Consumers are buying more snack chips per person, an increase of 2 pounds over four years. * Frito-Lay is the worldwide leader manufacturing and marketing of snack chips. Frito-Lay is a national brand firm that distributes products nationwide. Frito-Lay accounts for 13 percent of snack-food sales in the United States, with about one half of retail sales in the snack chip category. Also, Frito-Lays has eight of the top ten selling snack chips.
Subway vs. Jimmy John’s History Mason Cothran borrowed one thousand dollars from family friend, Peyton Vandiver, to start his first sandwich shop on August 28, 1965. Subway restaurants have been consistently ranked in Entrepreneur magazine’s top five hundred franchises, and Subway was selected as the number two overall franchises in 2008. Additionally, it was ranked as the number three “Fastest Growing Franchise” and number one “Global Franchise” as well. In March 2011, Subway was ranked the most popular Fast-Food restaurant in the United States in a poll of over 43 thousand social media users. At the end of 2010, Subway restaurants surpassed McDonald’s restaurant with 33,749 restaurants across the globe.
As of 2012 Chick-fil-a has a total of 1,600 restaurant locations, making them the second largest fast food restaurant chain in the U.S. (Chick-fil-a, 2012). This company falls under the quick service restaurant field and under the monopolistic competition market, which comes with a lot of different competitors. Chick-fil-a does not have too many direct competitors in the chicken fast-food industry, but when looking at the fast food industry as a whole they have quite a few competitors. When it comes to selling their main, and only product, chicken. Their main competitor would be KFC who is ranked number one in the chicken field, and overall for the quick service field McDonalds ranks number one.
In the 70’s 47% of Americans were overweight. In 2002, more than 65% of Americans are overweight including 31% who were clinically obese. An article this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association said that about 112,000 premature deaths in 2000 attributed to obesity. The blame for obesity is mainly the fleet of fast food chains, whose Americans sales went from $6 million in 1970 to $134 million in 2005. (EBSCOhost) Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation says that “Americans spend more on fast food than they do on higher education, PCs or new cars.” Nearly 400,000 Americans die each year in the United States of poor diet and not exercising that is an increase of 33 percent since 1990.
Eating chipotle is like eating 5 star quality foods at a fast food restaurant (Simile). (Anecdote) I actually picked this topic because I love chipotle and I feel like they provide me with the highest quality food and best customer service. I go to chipotle at least twice a week. In 1998 McDonald was chipotle’s first major company that bought almost all of their stocks. Later, McDonald sold all of their shares because they thought that chipotle was not going to be a successful company.
Schlosser points out that in the year of 2000, Americans spent over $110 billion on fast food alone. This means Americans were spending more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, and new cars. We spent more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, videos, and recorded music; combined. Schlosser’s work takes readers from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food’s flavors are invented. He recommends that in search of a better way to serve customers, the fast food industry has negatively infused its way into the American culture.
Over the course of years new items would be added to the menu; however the original Chick-fil-A sandwich would always be the leading sandwich. Since 1967 Chick-fil-A has become the second largest quick service restaurant in the United States. Currently, there are over one thousand seven hundred locations in thirty nine states. In 2012 sales reached four point six billion dollars, this was a fourteen percent increase since 2011. Chick-fil-A’s SWOT analysis Strengths *Established in the United States *1700 locations in 39 states *Successful advertising slogan: “Eat morchicken” *Well known for its chicken sandwich and other chicken products.
"Hundreds of millions of people buy fast food every day without giving it much thought, unaware of the subtle and not so subtle ramifications of their purchase" (Pg. 10). The widespread phenomenon of fast food consumption has transformed even the simplest aspects of everyday life. An era when eating out was rare and saved for special occasions is coming to an end, and is quickly being replaced with a sky-rocketing demand for fast food. Over time, the fast food industry has increasingly manipulated consumers and corrupted the stability of the nation, and although the convenience and affordability of fast food has made it widely popular, the disadvantages noticeably exceed the benefits.
Many obese people suffer from heart disease, diabetes and many other things. The sad part about this is that not only adults but children are overweight. McDonald is unhealthy food for kids, which has low nutrients and a lot of fat. This is a society issue to represent fast food. A vending machine for example is fast food which is bad for health.
If it’s a bad eating place, why do so many people in poverty eat there? Because the food is unimaginably cheap. The soup kitchen isn’t just a place where people come to get their food. It’s a place where danger lurks around every corner. Brutal fights break out quite often over the constant struggle of hunger.