Origin & History of fast food

fast food, is rapidly prepare and supply of food in general, usually can hand pick the food, do not use cutlery to eat, most of which can take away or take away. Fast food because a lot of cooking, low cost, short production time, from the early 20th century more and more popular, is a product of commerce and industry community.

 History, origin and development
Fast food in a sense, is seen as a mark of modern culture, between different cultures, the content of fast food has a very different creature. Trafficking in bread and olive oil in a small stall in the ancient Roman city, while in East Asia, it is relatively easy to get to see the noodle, bread shops. In the Middle East it may be to sell the flat bread and falafel stalls.
The origin of the modern fast food is usually associated with the Hamburg painting, because the first is the hamburger fast food restaurants as the main products. US GAAP opened the first fast-food restaurant is White Castle (White Castle), had already appeared in 1921, when the price of a hamburger is five cents. Later, White Castle hamburger get in on five holes, which can increase the heating surface area, so that the meat cooked faster cooking time required is relatively short. White Castle is marked the beginning of the fast food industry, and also spawned numerous competitive industry.
Snack perceived today, most of the mainstream of American fast-food enterprises, outside addition is to send some pizza parlors, fried chicken shop. However, Chinese, Japanese and other oriental snack is also a certain development. Both communication is the use of industrialized production of thinking, often use the pipeline processing, pre-frozen meals, cooking ingredients and distribution of ready-made, easy to throw the dishes, also use flavored seasoning packet addressed, while the production of single, will dish meals separately for self-matching. You can directly take over the counter or a simple treatment can be consumed, or by microwave heating.Eastern and Western fast-food snack
And understanding of different western world, Chinese and Japanese-style fast food usually need chopsticks, spoon feeding, with a bamboo stick, hands and other food are usually considered snacks, and therefore the term "fast food" is usually connected with the West. Chinese environment, the perception of fast food is mainly reflected in a "fast" above the word. Traditionally, the oriental restaurant making is complex, to be the chef prepare and cook, customers tend to sit half-rates child in the seat, side dishes will be served. Consumers do not need to wait for a modern fast-food food preparation time, cooking focuses on efficiency.
In the Chinese cultural circle country, with the 20th-century industrial society shaped, has gradually developed a modern fast-food eating patterns, such as Chinese snack, Taiwan braised pork on rice, Hong Kong-style fast food, donburi Japan, Korea and other delivery services . After China's reform and opening up, there is part of the fast food line number committed to research and improved dishes, ingredients and cooking methods, so as to enable food and beverage snack healthier, more diverse, such through improved meals in China has been called " New fast food ", and both the American tradition imported from the United States," foreign fast food "to distinguish

Examples of fast-food industry
Coverage of today's fast food around the world, especially in American fast food is very.
The world's largest fast-food chain in the industry, is often associate with McDonald's fast food, it is as late as 1948 before the name of a hot dog stand in the form of San Diego. [Citation needed] Its founders Ray Kroc wholesalers then supply milkshake, he co-founded the McDonald's restaurant in 1954, and has achieved distribution rights. Kentucky Fried Chicken and McDonald's eponymous shop also from the United States, in Louisville, Kentucky, created by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1939, with famous fried chicken, now owned by Yum.
Other American fast food industry, Burger King in 1954 in the United States in Miami - Dade County, opened its first branch in char-grilled hamburgers and fresh vegetables preparation, named Whopper hamburger for Burger King's signature food. Wendy's is founded in 1972, its important initiative is the invention of drive-thru customers a "drive-thru" (drive-thru) was purchased diner road services. Subway with fresh, healthy, Point as demands, to provide low-calorie submarine sandwiches.
Asia's fast-food industry, Japan Yoshinoya, Matsuya provide donburi-based fast-food chain restaurants, Chinese Taiwan and other places throughout the region around the food court, night market of instant food stores selling mainly, but also beard Zhang Lu pilaf , first-rate and Dandan burgers chain industry. Japan's Mos Burger is a special case, which include "rice burger" American instant Zhucheng, including wind.Criticism
Although fast food has a low cost, fast speed, but with plenty of edible oil, seasonings and food additives to conditioning, which makes the snack has been criticized harm to human health, especially to accelerate the visceral disease risk.