0 hot food such as hamburgers that is quick to cook or is already cooked and is therefore served very quickly in a restaurant --
1 cheap, often hot food that is prepared and served quickly in a restaurant --
2 hot food that is cooked and served very quickly in special restaurants. Fast food is often the type of food you can take away to eat, for example hamburgers or fried chicken: --
Later they drove to a fast-food restaurant for takeout.
It is a densely built-up tourist city of hotels, pubs, discos, shopping malls and fast-food outlets.
The fast food industry is making good progress in developing more healthy alternatives.
Dicos is a fast food chain that is becoming increasingly popular in China.
One need only go half a mile from here late at night to see some of the appalling litter left behind from fast food outlets.
More and more rely on junk fast food to fill them up, with the consequent threat of heart disease in middle age.
Economists examined one sector of the industry—fast food restaurants, where wages are traditionally low—in both states.
The planning brief for the site makes provision for fast food outlets, more traditional restaurants and beverage outlets.
I refer particularly to the take-away and fast food industry.
We speak about the hours during which fast food shops should remain open.
Therefore, it is important that the fast food business should continue to advance.
Fast food restaurants and grocery stores are numerous; two hospitals, a vocational-technical school, two radio stations, a small cable television station, and a daily newspaper serve the population.
