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The global fast-food industry is still largely dominated by US chains like McDonald's and KFC, with only a handful of non-American brands -- such as South Africa's Nando's and Japan's Yoshinoya -- enjoying success outside their home countries. But while Western markets have seen modest gains in fast food during the tough economic times, developing markets like the BRICS countries are booming with double-digit growth. Regional fast-food chains are learning to compete with the US giants and even expanding across borders themselves. Here are six regional heavyweights that may soon be delighting the palates and expanding the waistlines of customers around the world: 1. Jollibee -- Philippines, 2. Mo'men -- Egypt, 3. Tantalizers -- Nigeria, 4. Nirula's -- India, 5. Es teler -- Indonesia, and 6. Al Tazaj -- Saudi Arabia. Adapted from the source document.

Fast food and exoticism.
We often associate fast food with Mac Donald's, which plays a prominent role in criticism of this kind of restaurant. Mac Donald's, but also Quick, Burger King and Flunch keep on conveying myths of post-war modernity : taylored production, conformity with norms for the sake of an imaginary egalitarianism and the utopia of beating time. Currently, we are witnessing a spread of this kind of restaurants which are either under head offices in the USA, managed directly, franchised or, like Quick, subordinated to French mass marketing companies. Boredom prevails in these places, due to the uniformity of the premises and the food we consume. The resulting indifference is the most obvious «crime». Demonising Mac Donald's, as Paul Ariès does in sociology or José Bové in politics, may not be the best reaction to fight against what must be called a collective dispossession of territories.

Abstract The text contrasts two eating situations and the sentimental values associated with each: the paper proposes that we can relate eating fast food primarily with present happiness, namely fun, while the traditional family meal is associated with satisfaction and a sense of well-being. Well-being has a stronger emphasis on the emotional dimension of the experience of more or less extensive states and developments of happiness; the concept of satisfaction targets more the cognitive factor of happiness, and fun is defined as an emotion which expresses individual self-determination and self-compliance. The fun in fast food involves the public, the individual experience and the character of the event; the well-being at the dining table involves privacy, duration and the social experience. A modern imperative is expressed in fast-food eating: Live your life now as a happy one: Eat it, be happy and show it!

Für eine Auseinandersetzung mit 'der' Kultur von Mädchen (girlhood) ist die Frage von besonderem Interesse, wo Mädchen ihre Zeit verbringen, was 'ihre' spezifischen Orte sind, was sie wie an diesen Orten machen und wie sie sich diese als Sozialräume aneignen. Dabei zeigt die Jugendforschung, dass zunehmend halb-öffentliche Orte wie Shopping Malls und die Restaurants der Fast Food Ketten (McDonalds, BurgerKing, Subway u. a.) für Jugendliche gegenwärtig von zentraler Bedeutung sind und bisherige jugendtypische Orte, wie Parkanlagen oder Bushaltestellen, ablösen (vgl. Deinet 2014). Wenngleich diese 'neuen' Jugend-Orte in der Forschung und pädagogischen Praxis vielfach problematisiert werden, als mit ihnen u. a. eine Standardisierung von Interessen und eine Orientierung von Bildungsprozessen an kapitalistische Logiken verbunden wird (vgl. Burghardt/Zirfas 2016), scheinen diese Orte für Jugendliche "besondere Raumqualitäten" (Deinet 2014, S. 215) zu haben. Hierauf weisen auch die eigenen ethnographischen Beobachtungen zu jugendkulturellen Praktiken in Fast Food Restaurants hin, auf die nachfolgend mit Bezug auf Praktiken der Raumaneignung von Mädchen eingegangen und auf deren Grundlage über die Qualitäten des Schnellrestaurants für 'die' Kultur von Mädchen nachgedacht wird.