Article: COLUMN: Fast food consumption hurts poor

Article: New menu choices; Fast food changes ...
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  July 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the restaurant category. But with a possible fast-food tax proposal in Detroit and national attention ... be a need for a more concrete definition of fast-food restaurants. For some, fast food can mean junk food, but that's not always ...

Article: UK: LACK OF CAREFUL PLANNING RESULTS IN NEIGHBORING FAST ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  August 15, 2002 ;     609 words ... ... Evening Gazetter, two major fast-food giants could be opening branches ... multi-storey car park with a fast-food restaurant. And his plans have ... light it would mean two brand new fast-food restaurants would be operating next door ...

Article: Fast-food restaurants - just what Eastern ...
AgExporter;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... number and diversity of fast-food restaurants across east China has mushroomed ... and tea-egg vendors. Fast-food restaurants in east China can be defined ... wide variety of Chinese fast-food restaurants. Japanese fast food is ...

Article: Fast food: despite downturn, some still expanding. ...
San Diego Business Journal;  January 25, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... awakening. Business at local fast food restaurants is down about 15 percent ... said they regularly ate at fast food restaurants just two years ago. Now ... hard place -- a market with fast food restaurants tucked in just about every ...

Article: 2,000 fast food restaurants.(PUERTO RICO)
Caribbean Update;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...2,000 FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS. The fast-food industry has ... 4, 2005): Today, 2,000 fast-food restaurants here rake in an US$1 billion ... have shown 77% of locals visit fast-food restaurants often. The composition of the ...

Article: Growing number of fast-food restaurants ...
Ledger (Lakeland, Florida);  January 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... totaled $6.1 billion. Fast food restaurants, cardweb.com reports ... Credit card use at fast-food restaurants) traces its roots back ... credit card transactions at fast-food restaurants, where time is of the essence ...

Article: WHY PEOPLE EAT AT FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS ...
The Hindustan Times;  December 2, 2008 ;     418 words ... ... reason most people eat at fast-food restaurants is because it's quick ... percent) said they eat at fast-food restaurants because they offer nutritious ... improve food choices at fast-food restaurants would likely be helpful ...