Fast Food Notion

What, specifically, determines whether a restaurant is considered “fast food” or not?

Let’s make this clear right off the bat, fast food is not necessarily served fast.

I’m not sure how it got its name. Perhaps at one time it was served fast, or perhaps the “fast” is in reference to how fast it comes out of you.

So what makes a food, a fast food?

There are quite a few factors, if you go through this checklist and answer yes to most of them, then you’re probably eating fast food.

• Is the restaurant a franchise?
• Does the restaurant have a drive thru?
• Did you order from a counter?
• Is there a dollar/99cent menu?
• Do the employees where paper hats?
• The Simpsons Test: rub the food item on a solid object, does the grease from the item now make the solid object see thru?
• Do you feel a little dirty afterward, and that may not just be guilt, either.