Fast Food Nation Chapter 3

1. Fast Food NationChapter 3 Behind the counter Author’s idea

2. Content • Fast food places tend to be built in groups where one goes up, others follow. • Use system that was once used to spy in the cold war.

3. Content • No unions • Most robberies/ murders contain at least one person who works at the fast food industry. • The food industry depends on young people to run their stores.

4. Content • People want to “dumb down” the machinery • They want the industry to be more about thorough put; doing things faster to make more money.

5. Author’s Intent • To explain how the fast food industry Is mainly run on adolescents • To describe the teenager’s working conditions. Showing how a “part-time” job could interfere with school work and how teens spend their money

6. Author’s Intent • To explore the subject of unionization and how teenagers are less likely to be apart of it because they are just working for the money • To connect all of his information with examples relating to Colorado Springs

7. Bias • The author believes that the food business only cares about making money. They do not care about the safety of their workers and will go against any regulations to make the fastest, biggest buck possible.

8. Bias • There is a law in the fast food business that does not allow employees under the age of 18 to work machinery. An interview of a high school drop-out states that the teen bragged about their talent on the automatic meat cutter. In the last few recent years death rates from fast food robberies have risen, but the restaurant owners have refused to add more security or allow hand guns to be available behind counters for the employee or customer safety. Companies are no longer training workers instead they have 5th grade reading level instruction posted in all areas of the kitchen, which has lead to an increase in injuries.

9. Bias • Fast food companies take advantage of the unsupervised power that is given upon them. They have lowered the number of kitchen safety regulations and they have refused to add security to protect its employees and companies creating an instable business that, despite all the dangers, will continue to thrive because of the few jobs available for the young and illiterate.

10. In conclusion • Industries today will do anything to make a quick buck and even at the expense of the employees. • Companies will make tasks and technology easier for the adolescence working the stores.