Talk:Fast-food restaurant

message: To my knowledge, lots of travellers use toilet facilities in fast food restaurants if they can't find the public one nearby.  Therefore, regulating toilet hygiene in the industry is an urgent agenda.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.139.115.12 (talk) 05:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call for legislation on toilet hygiene for fast food restaurant 

message: I strongly agree that Fast Food Reataurants are a special case of "fast food", and I support this distinction.  However, the introductory paragraph includes the sentence:
--- "Food served in fast food restaurants typically caters to a "meat-sweet diet" and is offered from a limited menu; is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot; is finished and packaged to order; and is usually available ready to take away, though seating may be provided." --- 
Very little of the food in a fast food restaurant is "Cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot"
The normal QSR attempts to cook the majority of its hot foods at the time of order.  Even french fries are not stored longer than several minutes before they are discarded.  Pizza is ONLY cooked upon order.  The old technique of cooking burgers ahead of time has all but been eliminated at restaurants such as Wendy's.
If you want to see an example of food which is "cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot" visit a diner.  Diners are in general not QSR's.
Now there are some examples of pre-cooked food.  Doughnut shops are one example.  However, most people do not consider doughnuts as a mainstream QSR, because you are not buying a full meal.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.159.189 (talk) 00:11, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The description of fast food restaurant is somewhat misleading... 

message: This section should be in this article. It seems as if it belongs in one about tort-reform.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.101.166.218 (talk) 01:42, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal Issues? 

message: Subway is listed here as being second to McDonalds in numbers, but the Subway article seems to state otherwise, indicating that they have 32,000+ stores, while McDonalds (and this is listed in that article too) has only 31,000+. Sasquatchbill (talk) 14:48, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent data on Subway 

message: I once heard that there was a court battle over the definition of the words "Fast food restaurant". The reason was places like Pizza Hut wanted to sell alcoholic beverages like beer and others wanting to sell wine, but there were laws preventing this as they could be classified as Fast food restaurants. From what I heard the decision was that a 'Fast food restaurant' was any place were you could get and eat your food in under 30 minutes, and therefore the people would be driving or walking away, and alcohol couldn't be sold in those type of restaurants. While pizza and other such restaurants took 15 or more minutes to serve the food and thus didn't fall under the fast food restaurant laws, since they weren't fast, and the alcohol had time to filter out of their blood stream. I'm not sure where or when this court case was, but I think it was in the late 90's and I heard about it while living in Colorado, or Kansas. Could someone find some information about when and if it was only in one state/town that they had this court battle? It seemed to have alot of media coverage at the time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.39.131.20 (talk) 11:23, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Fast food restaurant' definition and 'Alcohol beverages' court case

message: removed my addition of the Gastronomy in Singapore template from this article without any comments. 
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fast_food_restaurant&type=revision&diff=680484254&oldid=680478036
Let's do a quick poll to KEEP/REMOVE this detail on this article?
: KEEP I think because the article has already a list of restaurants as a template it's a good thing having an article about
the Gastronomy in Singapore. --huggi - never stop exploring (talk) 09:05, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  adding relevance to the Gastronomy in Singapore (poll) 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The opening section states that White Castle opened the first fast food restaurant in 1921, but the source given for that has been flagged as possibly unreliable.  This source:
https://www.accupos.com/pos-articles/history-of-fast-food-in-america/
Gives the year as 1916.
I don't know if this is a more reliable source, but clearly one of the two is wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.89.176.249 (talk) 00:46, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Conflict 

message: Taco Bill was established on the Gold Coast at Mermaid Beach in 1967 by Bill Chilcote.  Taco Bill currently has 29 restaurants in Victoria and Albury NSW.   According to your list, this would make Taco Bill the longest operating chain of restaurants in Australia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdd001 (talk • contribs) 11:13, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW this site doesn't count it as fast food, and the Wikipedia article seems to refer to international chains. Graham87 14:19, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

text: No article, no inclusion. Ajf773 (talk) 01:10, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taco Bill - established 1967 in Australia 

message: Please change "Kieth J. Kramer" to "Keith G. Cramer", which is the correct name according to reference 9. 147.147.154.23 (talk) 18:21, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the note. I've removed the name from the URL because we normally don't include search queries in website addresses. Graham87 02:27, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for shortening the URL, but that's not what was requested. What was requested was to fix the incorrect name of the co-founder. The article still currently reads "Originally opened in 1953, the founders and owners of the chain, Kieth J. Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns". This is wrong. It should read "Originally opened in 1953, the founders and owners of the chain, Keith G. Cramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns". Here are five more sources for this claim. 146.198.110.7 (talk) 04:29, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, sorry about that! I've fixed the name properly now. I use a screen reader with a speech synthesiser that doesn't distinguish between "Keith" and "Kieth" and, since I only knew about the former spelling, just searched for it in the article without checking the spelling properly. Graham87 14:09, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keith G. Cramer 

message: I think you’re referring to Burger King since there are no McDonald’s in Bangladesh. Abdullah Al Manjur (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 13:26, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, I didn't know that. It's indeed not in Wikipedia's list of countries with McDonald's restaurants. I've just removed it from the sentence. Graham87 15:01, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you referring to Burger King or McDonald’s in Bangladesh 

message: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are making headway with Pizza Hut International, and Subway, KFC, and Taco Bell in China, and other QSRs (quick serve restaurants), as well as in Walmart and Whole Foods.. That current movement should be noted (at least in 1-2 sentences). MaynardClark (talk) 03:32, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secular movement of transitioning to non-cow 'beef' 

message: Please remove this sentence:
 In the United States, consumers spent about US$110 billion on fast food in 2000 (which increased from $6 billion in 1970).
and add this one
 In the United States, consumers spent about $110 billion on fast food in 2000 (which increased from $6 billion in 1970).
Since the sentence begins with "In the United States", readers will assume that the $ currency is US dollars, not Australian dollars or Mexican pesos or other $ currencies. 49.198.51.54 (talk) 11:23, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Graham87 17:15, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 April 2022 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure)  Iffy★Chat -- 13:12, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Fast food restaurant →  – The article title originally had a hyphen, and the unhyphenated form redirected to it; however, both were redirected to Fast food and later the article was re-split at the unhyphenated form. I believe MOS:HYPHEN (3) applies. The hyphenated form is also more common (in at least scholarly sources, who are likely to use proper hyphenation?): . J3133 (talk) 09:38, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Change to Support. I agree it is more grammatically common to format adjectives that way, but I wasn't convinced it was the actual more common usage for fast food restaurant. I looked through the sources available and saw plenty of instances of no dash, but looking at the NY Times and the Washington Post, among others, it seems it's commonly used enough that I can support the more grammatically correct version. --Cerebral726 (talk) 14:23, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 25 July 2022