Fast Food E-Z Quiz

What do you know about Fast Food?
Stop and grab a bit of this quick Fast Food E-Z quiz.
"Check Your Answers" at the end of the page.

Take 2 points for each right answer.  Maximum this page: 20 points!

1) A fast food restaurant, also known as a Quick Service Restaurant or QSR within the industry itself, is a specific type of restaurant characterized both by its fast food cuisine and by minimal table service.
WHEN was the term "fast food" recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster?

1. 1931

2. 1941

3. 1951

4. 1961

2) Some trace the modern history of fast food in America to July 7, 1912, with the opening of a fast food restaurant called the Automat in New York.  The Automat was a cafeteria with its prepared foods behind small glass windows and coin-operated slots.
WHAT was the name of the Automat?

1. Workingman

2. Greenberg

3. Willow Grove

4. Horn & Hardart

3) Some historians and secondary school textbooks concur that A&W, which opened in 1919 and began franchising in 1921, was the first fast food restaurant.

• True or False?

4) They created the first fast food supply chain to provide meat, buns, paper goods, and other supplies to their restaurants, pioneered the concept of the multi-state hamburger restaurant chain, standardized the look and construction of the restaurants themselves, and even developed a construction division that manufactured and built the chain's prefabricated restaurant buildings.
WHO was the company?

1. White Castle

2. King Burgers

3. In and Out Burgers

4. Freddie’s

5) Nearly from its inception, fast food has been designed to be eaten "in the shop" and often required traditional cutlery and was eaten as a fork food.

• True or False?

6) WHAT is a group of menu items offered together at a lower price than they would cost individually?

1. Value meal

2. Cheapie meal

3. Thumper meal

4. Bundles meal

7) In the cities of Roman antiquity, much of the urban population living in insulae, multi-storey apartment blocks, depended on food vendors for much of their meals.

• True or False?

8) WHAT is a popular Japanese fast food?

1. Thilanki

2. Maniuki

3. Japanuki

4. Sushi

9) WHAT fast food shops are popular in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand?

1. Moneypennies

2. Fish and chip

3. Sausage and eggs

4. Kebab and mayonnaise

10) Some of the most popular foods include frango assado (Piri-piri grilled chicken previously marinated), francesinha, francesinha poveira, espetada (turkey or pork meat on two sticks) and bifanas (pork cutlets in a specific sauce served as a sandwich).
WHAT is the country?

1. Austria

2. China

3. Portugal

4. Panama