27 травня 2025

Fast Food Restaurants



Today, we are going to talk about fast food restaurants.

Fast-food restaurants are in almost every country of the world now. We can see their brightly coloured shopfronts in every shopping area or mall.

But what is fast food exactly? And how to order it?
In this lesson you will learn vocabulary and phrases related to fast food restaurants, practice ordering food, and improve your reading skills.


Fast food is a term used to describe food that is:
  • served quickly
  • convenient to find
  • relatively cheap
  • simple food
  • found in most towns and cities of the world
  • a recognizable brand

Discussion Questions:

  • What fast food restaurants do you know?
  • What do people usually eat at fast food restaurants?
  • Do you think fast food is good or bad? Why? 

Food and Drinks
These are the main kinds of food you can find in fast-food restaurants.

Fast Food Menu  


Fast food menus are bright and colourful.
You can see the menu displayed on a large board behind the servers at the counter. The board is brightly lit to draw customers’ attention to it.

All the meals have clear and beautiful pictures and prices next to each item.
There are also handheld menus which are also very colourful and full of pictures.
You can also see the menu on the fast-food restaurant app or website.
Fast food menus are different from other restaurant menus in that every meal and food item has a photograph and the prices are very clearly shown throughout.


And all the meals in fast-food restaurants have numbers attached to them.
So when you order your food, you can just say: Can I have a number one, please? And the server knows exactly what you want.
This is done for convenience and speed. The customer receives their food quickly. Then they can eat quickly and leave.

Main Fast Food Vocabulary 

Look at the picture below and make sure you know all the words connected with fast food restaurants

What is a combo?
Fast food often comes in a combo (short for combination) that includes at least two different items together at a cheaper price than what they would be individually. Usually, one of them is something to drink like a milkshake or a fizzy drink / soda.

Eat-In/To Eat Here
This means that you wish to eat the food you buy on the premises. There are tables and chairs in the fast-food restaurant and you can sit wherever you wish to eat your food.

Take Out/Take-Away/To Go/Carry Out
These are just different ways to express that the customer buys the food and takes it outside of the fast-food restaurant. You may eat the meal at home, in your car or just sit outside in a park somewhere. If you want to do this, you need to tell the server.

What is the difference between takeout and takeaway?
Takeout is the more commonly used term in 🇺🇸 American English, while takeaway is more commonly used in 🇬🇧 British English. However, both terms are understood and used in both countries.

Drive Through/Thru
In an attempt to make fast food even faster, companies introduced the idea of the drive-through. The customer drives into a special lane next to the restaurant. Then you order your food by speaking into a machine. The server communicates with you via the machines and takes your order. Then you drive to a window to pay and collect your food.
The word ‘THRU’ is a non-standard Americanised spelling of through.

 
More information about Fast Food Restaurants you can learn from this video.




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