relatively low. Restaurants with much higher sit-in ratios, where customers tend to sit and have their orders brought to them in a seemingly more upscale atmosphere, may be known in some areas as fast casual restaurants. Variants Although fast food often brings to mind traditional American fast food such as hamburgers and fries, there are many other forms of fast food that enjoy widespread popularity in the West. Chinese takeaways/takeout restaurants are particularly popular. They normally offer a wide variety of Asian food (not always Chinese), which has normally been fried. Most options are some form of noodles, rice, or meat. In some cases, the food is presented as a smörgåsbord, sometimes self service. The customer chooses the size of the container they wish to buy, and then is free to fill it with their choice of food. It is common to combine several options in one
Impossible, as they could easily do with their drilling equipment. There is parallel here between what happens in Africa and what happens in Black communities in America. There are no factories in Black communities which could provide jobs for the high number of unemployed youths in the communities. Everything is brought into the community, and the businesses that operate in Black communities bring in their own people to run them. Despite the thousands of Chinese takeout restaurants in Black communities throughout the country, have you ever seen a Black face behind the counter or inside their kitchen? Yet, Africans spend millions of dollars patronizing these restaurants. When the restaurants make enough money to become upscale, they close shop, pack up their cooking equipment, and move into other neighbourhoods. Every year, Africans spend billions of dollars in travel and in holding their own organizational meetings and functions