Week 11 Saturday, Dec 10 2011

Interstate’s and automobiles play a significant role in spreading the fast food culture. The invention of the highway system created more possible places to place fast food chain restaurants. The highway system helped people access many places inclding fast food restaurants. Fast food restaurants were initially created for families to access the food on the go. Automobiles for some families are the way to reach the restaurants and they play a major role in why fast food rastaurants are so active today. Interstate’s connect the people in different cities to area’s that would not be easily accessed through regular roads. In the 1940’s the automobile service’s provided a direct income for the few fast food chain restaurants that existed. Without the invention of automobile’s many fast food restaurant’s would not have flourished and became what they are today. Industries such as McDonalds grew because of their affordability and easy accessiblity.

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How do automobiles and interstates play a role in spreading the fast food culture? Friday, Dec 9 2011

The role that automobiles and interstates play in the fast food culture is a major one. During World War II, the Goodyear plant began to produce a large number of automobiles. They were not only to be used in the war, but they were also for the personal use of average citizens. Automobiles provided people with the opportunity to be more independent and free to go wherever they wanted. They were very affordable, therefore, everyone had one. This influx of automobiles reshaped the fast food industry by inspiring the development of the drive-through restaurants. Drive-through restaurants allowed people to experience the same service provided at a sit-down restaurant at a more convenient and fast pace. Customers could pull up to the restaurant, put in their order, and pick up their food without getting out of their car. This fast service has attracted numerous customers and has been incorporated into many fast food giants, such as Wendy’s, Taco Bell, McDonald’s, and Burger King. In the fast food industry, location is a key component in attracting customers to support the franchise. The restaurants have to be located in areas where customers can see them and easily access them. Most fast food restaurants are built alongside interstates and highway exits across the country. Fast food companies strategically placed them here in order to provide a meal service to those who were traveling. Having access to the restaurants allowed travelers to eat a quick meal, while also providing the industries with a profit. When an open space becomes available along the interstate, it is often a competition among different food chains to claim these areas. Catching the eye of passing motorists was so important that architects came up with new designs for the restaurants being built so that travelers moving at a fast pace could notice the restaurant.

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How do automobiles and interstates play a role in spreading the fast food culture? Friday, Dec 9 2011

Automobiles were the mark of freedom for domestic home bodies everywhere. It was a way to have family adventures and just to pass the time away.  Picture this. Your hair blowing in the wind, top down, and the radio blasting as you fly down the open road. You get hungry and where do you stop? Of course, you see a McDonald’s or maybe a Wendy’s, possibly Burger King and even KFC. Sadly, you don’t have time to sit down so you decide to breeze through the drive thru. You have become another satisfied customer helping to line the inside of the fast food industries’ pockets.

Automobiles and interstates made it possible for fast food restaurants to be in more locations so they could reach more people. They also allowed fast food restauranrts to have drive-ins and drive thrus making the fast food industry more popular, especially with the teen population, a trend that has lasted even until today. You can have the same great food service on the go as if you were sitting there enjoying it in the very restaurant. Drive thrus and drive ins were just another way of making fast food more available and convenient, especially when taking long car trips.

But how many of us agree that this was exactly a good thing? Having fast food restaurants available in more locations and for it to become more convenient to hav, even when you are taking long car trips in opposed to spending time in a restaurant actually stopping and eating, is in a way more harmful than beneficial to the population as a whole. This is just another way to contribute to obesity and laziness. Think about it. Your already in a car, so you don’t have to walk and now you are eating fast food loaded with carbs and tons of fat. Just what this world needs more ways to be lazy! Thanks McDonalds and Burger King, thanks alot.

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11. How do automobiles and interstates play a role in spreading the fast food culture? Friday, Dec 9 2011

When the fast food industry was just beginning to take off automobiles and roadways weren’t a factor. They were local diners for workers and residents in the area. As the fast food industry started to grow, build and perfect, so did society with the new technology: vehicles. As cars use began to boom, so did the building of new roads and interstates. These new roads were the gateways to new restaurant locations. Owners of the fast food industry began to consider placing their restaurants on busy highways for better business. They knew that with these new roads people would be traveling these routes in order to get from town to town. The use of cars and interstates brought tons of business to the fast food stops. As the fast food restaurants were progressing, they began to incorporate drive-ins and drive thrus. These utilized the new car century to bring in more people and quickly provide food. Teenagers were popular workers for these new drive-ins: taking orders and bringing food to vehicles. Overall the real affect automobiles and interstates had on the industry was that it emphasized “fast” food. They were able to provide food quickly to everyone.

