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.

FOOD FACTS Did you know...A healthy garden salad with low-fat dressing often has more sodium than A hamburger and french fries? Teriyaki marinade can have as much as 3,050mg sodium per tablespoon, but many grilling sauces have less than 140mg?

Certainly, the French cuisine is extremely diverse including a wide variety of foods and recipes from national and regional cuisines. France really offers one of the richest cuisines in the World.

Interesting post on the fact that Asians don't eat only rice. Koreans at least eat hot dogs coated with French fries, coated in batter and deep fried.

If you are looking for fine French wine and food, consider the Beaujolais region of southeastern France. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you’ll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a local red Beaujolais Cru (high quality) wine.Among France’s eleven wine-growing regions Beaujolais .......

"The French Paradox is a so-called “phenomenon” concerning the fact that people in France consume lots of food rich in saturated fats (butter, cheese, eggs, whole milk, foie gras and other animal livers, animal fats and all kinds of meats including bacon, etc.) and cholesterol, yet in general, have a much lower incidence of heart disease."