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The Fast-Paced Growth of Fast Food The popularity of fast food production today is a direct result of busy families. In today’s society both husband and wife usually obtain full-time careers. These careers take up much of the family’s time and energy. Children of these families are usually very active in many extracurricular activities such as soccer, Boy Scouts, football, baseball, and basketball. With all of the practice, games, and outings, these activities consume a great amount of the family’s time. In this fast paced life people find it more and more convenient to grab some food on the way home than to prepare a full meal for their family. Families find it more convenient to have someone else do the cooking and cleaning than to take more time away from each other and do it themselves. Single people find it easier to pick-up some fast food than cook a big meal for one person. Often, single people choose to go out to eat instead of cooking because they just have never learned to cook, and really never plan to learn. It is also a result of the most obvious, people these days are just lazier than people in our past were. Sometimes it is the result of time and convenience and sometimes it is a result of the low