Summary Of The Introduction Of Fast Food Nation

In the introduction of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of The All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, he starts out by talking about talking about rural and urban land use. Schlosser first talks about the Cheyenne Mountains and how America has used it for an elite military base. Secretive, is the point that he was trying to get across when writing this very first part of his book. He used the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station as an example of how American fast food restaurants conceal themselves into almost every street corner and block. There are fast food restaurant’s on everywhere and the fact that there are still being more built to this day. The writer states that they also do this by placing their companies inside schools, grocery stores, and other public places. I can highly relate to his way of thinking when he talks about how fast food chains use the land for their restaurants. Every time I exit my neighborhood, there are two fast food places, Sonic and Pizza Hut. These companies have put their restaurants so conveniently into a little spot on the corner that it would be abnormal to not only me but others as well if it wasn’t there.

Briefly mentioning jobs at the military base, but mainly focusing on jobs that are given out by fast food companies. Using McDonald’s as a large reference to fast food restaurant employment, he mentions that McDonald’s alone hires about one million employees each year and that every one out of eight workers have worked for Mcdonald’s at least once in their life. Schlosser also tells us that Fast food employees are one of the lowest paid workers in the nation despite the 3.5 million jobs that are held by these workers. Fast Food Nation also reports that ever since women started working, (specifically at fast food companies) that there has been a growth in the amount of fast food consumption (mainly because women are no longer at home to cook like how they used