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Works Cited

Primary Sources
Chefs Cooking in Delmonico's Huge Kitchen. 1902. Photograph. Museum of the City of New York, New York City. Business Builders in Fast Food. Minneapolis: Oliver, 2001. 9. Print. This source provided me with a valuable picture of Delmonicos, the first well-known restaurant in the United States. I observed the layout of the cooking area in this restaurant and compared it to the kitchen in fast food restaurants, and a clear differentiation can be made; the recent restaurants are dominated by machines so that workers can very easily make every food item.

"CNBC News Special." Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire. CNBC. EngleWood Cliffs, NJ, Jan. 2012. Television. This special television program which aired on CNBC was amazing because it had one of the McDonald brothers explain the purpose and success of the speedee system. It also explained how working at a fast food place is not necessarily that bad; a manager of a store can make a very decent pay and eventually becaome an owner.

Diner Customers Usually Ate at a Long Counter Seated on Stools. c.a. 1940. Photograph. Library of Congress. Business Builders in Fast Food. Minneapolis: Oliver, 2001. 15. Print. This photograph was useful because it portrayed the layout of diners in the mid 1900s. I

observed that the seating today is much more generic and organized, and the workers have no time to socialize with customers, unlike what I inferred the picture displays.

Ranganathan, V. K. "Fast Food and the Economy." Personal interview. 29 Jan. 2012. This learned individual was extremely helpful in making me understand how and why the fast food chains have done so well in the past, and how a McDonalds share is worth more than a share from the general snp 500, the average of all companies. He showed me how to analyze these stock trends as well and taught me about steady rate of growth, and predictions in the future of fast food stocks, especially because they are recession proof.

Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Print. This was an amazing resource with a huge amount of information; I used it for interesting facts such as the fact that McDonald's owns the most retail in the entire world, etc. I also learned about how the fast food restaurants brought in kids with Happy Meals, how they teamed up with companies and schools, and other economic effects of the enterprise such as teenagers dropping out of school, but poor working moms benefiting (and other positve and negative economic effects). In addition, this book was an excellent primary source because it provided up to date information about research into the impact of Fast Food on diet and health.

Solanki, Laxmi. "Health Effects of Fast Food." Telephone interview. 30 Jan. 2012. This CDN (Certified Dietician) was extremely helpful as well. She explained why preservatives are unhealthy and why fast food in general is, but she also discussed factors of obesity or the impacts of fast food restaurants that I had never thought of before, such as if kids develop poor eating habits at a young age, they will frequently eat unhealthy fast food when they grow up; it is crucial for kids to have a proper diet when they are young.

Super Size Me. Dir. Morgan Spurlock. Perf. Morgan Spurlock. Cameo, 2005. DVD. This Documentary was an amazing source to find out the truth about fast food restaurants, and how unhealthy they are. It gave me the fact that multiple health problems can come from being obese, and that restaurants possibly are to blame because they don't list the ingredients of their food clearly for people to be informed. It also included Baskin Robbin's nephew discussing how ice cream is definitely linked to health problems.

The Well-appointed Harvey House Dining Room. 1926. Photograph. Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Business Builders in Fast Food. Minneapolis: Oliver, 2001. 31. Print. This picture was a useful portrayal of the Harvey Houses and the well-kept waitresses that worked there. This code of dress is followed to this day because workers have to wear uniforms. I realized that in some ways, fast food restaurants have not changed.

Secondary Sources

Aaseng, Nathan. Business Builders in Fast Food. Minneapolis: Oliver, 2001. Print. This resource was extremely helpful because it served as the backbone to my pioneer page. It discussed the business builders of the fast food industry and what they did to become successful, and the legacy each left behind that impacted later fast food restaurants in the future. Further, it contained useful pictures of the pioneers and the first creations of their restaurants.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. Print. This source served as the most valuable secondary source because it walked me through each century, describing the changes and developments of fast food restaurants from oyster houses to the modern McDonald's. I used this source as the backbone for the Historic Context. It also gave me a quote of a medical doctor from the 1900s who stated how fast food restaurants were unhealthy. Many images were valuable as they helped me to understand how the Fast Food restaurants developed from a unique diner to the generic walk-in.

"McDonald's History." Home :: McDonalds.com. McDonald's. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. <http://www.mcdonalds.com/>. The Official McDonald's website provide me with history of its stocks since 1972, so I was able to see the clear differentiation between how the McDonald's business did and how the snp500 (average of all other stocks) did.

Olver, Lynne. "The Food Timeline: Restaurants, Chefs, & Foodservice." Food Timeline: Food History & Vintage Recipes. 29 Jan. 2012. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. <http://www.foodtimeline.org/restaurants.html>. This was a credible website that I just used to get the chronology of events straight, such as which restaurant came before which, and it was a reliable source I used to confirm some facts I wasn't sure about stated in my books. It allowed me to understand what happened when in history.

Reed, Brad. Fast Food. Farmington Hills: Greenhaven, 2010. Print. Gale: Opposing Viewpoints. This interesting book gave me facts about why fast food was unhealthy, and also the fact that people know it is unhealthy but still eat it anyways, so it may not be the fast food restaurant's fault that Americans are becoming obese.

Schlosser, Eric, and Charles Wilson. Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food. Boston [Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Print. Although this book focused on the unhealthy aspect of fast food, it did give me valuable information about how American citizens, after Henry Ford's model T, expected everything finished quicker. The resource also gave me a valuable quote from Ray Kroc, and a few useful pictures.

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