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.

Mr. E. Diner (aka "Mystery Diner"), the founder of DinerDeals.com, writes about the best dining and foodie websites on the internet. Every week he reviews a different website that contains restaurant discounts, restaurant gift certificates, restaurant reviews, online reservations, online food delivery services, etc..

When I first started trying to lose weight, I swore off all ethnic restaurants, even my favorite, Chinese. Big mistake. I hit the all-you-can eat Chinese buffet a couple miles from my house twice in as many days and gained three pounds!You don't even want to know what happened when I lived in a city where there's Chinese food delivery.

Is this the only food delivery service there is in brooklyn after 11pm?? Now they decide to quit selling their pressed sandwiches? Proposterous! People read the reviews, SAVE Brooklyn!

Big restaurant chains are rushing into what could be the future of takeout and delivery food: text ordering.

Big restaurant chains are rushing into what could be the future of takeout and delivery food: text ordering.