What is the future of fast food in our lives?

Question

What is the future of fast food in our lives?

Answer 1

Since fast food is in such high demand by people in America and all over the world, fast food will be around for a loooooong time to come. However, with all the trans fat and obesity battles occurring these days, I think we're soon to see some changes in the nutrition of fast food...such as new healthier items on the menu, healthier ingredients, etc.

I'm actually quite surprised that there hasn't been a fast food that serves turkey burgers yet. As health conscious as I am, I'd love to see that happen and I'd definitely buy them as well, and they're not even all that bad tasting.

Hope this answers your question bud. :)

Answer 2

I feel it's going to get bigger. Fast food has grown to become an integral part of our lives. In our fast paced society the need for a full kitchen in our homes is practically unnecessary these days.

It used to be a special treat to pick up some hamburgers for a Friday night dinner. Now it's virtually secondary- a daily occurrence.

I think the fast food industry will continue to thrive but also become more aware of healthier items to place on their menus.

Ever hear of gourmet fast food? It's out there.

Answer 3

Eventually--within 100 years or less--it will mainly be rendered obsolete.  There will still be a *few*, tiny handful of places left, but they will be historical curiousities, rather like old-school diners are today.

The reason: eventually we will get good enough with nanotechnology that we will trust it to make our food.  Or more precisely, we'll trust it to *re-engineer* corn and soybeans into just about *anything else* we can imagine.  Essentially the diet of the future will be lacto-vegetarian out of necessity (as more and more people take up room once used for farmland, and as global warming makes less and less of that land farmable).  The trick will be figuring out ways to turn hydroponic soybeans, corn, and cetacean (whale/dolphin) or pinniped (seals) milk into things that *people* want to eat and drink.  Hence the use of more and more nanotech in food preparation.

There will be a few things left to traditional farming--grapes, vineyards and wine-making, for example--but for the most part, people will program a computer-like device and see their food *formed* in three dimensions from raw materials and then cooked and flavored to taste right in front of them.

It will be like seeing a live chef prepare food on a steam table in real-time, only with the sanitation and convenience of a *really good* vending machine.  Which is something fast food can't compete with.

Not that they won't try.  I think at least one chain will try pushing virtual reality technologies along with tele-presence robotics in the *ultimate* use of both downsizing and multitasking.  Namely they will figure out a "system" that in theory allows *exactly ONE* person to operate *everything at once* in up to five separate restaurants at the same time.

But the FDA will shut it down once they realize that one person can't be stretched that thin more often than once a week before the strain starts to make them openly psychotic and/or dissociative.  They will call it "Madrox's paranoia" because a person with it will believe that they're *here, there and everywhere* all the time, whether they're jacked-in or not.

But yeah, give it 100 years or so....they will be replaced, and we'll all be eating so healthy it hurts [*], and not even knowing it, thanks to strides in nanotechnology.

Hope this helps.  ^_^

Answer 4

Fast food is bad food.

It will be good when it's gone forever.

Answer 5

Sometime in the near future, we will probably be eating soy burgers and salads.  It will be rare to find Beef in food items.

Answer 6

There is a famous Italian restaurant chain I used to work for that was thinking of replacing servers with palm pilots on the table and simply have people to serve the food and fill the drinks.

Answer 7

i have read that fast food will eventually turn out to be like the customer assistance calls when you get someone from thailand on the phone. you go to the drive throught and the guy on the mic is that guy you order your food and it is made by machines or people depending on quality and it will be given by machine or person.

Answer 8

I think fast food will continue to grow as it has over the past 50 years.

Answer 9

as long as people keep buying it, then fast food will continue to prosper.

another note: ... you won't be seeing as many intelligent or good looking people eating fast food.