A fast food restaurant, sometimes known as a quick service restaurant or QSR, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service. Food served in fast food restaurants typically caters to a Western-style diet; is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot to order; and is usually available ready to take away, though seating is provided. Fast food restaurants are usually part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation, which ships standardized foodstuffs to each restaurant from central locations.The first fast food restaurants originated in the United States of America during the 1950s. Today, American-founded fast food chains such as McDonald's and Pizza Hut are multinational corporations with outlets across the globe.Variations on the fast food restaurant concept include fast casual restaurants and catering trucks. Fast casual restaurants have higher sit-in ratios, and customers can sit and have their orders brought to them. Catering trucks often park just outside worksites and are popular with factory workers.

I visited six local fast food restaurants and ordered a burger off of their value menu using the drive-thru. The only stipulation for this taste testing was that each burger needed to be priced $1.00 or less.

Police in Surrey, B.C., have begun to stake out fast food drive-thru windows in hopes of catching impaired drivers with the late-night munchies. Project WULF — an acronym for Would U Like Fries — was launched after police heard numerous comments from restaurant staff about the number of impaired drivers that frequent fast food drive-thrus.

DotComMothers has published a new interview with Nandini Mukherjee of Indian Bread Co. If you are entrepreneurial or love reading small business success stories then you will enjoy this interview. Nandini’s restaurant is not your typical Indian Restaurant with the same old menu. Indian Bread Co is a fast food Indian restaurant.

As more Americans seek out products with green credentials, more quick and casual restaurants are ready to serve them. Eating green no longer means just ordering from a vegetarian menu. In fact, it doesn't even have to mean eating healthy.

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