so who is Carl N. karcher anyways? well I recently learned that is one of the major pioneers for our fast food industry today. It's amazing how starting simply in southern California it was able to spread around the world at such a fast rate. Carl was just a typical high school drop out, who was offered the luck to move out west to work in Anaheim, California. Back then this area was entirely ranches and farms. Carl moved out there and worked selling chickens, cattle, and hogs, for literally 26 hours a week. Which compared to today is nothing according to hours at work! Briefly after moving west he moved back to Ohio with his wife Margret and started a hot dog stand. His new no boss, independent business was working out quite well, till the point during wwII he had enough money to buy two hot dog stands. Later doubling to four, as well as owning his drive-in Barbeque place.
Another pioneer for the fast food nation, and definitely had, and still has the biggest impact on our fast food is Richard and Maurice McDonald. Who at the start of the great depression left New Hampshire for Southern California, hoping ot find jobs, not in food, but in Hollywood. Strange as that sounds, it didn't work out, and neither did there movie theater, but they soon hit a struck of luck. They decided to open a restaurant in pasadena, called the "McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-in." Not only did the McDonald's brothers introduce us to the what everyone in the world knows as McDonald's, but they also introduced us to a new method that" increased speed, lower prices and raised the volume of sale." This method was the "guiding principles of factory assembly line," where everyone had one specific job, and did that job repeat.
QUESTIONS:
1) What restaurant chain did Carl Karcher start?
A: Carl's drive-in Barbeque
2) What were some of the Characteristics of the men who started the food industry?
A: Risk takers, determination, intuition, and imagination.
3) What were some of the other fast food restaurants that were inspired by McDonald's approach to food service?
A: Wendy's, Domino's, Kentucky fried chicken etc :)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
so who is Carl N. karcher anyways? well I recently learned that is one of the major pioneers for our fast food industry today. It's amazing how starting simply in southern California it was able to spread around the world at such a fast rate. Carl was just a typical high school drop out, who was offered the luck to move out west to work in Anaheim, California. Back then this area was entirely ranches and farms. Carl moved out there and worked selling chickens, cattle, and hogs, for literally 26 hours a week. Which compared to today is nothing according to hours at work! Briefly after moving west he moved back to Ohio with his wife Margret and started a hot dog stand. His new no boss, independent business was working out quite well, till the point during wwII he had enough money to buy two hot dog stands. Later doubling to four, as well as owning his drive-in Barbeque place.
Another pioneer for the fast food nation, and definitely had, and still has the biggest impact on our fast food is Richard and Maurice McDonald. Who at the start of the great depression left New Hampshire for Southern California, hoping ot find jobs, not in food, but in Hollywood. Strange as that sounds, it didn't work out, and neither did there movie theater, but they soon hit a struck of luck. They decided to open a restaurant in pasadena, called the "McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-in." Not only did the McDonald's brothers introduce us to the what everyone in the world knows as McDonald's, but they also introduced us to a new method that" increased speed, lower prices and raised the volume of sale." This method was the "guiding principles of factory assembly line," where everyone had one specific job, and did that job repeat.
QUESTIONS:
1) What restaurant chain did Carl Karcher start?
A: Carl's drive-in Barbeque
2) What were some of the Characteristics of the men who started the food industry?
A: Risk takers, determination, intuition, and imagination.
3) What were some of the other fast food restaurants that were inspired by McDonald's approach to food service?
A: Wendy's, Domino's, Kentucky fried chicken etc :)
Another pioneer for the fast food nation, and definitely had, and still has the biggest impact on our fast food is Richard and Maurice McDonald. Who at the start of the great depression left New Hampshire for Southern California, hoping ot find jobs, not in food, but in Hollywood. Strange as that sounds, it didn't work out, and neither did there movie theater, but they soon hit a struck of luck. They decided to open a restaurant in pasadena, called the "McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-in." Not only did the McDonald's brothers introduce us to the what everyone in the world knows as McDonald's, but they also introduced us to a new method that" increased speed, lower prices and raised the volume of sale." This method was the "guiding principles of factory assembly line," where everyone had one specific job, and did that job repeat.
QUESTIONS:
1) What restaurant chain did Carl Karcher start?
A: Carl's drive-in Barbeque
2) What were some of the Characteristics of the men who started the food industry?
A: Risk takers, determination, intuition, and imagination.
3) What were some of the other fast food restaurants that were inspired by McDonald's approach to food service?
A: Wendy's, Domino's, Kentucky fried chicken etc :)
Fast Food Nation Chapter 10
mhhmm...."McWord?" Sounds pretty terrifying to me! A world cluttered with a restaurant that creates genetically modified food, mistreats their livestock, and has a history of causing food-borne illnesses. In my mind this is a world I definitely don't want to live in! It's scary that literally a decade ago that McDonald's had about three thousand restaurants inside the United States; today it has about seventeen thousand in more than 120 foreign countries! What a humongous increase of restaurants in such a unexpectedly period of time. This fast fact definitely blew my mind away; that Coca cola has been around since 1886 now 124 years old, and McDonald's since 1956 now 54 years, and McDonald's is more widely recognized than Coca Cola, which beats McDonald's about 70 years! This really proved to me the statement in the book on page 229 that "The fast food chain has become totems of western economic development."
"By eating like Americans, people are all over the world are beginning to look like Americans." This quote is so very true. When i first went Brazil i found only 3 McDonald's out of the six states i went to, about 4 years later, McDonald's was found what seemed like every street. Basically what you see everyday in typical America. Not only was I astounded by that observation, but the people as well look a little more gargantuan then I had last recalled. It was very rare when i first went to Brazil that I found someone that looked overweight, but now a days you'll find them everywhere. Extremely disappointing through my eyes, that a country could be influenced so fast, by the "McWorld."
QUESTIONS:
1) In foreign countries, what group does most fast food advertising target?
A: definitely children:)
2) Why did the author visit Plauen, Germany?
A: He visited Plauen because for decades Plauen has been on the margins of history. Many historical events had occurred, and started in Plauen, Germany. Ex: Nazis formation
3) Why is obesity a problem for American society as a whole?
A: obesity is a problem for Americans as a whole because obesity causes major internal dysfunctions, diseases, and also decreases the life expectancy. As a whole this could cause our economy to drop, for we don't have enough healthy or simply enough workers to do the jobs we need for our country to stay afloat.
"By eating like Americans, people are all over the world are beginning to look like Americans." This quote is so very true. When i first went Brazil i found only 3 McDonald's out of the six states i went to, about 4 years later, McDonald's was found what seemed like every street. Basically what you see everyday in typical America. Not only was I astounded by that observation, but the people as well look a little more gargantuan then I had last recalled. It was very rare when i first went to Brazil that I found someone that looked overweight, but now a days you'll find them everywhere. Extremely disappointing through my eyes, that a country could be influenced so fast, by the "McWorld."
QUESTIONS:
1) In foreign countries, what group does most fast food advertising target?
A: definitely children:)
2) Why did the author visit Plauen, Germany?
A: He visited Plauen because for decades Plauen has been on the margins of history. Many historical events had occurred, and started in Plauen, Germany. Ex: Nazis formation
3) Why is obesity a problem for American society as a whole?
A: obesity is a problem for Americans as a whole because obesity causes major internal dysfunctions, diseases, and also decreases the life expectancy. As a whole this could cause our economy to drop, for we don't have enough healthy or simply enough workers to do the jobs we need for our country to stay afloat.
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