Since the evolution of fast food restaurants, the value of the all American meal has been transformed by many means. Not only have fast food restaurants altered people's eating habits, but they have also revolutionized the way people live and society. It is safe to say the world itself has been affected by fast food and it's ridiculous, continual growth. The most widely recognized brand in the world happens to be McDonalds. How could it not be the most well-know brand with its fifteen thousand restaurants in more than 117 foreign countries? (Schlosser 229). To make sure their progress is kept alive, they manage to open five new restaurants every single day. An average of four out of the five are overseas. In other words, America imprints four influencing footprints a day throughout different parts of the world. It appears that the methods and business of fast food corporations, and the food itself, have many negative effects on society and the world.
             The first fast food restaurant was founded in 1921 (Clark 833). Since then, the chain gangs have intensely emerged throughout the decades. The values of nutrition diminished as the demand for convenience exploded throughout America. The well-being and quality of a home cooked meal rarely exists in this fast food nation. Supermarkets and table service restaurants are losing their customers to microwaved fast food. In 1991, fast food restaurants dominated fifty-one percent of the market, leaving table-service restaurants with twenty-three percent, and supermarkets with only fourteen percent (Clark 837). The invention of the microwave and the foods it helped generate was a key destructor to the family meal. Families tended to stop having lunch together by the 1940s and breakfast together by the 1950s (Ritzer 135). Today, family dinners rarely occur. If and when they do, the television is usually the most popular member at the table. In the past, people were more wi...