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[q=oddler or whatever]Edit: fast food
–noun food, as hamburgers, pizza, or fried chicken, that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method and can be dispensed quickly at inexpensive restaurants for eating there or elsewhere.[/q]

I can go to a sit-down restaurant and get food that is prepared in quantity by a standardized method inexpensively for eating there or elsewhere. The key factor is time. Any time you order a pizza from any pizza place, it's prepared fresh, and thus will take at least ten, usually closer to fifteen minutes to cook and become ready for eating. However, at a place such as Burger King, food is constantly being made, and is received by the customer within a couple minutes typically. Hence, pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut can take up to 10 times longer to receive (even more for real pizza restaurants) than a bacondoublecheeseburgerholdthepickles from Burger King.
"Quickly" is a relative term.