If you go to many countries, there are street food vendors everywhere and they show up where there are hungry people. It’s a perfect business model and it’s how free market entrepreneurs evolve and solve problems, in this case food distribution and feeding people. Now, many people in the United States believe that fast food is an American thing, and while that may seem superficially, philosophically it is not true. There is nothing faster than the food that a street vendor can prepare for you, and he does it without a building.

No, I’m not saying that food is safer, or better for you, or even tastes better, although it usually tastes good because the businessman or street vendor can’t sell anything that tastes bad. And yes, there is something to be said for food safety, and those big fast food restaurants with the big brand names don’t want their customers to get sick, as that would destroy their customer base faster than anything else.

There’s an interesting trend in the United States, all these mobile food trucks that we see popping up all over the place. In many respects they are nothing more than sophisticated street vendors that you might see in any other country in the world, but in this case they have most of the facilities with them and can pick the best locations based on the time of day and the demographic that is on the move. . For example, people who work in office complexes are only there during the day, and in some suburban areas there may not be restaurants for miles around.

Perhaps that is why fast food restaurants originating in the United States do so well when they go abroad. All they have to do is adjust their food to match the local places, as the populations there are already used to getting their food very quickly. It just makes sense to them, plus they can sit inside with air conditioning, and everyone is happy. Of course, the Happy Meal you can get in the United States is not the same as what you get in China, Vietnam, India, Kenya, or South Africa at your McDonald’s, but those people love it just as much as our kids do.

Everything is tailored to the type of food they eat there, maybe fish and rice, rice and beans, or bread and goat meat. In the end, one might ask philosophically; What is the difference, instead of the building and the high and expensive overhead? There is still regional variation, even when a big brand fast food restaurant enters a new area, just as street vendors and the items they sell change from country to country. Please consider all this and think about it.