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chapter 3

Fast food restaurants frequently appear at specific exits located along major highway systems and also along roads running trough towns or counties.
"Every few miles clusters of fast food joints seem to repeat themselves." Schlosser shows how fast food chains all over the nation use advertising and the careful positioning of establishments along major highways and other busy roads to attract higher numbers of consumers. This would be an area of research that I am able to relate to because I am familiar with this powerful advertising method. Every time I drive up and down 83 I see a great number of exits for food, especially fast food. It is hard not to want to stop for a quick bite especially when trying to save time.These resteraunts are being placed along highways for convienence and ease of access when traveling for long distances.

I would also research the topic schlosser talks about involving 2/3 of the nations fast food workers being under the age of twenty. He states how most fast food places even frequently hire disadvantaged members of society. Teenagers working long hours are receiving low pay. I know many people in this situation, however this type of job is the only kind they are able to find right now.

Chapter seven

The complex system of the fast food industry keeps a few goals in mind making sure to make money and sell their food at any costs.Even if that means beefing up cattle with grain( which they dont usually eat), and steroids( which can be unhealthy) to produce more meat faster an more efficiently. I would like to know what is in the meat I am eating if i choose to eat at a fast food resteraunt. It's all about profit and how quick they can deliver their product.

I would also want to maybe research the hiring of illegal immigrants and how this effects profit, production, and avaliability of jobs. Fast food corporations are assuring that they hire immigrants due to the fact that they will work hard and they will do so for a cheap price. No experience is really neccessary to work at a fast food place either.