Archaeological finds[edit]

Archaeology in the Philippines began in Marinduque. [citation needed] Prior to 1900, only one important
archaeological investigation had been carried out in the country: the Antoine-Alfred Marche’s
exploration of Marinduque from April to July 1881. According to anthropologist Henry Otley Beyer,
while many other accidental discoveries and finds have been recorded from time to time and a few
burial caves and sites had been casually explored by European and local scientists, no systematic
work had been done anywhere else prior to these explorations. After Marche, the next important
archaeological work was undertaken by Dr. Carl Gunthe in the Visayas Island Group in 1922.
An abundant yield of Chinese urns, vases, gold ornaments, skulls, and other ornaments of pre-
colonial origin was what Marche finds represented. He brought back to France the Marinduque
artifacts he uncovered in 40 crates. Part of it now is said to be housed at the Musée de l'Homme in
France. The finds also included a wooden image of the Marinduque anito called "Pastores" by the
natives.
One of these artifacts also found its way into the National Museum of Natural History of
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (Catalogue No. A127996-0, Department of
Anthropology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution). These fragile jarlets traveled from China to the pre-
colonial Philippines. Buried in a cave in Marinduque for centuries, excavated in the late 19th century,
brought to Paris and eventually one ended up at the Smithsonian Institution museum.
Part of Marinduque's history lies at the Marinduque Museum in Poblacion at Boac and in museums
abroad. It will take some time to analyze these artifacts to piece together its pre-colonial past.
In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by Han Chinese traders. Indigenous groups are
called Mangyans. The Spaniards called the place as Mina de Oro (meaning "gold mine") from where
the island got its current name. According to the late historian William Henry Scott, an entry in the
official history of the Sung Dynasty for the year 972 mentions Ma-i as a state which traded with
China. Other Chinese records referring to Ma-i or Mindoro appear in the years that follow. [5]
The products that Mindoro traders exchanged with the Chinese included "beeswax, cotton, true
pearls, tortoiseshell, medicinal betelnuts and yu-ta [jute?] cloth" for Chinese porcelain, trade gold,
iron pots, lead, copper, colored glass beads and iron needles. [5]
The island was briefly invaded by the Sultanate of Brunei and housed Moro settlements[6] before the
Spanish invaded and Christianized the population. Afterward, the area was depopulated due to wars
between the Spaniards and the Moros from Mindanao who sought to enslave the Hispanized people
and to re-Islamize the island.[7][8] Consequently, most of the population fled to nearby Batangas and
the once rich towns of Mindoro fell to ruin.[7] In the seventeenth century, Giovanni Francesco Gemelli
Careri visited the island.[9] In 1898, Mindoro joined in the Philippine Revolution against Spain due to
the influx of rebels settling into the island from Cavite and Bataan. Local patriotism died down
however during the American occupation of the Philippines and the Japanese era.
The island was the location of the Battle of Mindoro in World War II.
Nevertheless, upon Philippine independence, the area recovered and from 1920 to 1950, the island
was a single province with Calapan as the provincial capital. In 1950, it was partitioned into its two
present-day provinces, Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro,[10] following a referendum.

Economy
A fast food restaurant, also known as a quick service restaurant (QSR) within the industry, is a
specific type of restaurant that serves fast food cuisine and has minimal table service. The food
served in fast food restaurants is typically part of a "meat-sweet diet", offered from a limited menu,
cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot, finished and packaged to order, and usually available
for take away, though seating may be provided. Fast food restaurants are typically part of
a restaurant chain or franchise operation that provides standardized ingredients and/or partially
prepared foods and supplies to each restaurant through controlled supply channels. The term "fast
food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951.[1]
Arguably, the first fast food restaurants originated in the United States with White Castle in 1921.
[2]
 Today, American-founded fast food chains such as McDonald's (est. 1940) and KFC (est. 1952)[3][4]
[5][6]
 are multinational corporations with outlets across the globe.
Variations on the fast food restaurant concept include fast casual restaurants and catering trucks.
Fast casual restaurants have higher sit-in ratios, offering a hybrid between counter-service typical at
fast food restaurants and a traditional table service restaurant. Catering trucks (also called food
trucks) often park just outside worksites and are popular with factory workers. [citation needed]