Fast Food Is Affecting Today's Society

Fast food has been expanding not only in the United States but globally. Fast food has not only been serving very high calorie foods but has also helped people ever since they have been around. Although fast food has been crucially criticized, it has helped people by making a meal easier to put on the table and has given people a financial status since it is part of the leading economy. Since today’s society has adapted to a fast paced lifestyle due to hectic working schedules and tight hours between work and home most people do not have time to prepare a home cooked meal so they depend on fast food restaurants to make the food for them. Fast food is usually done in minutes they decide it is a real convenience for their families, some fast

A great example is provided from Gianoulis “Super Size Me.” Where she explains how “Spurlock not only gains 25 pounds, but he also experiences depression, exhaustion, heart palpitations, decrease of sex drive, loss of liver function, asthma, and elevated cholesterol.” Fast food not only makes you feel this way, but also makes you feel addicted to the food as you continue to rely and find ways to obtain it Gianoulis says that Spurlock described himself only feeling happy when he was eating fast food. Fast food impacts younger children the most because they are the ones being targeted in the most ways due to ads that big fast food chains produce. Children who eat fast food are more likely to do worse on tests and school performance. According to Whiteman “around 10% of children reported eating fast food every day, while 10% reported eating it four to six times a week.” While the rest of the children ate the foods at least one to three times a week. The children were tested in subjects like reading, math, and science. These tests were completed twice by the same students once in the fifth grade and once in the eighth grade. “the results revealed that children who consumed fast food four to six times a week or every day

Since the demand for fast food is so high, the employees have no other option than to prepare the food within minutes so that people don’t have to wait and also so it is convenient for the consumer since most people have busy schedules and work long hours. Most fast foods have even incorporated technology so that people are able to be entertained or helped to get their food done before they even arrive to these fast food restaurants. So far restaurants have incorporated things such as mobile ordering, tabletop e-waiter and checkout, online coupons, and games while you wait. Mobile ordering is one of the most used and popular perks because it allows people to order from anywhere to a local store of the customers choosing whether it’s closer to the office or home. Tabletop e-watering and checkout is not only a benefit but also a more secure way to pay with a credit card. “Diners hate it when waiters take their credit card away and run it up at the register – it’s a common point for credit-card fraud” (Tice). With a tabletop waiter not only does the customer pay for the food but can observe what they are being charged for before swiping their credit card. Another benefit of technology is playing video games while the person waits on their food, “McDonald’s is projecting gesture enabled games onto restaurant floors for kids to play while