This documentary examines the fast food industry from multiple perspectives over the course of 30 minutes. It explores the history of fast food and health impacts, featuring interviews with fast food employees, nutritionists, and customers. It also analyzes the role of marketing, the economic impact, international differences in menus and standards, and perspectives on the future of fast food.

1. Running Order:
Documentary: Can I take your order please?
Channel: Channel 4
Scheduling: Tuesday 20:00-20:30pm
Duration: 32 minutes
Montage of fast food restaurants and fast food using a variation of shots, long,
close-up, panning, establishing etc. Fast Food Rockers –The Fast Food Song playing.
13 secs
Opening title sequence (music continues). 11 secs
Start with archive footage of the first fast food restaurants. With this we will have a
voice over explaining a brief history of fast food. Music changes to instrumental of
Food Glorious Food –Oliver Twist (this will occur at each voice over only).
14 secs
Vox pops saying which their favourite fast food restaurants are. 20 secs
Interview with subway store manager Dave Jones and Dominos store manager Pete
Roberts, their names and occupations will appear on a banner when they are first
shown on screen. Conventional documentary medium shot using the rule of thirds.
Cut-aways of subway menu, nutritional information about the subway sandwiches
and the dominos kitchen.
28 secs
Archive footage of supersize me documentary. Beginning of voice over… 9 secs
Voice over giving some information about the Supersize Me documentary and
explaining health effects of fast food with observation footage a tracking shot of
KFC drive-thru.
16 secs
Interview with Sharon Dookhran NHS nurse about the effects of fast food. Cut
aways of McDonalds breakfast and an image of obesity.
16 secs
Vox pops talking about their thoughts of the health effects of fast food. 58 secs
Back to the interview with the store manager of Subway and store manager of
Dominos. Cutways of dominos pizza, the dominos store and dominos pizza being
taken out of box.
44 secs
Voice over about home cooking with footage of a woman preparing and cooking
dinner and setting the table.
12 secs
Interview with home cooker Michael Narborough. Cut aways of family meal being
cooked and family sitting down to eat at the table.
43 secs
Interview with NHS nurse Sharon Dookhran about fast food addiction 4 secs
Vox pops thoughts about fast food addiction 8 secs
Voice over about fast food addiction. 5 secs
Back to interview with Sharon Dookhran about fast food addiction research. 1min
Montage of fast food advertisements 10 secs
Interview with Booths in Manchester who are in partnership with ‘Slow Food’. 20 secs
Interview with fast food restaurant manager discussing their plans of action and
aims that they set for their restaurant, including whether or not they think their
company is going to attempt to make the food healthier.
40 secs
Title shown 5 secs
ADVERT BREAK 4 mins
Title shown 5 secs
Voice over about kids parties taking place at fast food restaurants 20 secs
Interview with parents and why they allow parties at fast food restaurants 1 min

2. Montage of fast food mascots and jingles. 18 secs
Interview with restaurant employee about their advertising and mascots alongside
interview with a fast food restaurant mascot. Cut- aways of mascots promoting the
restaurant.
1min 20 secs
Voice over about how fast food is social especially with young people/students. 15 secs
Interview with young adults/students (16-25) about why they eat fast food. Cut
away shots to students eating fast food.
1 min
Interview with middle-aged adults about why they think students are such big
consumers of fast food, how their lives differ and if they think it fast food
consumption is becoming a big problem with students.
1 min
Voice over about media coverage of fast food, with footage of documentaries,
television programmes, movies in which the characters are eating fast food.
20 secs
Montage of fast food featured in programmes etc. 30 secs
Vox pops thought on how fast food is presented in the media and the effects on the
economy.
1 mins
Interview with economics teacher/ lecturer about how they think fast food
restaurants benefit or damage the economy. Cut-aways to graphs and statistics and
employment.
2 mins
Voice over talking about sales comparisons around the UK, Europe and the rest of
the world using statistics and images of graphs and finance documents.
30 secs
Interview with fast food employee in charge of finances also and how they work
with their other stores abroad.
1 min 30 secs
Voice over about how fast food restaurants edit their menu’s for their location for
example in McDonald's Austria they have McNoodles.
30 secs
Observational/archive footage of different fast food restaurants worldwide and
altercations in their menu’s to fit in with that country’s culture. Alongside interviews
with a range of people from different countries and what they think about fast food.
1 min 30 secs
Voice over about hygiene and safety standards within fast food restaurants in the
UK and worldwide.
30 secs
Interview with health inspector on how they review fast food restaurants, what they
are looking for/assessing.
1 min
Montage of families eating fast food. 30 secs
Interviews with parents part of the ‘Parents Against Junk Food’ organisation. With
cut away shots to children and families eating fast food.
40 secs
Interviews with members of the ‘Food Empowerment Project’. Discussing what they
do and how others can become a part of the organisation or support it.
2 mins
Voice over about how fast food restaurants have managed to stay so popular over
time and how they plan to continue to be successful.
20 secs
Interview with the fast food store managers Dave and Pete about the future of their
stores.
40 secs
Vox pops thoughts on the future of fast food. 30 secs
Voice over summing up what we have found out and what the future holds for fast
food restaurants.
2 mins
Ending Credits 5 secs