No one would starve... the impact that fast food has is on what is grown and harvested.

McDonald’s mandates a particular type of potato for thier fries with no blemishes, so the company mandates a certain insecticide that the farmers have learned to stay inside when it is applied.

Coffee growth and harvesting is a brutal business but I am not sure if that can be pinned just on Starbucks.

If the fast food places where denied product I think the long term impact might be on prices..

I haven't been to a fast food restaurant in ages, most restaurants I do frequent are because the food is good and I want to support them. I think I'd be fine as long as there were still grocery stores.

Didn’t we find out during covid that groceries (in the US) carry about 3 days worth of food? So no.

Hunger is a pretty powerful motivator, so I'm sure people will find a way

Source: me snacking while I wait for my SO to get ready so we can go grab lunch

Now .. if you had asked about sysco....

If it happened overnight, probably a lot of people would starve. An individual not getting to eat at their favourite shit-house would just go to the shop and buy some "real food". If everyone individual couldnt then suddenly the food shops are getting hit hard and would sell out in no time. Not to mention the panic-buying that would start up. People likely getting trampled to death and all sorts, stabbed up in the car park for their eggs and stuff.

If the fast food places quietly went away over a month or two everything would be fine.

If that happens governments will divert resources from grocery stores to fast food and force people to buy from there. Because capitalism.

If they were robbed of resources, so are we so yeah

Nope although I think in some cases people have to get food from convenience stores like that are in gas stations.

I'm sure they'd love for you to believe that

What if you engineered real food and spiced it like each of theirs, subverted the supply chain for a little bit, and gave people real food? Then you take it away in a week or so and everyone realizes that these chains have gone downhill.

All of them? Yeah, I could see starvation because they supply so much physical food that I don't see the economy being able to sustain such a hit to supply.

I wouldn't support it because there are reasons why the current fast food infrastructure has been built. I feel like you'd curl the monkey paw when getting rid of fast food.