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.
Sherladrein Harris After seeing Food Inc it left me in shock. Seeing how animals are treated just so people can eat. The thing that stood out to me the most was the fact that you could even die from eating meat that comes from unhealthy animal. What frightened me the most was seeing what happened to Kevin – his death. Many people in the world eat meat – such as hamburgers- for lunch and dinner every day, yet I have never heard of someone dying from food poisoning.
Day 1: Breakfast|What you ate?|Grain|Vegetable|Fruit|Dairy|Protein|Empty Calories| | 2 Eggs| | | | | X| | | 2 pieces of toast| X| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lunch| Chicken sandwhich| X| | | X| X| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dinner| Green beans| | X| | | | | | Pasta| X| | | | X| | | chicken| | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Snacks| milk| | | | X| | | | cookies| X| | | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total Servings| 4| 1| 0| 2| 4| 1| Day 1 Summary: What areas were lacking in day 1? What are some things I can change tomorrow to help me improve my diet? I did not eat any fruits on my first day. I could make sure to fit in atleast one fruit a day. Day 2: Breakfast|What you ate?|Grain|Vegetable|Fruit|Dairy|Protein|Empty Calories| | cereal| X| | | X| | | | banana| | |X | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lunch| Turkey sandwhich| X| | | X| X| | | chips| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dinner| pancakes| X| | | | | | | bacon| | | | | X| | | eggs| | | | | X| | | toast| X| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Snacks| yogart| | | | X| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total Servings| 4| 0| 1| 3| 3| 0| Day 2 Summary: Were today’s choices healthier choices than yesterday?
The Fast Food Industry is responsible for obesity in America as they have many fast food restaurants typically many within a small radius providing cheap easy solutions to societies hunger. David Zinczenko, a writer for The New York Times, describes marketing powers in his assessment "Don't Blame the Eater" he states that just about all fast food restaurants falsely advertise their foods and pass to many as a "healthy" meal choice but little do people know is that they are still extremely unhealthy foods that should not be included in anybody's diet what so ever. There has been many varieties of marketing techniques developed over the years of the fast food industry's attempts to persuade others to eat at their establishments. The fact that the foods they are extremely unhealthy for people of all ages from kids to adults is helping to cause obesity throughout America although some may be aware of the risks the average American still continues to eat out at fast food establishments along with the family giving the fast food industry a chance to get the entire family hooked for life. Going to fast food restaurants to prove his theory about how horrible fast food restaurants are for the human body.
Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant called The Dwarf Grill in Hapeville, Georgia. He established Chick-Fil-A Inc. in the early 1960s in shopping malls with the opening of the first Chick-Fil-A in a mall in the suburban part of Atlanta. Some of the innovative concepts that Chick-Fil-A consider to be a success for them are mall based restaurants. The chain has approximately 334 major shopping mall restaurants that are operating. Because of customer demand the chain began to open stand alone restaurants in 1986, it now has 938 stand alone restaurants around the country.
McDonald's molded it's marketing tactics on Disney which inspired icons for advertising such as Ronald McDonald. Schlosser also mentions that 80% of sponsored textbooks are biased toward the sponsor and 30% of high schools offer fast food in their cafeterias. Most packaging done for the fast food meat industry is done my the immigrant labor force. Injury for workers who hold these jobs are among the highest of any other occupation in the United States. Many unsanitary and just plain disgusting routine procedures of this industry are unknown to most consumers.
The whites not working made it official.” (90). Burke is saying that The Great Depression didn’t hit home until it affected the white people. And the fact that no white people and as well as no black people were working made African-Americans view The Great Depression as being equal with Caucasians. African-Americans were used to these Depression conditions. Clifford Burke made the remark that their wives would go to the store and get beans and a big piece of meat to cook for dinner and the white man could not do this, if he were to bring back the same items his wife would threaten to leave him.
Spurlock attacks McDonalds in this documentary about their food and how unhealthy it is but it is not only McDonalds that is a problem. All fast food restaurants are unhealthy and advertise the unhealthy and readily available cheeseburger and large fry. The point is that obesity is a very big problem in America and fast food restaurants are not going to change the way they make their food or advertise. Americans want to have to change for the problem of obesity to go away. Although this documentary is very blunt and sometimes sickening, it might help some Americans to see that fast food might lead them down a road of health problems and maybe
The beef noodle that my friend cooked was nowhere near the pho that a lot of Americans can enjoy. It was bun bo Hue which was a very spicy kind noodle that we were also very proud of but cannot introduce much to the world because it had much of shrimp sauce in it. When you put shrimp sauce into the pot of boiling broth, the vaporizing steam brings out the smell of the sauce so strongly and fiercely that when you invite friends for home cooked bun bo Hue, you don’t have to give them the address, just tell them the street name and they will find your house correctly. My foxy friend put a very generous amount of shrimp sauce into his cunning plan and his poor next door neighbor raised up a sign of home for sale in no longer than a few month
Burger King and Taco Bell started in the 1950s, and Wendy's opened in 1969. Some chains, like Carl's Jr., KFC and Jack in the Box, existed before the Speedee Service System, but modified their cooking techniques after. McDonald's, which started it all, is now the world's largest fast-food chain. According to the National Restaurant Association, in 2005, sales of