The concept of fast food offers the food industry a more competitive edge. With food being served at a very fast pace, the output can be optimized and maximized at the same time. Though the operating hours of different eateries may vary, eateries would be most pack during lunch and dinner hours.

An eatery running on a traditional concept would lose out to fast food outlets in terms of output and capacity. Cutting down the time diners have to wait at a restaurant would maximize on the profit, with the assumption that the restaurant is at full-house capacity during these peak hours.

Most restaurants running on the traditional concept, where food is prepared only upon an order, are shifting towards the fast food concept little by little. So to speak, the food on top of a restaurant’s menu would be prepared in advance even before the order is place, in order to hasten the overall process.

The most notable shift we can see is Starbucks. Traditionally, Starbucks would only prepare your drinks on the spot upon order. However, during peak hours, especially during breakfast, most of the more common drinks will be prior prepared in bulk.

Though a restaurant may not be classified as a fast food restaurant, the concept is slowly adopted at a wide scale to remain competitive.

The word Pizziare first began in Italian transcripts some 1000BC that is 3000 years ago and is believe to mean ‘a point ‘in old Italian, which later evolved into the word pizziare which now means to pinch.

By 997 the word Pizza appeared in Latin and by 16th century in Naples a flat bread was referred to as a pizza. The pizza was a baker tool to confine the temperature of the oven. It was given as a dish for poor people and was considered not as a kitchen recipe.

Before tomatoes were introduced to Italy a white sauce was used on the bread but with the introduction of tomatoes in the 16th century from South America, even though the first ones were poisonous, by the 17th century they were added to the dough bread and the base was stated and we have the beginning of the first pizza.

Mozzarella cheese was slowly becoming popular in Italy with the introduction of buffalo from India. Then in 1889 cheese was introduced onto the pizza and that is when the classic pizza was created.

In that same year a tavern owner called Don Raffaele Esposito created the first pizza using tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil, which was named after the current queen of Italy called Margherita Teresa Giovanni and that is the being of the Mozzarella pizza.

By the late 19th century when Italians started migrating to America they brought across with them the pizza. Soon after they started opening up simply groceries stores and inside that they were selling pizza. The first true pizza store was opened in around 1905 by a guy called Gennaro Lombardi which was situated in a area called little italy at 53 rd spring street in New York.