It reminded me that America is not the only place in the world that has the simple joys we grow up yearning. McDonalds’ employee base is usually for the starter group. What I mean by this is that is generally employs high school teens or younger adults who are not established in the economy or life yet. This is not completely true of the employee makeup but close. You could also see senior citizens there as well.
Working, even at Burger Barn, takes away these teenagers free time in which they could have been negatively influenced by other teenagers. Other poor teenagers that Newman showed us worked to help support their family. Working at Burger Barn has proved to be a safe place for these teens to go after school. Managers at Burger Barn encourage school and success to their workers. Grades determine how many hours the teens will get at Burger Barn.
The book Fast Food Nation would open the eyes of most Americans to behind the scene of fast food. The type of workers they employ, and how the government is connected to the industry. The workers of the fast-food industry are treated with bad ethics. The fast-food industry likes to hire young, poor, and handicap people. They hire teenagers because they live at home and do not have any expenses, therefore, they work for less money.
Darien Industries Darien Industries operates a cafeteria for its employees. The operation of the cafeteria requires fixed costs of $4,700 per month and variable costs of 40 percent of sales. Cafeteria sales are currently averaging $12,000 per month. Darien has an opportunity to replace the cafeteria with vending machines. Gross customer spending at the vending machines is estimated to be 40 percent greater than current sales because the machines are available at all hours.
Skinner’s strategy had to consist of staying competitive with the numerous other fast-food restaurants popping up all over the world. In order to maintain this, they had to reorganize the way they presented themselves to the community. Jim Skinner did so by cleaning up the customer service, cleaning up and modernizing the physical buildings, and changing the menu to the changing tastes of their customers. McDonald’s also introduced their slogan “I’m Loving It” to reach out to the younger customers. The advertising is very much targeted toward teens and young adults.
One can say that Quinn’s current monthly promotion strategy is working very effectively as about 100-150 seniors jam her McDonald’s not just every fourth Monday, but almost every morning. Senior discounts and memberships are highly effective ways of reaching the 55+ mature consumers (Moschis, Bellenger & Curasi, 2003, p. 16) and Quinn has leveraged this marketing tactic very
Eric Shlosser is conveying many teenagers who work at a fast food restaurant, his purpose is to evaluate the conditions of those people who prepare and serve the food. He wants to be the voice to those people who work extremely too hard for low and minimum wage rates. In the book Fast food nation & Reefer Madness, Behind the counter make the reader conscience about what American cannot see in the fast food industry. Eric Shlosser has a strong and great point of view in his article and he proves it with evidence. Schlosser started his essay with a description of Elisa Zamot’s routine.
Critical Analysis of Super Size Me McDonald’s feeds more people each day than the entire population of Spain. It is facts such as these that inspired independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock to investigate deeply into the full effects of America's favorite fast food joint. However, Spurlock chose not to take the typical approach. Instead, he chose to launch a thirty day trial diet called the "McDiet." Over the course of a month, Spurlock commited himself to a diet consisting purely of McDonalds menu items.
The fast food business is largely subjugated by the teenagers. Some work because it is expected by their parents, some work to bank up money for college, and some work purely to have some extra cash, but no matter what the reason, they are still working. During school months 2.9 million people aged 15 (fifteen) to 17 (seventeen) worked during the school year and 4 million worked during the summer. This is having a huge effect on the teenagers as people. The students are still being exposed to the working world at a very young age which can have its very own benefits.
They are under the private sector. This means there are certain people who own it. McDonald’s is in the tertiary sector which offers a fast-food service. McDonalds is a global business because they have many branches which then go across the world. It serves 64 million customers daily.