This document provides a summary of various information sources selected for a documentary on the history and culture of fast food. The sources include newspaper articles that discuss the popularity and health impacts of major fast food chains. Historical sources describe the origins and growth of the fast food industry in both the UK and US following World War 1. Additional sources include fast food company websites to facilitate interviews, as well as a short documentary on the effects of fast food addiction. The selected sources offer factual information on topics like the mass production of fast food, nutritional values, and marketing strategies to provide background for the documentary.

1. Research Record:
Information Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article1365424/Subway-vs-McDonalds-Theartery-clogging-truth-favourite-fast-foodchains.html
What Information Did You
Select From This Source:
11 March 2011- Invasion of
the super-sized sarnies: As
Subway overtakes
McDonalds as our biggest
fast-food chain, the artery
clogging truth about its
sandwiches.
Subway has powered
into first place in the
fast-food league,
with 1,500 outlets in
Britain alone
compared to
McDonald's 1,197.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article2303861/Takeaway-UK-Average-Britspending-1-320-year-fastfood-buying-12meals-month.html
4 April 2013- Takeaway UK:
Average Brit is now spending
£1,320 a year on fastfood
buying 12 meals every month
http://www.calypso.co.uk/news/thehistory-of-the-fast-food-industry
The UK had a big part to play
in development of local fast
foods. Coastal areas
particularly served oysters
and local seafood directly on
the quay, and trawler fishing
soon led to the first fish and
chips shop in 1860. It is of
course the US who is most
notorious for fast food, and
this is tied up with the
development of the
automobile post WW1. The
car was an American icon and
Why Did You Select
This Information:
This will be useful for
interviews when
asking questions about
which fast food
restaurant is the most
popular, most
common, has the most
restaurants, is the
healthiest/unhealthies
t etc. We can also
create a collage of
newspaper titles
showing how it is a
discussed topic.
Because it is from a
Newspaper it is likely
to be a reliable and
factual source. Also
because the source is
from a couple of years
ago we can compare it
to 2013.
This is more recent
research and in our
questionnaire we
asked our target
audience how much
they spent on fast
food a year so this
statistic can lead us on
to discussing the topic
of how much money
is spent on fast food.
We selected this
information for our
introduction as it will
define the theme of
fast-food in ou
documentary.

2. soon allowed the ‘drive-thru’
another American icon, to
develop. The first ever fast
food restaurant is generally
considered to be the White
Castle restaurant in Wichita
in 1916. The restaurant
concept was based on
offering a limited menu
based around the
hamburger; producing high
volumes, at high speed and
low cost. This was the start of
the fast food chain mentality
in America. By 1951 ‘fast
food’ was listed in the
dictionary. Although fast
food chains have enjoyed
unimaginable success in the
last half of the 21st century,
the fast food restaurant is
under threat as society
becomes increasingly
concerned with both the
health effects of this kind of
food, and the way it is
produced.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovat
The History of Fast
ion/edible-innovations/fast-food3.htm
Food
Mass-produced food
Fast food safety and
nutrition
This will provide more
factual information for
our introduction.
In our questionnaire
we found out that
most of our target
population are
interested in the
‘making of the
product’ and so the
mass-produced food
information on the
website will allow us
to provide this. The
second most popular
thing that our
audience was
intrested in was the
nutritional value of
fast-food.

3. http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome.ht
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The McDonalds
website is useful for
questions or our
interview with them.
http://www.kfc.co.uk/
The KFC website is
useful for questions or
our interview with
them.
http://www.subway.co.uk/
The Subway website is
useful for questions or
our interview with
them.
http://www.burgerking.co.uk/
The Burger King
website is useful for
questions or our
interview with them.
http://www.italianexpress.co.uk/
The Italian Express
website is useful for
questions or our
interview with them.
http://www.dominos.co.uk/
The Dominos website
is useful for questions
or our interview with
them.
http://www.fastfoodnation.co.uk/fastfood-facts-figures.html
http://www.fastfoodnation.co.uk/factsfigures-recession-affecting-our-fast-foodhabit.html
11 January 2013
How much do we
spend on fast food?
What’s the most
popular fast food in
the UK?
Looking into fast
food and health
What’s new in the
fast food market?
th
26 December 2012
Is the recession affecting our
fast food habits?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/speci
Manufacturing fast food
We can use these facts
on our voice-overs.
Also the food and
health section can
help up get questions
for our interview with
a dietitian.
This article can be
used as archive
material in the
background with our
voice-over.
The majority of our

4. als/1616_fastfood/page7.shtml
addiction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/speci
als/1616_fastfood/index.shtml
Fast food’s founding
father
Cows into burgers
Chicken into nuggets
Fries are divine
Attracting the
customers
Manufacturing fast
food addiction
A corporation under
attack
Adapt or die
18 September 2013
'I'll have a McEverything!'
Fast food fan orders ALL 43
burgers on McDonald's menu
to create 3ft, 20,000 calorie
mega-sandwich that costs
$140.
Our junk food addiction is
dropping alarmingly down
the age ladder and we are
now rearing a generation of
fast food babies.
This arresting documentary
reveals babies and toddlers
eating a diet of chips, burgers
and kebabs, all washed down
with bottles of fizzy cola.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article2424583/Ill-McEverything-Fast-food-fanorders-ALL-43-burgers-McDonalds-menucreate-3ft-20-000-calorie-mega-sandwichcosts-140.html
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/fastfood-baby/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article2090862/McDstories-McDonalds-Twitterpromotion-backfires-users-share-fastfood-horror-stories.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health21478314
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
24 January 2012
#McFail! McDonalds' Twitter
promotion backfires as users
hijack #McDstorieshashtag to
share fast food horror stories
17 February 2013
Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food
ads, say doctors
17 May 2013
target population said
they were most
interested in the
‘making of the
product’.
This website explains
some of the history of
fast food and how
parts of the fast food
products are made. It
also looks at the
corporation in society
and it’s success, this is
all useful and factual
information that our
target audience want
to know.
This is an article about
McDonald’s and shows
how extreme people
can be and the media
coverage of fast food
restaurants.
This short
documenarty can be
used as archive
footage, also it shows
how fast food is an
‘addiction’, this can
lead us to ask
questions about this to
the dietitian we are
going to interview.
This article shows how
the fast food industry
are using social media
and the benefits and
conquences of this.
This comes from a
different point of view
–against fast foodwhich will widen the
variety in our
documentary and
make it more
interesting.

5. 2325980/How-fast-food-outlets-food-really-look-wouldnt-fit-Big-Mac-largebox.html
How fast food outlets show
their food... and how they
really look (and you wouldn't
even fit a Big Mac that large
in its box!)
Photographer Dario D
compared over the counter
purchases with their ads
He found that two
McDonald's burgers would
not fit in their boxes
Some burgers could not
reach the same heights as
the promised products