Fast food is relatively cheap, comparing with traditional food. It may cost as low as a few dollars with no service charges or tips at all. It is highly accessible, which many of those fast food restaurants open 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no prior reservation required, and is ready to serve as soon as when people have just finished their orders. People have the choice of to dine in, take away or even drive through for their meals. These advantages, which fit and match the city life style seamlessly, make fast food so attractive and irreplaceable.
However, as the raising awareness of people's health in recent days, fast food has been accused as one of the major harms to a healthy life. Fast food, usually serves with oversized hamburgers and fries, contains excessive fat, both trans fat and non-trans fat, causing serious illnesses such as obesity and heart diseases, and beverages, like cream soda and coke, contains overdosed sweetener, is one of the major reasons causing diabetic. Moreover, preservatives and flavour enhancers mixed into those frozen ingredients would significantly decrease the nutrition value of the meals.
In conclusion, fast food is definitely quick, cheap and highly accessible. It is always ready on the fly, and seems to be a very good and simple option when people hope to squeeze their packed schedules for some time. However, people might mistakenly overlook the quality of food, in particular ingredients and nutrition facts, and jeopardise and risk their health.