reply guys

I’m in an important argument with a bunch of friends right now and figured I’d ask for some input 

how do you define fast food - would chipotle be considered fast food?

I’d say yes. Can have a more nuanced debate about fast casual, different types of service, but if pressed would say it’s fast food

I think Chipotle is fast food, ie food that can be prepared quickly to take out.

meh, it’s a tiered scale. like it kind of is but it’s not on the taco bell tier

me too, they are getting too into the weeds saying “if it doesn’t have a drive thru it isn’t fast food”

DISAGREE

I would define fast food as food that is fast

I mean it's the revolutionary system of McDonald's for me. People used to hire a cook to make burgers; McDonald's invented this puzzle system where every person -without any skills- put another part of the burger in a certain order. So it wasn't cooking, but an assembly. It was fast, and it was food 🧉

Probably takes about the same amount of time from order to getting it as traditional fast food so I’d say yes