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The first mass produced car in the united states was mad in 1908(model t ford)
By 1940 there where a million cars in la
1948 McDonalds gets rid of car hops
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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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
First hot dog stand opend in 1867 in NY
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
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
A&w sold there root beer road side in 1919 and franchised its syrup in 1921
Howard johnson pioneered franchising resturants in the 1930’s
Formally standurdising menus adds and sings
how servive was introduced in the late 1920’s
The term fast food was coined in 1951
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
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
Fast food might have started in ancient Rome
Urban living in Rome had almost no cooking space
Street vendors and walk up restaurants fed a lot of the population
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.”
McDonalds, A&W, White Castle and Howard
Johnsons where house hold names by the
1950’s
The word fast food was added to the Merriam
Webster dictionary in 1951
By the 1960s fast food restaurants added kids menus as a standard part of some popular chains
The fast food industry employs more than 4 million workers to prepare and serve in the USA alone
Fast food has become more eclectic
Summary
By the 50’s the fast food revolution was in full swing
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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