Fast Food Nation

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Fast Food Nation I decided upon reading “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser for this report. My selection of the book is not an exciting tale of me being particularly passionate about the fast food industry and yearning to know more about it, but instead driven by my slightly odd fascination with details about things people usually do not want to hear about. I had originally wanted to read “The Jungle” since I had heard it contains some gruesomely awesome tidbits, but as I ventured into Borders during their huge sale it appeared the place had been hit my a tornado, or just a lot of people looking to score some cheap books. So after relentlessly searching through the wreck that was Borders, “Fast Food Nation” was the only intriguing thing I could get my hands on, but I am entirely pleased with the outcome. Schlosser delved very deep into the fast food industry, covering an array of topics starting from the industry’s roots and the honesty present, to the more recent state of the business, and finally to solutions which can be implemented to decrease unethical actions. Carl Karcher, a hardworking man, was described as a pioneer in fast food (Schlosser 13) and took advantage of the changing times with hotdog carts. Cars were now becoming incredibly popular which sparked the previously untapped market of drive-in restaurants, which he jumped on with his popular Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque (20). The drive-in industry caused something very unusual we do not see much of today and that is friendly customer service backed by economic incentive (17). Today we find that fast food workers receive the lowest wages of all, while restaurant executives’ salaries are rising. Yes, the tasks have been entirely de-skilled and are done mostly by teenagers trying to survive their first job, but it had become radically different from the past when a job in the fast

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