1.1 Background and statement of the Problems
Nowadays, there are many kinds of fast foods such as hamburger, fried chicken, and nugget. Mc’Donald, KFC, and Burger King are samples of many restaurants that serve fast food for customers. There are more competitive fast food’ restaurants, including new and old restaurants.
The popularity of fast food restaurants are not ranking from the oldness of restaurant. Time is most important for people because there are high competitions. So, the people have to manage their time for more activities. Food is important factor in daily life that cannot be avoided. Therefore, the people prefer to have fast foods than cook at home or meals.
For view of people between fast food and restaurant, they are thinking that restaurant meals are healthier food more than fast food. Because fast foods are fried and loaded with saturated fat and sodium. There are few healthy options available on fast food menus. Since fast food tend to be cheaper and faster than dinning in a restaurant. It is a popular choice among families looking for a quick, low-cost meal away from home.
However, some surprising was founded. Both of fast food and restaurant meals provide larger portion sizes and many more calories compared to home cooked meals. Furthermore, people who eat restaurant meals were less likely to be hungry later because of the larger food portions.
According to the statistic (follow the Table 1), we can know the percentage of population that said they eat fast food at least once a week. As shown below, we can see the highest is Hong Kong 61% and Thailand is fifth 44%. (Techeblog, 2010)