Fast Food Nation Notes Pg 1-19: Carl Karcher and Margaret Heinz get married after he moves to California

to work at the Armstrong Bakery and manage two hot dog carts. Fast food is the go-to meal in California especially with the teenage girls delivering the food to the cars. Pg 19-22: Carl buys a restaurant and a house and finds business is booming because of federal spending in California during WWII. Richard and Maurice McDonald open a restaurant and make affordable food without the carhop service. Pg 22-25: Carl opens up Carl Jr.s fast food restaurant and the success of McDonalds has many successful food chains copying the idea and trying to get into the business. Pg 25-31: Carl is kicked out of CKE by the board but his financial failures turn for the better, and he regains the company. He is still in loads of debt when he tells an interviewer that he believes in progress, and doesnt exactly miss the old days. Pg 31-38: Ray Kroc opens the McDonalds fast food chain into a franchise, using Walt Disneys exceptional hard work and development at Disney Land to outline his plans. Kroc also donated to Nixons campaign, which helped him pass the McDonalds Bill, and believed in dog eat dog political views. Pg 38-42: Disney used the idea of the future and synergy to promote Disneyland, while Kroc used Ronald McDonald and McDonaldland to promote the growing fast food chain to children. Pg 42-47: Marketing teams begin working on advertisements to children; this includes what they want to buy and why, and what mascot appeals most to them. This ultimately boosts sales using a cradles to graves approach. Pg 47-51: McDonalds begins to use toys to attract new customers and partners with Disneyland to establish a super-brand alliance. Pg 51-59: DD marketing headed by Dan DeRose brings Colorado Eleventh District schools into partnerships with Coca Cola and fast food chains. This led to mass marketing within school hallways and focused on delivering these products to children to meet their annual duties of their contracts with the following companies. Pg 59-67: Colorado Springs becomes a hotbed for fast food chains as many middle class white people move from California into the Colorado when it receives military funds during WWII. Pg 67-71: McDonalds begins to prey on the young, poor, or handicapped to maintain the bulk of the workforce. They deskill the job and therefore are allowed to lower the pay, increase the output, and increase their performance. Pg 71-76: McDonalds employees are searched out by executives and forced to take lie detector tests to see if they like unions. Other chains such as Taco Bell were refusing to pay overtime hours to their employees, taking advantage of their migrant workers. They are stroked, or praised, in order to keep them at their job. There is a large turnover in the fast food industry. Pg 76-83: Harrison High School has many poor students who are minorities. Most work for fast food chains, and as a result barely half of them graduate high school because they are brought down the wrong path from being away from school and their families for so long. Pg 83-90: The fast food industry has highest rate of murders and robberies from former employees, caused by the resentment of their poor payment and zero benefits.

