| Fast food, slow health | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 12:19:02 PM by Kate Grant | It's fast, it's full of fat and bad things, it's yummy. This is the problem with fast food. You know it's bad for you, (highest calorie intake comes from fast food) but you just can't stop eating it... 
Fast food chains of any kind, hamburgers, pizza, Mexican and what not, are spread nationwide, and it's easy to get a fast food franchise, and open yet another fast food restaurant. Just look at the statistics - there are fast food chains that open almost a branch a day somewhere in the world.
Nutrition-wise, fast food is usually a poor eating choice. But the fact is, it's almost impossible to beat the fast food industry.
They know their target market, and will even offer coupons to kids or families from a low socioeconomic background, making them come back again and again, to eat a reduced price meal.
It's a known fact, that eating large portions of fast food is one of the reasons for making America fat. There's nothing wrong with an having a burger or a taco once in a while, but eating fast food on a daily basis, will have unwanted consequences.
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| | | Eat Fast food? Gain weight... | | Posted Sunday, January 08, 2006 3:05:41 PM by Kate Grant | | | Struggling with your weight? Try reducing your fast food intake. The results of a 15 years study suggests that participants (3,000 white and black American adults) who ate fast food more than twice a week, gaind 10 pounds more during the 15 years study, then those who had fast food less than once a week.
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| | | Fast Food Thief Still At-Large | | Posted Tuesday, December 27, 2005 4:04:10 PM by Emma Brown | | | A Taco Bell in Fishers was the target of yet another fast food robbery. A man, dubbed the 'TEC-9 robber', has committed 18 robberies of fast food establishments so far. Why is he called TEC-9? Because of the military style pistol he uses during his robberies. The Fishers police asked the public to help search for the suspect. | |
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| | | Fast-food driver shot dead | | Posted Monday, December 12, 2005 11:50:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | 
| A 51-year-old employee of the Nando's restaurant in Honeydew, northwest of Johannesburg, was shot and wounded on Sunday during a robbery, said police.
Inspector Karen Jacobs of West Rand police said two armed men overpowered a 28-year-old staffer while he was closing up the restaurant about 00.30 on Sunday.
One of the robbers stayed at the door while the other one demanded money from the employee.
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| | | McDonald's China deal weds cars, fast food | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:55:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | McDonald's has opened its first drive-through in Beijing, launching a partnership with a major Chinese oil company to exploit that country's growing taste for both cars and Western fast food. The Beijing drive-through, which opened Friday, is the first in McDonald's venture with China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. Jeffrey Schwartz, McDonald's China chief executive, said 25 to 30 more joint sites would open in the next 12 to 18 months. .... | |
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| | | More fast food meals mean more excess weight | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:01:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study provides the best evidence to date that eating fast food makes you fat. Among nearly 3,400 young adults participating in a long-term study, every additional fast food meal they consumed each week correlated with a substantial increase in body mass index (BMI), Dr. Barry M. Popkin of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and colleagues found. "It's a large effect," Popkin told Reuters Health in an interview. "That's enough of an effect to take you from being non-diabetic to diabetic." .... | |
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| | | Fast Food Nation | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:15:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | This Friday, November 17, Eric Schlosser's best-seller, "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal," hits the big screen. Directed by Richard Linklater of "A Scanner Darkly," fame, the film takes audiences on a tour of the real ingredients in American fast food, and none of them are beef. Unlike Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me," "Fast Food Nation" is not a documentary, it's a drama. "Fast Food Nation" wasn't designed to make consumers feel good about indulging in the occasional Big Mac. On the contrary -- critics claim this film has the potential to change the fast food industry as we know it. I'm not ashamed to admit that as soon as the "Super Size Me" credits rolled, I ran to the nearest McDonalds to load up on artery-clogging (but otherwise totally harmless) burgers and fries.... | |
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| | | Fast-food robber makes another fast getaway | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:10:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | The fast-food bandit makes another fast get away, this time the armed robber hit the Quiznos sandwich shop in Robertsdale on Wednesday night. Police say he had a "skull cap" pulled over his face, but his description generally matches that of the robbery suspect in what is now a dozen robberies over the last couple of weeks in Mobile and Baldwin Counties. Many of you may be wondering how this restaurant bandit is getting away with all these robberies.. NBC 15's Baldwin County Reporter Leon Petite has talked with police to learn what they're doing to catch this thief and he files this report. He's getting away with money, but fast food employees in this area say the restaurant bandit is depriving local eateries of more than just cash. The suspect has also taken away the worker's sense of safety and he's left behind a long trail of fear.... | |
