Fast Food

By creating this blog, we learned a lot of informations about fast food. We have been affected by the negative aspects that can provide this food and its consequences. But the positive aspect of these food chains is to improve the quality of the service consistently and all efforts are made to have the best conditions of hygiene.

Gérer ce blog nous à apporté beaucoup de compétences informatiques mais aussi énormément de vocabulaire en anglais en effectuant nos recherches directement sur des sites anglais. Nous avons également appris à trier et selectionner des informations. Merci à vous d'avoir lu notre blog et espèrons qu'il vous à aider dans vos recherches.

 L.A / J.A / C.B 

Fast food has negative impacts on our physical and mainly on our health.

• Physical :
  

The negatives consequences of fast food are caused by a too rich food high in fat. The food is also too rich in salt, in sugar, in chemicals and low in fiber and in vitamins. Example with this basic meal containing a Big Mac, medium fries and a Coca-Cola drink of 40 cl : nutritionists say that this menu brings us 51% of our daily calorie requirement. It's why people who eat regularly in fast food restaurants take weight.
                                                                                                          

• Health :
  

Fast food has negatives consequences on our health. Scientists say that fast food can cause several diseases like cancers, diabetes, heart diseases and especially obesity. Many studies have also demonstrated that eating fast food 2 or 3 times a week can lead to addiction . So, when you stop eating fast food, your body is lacking, which can cause sleep disorders. It also has been proven  that 70% of food poisoning linked to fast food are due to meat because there are lots of chemicals to preserve it longer and even to increase the flavor. But fast food restaurants try to make efforts. Indeed, they create bio menus for adulte and children.

Should we stop eating fast food ?

Fast food can become dangerous only if you eat it too often (several times per week). This does not mean that you should no longer eat fast food. Eating fast food from time to time will not be dangerous and will not affect your health.
So you can continue to make you happy going to eat fast food and share a good time of fun and relaxation with your friends and your family.

 Help: chemicals = produits chimiques ; calorie requirement = besoin en calories ; heart diseases = maladies cardio-vasculaires ; to lead = mener ; to be lacking = manquer ; poisoning = intoxication ; from time to time= de temps en temps 

sources : google pictures and the web site :  www.danger-sante.org/category/fast-food/  

For McDonald's, advertisement is an essential player to increase his customers, with a well-known slogan of all :

I'm lovin' it !

Indeed, McDonald's spends nearly 2 billion euro per year for advertisement.

McDonald publishes various advertising hoardings. There are also advertisments that go on TV.

This is an exemple of an advertising hoarding.

Here are two videos of McDonald's advertisements. Click on the line to watch the videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9ajRIgTJNA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvLLR0pP5yU

 Help:  well-known = bien connu ; nearly = presque ; advertising hoarding = panneau publicitaire

sources : the magazine Okapi on McDonald, google pictures and youtube

There are several reasons :

• People like McDonald's because this food mode makes one think of childhood. In McDo, we are very quickly served and we eat soft and fat like babies. And like children we eat with fingers, we nibble, we enjoy sweet and sour sauces, we drink through a straw and it is why millions of addicts come back every day.

• McDonald's harmonizes his decors and his menus with the different cultures. For exemple, McDonald has invented hamburgers with "halal meat" in countries where people don't eat pork. McDonald always invent new meals to have more clients. So McDo makes menus with vegetables, fruits, mineral water and products of warranty origins. McDonald's try to adapt to the different cultures and to the local tastes and people enjoy that.

• McDonald want to attract families and targets children. The McDonald clown appeared in 1963, followed by the "Happy Meal" menu and plastic toys. In restaurants, there are also built-in games where children can have fun. Children love these concepts and drive the rest of the family to go to McDonald's.

• People like also McDonald's because it allows to spend good time with family and to make good memories.

• Restaurants have drive-in and that allow customers to order and to be served without leaving car.

• They also created McCafé. There we can have breakfast or we can make a break and eat or drink something. Indeed they have a variety of quality coffees and refined cakes and pastries.
  

• Moreover, wifi is free in the restaurants. It attracts also studients, young people and people who travel.
  

 Help : to make one thing of = faire penser à quelquechose ; childhood = enfance ; soft = mou ; to nibble = grignoter ; to drink through a straw = boire avec une paille ; to harmonize = harmoniser ; to target = cibler ; built-in games = aire de jeux ; memorie = un souvenir ; to order = commander ; indeed = en effet

sources : the magazine Okapi on McDonald and google pictures

McDonald's is the biggest and the most famous fast food chain in the world. Mc Donald's serves 58 million customers everyday and his empire is extend on 120 different countries.

Beginning of McDonald's...
...In 1937, in California, two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald, held a stand of hot-dogs. The business was doing well, especially thanks to a speciality: the hamburger. Richard and Maurice decided to open four other etablishments serving only hamburgers, chips, sodas, milkshakes and the sucess went quickly. That's why a man, Ray Kroc, proposed tham to be their commercial agent with one idea in mind : flood the country with lots of restaurants identical to their. One hundred restaurants opened under the sign of " McDonald's". Ray Kroc bought another at Richard and Maurice their name: McDonald's will be henceforth his name. In 1955, he opened his first McDo. Then , twelve years after, he opened his first restaurant abroad, in Canada. It is in 1979 that the first McDonald's opened in France. Ray Kroc dead rich in 1984. And 25 years after, 31 000 McDonald's serve always the same products in the world.

McDonald's sells mainly beef burgers, chicken burgers and fish burgers. It serves also soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts. McDonald's has been much criticized because the food is greasy and meals are too high in fat, it is why the company has expended its menus to includes salads, wraps, fruits and smoothies. McDonald's offers also menus for breakfast.

Help : to extend = s'étendre ; mind = l'esprit ; to flood = inonder ; henceforth = désormais ; abroad = à l'étranger 

sources : the magazine Okapi on McDonald and google pictures

The biggest fast food chain in the world is McDonald's, which is located in 126 countries. McDonald's has approximatively 31 000 restaurants worlwide. Fast food includes other large chains of fast food restaurants such as Subway, with approximatively 39 129 restaurants, Burger King, with more than 11 000 restaurants or KFC. There are also Quick, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Wendy's, In-N-Out-Burger, Long John Silver or Domino's Pizza. These chains set up all over the world.

Here are different logos of large fast food chains. Have you ever seen all the logos ? Do you know all the logos ?

 There are also fast food chains which are typically french like " La Boîte à Pizza ", "Class' Croûte", "Pat à Pain" or " Mezzo di Pasta".
                                                                                

Help : to set up = s'implanter ; worldwide = partout dans le monde

sources : google pictures and the web sites : wikipédia and  www.kelmagasin.com/fastfood.html ‎

Fast food restaurants have been created for over a century now. They appeared in the USA with the creation of the first Mc Donald's in 1937. Then, fast food restaurants have been developped and multiplied on the american continent. It is why we can say that Mc Donald's is the launcher of a long food chain which are derived from it. The development of fast food restaurants is linked to the arrival of the production work in the kitchen that transformed the american way of life.  After the sucess in the USA, fast food restaurants have been established in the whole world. They became progressively friendly places where people like going to be together and where people can eat rapidly for a low price. Since his creation, the number of fast food restaurants is increasing because lots of them opened all over the world.

Help : launcher = lançeur ; to link = associer, lier ; production work = travail à la chaine ; way of life = style de vie ; to increase = augmenter

sources : google pictures and the web site : restaurationrapide.e-monsite.com/pages/i-origines-du-fast-food.html