A fast food restaurant, sometimes known as a quick service restaurant or QSR, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service. Food served in fast food restaurants typically caters to a Western-style diet; is cooked in bulk in advance and kept hot to order; and is usually available ready to take away, though seating is provided. Fast food restaurants are usually part of a restaurant chain or franchise operation, which ships standardized foodstuffs to each restaurant from central locations.The first fast food restaurants originated in the United States of America during the 1950s. Today, American-founded fast food chains such as McDonald's and Pizza Hut are multinational corporations with outlets across the globe.Variations on the fast food restaurant concept include fast casual restaurants and catering trucks. Fast casual restaurants have higher sit-in ratios, and customers can sit and have their orders brought to them. Catering trucks often park just outside worksites and are popular with factory workers.

The notorious Anna Ayala, who caught the world’s attention by filing a lawsuit against the fast food restaurant Wendy's, for a piece of a human finger she claimed was served in her bowl of chili, pleaded guilty to all charges brought before her in the case.

In-store menus placed awkwardly high are almost begging for a hurt-neck lawsuit!

By Brett BarrouquereTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSSHEPHERDSVILLE (Kentucky), Oct 4: A lawsuit filed by a woman who was forced to strip in a McDonald's back office at the behest of a caller posing as a police officer is in the hands of a jury.Louise Ogborn, 21, is suing the fast-food giant, accusing it of failing to warn her...

Two Columbus, Ohio, fast-food restaurants have been sued over an alleged 'free food' scheme to get Ohio State University students to sign up for credit cards. Ohio Attorney Gen. Marc Dann said Potbelly Sandwich Works and La Bamba Mexican Restaurants Group offered students free sandwiches and burritos but, first, they would have to

Members of a Sidney family say a fast-food dinner they were served in 2005 contained far more than what they ordered.