The fast food industry has changed in the past 90 years. Today there is a fast food restaurant just about on every corner. Restaurants are competing against each other to be the best. Trying to be successful. Restaurants are always thinking of new ideas. Franchising throughout the United States and some even in different countries. The fast food industry started in 1921when Billy Ingram and Walt Anderson made White Castle. That was in Wichita, Kansas with a seven hundred dollar loan. Billy and Walt sold mini hamburgers for five cents, along with coffee, pie, and Coca Cola. Billy Ingram bought out Walt Anderson’s share of White Castle in 1933 and moved it to Columbus, Ohio a year later. White Castle started hiring women in 1942, due to the
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After 3 years of being in the business McLamore and Johnson dropped the “Insta” in Insta Burger king and just called it Burger King. In 1957 McLamore and Johnson invented the flame broiled Whopper. Since their menu was scarce they wanted to be as fast as possible. They also wanted their food to be cheap. The menu would grow bigger as the years went on. Burger King was the first to have dining lobbies for people to dine indoors. McLamore cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the 40th Wendy’s restaurant. McLamore was also named after McDonald’s very own Big Mac. Robert Lowes (Burger King Chairman) says, “Jim McLamore was not just the co-founder of our company, he was the heart of it. Jim’s passion for the business made him a pioneer that others, to this day, try to emulate(A Whopping Success …show more content…
Dominos was originally called DomiNicks. Dominos was founded by Tom Monaghan in 1961. Monaghan was also the owner of the Detroit Tigers. Monaghan took the world by storm with his 30 minute or less delivery. Before that people weren’t really interested in pizza delivery. While Monaghan made a success with delivering pizzas, Mike Ilitch didn 't do a delivery service. Mike Ilitch made Little Caesars in 1959. With ingrediants that were made freshly everyday, never frozen.Mike changed the pizza industry. By the mid-1970s Mike bought and used conveyor-belt ovens in order to make his pizzas faster. Mike Scruggs Sr. was a former Little Caesars Executive. He says, “Mike Ilitch is the equivalent in his mind of Colonel Sanders and Ray Kroc(Twilight 66-69).” As the popularity of fast food rapidly started growing the Center for Science looked into the nutritional value of the the top fast food restaurants. They discovered how loaded down the food was with fat. After that in 1993 some fast food companies started adding a health section to their menus. Today thousands of fast food restaurants are open all across the Globe. You can get just about anything from fast food restaurants now a days. From burgers, to chicken, to fish, to subs, the choices are
After 3 years of being in the business McLamore and Johnson dropped the “Insta” in Insta Burger king and just called it Burger King. In 1957 McLamore and Johnson invented the flame broiled Whopper. Since their menu was scarce they wanted to be as fast as possible. They also wanted their food to be cheap. The menu would grow bigger as the years went on. Burger King was the first to have dining lobbies for people to dine indoors. McLamore cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the 40th Wendy’s restaurant. McLamore was also named after McDonald’s very own Big Mac. Robert Lowes (Burger King Chairman) says, “Jim McLamore was not just the co-founder of our company, he was the heart of it. Jim’s passion for the business made him a pioneer that others, to this day, try to emulate(A Whopping Success …show more content…
Dominos was originally called DomiNicks. Dominos was founded by Tom Monaghan in 1961. Monaghan was also the owner of the Detroit Tigers. Monaghan took the world by storm with his 30 minute or less delivery. Before that people weren’t really interested in pizza delivery. While Monaghan made a success with delivering pizzas, Mike Ilitch didn 't do a delivery service. Mike Ilitch made Little Caesars in 1959. With ingrediants that were made freshly everyday, never frozen.Mike changed the pizza industry. By the mid-1970s Mike bought and used conveyor-belt ovens in order to make his pizzas faster. Mike Scruggs Sr. was a former Little Caesars Executive. He says, “Mike Ilitch is the equivalent in his mind of Colonel Sanders and Ray Kroc(Twilight 66-69).” As the popularity of fast food rapidly started growing the Center for Science looked into the nutritional value of the the top fast food restaurants. They discovered how loaded down the food was with fat. After that in 1993 some fast food companies started adding a health section to their menus. Today thousands of fast food restaurants are open all across the Globe. You can get just about anything from fast food restaurants now a days. From burgers, to chicken, to fish, to subs, the choices are