Fast food has grown remarkable, not only in the United States, but also around the world. Restaurant chains represent a multi-billion-dollars industry 【S1】______ that shows no sigh of slowing down. Innovations for operations and products 【S2】______ have kept the industry growing and, some critics would argue, led to speed up 【S3】______ the pace of contemporary life. From its inception, fast food has lived up its name. In the early days of fast 【S4】______ food, as Americans came to depend more on their cars, outlets offered drive-service, enabled customers to park and eat in their cars. This service 【S5】______ reduced the cost of operating a restaurant and establishing relatively low prices. 【S6】______ Given the popularity of fast food for lunch and dinner, it was only a matter of time before marketers and franchisees realized they could expand their line of production by offering breakfast to hungry people in a hurry. 【S7】______ For many people, however, fast food has become symbolic of a fast-pace 【S8】______ lifestyle. that is neither natural nor healthy. An organization called Slow Food was established in Italy in 1986 to oppose fast food and its assembly-line approach to cooking and eating. The Slow Food manifesto, endorsed in Paris 1989 by delegates from 15 countries, states, 'We are slaved by speed and have 【S9】______ all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Live, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods.' To fight the negative connotations of fast food, many companies now emphasize on the 【S10】______ word 'flesh' in their advertising and use the term 'quick service' to describe their operations. 【S1】