Select at least 5 key economic indicators that you feel are relevant to the fast food industry making sure that you can briefly justify your selection.

Reviewing The Fast Food Industry

1. Select at least 5 key economic indicators that you feel are relevant to the Fast Food industry making sure that you can briefly justify your selection.

2. Explain what Economic Indicators are.

3. For each Economic Indicator selected, include a chart or graph showing the historic information for the indicator over the last several years. (Please do not create the charts or statistics, just find and use them making sure to cite your source or sources per APA guide.—an excellent source is www.BLS.org and www.PROCON.org for supporting arguments.)

4. Use the trends and patterns derived and gleaned from the indicators and charts to predict the direction or the economic outlook of your industry.

5. Make a recommendation to your client as to what you see as the economic outlook of the industry including how your client can position itself to take full advantage of the trend that you predict—minimize losses, increase earnings, reduce risk, expand industry market share, etc.

In your about 1000 words group paper, please include a Cover Page, Abstract Page, and Reference Page. The body of your paper should be broken down into sections to address the above questions. All pages should be numbered in the header per APA guidelines – see APA style through the Reynolds Library or Student Help tab on Blackboard. Grading Matrix for the paper is below in this syllabus.