Fast Food

The fastest form of "fast food" consists of pre-cooked

meals kept in readiness for a customer's arrival
(Boston Market rotisserie chicken, Little Caesars
pizza, etc.), with waiting time reduced to mere
seconds. Other fast food outlets, primarily the
hamburger outlets (McDonald's, Burger King, etc.)
use mass-produced pre-prepared ingredients
(bagged buns & condiments, frozen beef patties,
prewashed/sliced vegetables, etc.) but take great
pains to point out to the customer that the "meat and
potatoes" (hamburgers and french fries) are always
cooked fresh (or at least relatively recently) and
McDonald's
• McDonald's Corporation is an American fast food company,
founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice
McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They
rechristened their business as a hamburger stand, and later
turned the company into a franchise, with the Golden Arches logo
being introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In
1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a
franchise agent and proceeded to purchase the chain from the
McDonald brothers. McDonald's had its original headquarters in
Oak Brook, Illinois, but moved its global headquarters to Chicago
in early 2018.
Burger King
Burger King (BK) is an American multinational chain of hamburger fast food
restaurants. Headquartered in the unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County,
Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville,
Florida–based restaurant chain. After Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties
in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton and James McLamore
purchased the company and renamed it "Burger King". Over the next half-century,
the company would change hands four times, with its third set of owners, a
partnership of TPG Capital, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners,
taking it public in 2002. In late 2010, 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake
in the company, in a deal valued at US$3.26 billion. The new owners promptly
initiated a restructuring of the company to reverse its fortunes. 3G, along with
partner Berkshire Hathaway, eventually merged the company with the Canadian-
based doughnut chain Tim Hortons, under the auspices of a new Canadian-based
parent company named Restaurant Brands International.