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- 1. Fast Food – How it Works
- 5. In your book…. Write the names of 10 fast foods that you like to eat. Draw pictures of logos showing which restaurant the foods are made at.
- 8. higher in calories and sugar
- 9. higher in saltCopy into your book!
- 11. Dick and Mac McDonald By simplifying their menu, the McDonald's brothers were able to speed up orders and bring in hoards of hungry customers. McDonald's, the company that would come to represent what people love or hate about America, has humble roots in the Great Depression. In the 1930s, brothers Dick and Mac McDonald were struggling to make a living running a movie theater in California when they noticed that a nearby hot dog stand always seemed to do a lot of business. With a $5,000 loan, the McDonald brothers started the Airdrome hot dog stand in 1937. By 1940, they moved it from Arcadia to San Bernardino and changed the name to McDonald's Barbeque. Despite success, the brothers wanted to do things better and faster. In a bold move, they temporarily shut down the place in 1948 and reopened with a new, experimental approach. They simplified the menu to focus on burgers, fries and milkshakes In the next six years, business was doing so well that the brothers sold 21 franchises and opened nine outlets. The original restaurant was bustling with so much business that the brothers ordered eight Multimixers -- machines that made five milkshakes at one time!!! Today, as most of us can see, McDonald's restaurants are everywhere. McDonald's typically looks for locations that are the most convenient for people -- in malls, near colleges or in airports.
- 12. What do they use to cook fast food?
- 14. A dressing station where people added the same condiments to every burger
- 15. A fryer where one person made french fries
- 16. A soda fountain and milkshake machine for desserts and beverages
- 17. A counter where customers placed and received their ordersThese kitchen's purpose, was to make a very large amount of a very few food items e.g. burgers, fries
- 19. When you drive through, you place your order at a speaker or a window, and someone hands it to you through a window
- 20. The food arrives individually wrapped and in a bag or on a tray
- 21. You can eat most of the food without using a knife or fork
- 22. The food is relatively inexpensive
- 23. Individual restaurants in the same chain physically resemble or are identical to one another
- 24. When you visit different restaurants from the same chain, the menu and food are pretty much the sameCopy into your book!
- 26. The factory adds artificial and natural flavours to the food to make sure it all tastes the same. These flavours are manufactured separate factories.
- 27. The equipment in the kitchen cooks all of the food for the same amount of time. For example, in some chains, a conveyor belt carries hamburger patties through a broiler. The broiler cooks the patties on both sides simultaneously, and the conveyor belt makes sure they're cooked for precisely the right amount of time.
- 29. Health and Safety Issues The mass-production process involves sending lots of food through a factory in a short amount of time. For this reason, one sick animal or piece of waste can contaminate a large amount of food very quickly. Bacteria, viruses and parasites can spread to all of the food in a large mixing vat, or it can contaminate machinery used to process the food. This doesn't mean that mass-produced food is less safe than home-cooked food. In fact, most foodborne illnesses come from food cooked in the home. Instead, it means that when contamination does occur, it's likely to affect a lot of people at the same time. For example, in 1993, 700 people became ill after eating hamburgers contaminated with e. coli O157:H7 bacteria. This happened at Jack in the Box, an American fast food joint.