in in the USA
Between 1960 and 1973 the number of
McDonald’s restaurants grew from 250 to 3000
Summary
Fast food nation

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Mcdonalds has 30,00 resturants in 121 countries and serves 46 million people a day
 “They had stripped fast food delivery down to its essence, eliminating choices and needless efforts (no waitresses, no china) in order to make a swift assembly line for a meal at reasonable prices: 15 cents for a burger, ten cents for fries, and ten cents for a soft drink.”
 Ray crock bought the mcdonalds brothers out of the company for 2.7 million dollars
 Five years after the first mcds oped there were 200 resturants
 In ten years the company went public and shares went up to 50
 By 1995 there where over 18,00 returants world wide
 McDonalds made their first billion dollars in just 22 years
 Jan 31 1990 mcdonalds opens in Moscow
 Over 400 mcds in china
 More than half of the us live within 3 min drive of a mcds
 More people go to mcds than church
 Mcds aims a children
 The added play grounds
 Mds learned that brand loyalty could start at 2
 Americans spen 110 billion on fast food every year
 In 1995 there were 200 million adults and
18 milion kids under five who were over weight
 In 2000 there were 300 million obese adults

Summary
McDonalds expanded very fast
McDonalds has increased the number of people who are obese in America
McDonalds is now a large part of American society
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Ideas
The fast food revolution really stated around 1916 and has developed quite a lot in a short period of time
Fast food is closely linked with the automobile
Notes
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First hot dog stand opend in 1867 in NY
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In 1872 walter scott put a kitchen on a wagon so he coukd birng his works hot dinners
 The first white catle was built in 1916 in Wichita
KS “ introducing the limited menu, high volume, low cost, high speed hamburger restaurant” the staples of a Fast food resturan by walter anderson
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Walter Anderson and billy ingram parnerd in
1921 to make the first hamburger chain
 They were built to make it seem like you could have low cost and high quality
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A&w sold there root beer road side in 1919 and franchised its syrup in 1921
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Howard johnson pioneered franchising resturants in the 1930’s
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Formally standurdising menus adds and sings
 how servive was introduced in the late 1920’s
 The term fast food was coined in 1951
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The same year driveive through window speaker systems were introduced by jack-in-thebox in sad diego CA
 Mcds didn’t get a drive through window till
1975
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Mcds mow makes 60% of their sales through
 drive through’s
Summary
There have been a lot of innovation in the fast food industry closely linked with the automobile
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Ideas
The idea of quick cheap portable food has been around for a long time
Fast food is a huge industry
Fast food has changed overtime to fit with the changing population
Notes
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Fast food might have started in ancient Rome
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Urban living in Rome had almost no cooking space
 Street vendors and walk up restaurants fed a lot of the population
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The first fast food restaurant was white castle in
1916
 ”Curb service, where a fast food restaurant employee delivers food from the restaurant to waiting customers outside in their cars, started as a novelty at an A&W Root Beer shop in the
1920s but was so popular the practice spread nationwide in short order.”
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McDonalds, A&W, White Castle and Howard
Johnsons where house hold names by the
1950’s
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The word fast food was added to the Merriam
Webster dictionary in 1951
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By the 1960s fast food restaurants added kids menus as a standard part of some popular chains
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The fast food industry employs more than 4 million workers to prepare and serve in the USA alone
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Fast food has become more eclectic
Summary
By the 50’s the fast food revolution was in full swing
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Ideas
Fast food restaurants are a placed in specific places so that its easily car accessible
Notes
 Fast food restaurants are evenly dispersed along cities major traffic thoroughfares
 when rout 66 was built it attracted tons of fast food restaurants to be built along it
 in 1955 spring field had 15 Fast food restaurant
 in 1975 it had 55 fast food restaurant
 by 1995 spring field had 130 fast food restaurants
 restaurants became common in
 malls around the 1980’s chain restaurants clustered at state highway interchanges
Summary
It’s good to place fast food restaurants near roads
Fast food automobile age