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Automobiles and Interstates Friday, Dec 9 2011

Automobiles and interstates play a very important role in spreading the fast food culture. Some may think that cars and interstates are just for making traveling to places faster and easier, but it plays a major helping role when it comes to advertisement. Every day there is traffic on the interstate that slows everyone down from being on time to their destination. While sitting in traffic there are billboards and signs that advertise the fast food chains in the city. The creators of these images create them so each person that see them would be persuaded to go out at buy the meal that they see, but what they don’t know is that what they see on the picture is not what they’re going to get. Another use for the interstate is to capture the attention of those who are traveling long distances. Every day people decide to go on road trips to different cities. While driving, the driver will pass up numerous signs that indicate a location of a fast food restaurant. After driving for hours and seeing food signs for every 10 miles, the driver is going to stop eventually and give in to the hunger signs and the food signs on the side of the interstate. Things are not like they used to be. Everything used to be within walking distance and there were no use for cars. Now every place you want or need to get to a car is needed. The fast food culture has grown or the years and with the continuous increase in technology, it will continue to grow.

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Week 11 Thursday, Dec 8 2011

Interstates and cars increased the popularity of fast food restaurants. If you were traversing form one side of a city to another you typically had no time to stop at a home or a diner and take part in a home cooked meal. Your only choice is pulling through the ‘drive-thru’ window of any McDonalds at the time. Or if one worked a busy job and had no time to cook a meal later for their family they could just as easily stop at a McDonalds and pick up something for them there. Thus, the birth of the fast food nation really began because of the interstates and such.

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Automobiles and Interstates Tuesday, Dec 6 2011

Automobiles and interstates play an important role in spreading the fast food culture. To begin with, automobiles and interstates changed the way everything was made. At first in each town, buildings were close together and there were no asphalt roads or fast cars to travel around with. Everyone had a lot of time and it was very unproductive to travel anywhere. People had to either walk or ride a horse carriage to get to a place they wanted to go. And buildings were close together so it would people would not have to walk very far. There were restaurants that people eat in and there were no such things as “drive-thru’s” or “parking lots.” When automobiles and interstates were made, it changed modern society completely. Automobiles made traveling so much easier, faster, and just plain better. Automobiles would not be able to travel as fast and efficiently without interstates. Interstates are roads that are connected to states all over the United States and enables trading, touring, and the beginning the fast food culture. When automobiles were made, restaurants were changed to “drive-ins” and automobiles can park in to eat. Then when drive-ins were changed into fast food restaurants, there began the fast food franchise. When people traveled from states to states, they had to go through long drives and had to go on without food or bring food with them until they arrived at the next state. But then fast food franchises started spreading near interstates for people to take a break during their long trips and there starts the expansion of the fast food culture. Feeding off the increase in automobiles and interstates, the fast food industry had a major gain in profits and is now one of the biggest companies in America. With the profits they made, they will always continue to expand near interstates to make even more profits. The fast food culture will always continue to spread as long as people stay hungry.

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Week 11 Monday, Dec 5 2011

How do automobiles and interstates play a role in spreading the fast food culture?

Automobiles and interstates play an important role in today’s society. First they both allow people to travel and get from place to place fastly compared to riding bikes and taking streets. The interstates have higher speeds, more lanes, and no red lights compared to streets. They also allow the travel of 18 wheelers which some streets doesn’t allow. They both play a role in spreading fast food by them allowing the travel of food from place to place. Most food has to travel on 18 wheelers since there is a lot of the stock. Interstates makes this easy because all of the stock can fit onto that one 18 wheeler instead of traveling back and forth to get the stock back to that place. Automobiles and interstates just save time and money for fast food chains.

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How do automobiles and interstates play a role in spreading the fast food culture? Sunday, Dec 4 2011

Automobiles and Interstates play a major role in spreading the fast food culture.  Automobiles and interstates are one of the most popular forms of transportation for fast food companies.  For instance McDonalds the world’s largest fast food companies to me uses an eighteen wheeler to deliver their processed frozen food all around the world.  This shoes that automobiles and interstates contribute a big factor to how we get the processed food that we buy from McDonalds.   Automobiles and interstates have been used around the world to transport fast food culture for thousands even probably millions of years and all over the world.

Without automobiles and interstates we would probably not have the processed foods that we purchase from fast food places like, Krystal’s, Checkers, and McDonalds.  You have to get the food true from overseas probably but the automobiles and interstates gets it to the states that makes up the United States of America.  In conclusion automobiles are a major way of transportation that needs the interstates to transport the fast food culture on.  Therefore, these two combined contributes greatly in the role of spreading the fast food culture.

 

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week 11 post Sunday, Dec 4 2011

In my personal opinion, automobiles and interstates are large contributors to the rise of the fast food industry. Interstates help the spread of fast food by using advertisement. Think about it. When you’re driving on the interstate, there are always signs that tell you what fast food restaurants are coming up on the next exit. Interstates also allow us to actually reach the desired restaurants quickly. This brings me to my next point, without vehicular transportation, fast food restaurants probably wouldn’t be nearly as popular as they are now. This is because with cars, fast food would be fast at all.

Cars help spread fast food culture because they allow fast food to be what it is designed to be, fast and easy. Fast food restaurants usually have a drive-through, which allow the customers to purchase without even having to leave the comfort of their car, making the process of getting cheap food quickly and with the least amount of effort possible. Sadly, Americans have become increasingly lazy so the offer of tasty, cheap, greasy food alone is wonderful; not having to get out of the car in order to obtain this “food” takes the cake and seals the deal.

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