Fast food restaurants are generally easy to get to, well advertised, and offer an increasingly diverse menu of foods to entice customers. Guillermo Perales is the owner of 400 restaurant and fast food franchises and knows about the country’s desire for cheap meals while cursing the growing rate of obesity.

Fast food franchises cater to a growing number of people who have little time in their lives to cook a full meal. Dual-earning households make family meals harder to schedule and leave little time to cook full and balanced meals. -Fast food fills that niche of providing a meal in a pinch. The food is quick and ready to eat. Parents don’t have to spend as much time listening to their children complain about being hungry. It also saves time on clean-up because the bags can be thrown away instead of washed, dried, and stored,- says Guillermo Perales.

The hate comes into play when people examine the repercussions of the convenience. Guillermo Perales may own hundreds of food franchises, but that doesn’t mean he eats them every day. -People have the choice to examine what they eat. They make the choice to sacrifice healthy food for convenience. Many people like to blame the fast food industry for the rising rate of obesity but the truth is, these are parents or individuals choosing to buy burgers for themselves. The restaurants are there because the market is there,- says Guillermo Perales.