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Fast food is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food,typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a packaged formfor take-out/take-away. The term "fast food" was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951.
Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter orseating,[1] or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchiseoperations which are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffsshipped to each restaurant from central locations.[2]
Pre-modern Europe
In the cities of Roman antiquity, much of the urban population living in insulae,multi-story apartment blocks, depended on food vendors for much of their meals. In the mornings, bread soaked in wine was eaten as a quick snack and cooked vegetables andstews later in the day at a popina, a simple type of eating establishment.[3] In the Middle Ages, large towns and major urban areas suchas London and Paris supported numerous vendors that sold dishes such as pies,pasties, flans, waffles, wafers, pancakes and cooked meats. As in Roman cities during antiquity, many of theseestablishments catered to those who did not have means to cook their own food, particularly single households. Unlike richer town dwellers, many often could notafford housing with kitchen facilities and thus relied on fast food. Travellers, as well, such as pilgrims en route to a holy site, were among the customers.[4]