why are drive-thru food places so popular?
is it due to laziness, convienience or something else. do they cause too much polution and obiesity?
Fast food is popular for a few reasons.
The primary reason is that it's a quick, easy and relatively cheap way to get food.
The second is that the food that you get is high in fat and sugar, so our bodies tend to not be satisfied with healthier options once we are used to it.
Drive-thru places are popular because Americans have become accustomed to convenience and, generally, don't care about their health. I've witnessed people drive in circles at parking lots waiting for a parking spot a mere 20 feet closer to the door to open up. It's no wonder why America is the fattest and unhealthiest country in the world.
And, yes, fast food places cause pollution and obesity, plus they have destroyed our food. We must boycott them and choose organic to affect change!
Here's a related hub I wrote on this. The movie, Food, Inc. discusses the negative impact that McDonalds has on our food sources.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-Movies-Abou … and-Health
I think "Convenience" is the number one reason for their popularity.
"Fast Food Quality" over the past decades has been no less than questionable, however appropriate Federal Government Agencies have begun to monitor and enact pertinent new recommendations in an effort to chart a new path of providing a healthier menu of choices for the consumer. Some franchises are actually cleaning up their act without agency pressures as a proactive measure.
For instance many Potato Chip manufacturers started reducing or eliminating unhealthy saturated fats in their products a few years ago.
As others have stated, convenience plays a large role. In addition, most fast food franchises represent consistency. A Big Mac from Michigan tastes the same as a Big Mac from a restaurant in California. Since a lot of fast food fare is fried, obesity can be considered a by-product if you don't have a healthy lifestyle otherwise.
No, because the food is fast, greasy and delicious!
And yes, it is certainly adding to the obesity epidemic!
why are drive-thru food places so popular?
Because the car is an extension of the home and for all the reasons previously mentioned.
Because since the invention of certain things like the transistor and the microchip, Americans are more and more use to "instanteous gratification" and we want it with the least amount of inconvience. Besides, when we drive and talk on the cell phone, one of our hands is only working part-time...the one driving. So why not use it to eat in the car. We are in a big ass hurry to go no where. We sit in airplanes on our cell phones and call someone at the office to tell them that the plane is pushing back from the gate now. NOBODY GIVES A DAMN! With all the conveniences and electronics, we as Americans have become a lazy-ass bunch of folks who only use their brains when all else fails. We were a lot better at what we do when all this stuff was still an idea. And, we were a whole lot less irritating to our fellowman...no wonder there is so much road rage and hate crimes...WB
Because the food is cheap, we're all lazy, and we like to entertain ourselves without working up a sweat.
They are sooo popular as we as humans are lazy buggers and don't want to move up off our asses half of the time...
Mostly because of the convenience and people don't like to cook.
McDonaldization of society. We are always in a hurry, why I don't know. In a hurry to go basically nowhere.
i definetly agree with most of the answers. it is becoming absurd how our need to be served quickly has over taken common sense. it's no wonder that we are becoming more and more selfish, lazy and fat. i hate when i'm driving somewhere and i go be a coffee shop or restuarant and see cars lined up out onto the road. it not only shows how lazy we have become but it's an enviromental disaster.
It is because of laziness in part...Mom is too lazy to take the time to fix her family a good meal at home so it is much easier to go thru the drive thru and get a couple hamburgers and fries for the kids and shut them up..There is some convenience to them particularly if you are driving for long periods of time you can drive thru, get something to eat and get back on the road but I think al-in-all it is laziness.
by Cat Tally 13 years ago
Why so much obesity today?Junk food convenience, stress, or laziness?
by piyush3dxyz 13 years ago
I dont know what country you are in but KFC in england is just like fast food and to me, fast food is rubbish. Too much unhealthy overpowering sauces and the chicken is always coated in huge amounts of fat.Give me a plain barbecued chicken leg any day.
by Robert T Gasperson 5 months ago
Why can't I stop eating fast food? Fast food for me is a vice. There's nothing else like it and even though I want to stop eating fast food I keep finding myself at the drive through window. I don't understand why my willpower is not stronger than it is.
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by H C Palting 13 years ago
If you eat fast food, is it because of cost, convenience, or both?
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