The Decline Of Fast Food In America

Fast food emergence has been significantly driven by change of American Society. Due to the inflation and hourly wage decline began in early of 1970s, lots of women rush into markets looking for a job to pay the bills. In the 1975, the number increased to one-third of American mothers with young children worked outside to pay the bills. With more women getting into workforce, the traditional housewives’ service is hungry in demand. Women spend less time prepare and cook for home, food budget becoming higher and higher. The fast food was emerging during theses period, in order to effectively and efficiently provide food to people who have no time to prepare and cook. Fast food rapidly dominated the market because its taste well, easy and fast.

Although fast food convenient people routine, the foods prepared in industry are totally out of imagination. Most of the fast food is already frozen canned, dehydrated, or freeze-dried before delivered to restaurant. “A fast food kitchen is merely the final stage in a vast and highly complex system of mass production. Foods that may look familiar have in fact been completely reformulated.”, mentioned by Houghton Mifflin in nytimes.com. A large of chemical plants would used to create the taste and aroma of the fast food, that’s the reason why even a king wing has already spoiled, it still smells good and fresh. Fast technology and food engineering have change the way people eat in past forty years is so much beyond what people did in forty thousands years. There are almost no any nutrition value left after the foods has been overly