How fast food started in america

How has the fast-food industry shaped other industries? And how did other industries shape it? What was interesting to me about fast food and its relationship with other businesses is, first of all, all kinds of weird, strange businesses feed into the fast food empire—whether it's creating packaging, or building equipment, or coming up with spices or flavors. Fast food is more reactive, in a way, to the pushes and pulls of the American economy and that has to do with business trends.

It has to do with how people are shopping and eating and consuming these days. How effective was that effort? There have been efforts across the decades to push fast food to change. Do you have a favorite story from the book? The creation of Doritos Locos Tacos is my favorite story in the book.

So he started a Facebook group where he used his Photoshop skills to kind of put together these tableaus of famous pictures with Doritos Locos Taco shells in them. A lot of people started paying attention to it. And Taco Bell, which had actually created the idea 20 years before, and had shelved it because of corporate in-fighting, was planning to release the product and brought this guy along for the journey. It was a really, really fascinating, beautiful story. He lives to see the creation of the product, but dies very shortly thereafter.

He perfected his still-secret recipe of herbs and spices in and, thanks to his inspired conversion of one of the first commercial pressure cookers into a pressure fryer, slashed the time it took to cook the chicken. Discover more top-secret recipes we'd love to get our hands on. But the s would see the marketing of visits to fast food restaurants, aimed at children and families, as fun excursions.

Fast food got serious and silly at the same time during the s and s. A period of aggressive advertising campaigns and price slashing kicked off the Burger Wars. These campaigns included high-profile TV adverts and press marketing that used a tactic known as comparative marketing, that is, each chain comparing its product with its rival's and declaring theirs the best.

A bit cheeky. What followed was some of the biggest rival ad campaigns seen to date, costing the companies tens of millions of dollars and denting their profits. The company entered the melee in , branding itself as the "fresh alternative" to its two biggest rivals and launching its hugely successful 'Where's the beef? The iconic TV advert, featuring old ladies literally looking for the beef in rival burgers, would see the then year-old actress Clara Peller, pictured in character for the campaign, become an instant cultural icon.

The campaign's runaway success wasn't just a cultural moment to be remembered, either although there was spin-off merchandise and even a song. And, it seems, troubled times for the fast food sector means the Burger Wars have been making a resurgence. Keep your eyes open for some hilarious fast food snark. Check out the world's most incredible McDonald's restaurants.

Diners and burger chains may have served Baby Boomers well, but times were a-changing. It would take a stock market listing and another generational shift in the late s and early s for Starbucks to become a global phenomenon, but the coffee shop revolution had begun. Check out from Starbooks to Duffin Dagels: the world's most cheeky fast food knock-offs. And none more so than the hip New Yorker. No wonder then the founding of Shake Shack in , first as a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park before expanding to a kiosk in the same area, was a roaring success.

Alongside its milkshakes, it served hamburgers and hot dogs that emphasised its use of natural, and hormone- and antibiotic-free Angus beef. With health- and authenticity-conscious millennials now forming a large share of the market, American fast food underwent an artisan revolution.

Gourmet hot dog chain Dog Haus, founded in Pasadena, California in , is a prime example. I never knew that fast food restaurants were made in !! Sep 18, Carson Apr 18, Sorry, one last question, In the images were the hamburgers in White Castle really that cheap 5 cents for one hamburger?

That would be awesome if they were today, except everyone would be obese. Apr 18, Yeah, they were actually cheap! Great thought process, Carson! Big Joe Apr 16, Thank you so much for this vid!

I learned alot! Also,can you give e a shout out? Its my Birthday!!! Apr 16, Carson Apr 15, So, is the first restaurant White Castle still in business or did it end a while ago? Apr 15, White Castle still exists--you can search the Internet for locations near you. Ella May 13, May 13, Dalton Apr 12, I have one question,can u plz reply to me? You guys are the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you. Apr 12, Carson Apr 12, Hi, Carson!

Carson Apr 10, Why is the video at the beginning kind of ASMR? Apr 11, Pretty cool, right? We thought it was really a great video.

Riley Mar 27, Mar 28, Thanks for sharing, Riley! Jan 30, We're glad you stopped by! Adiya Jan 24, Dec 17, Aidan Policarpio Mar 31, Apr 1, Samantha Oct 22, I think it all amazing! Cannon May 9, It is true u learn stuff all the time. Can you do more stuff like this? May 14, Jessie Apr 23, Who wrote this?

I need the author for a homework. Apr 27, Feb 2, Jan 29, Is it true that Mc Donald's fries are fake? Also there chicken nuggets. George Sam Jan 25, Dec 18, Little Mouse Lover Nov 4, But it was closed though.. Nov 5, Still a VERY cool connection, though!! May 31, It's possible - we are human after all.

Where do you think there is a typo? Luna Apr 19, Apr 20, Yazmine Feb 26, Who were the experts that estimated that the u.

Feb 27, Ronald J. McDonald and Mr. Wendy could not be reached for comment. Feb 14, Food is great! We try to eat some every day. Feb 11, Feb 13, This was a very creative wonder. Feb 8, Kayla Dec 18, I wonder what is the most popular fast food restraint in the world? Dec 19, Great question, Kayla! We think it'd be cool if you did some extra research to find the answer! Joaan Nov 13, Nov 14, Nov 2, Thanks for joining the conversation, emma! Which fries do you mean?

Tas Apr 29, May 2, New York pizza was very thin, and Chicago pizza tended to be very thick. After WWII, other local pizza joints began to open up with a variety of recipes. It was so successful that they began franchising restaurants quickly.

By , they opened their first restaurant in Canada. Now they have operations in over countries. Dominos added delivery to the pizza business when they opened their first store in Detroit Michigan in Pizza Hut is now part of the aptly named Yum!

In the early s, Col. Harland Sanders was both a victim and a beneficiary of the automobile boom. But the route for the new Interstate 75 was going to bypass his establishment, so the Colonel sold his property and started traveling across the U.

Sanders claimed that frying his chicken in a pressure cooker shortened the preparation time. The short cooking time would take advantage of the fast food boom.

He was the one who came up the idea that the chicken should be sold in paper buckets to wick away excess moisture, and he also came up with the rotating bucket-of-chicken advertising sign that, at one time, was outside every KFC.

But in , Thomas wanted to go out on his own, and so he opened the first Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio. He stressed fresh, rather than frozen, meat served as square patties prepared fresh and served "hot off the grill.