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.

New York orders fast-food chains to list calorie counts on menu items

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is testing $1 coffees and free refills, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, as the global coffee chain faces increasing competition from fast-food rivals. ...

Thought it was expensive to live in New York City? You're right. Even fast food is expensive there.

Fast Food Indian Cafe - Meet Nandini Mukherjee of Indian Bread Co. A small business success story - Meet Nandini Mukherjee of Indian Bread Co - Nandini runs a successful Fast Food Cafe in New York. Her business has been attracting lots of media coverage and customers.

Nandini Mukherjee runs a fast food Indian Cafe in New York. Her restaurant is gaining wide media exposure both because of the quality of food and the high service levels. Her company was even chosen to cater for the welcome party for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. I have a feeling that in a few years time we might actually see many more of her restaur