Cheesecake Factory

of American culture” (Yan 450), so to speak. Many of the people that would eat at the fast food restaurants would also linger and socialize in these desirable destinations. In another case study, Shin‐Yi Chou and her partners discovered that with the development of technology skyrocketing, children are paying less attention to their surrounding includingthemselves and their health, and are more focused on the electronic screens glued to their eyes. “Children and adolescents are increasingly engaging in sedentary behavior, spending less time exercising outdoors and spending more time watching television and playing video games” (Chou 2008). In their study, they found that 20 percent of children within the United States participate in around …show more content…
For some, the reason why they eat at a McDonalds compared to a sit down restaurant such as The Cheesecake Factory is because they cannot afford to eat elsewhere, or they just may not even know how to cook. This is where the part of social justice comes into play. Because of how fast food restaurants are set up to function, it can be “beneficial” to those who use their services. This does not restrict the poor from eating only at fast food restaurants, but it is sometimes that those are the only places that they are able and can afford to go out to eat. Time and time comes again as an individual goes to McDonald’s or Burger King for example, more and more frequently and they start to gain weight. On top of that, they most likely order their food from the drive through (being inactive at it’s best) and bring it home to eat, only to watch the same advertisement that lead them there in the first place (Paarlberg 206).In a case study done by Jason P. Block, he and his colleagues had done studies on the relationship between consumption of fast foods and low-income neighborhoods. Their study“reported an increasein consumption of fast food among low-income populations” (Block 2004). With fast food restaurants having special menus like a dollar menu, or having a deal such as …show more content…
Fast food is called fast food for a reason. As society and life moves on, it stops for nobody. The goal of most, if not all fast food places is to keep their sales up to standard, which in turn means they must serve a certain amount of people a day (Goldstein 165). With high expectations from corporate boards, the pressure to sell more and more means that fast food restaurants must get their customers what they want, and do it quick, so that they can be able to move on to the next client as fast as possible (Jeffery 1998). To some people, it is a mystery as to how fast food restaurants are so cheap and stay that way. Nearly all of the food that comes through a fast food place is frozen and processed, not to mention that the “100% pure beef” is actual beef, but what part of the animal are we talking about? In the text A Movable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization, the author Kenneth F. Kiple writes about how food has changed within society over the centuries. Within the book, he describes the meat that is used for fast food restaurants and how it is actually the cheapest, worst part of the animal, and that it is basically the left over scraps from when the actual meat used from the animal (Kiple