Fast food is the term given to many foods that can be prepared and served quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, such as TV dinners, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store which is rapidly prepared and served to the customer in a packaged form for take out/take away.Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations which are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations.The capital requirements to start a fast-food restaurant are relatively small, particularly in areas with non-existent or poorly enforced health codes. Small, individually-owned fast-food restaurants have become common throughout the world. Fast food restaurants with higher sit-in ratios, where customers can sit and have their orders brought to them, are known as fast casual restaurants.

Grilled chicken from fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King can cause cancer, and consumers deserve to know that this supposedly healthy product is actually just as bad for them as high-fat fried chicken.

Americans gorge on fast food. Be it greasy burgers, tacos, fried chicken, baked potatoes, sandwiches or pizzas. Fast food is so popular in the U.S. that there are more than 300,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S. Fast food has become a part of the busy American lifestyle because it is convenient, tasty and time-saving.

The food served at neighborhood casual-dining chain restaurants is positively loaded with fat, calories and sodium, in amounts far surpassing those usually found in fast-food meals. Sodium ranged from a low of 245 milligrams (lightly dressed salad) to 4,450 (chicken fajitas). Also see http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2007/11/07/calorie_confidential

KFC president has invited Jennifer Lopez and hubby Marc Anthony to hold an after party in the fast food restaurants every time they end their joint tour.

Police had to taser a man several times after he kept trying to run from police, who suspected him of being involved in a drug deal. However, once the police got control of the man they found not only over an ounce of cocaine, but also a live chicken that police believed he got from a fast food restaurant.