Pg 90- 98: McDonalds is sold to Ray Kroc who began franchising the chain to investors and very loyal, hardworking franchisees. This exponentially increased the profit McDonalds made and other businesses soon followed. Pg 98-102: Cobles Bill demands that there be laws protecting franchisees against the franchisors ability to randomly fire them with no reason, force them to sell to one supplier, etc. Many franchises that are bought default because they cannot pay back government loans. Pg 102-111: Feamster owns five Little Caesars pizza chains and is an extremely good manager and even brings his entire staff to see an inspirational speech made my several famous speakers, paying for his staff of course. Pg 111-116: Simplot abandons his parents on the farm to start his plant that ended up being worth billions, due to his partnerships with fast food chains selling frozen French fries, which cut labor costs and were inexpensive. Pg 116-120: Competition between farmers has driven many out of business and the combination of processors and the weather have greatly diminished their profits. It can be described as an hourglass, where farmers pass their products to the consumers through the middleman who gets the major profit, the processors. Most farms became owned by corporations and severed ties in the traditional community. Pg 120-129: Flavorists at IFF are largely responsible for why fast food tastes like it does and why its such a success, but the industry remains secretive to protect there highly sought after formulas. Pg 129-136: Hank shows off his ranch in Colorado Springs, which has been severely damaged by the bustling citys new runoff and now instead of peace and quiet on the ranch, he hears racecars off in the distance. The growth of the city has been a detriment to the environment and once held tradition of Colorado Springs. Pg 136-142: Fast food chains have overrun the beef and poultry industry. Before, there were ranchers who raised the cattle and sold them for competitive prices, but now there are individual contracts between large processing firms and fast food chains. The processors control the ranchers and destroy competition between each rancher. This leads to a lowering of cattle cost and thousands of ranchers losing everything. Pg 142-150: Real estate agents begin buying farming land, which drives the cost of the land left up and makes it impossible for anyone to join the ranching business. Suicide rate among farmers and ranchers increase and Hank dies due to the stress of keeping his family safe from financial turmoil. Pg 150-154: IBP meatpacking industry becomes much like McDonalds, where they deskill the job my making a disassembling job to pay for less skilled workers. This turned the industry from a highly sought after job to a low wage, migrant worker job that was extremely dangerous. They also refused to let unions organize against them. Pg 154-164: IBP employs large groups of immigrants from Mexico, many illegal, to their meatpacking plant knowing they will work for low wages in poor conditions. They also levy government to reduce their taxes, and the government, not wanting to lose their business investment in the state, went through with the reduction. IBP thrives off of a high turnover rate so they dont need to pay employee benefits. Pg 164-169: The illegal immigrants in the meatpacking districts soon raised level of crime and turn prosperous cities into disparaging ones.

Pg 169-176: Supervisors of meatpacking industries often pressure employees to not report accidents because they will lose extra bonuses, even though the industry has the highest accident rate. Meth is a common drug used by the hourlies to stay awake and keep pace with the ridiculous line rate of cattle. Lastly, females often engage in sexual activities with the supervisor to maintain a secure place in their job. Pg 176-183: Executives at IBP and Monfort meatpacking industries routinely lie about injuries to OHSA and simply care about production. These businesses have become extremely corrupt and a few IBP plants are shut down. Pg 183-193: OSHAs staff and inspections are reduced due to government changes trying to dismantle the organization. There is a story of Ken Dobbins who was nearly killed dozens of times in Monfort plants until he was fired with no pension or compensation. Pg 193-197: Hudson Foods starts worldwide recognition of how centralizing the distribution of meat and poorly regulated health inspections due to the bribes from the companies to the government has increased the spreading of pathogens like E. Coli. Pg 197-204: Cattle are fed chicken waste and in turn can carry many pathogens such as E. Coli, which are exponentially spread when ground beef is composed of multiple cattle. Pg 204-210: Diseased cattle are often slaughtered and a defunded USDA allows the meatpackers to self-check the healthiness of the meat themselves. Theno of Jack in the Box has strict microbial tests for their meat to make sure another outbreak doesnt occur. Pg 210-215: Meatpacking executives decide when to recall beef, how much to recall, who should be told about the recall, and press releases that offer more of an advertisement of their business then raising awareness for the public. Pg 215-225: USDA buys the cheapest meat and some of the most contaminated meat to use in school district cafeterias. When a company finds there meat is contaminated, they cannot be sued because diseases occur naturally and are out of their control. Pg 225-231: McDonalds, ConAgra, and Simplot begin using foreign markets to expand business and increase profits. Pg 231-242: Page 240-242 offer facts that conclude the fat content in fast food has helped develop higher obesity rates all over the country. Pg 242-249: The Mclibel Case has Morris and Steel openly criticize McDonalds practices and their globalization, spreading their characteristic low wage work and spreading of obesity. The case has gone on for years and the two who have been sued for libel refused to pay McDonalds a cent. Pg 249-252: Plauen does not consider McDonalds foreign and even the Neo-Nazis and anti foreigners are comfortable with the franchise.