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Food, it’s been a necessity for sustaining human life. For as long as there have been creatures that need nourishment there has been a need to feast. Over the course, history of humanity has always taken the time out of their daily lives in order to prepare a meal, but the way in doing it has changed since man first used his taste buds. During modern times with speedy economic growth and the fast pace life styles of people today there has been a need for change in how we get nourishment. The answer to modern fast working has become fast food. But fast food has been serving people before the rise of giants like McDonalds and Burger King. In Ancient Greece and during the roman empire a form of service was used in which people could pay for food ready to eat, but was only used by travelers and wonderers that came by and needed a meal (Wilson, pg.1). But these were people that had not seen the need for fast food until the 1920’s. The roaring 20’s was a time of great change in the United States of America. The economy was booming with the rise of the assembly line and the mass production of automobiles. With the introduction of automobiles and the evolution of travel, the food industry also wanted to change. Innovators began to ask why can’t a person get food on the go at a fast pace and at their convenience in their cars? People like J. Walter Anderson, who in 1916, started the ever popular east coast White Castle franchise answered this question (files, pg.1). On the Western front of the United States a man be the name of Carl Karcher went in a similar direction by starting out with a small hot dog cart in 1939 that later became the famous Carl’s Jr. fast food restaurants. Ever since the beginning of this idea of fast food not even the economic and public turmoil of the prohibition could stop this rapid success. One could even say that the automobile was the beginning of fast food and drive through craves. The way that the drive-through functioned has also changed over the years. In the early stages of fast food, it was considered “cool” to drive up and park at a fast food joint and order from a “carhop”. These carhops were usually young and attractive women which would come up to your vehicle and take your order before returning to the restaurant to place it. Following this way of service came an even more efficient and faster way of ordering. In the 1950’s, the introduction of the speaker system that is used today was one more addition to this growing market. People would no longer have to come up to the car window because with this installation the car would come up the speaker. Over time new Innovative technologies would be added to help the speed of these franchises. Today not only do people have the speaker, but cameras telling the employees that a car is in the drive through, are also a part of most of these businesses. Large fast food chains such as McDonalds hold many of these accommodations. When fast food comes to mind a few place are thought of. One of which is the worldwide super chain McDonalds. McDonalds has been around since 1939 when the ambitious McDonalds brothers Richard and Maurice traveled from New Hampshire to California in search of jobs. The brothers opened a theatre but soon the idea crumbled and that is when they jumped on the band wagon for Fast Food in Pasadena. Soon after the opening of their establishment, it became a booming success. After a period of around ten years the Brothers grew tired of hiring carhops and cooks for service, instead, they fired everyone and paid certain people to do specific tasks. One person would make the fries while another would coo the burgers. It was a speedy service that was revolutionizing the fast food industry and was completely original to the McDonalds restaurant service. But why stop there? The McDonalds brothers felt their restaurant no longer needed the use of dishwashers and plates. Instead they transferred all eating utensils and plates to plastic and throw away material. McDonalds became a fully self service eatery and they advertized it as such. Since then the company has become one of the leading members in the fast food world and countries from Japan to Germany house the big gold arches. Hamburgers and French fries weren’t the only fast food profits out there. Another fast food company established in 1962, a well known eatery with a Mexican twist was born, Taco bell. The founder Glen Bell first went through a phase in 1946 when he opened a hotdog stand but after find out more about the world’s tastes he decided on opening up three Taco Tia stands. Soon after they began to profit he sold the stands to his partners and moved on to create the first Taco Bell in Downey California. With this new eatery he was able to create an empire of Mexican fast food by branching from Downey to Long Beach, Paramount and L.A. soon he would have his legacy put forth under the tasty Taco Bell Taco. Pizza was another fast growing love by American people. The Italian pie was soon a popular item and Frank and Dan Carney were soon to jump on the opportunity. The creators of Pizza Hut, they were told that they should start a business from a friend and ran with it. With six hundred clams in their buckets from their mom they started what America knows today as the largest pizza company in the world. In 1958 the Brothers built their first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas. After a booming success rate over the next fourteen years the Fast food pie making restaurants had one thousand units open over the United States in 1972(pizzahut.com). The faster the process of creating tasty foods led to the growth of powers such as these three. The world of fast food is a fast growing market and is, in a way, part of American life and culture. Although they are large economic giants today, each and every one of these restaurants started as nothing more than an idea and a small business. But just as much as it feeds the worlds working and people it has its down sides. For the joy of a good tasting burger or delicious taco Americans pay a price that means bad news for the health of the people and the planet. In the next section, the environmental effects of such large industries will be explained. 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