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.
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.
White Castle began in 1921 by founder Billy Ingram and the White Castle hamburger is introduced in the market. The name White was meant to describe the company’s purity and cleanliness and Castle signified strength and stability. According to the company’s recent press release, White Castle was the first fast food hamburger chain, founded in 1921and now operates more than 400 restaurants in eleven states (2010). The original success of the company was in its marketing because before 1921, the hamburger was an undesirable product (Goldberg, 2010). In terms of fast food restaurant life span, even twenty-five years in business can seem like an eternity.
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.
When President Obama moved to the White House, a Five Guys staffer suggested sending him a T-shirt. “That’s cheap!” Murrell shot back. Playing coy worked, and soon Obama, trailed by TV cameras, stopped by a store. He ordered a cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, fresh jalapeños, and mustard — a classic example of Five Guys’ formula that sells 2 million burgers a week and was named Zagat’s “best fast food burger” for 2010. For this reporter, evaluating the burger first-hand was problematic: I’ve been a vegetarian for more than a dozen years.
in the chapter “your trusted friends” he talks about kids recognizing Ronald McDonald. In the section “perfect synergy” the author says that 90% of children between the ages of 3 and 9 visit McDonalds. Location is in Anaheim, California and also the focal point of the book is in Colorado Springs.Place is in Anaheim there were lots of citrus groves, ranches, farms, and walnut groves and was a small town.Human-environment interaction is that Walt Disney cut down the trees on 160 acres to build Disneyland.Movement- fast food restaurants moved to different locations all around the worldRegion- Anaheim, California. I liked this book because it gave me more knowledge on the fast food places. the
A.J. Crawford Michelle Pederson English 101-11 October 21, 2014 “Midas Burger for some Chicken” Midas Burger has been in business for 49 years and is one of the top places to eat in Arab, AL or around the south for that matter; just ask a regular customer. Try them one time and I guarantee you will become one of their regular customers also. They have one small problem: sometimes you have to wait. You see, at Midas Burger they prepare each and every order at the time you order.
There are over 14,000 McDonald’s locations in America alone and they made over 8.5 Billion dollars in 2013 alone. About 44% of Americans eat at McDonald’s weekly according to a survey done by StatistcBrain.com. So, he is definitely correct in the fact that when food is abundant and cheap people will eat more
The three main points I will compare the restaurants’ by is the fan base, the choices, the taste, and the prices. First off, McDonalds has more history and a much longer track-record than Chick-Fil-A does. McDonalds was founded in 1948, while Chick-Fil-A was founded in the early 1960’s. After being founded McDonalds quickly became famous for their 15 cent hamburgers. In seventeen years, McDonalds had 700 stores nationwide.
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