This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Its China Division (which includes Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants as well as KFC and includes operations in China and Taiwan) produced US$290 million in operating profits in 2006 Brands reported that same-store-sales in China grew by 9% As the forerunners in the fast food revolution American fast food chains have created an indelible mark on fast-paced societies Burger King and KFC are just a few of the billion dollar fast food empires that have emerged in America and abroad over the past 40 years a research support program with the University of Arkansas Americans consume an astounding 54 billion meals yearly including meals at table service establishments But is this love affair with fast food only playing out in the United States For quite some time news programs featured stories that highlighted the frequency with which American families eat out.  And for quite some time many Americans were the only ones that were in love with fried chicken pizza and all those other great comfort foods Yet this could not be further from the truth AC Nielsen Consumer Confidence and Opinion Survey conducted a survey in late 2004 which included 28 countries across Asia-Pacific the Managing Director of AC Nielsen China as arguing “Fast food appears to have become a staple of diets in China as it is now in many other Asian Pacific countries.” In China 30% of those surveyed in the AC Nielsen survey ate at fast food restaurants two to three times a month; 21% of respondents ate once or twice a week and 11% three to six times per week These numbers definitely show that the love affair with fast food is not all that different from that of Americans.  So what are the causes of this love affair Americans as well as Chinese are spending less time at home which leaves less time to prepare food rapid changes in Chinese diet structure and lifestyle as well as China’s rapid economic growth has created a reliance on fast food establishments It is a luxury to enjoy a meal out for many Chinese and American families due to the increasingly demanding and hectic lives fast food chains have become a needed and appreciated luxury for both Chinese and Americans alike A.C. Nielson,  Consumer Confidence Survey, Second Half 2004, <http://www2.acnielsen.com/reports/documents/2004_ap_confidence2.pdf> Yum! Brands, "Yum! Brands Inc. Reports Strong First-Quarter 2007 EPS Growth of 19% or $0.70 Per Share, Led by Powerful Growth in China and International Divisions; Raises Full-Year Forecast," <http://investors.yum.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=117941&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=993871&highlight=> he graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Osijek and became a police officer in 1981 he kept his police command free from politics and ideology and defended all Yugoslav citizens regardless of their ethnicity Kir successfully gained the trust of the citizens working to obtain corrections where journalists distorted the truth in front of the municipal assembly of Osijek fully aware of risking his life for this commitment he declared: "As long as I am the head of the police station of Osijek - Baranja there will be no war between Serbs and Croats here” which he informed the then Minister of the Interior about he went to the Tenja negotiations on July 1 as he was killed that day in a political assassination organized by those who knew that Josip Reihl Kir was awarded the Duško Kondor Prize for Civic Courage in 2011 His biography is taken from the archive of Duško Kondor Award for Civil Courage We would like to thank Svetlana Broz for providing the material to the editorial staff Josip Tvrtko Reihl Kir was honoured as “Righteous reported by the civil society” in the 2025 ceremony Once a month you will receive articles and events selected by Gariwo Editorial Board Please fill out the field below and click on subscribe This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply dedicated to hunting for justice during and after the Serb-Bosnian conflict first worked to find and rescue Rosaria Bartoletti Orthodox priest who chose not to leave Sarajevo to continue helping those who were in need The doctor who saved many lives during the siege of Vukovar and testified in The Hague Cardiologist who told the stories of rescue from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia Was killed for trying to protect his Muslim neighbour from the “Monster of Grbavica” Croatian and many other Serbs in defense of Sarajevo and Bosnia-Herzegovina Managed to free prisoners from the Heliodrome by making fake phone calls and helped them obtain papers to escape From the pages of Feral Tribune he denounced the crimes and violence committed by the various parties in the conflict during ethnic cleansing saved several people from the police station in Nevesinje The teacher who saved the lives of those persecuted and spoke out against ethnic segregation in schools He protected those persecuted in Mostar and defended their property He chose to testify against his own army about crimes committed against civilians President of the Jewish Community of Mostar The headmaster who opposed the ethnic cleansing and lost his job A policeman who refused to hand over to Karadzic's forces the Muslims who fled to Montenegro The first person in Serbia to call Srebrenica a genocide carried wounded and persecuted people of all nationalities Human rights activist and creator of the network "To Live in Sarajevo" during the siege of the city The pediatrician who saved many from the ethnic persecutions Killed by Serbian police for refusing to leave his friend Smail Ribić The general who refused to fight the Croatian enemy The main characters of a book by Svetlana Broz nessun contenuto sul sito di Gariwo corrisponde a quanto hai cercato Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.