Raw food restaurants have increased in number over the past 10 years, as more people seek healthier diets and lifestyles. Raw food restaurants serve no cooked foods. Instead, they serve an assortment of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sprouted grains—including raw desserts, raw pizza, raw “lasagna..

Colorado's new vegetarian restaurant opens in Denver with free WiFi, cooked vegan and raw food dishes.

California's newest raw food restaurant,118 Degrees, just opened in Costa Mesa, California.

From what I have experienced working as a chef in a raw food restaurant, eating raw food is probably the healthiest way to maintain your body and feel the best you can feel. But like all great things there is a catch: If you espouse this type of eating consistently, you will experience other unhealthy social and mental side effects.

Los Angeles has the largest number of raw food restaurants out of any U.S. city.

Fast food is the term given to many items that can be prepared and served quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, such as TV dinners, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store which is rapidly prepared and served to the customer in a packaged form for take out/take away.Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations which are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations.The capital requirements to start a fast-food restaurant are relatively small, particularly in areas with non-existent or poorly enforced health codes. Small, individually-owned fast-food restaurants have become common throughout the world. Fast food restaurants with higher sit-in ratios, where customers can sit and have their orders brought to them, are known as fast casual restaurants.