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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1365424/Subway-vs-McDonalds-The-artery-clogging-truth-favourite-fast-food-chains.html

11 March 2011- Invasion of the super-sized sarnies: As Subway overtakes McDonalds as our biggest fast-food chain, the artery clogging truth about its sandwiches.

Subway has powered into first place in the fast-food league, with 1,500 outlets in Britain alone compared to McDonald's 1,197.

This will be useful for interviews when asking questions about which fast food restaurant is the most popular, most common, has the most restaurants, is the healthiest/unhealthiest etc. We can also create a collage of newspaper titles showing how it is a discussed topic. Because it is from a Newspaper it is likely to be a reliable and factual source. Also because the source is from a couple of years ago we can compare it to 2013.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2303861/Takeaway-UK-Average-Brit-spending-1-320-year-fastfood-buying-12-meals-month.html

4 April 2013- Takeaway UK: Average Brit is now spending £1,320 a year on fast food buying 12 meals every month

This is more recent research and in our questionnaire we asked our target audience how much they spent on fast food a year so this statistic can lead us on to discussing the topic of how much money is spent on fast food.

http://www.calypso.co.uk/news/the-history-of-the-fast-food-industry

The UK had a big part to play in development of local fast foods. Coastal areas particularly served oysters and local seafood directly on the quay, and trawler fishing soon led to the first fish and chips shop in 1860. It is of course the US who is most notorious for fast food, and this is tied up with the development of the automobile post WW1. The car was an American icon and

We selected this information for our introduction as it will define the theme of fast-food in ou documentary.

soon allowed the ‘drive-thru’ another American icon, to develop. The first ever fast food restaurant is generally considered to be the White Castle restaurant in Wichita in 1916. The restaurant concept was based on offering a limited menu based around the hamburger; producing high volumes, at high speed and low cost. This was the start of the fast food chain mentality in America. By 1951 ‘fast food’ was listed in the dictionary. Although fast food chains have enjoyed unimaginable success in the last half of the 21st century, the fast food restaurant is under threat as society becomes increasingly concerned with both the health effects of this kind of food, and the way it is produced.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/fast-food3.htm

The History of Fast Food

Mass-produced food Fast food safety and

nutrition

This will provide more factual information for our introduction.In our questionnaire we found out that most of our target population are interested in the ‘making of the product’ and so the mass-produced food information on the website will allow us to provide this. The second most popular thing that our audience was intrested in was the nutritional value of fast-food.

http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome.html

The McDonalds website is useful for questions or our interview with them.

http://www.kfc.co.uk/ The KFC website is useful for questions or our interview with them.

http://www.subway.co.uk/ The Subway website is useful for questions or our interview with them.

http://www.burgerking.co.uk/ The Burger King website is useful for questions or our interview with them.

http://www.italianexpress.co.uk/ The Italian Express website is useful for questions or our interview with them.

http://www.dominos.co.uk/ The Dominos website is useful for questions or our interview with them.

http://www.fastfoodnation.co.uk/fast-food-facts-figures.html

11 January 2013 How much do we

spend on fast food? What’s the most

popular fast food in the UK?

Looking into fast food and health

What’s new in the fast food market?

We can use these facts on our voice-overs. Also the food and health section can help up get questions for our interview with a dietitian.

http://www.fastfoodnation.co.uk/facts-figures-recession-affecting-our-fast-food-habit.html

26th December 2012Is the recession affecting our fast food habits?

This article can be used as archive material in the background with our voice-over.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ Manufacturing fast food The majority of our

specials/1616_fastfood/page7.shtml addiction. target population said they were most interested in the ‘making of the product’.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1616_fastfood/index.shtml

Fast food’s founding father

Cows into burgers Chicken into nuggets Fries are divine Attracting the

customers Manufacturing fast

food addiction A corporation under

attack Adapt or die

This website explains some of the history of fast food and how parts of the fast food products are made. It also looks at the corporation in society and it’s success, this is all useful and factual information that our target audience want to know.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424583/Ill-McEverything-Fast-food-fan-orders-ALL-43-burgers-McDonalds-menu-create-3ft-20-000-calorie-mega-sandwich-costs-140.html

18 September 2013'I'll have a McEverything!' Fast food fan orders ALL 43 burgers on McDonald's menu to create 3ft, 20,000 calorie mega-sandwich that costs $140.

This is an article about McDonald’s and shows how extreme people can be and the media coverage of fast food restaurants.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/fast-food-baby/

Our junk food addiction is dropping alarmingly down the age ladder and we are now rearing a generation of fast food babies.This arresting documentary reveals babies and toddlers eating a diet of chips, burgers and kebabs, all washed down with bottles of fizzy cola.

This short documenarty can be used as archive footage, also it shows how fast food is an ‘addiction’, this can lead us to ask questions about this to the dietitian we are going to interview.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090862/McDstories-McDonalds-Twitter-promotion-backfires-users-share-fast-food-horror-stories.html

24 January 2012#McFail! McDonalds' Twitter promotion backfires as users hijack #McDstories hashtag to share fast food horror stories

This article shows how the fast food industry are using social media and the benefits and conquences of this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21478314

17 February 2013Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say doctors

This comes from a different point of view –against fast food- which will widen the variety in our documentary and make it more interesting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325980/How-fast-food-outlets-food--really-look-wouldnt-fit-Big-Mac-large-box.html

17 May 2013How fast food outlets show their food... and how they really look (and you wouldn't even fit a Big Mac that large in its box!)Photographer Dario D compared over the counter purchases with their adsHe found that two McDonald's burgers would not fit in their boxesSome burgers could not reach the same heights as the promised products