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PEOPLE CRAVE FOR FAST FOOD

A Research Paper Presented to

The English Resource Center

School of Multimedia Arts

Asia Pacific College

Magallanes, Makati

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements of the Course

ERESWRT – Research Writing

Trisha Dianne I. Yalong

April 2014

CHAPTER I

Introduction

A. Background of Study

People are fond of eating to different kinds of places. And mostly, they tend to pick elegant restaurants because it is a different way of eating experience. People think that whenever they hear “fine dining” it is some sort of high class restaurants because of the formality it gives starting from the service until the way they design or cook their food.

From an article entitled, "What is Fine Dining?” by Lorri Mealey.  According to it, fine dining is one of the most expensive type of restaurant because of it’s formality in serving and making the dishes to the customers. It is very elegant compared to other types of restaurants or food places.

Mealey said, " It brings to mind all kinds of images, from crisp white table cloths to waiters in tuxedos. Fine dining, just as the name suggests, offers patrons the finest in food, service and atmosphere.” (http://restaurants.about.com/od/restaurantconcepts/a/Fine_Dining.htm)

Since people love eating in fine dining areas, they simply would love to bring their family most probably when there are significant events in their lives they would love to celebrate. So not only the adults are the ones being able to experience a formal way of eating, but even their children.

From an article entitled, “Children and fine dining, who determines what is appropriate” by Cristine Struble. It stated that, workers should treat the way customers should be treated. Whether they’re young or not, there should be nothing controversial about it since they are still customers and they pay the workers so they should at least be treated the way all customers are treated. It is a matter of equality of every customer to be given respect to the workers. And it also said that since it is fine dining, even younger people should be treated in a more elegant and formal way since they were there to experience a true fine dining way of eating.

Struble said, “Bringing children to upscale or fine dining restaurants can be controversial. Again, I do not believe the age of a guest should be the determining factor.” (http://www.examiner.com/article/children-and-fine-dining-who-determines-what-is-appropriate).

People are commonly more interested in experiencing new things. That’s why they would pick different kinds of restaurants to eat in. And from that, the fine dining restaurants are usually being the ones people would love to eat in since it is very unusual, and they would have a lot of difference compared to other restaurants. From that also, there could be a big increase from contributing in eating in fine dining restaurants.

And from an article entitled, “Fine-dining restaurants poised for growth in 2014” by Bret Thorn. It said that, fine dining has a big increase compared to the past years. It means that people still tend to contribute in elegant dining nowadays. It also said that people tend to eat in fine dining restaurants mostly when they are new to some place to try to taste the different dishes in a more formal way.

Thorn stated, “For many restaurants, 2013 was a challenging year, as consumers, facing higher payroll taxes and feeling a continued unease about the future, were cautious about discretionary spending.” (http://nrn.com/fine-dining/fine-dining-restaurants-poised-growth-2014).

Eating in fine dining restaurants may be a new and different experience compared to usual eating outlets. However, the researcher observes that people still pick and crave for fast food restaurants even though it could bring a lot of problems to their health.  There are some reasons why people can’t seem to avoid eating fast foods although fine dining is more special and elegant.

Knowing on why people are craving for fast food can help others to know the idea on why and how could the craving thing happen. People will know on when to stop and how to stop eating fast food. It can help a person to stop doing things that makes them into eating fast foods.

The purpose of making this paper is to help readers to have an idea about the bad effects of fast food, and to help readers to know on how to stop craving for fast foods.

B. Statement of the Problem.

This study aims to answer the question:

1. Why do people crave for fast food?

C. Significance of Study.

College student  of Psychology. This research paper would be able to help or become a basis for students in college who are taking up Bachelor of Science in Psychology. This way, they could understand more deeply the causes on why people still crave for fast food, even though them knowing the bad effects.

Parents. This research paper would help parents to have an idea on what effects can fast food bring to their family.

Teenagers.  This research paper would be able to help them in controlling their food because fast food can harm their health.

Future researchers. This study could help some scientists find a new way to help people avoid eating at fast food restaurants.

D. Scope and Delimitation.

This study focuses on the reasons on why people still craves for fast food even though they know that negative effects of eating fast food.

This study will no longer tells about the history or the fast food. It will only focus on the reason on why people crave for fast food.

E. Materials and Methods.

This paper consists of articles gathered from the internet that is all about fast food.

This paper will be analyzed by indicating the studies that have been done by some researchers and nutritionists.

F. Definition of Terms.

1. Fast food. Is  the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low food preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away. (http://www.statisticbrain.com/fast-food-statistics/)

2. Obesity. A condition that is characterized by excessive accumulation and storage of fat in the body and that in an adult is typically indicated by a body mass index of 30 or greater. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/obesity)

3. Poised.  A marked by balance or equilibrium, Marked by easy composure of manner or bearing (http://www.merriam-webster.com/poised)

4. Cardiovascular Disease. A disease of the heart or blood vessels. (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=cardiovascular%20disease)

5. To take dinner –often used with on, to give a dinner to. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dine)

6. Cancer. A malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/cancer)