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| | | Part 4: Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser [Going Fictional ... | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:04:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | On October 19th, we got the chance to sit down with Fast Food Nation author and screenwriter Eric Schlosser. We were able to get so much information about the project that we decided to handle this interview differently. Instead of Q and A, we've rearranged the answers in order of chronology. The result is like a mini writers audio commentary about the project from start to finish. The following is Part Four of a ten part series. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Part 8] [Part 9] [Part 10] Check back tomorrow for Part 5. Fast Food Nation hits theaters on November 17th 2006. .... | |
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| | | Candid camera at the fast-food drive-thru | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:56:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | Smile! Candid camera could soon be coming to the fast-food drive-thru near you. With more than 70 percent of fast-food orders today coming at drive-thrus rather than at restaurant counters, leading chains such as Wendy's (Charts) and McDonald's (Charts) are testing new technology aimed at combating some of the growing problems facing the $142 billion fast-food industry: Things like long lines, rude service and incorrect orders. .... | |
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| | | Taco Del Mar to spice up fast food throughout Southcentral | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:08:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Under new ownership and management, Taco Del Mar restaurants are being ushered into Southcentral and Interior Alaska by a former Alaskan 7-Eleven president. After a Fairbanks opening and subsequent success of a Taco Del Mar there this summer, Jim Chevigny has decided to pepper Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley with several of the Baja taco and burrito restaurants. Chevigny, who is called a master developer for Taco Del Mar and was successful at opening and maintaining 32 different 7-Eleven stores in Alaska in the 1980s, is back in Alaska. Featuring a Baja Mexico theme, the restaurants are decked out with surfboard-style tables and a colorful mural that has elements from Alaska blended into the Baja theme. Using the motto of "Release your Inner Baja," Chevigny said his is a fresh approach to the industry by offering a peppy friendly staff and spicy colorful food.... | |
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| | | KFC s time for fast food oil change | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:06:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | A LEADING fast food chain is to start using zero trans fat soybean oil for its fried chicken at all 5500 of its US restaurants. The move prompted calls for KFC to follow suit in Scotland to help reduce levels of coronary heart disease. KFC said many of its US restaurants had already switched to low linolenic soybean oil, replacing partially hydrogenated soybean oil – the primary source of artificial trans fats. The company said it was considering a similar move in the UK, but currently lacked sufficient supplies of the healthier substitute oil. A spokeswoman said: "KFC UK is unable to source sufficient quantities of low linolenic soybean oil, which is being implemented in the US. We are actively working on alternative oil options with the goal of eliminating trans fats as soon as possible." KFC's switch follows legal action by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, which had sued it in June over the trans fat content of its chicken.... | |
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| | | South Africa: City Fast Food Delivers Famously | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:55:10 AM by Blog57 Team | | Famous Brands, which claims to be Africa's biggest quick-service restaurant franchise chain, says the Debonairs Pizza stores opened in downtown city centres and traditionally black areas have prov- ided a "fast-growing, predomi-nantly middle-income market that was not there three to four years ago". Chief operating officer Kevin Hedderwick says strong growth at the Debonairs stores opened in places such as the Jabulani and Protea malls in Soweto, in the Carlton Centre and in Braamfontein, has boosted the brand. "It has surprised us. For example, we opened a Debonairs in Umtata three months ago and it has already made it into our top 10 stores." Pizza continues to experience phenomenal growth among the emerged market, he says. The group, which franchises the Steers, Wimpy, Debonairs Pizza, FishAways, House of Coffees, Brazilian Coffee Shops and Whistle Stop brands, attributed a 23% hike in profit to R45,4m in the six months to August 31 from R36,9m in the same period a year ago, to strong demand in its "value-for-money" restaurants.... | |
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| | | New fast-food delivery satisfies late night cravings | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:58:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cramming for that chemistry test and craving a Big Mac at midnight? A new online student service, VT Late Night Food, offers delivery of popular fast-food to students. Co-founders Z.J. Palasz and Brian Plass got the idea to start a late-night delivery business while living in the dorms two years ago. Sick of walking cross-campus at night, especially in the cold winter months, they decided to start what they felt was a necessary service. Its a valuable service because it helps students get food without walking or driving late at night. It helps the businesses as well by providing increased access to Blacksburg and the campus, Plass said. VT Late Night Food debuted last weekend after a detailed advertising campaign headed by fourth year architecture major Christine Mussler.... | |
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