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.

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What Australia's Food Futures Flagship is doing to make food more innovative. Where genetically modified food might be headed in Australia and how this research relates to the inventiveness of the world's leading chefs who are borrowing techniques and equipment from the fast food industry.

In Australia the federal government, which is the highest court in the land, is being resisted by a leading fast-food company. The demand placed on the company by the courts is "remove the harmful fats from your food".

FAST-food chains in Australia have voluntarily agreed to reduce the amount of harmful trans fats in their products, averting the possibility of government intervention! Companies including McDonald's, KFC, Krispy Kreme, Pizza Hut, Subway and Hungry Jack's attended the roundtable.

Australia in discussions with fast food reps to decrease the use of trans fats.