history

Ever wondered how some of today's most popular fast food chains got started? I recently got a chance to skim over an extremely interesting book Fast Food Nation by award-winning American journalist and author Eric Scholosser that explores how the emergence of fast food chains and their franchise business model after WWII have significantly changed the world. The following exercepts briefly describe how some of these popular fast food chains began. It was surprising to learn that almost all of the founders were modest entrepreneurs that were door-to-door salesmen, short-order cooks, orphans, and high-school dropouts with absolutely no previous business or cooking experience! Read more