Critical Analysis Of 'Working At Mcdonald's'

The article “Don't Blame The Eater,” written by David Zinczenko evokes readers the crucial impact that fast food restaurants have in today's nation's youth causing them to be over weight and have type 2ndiabetes. Throughout Zinczenko's argument he makes the reader view the consumer as a victim yet on the other hand, what he is trying to persuade us to believe by using logos,pathos,and ethos in his argument is that the food industry is the one making the nation's youth to increase obesity. The capacity of impressive questions and personal experience, he composed in the text he is able to comprehensively argue against the fast food industry. The author persuades us right away by starting of with a question: “Kids taking on McDonald's this

The author of this particular article, Working at McDonalds, Amitai Etzioni is a sociology professor at the institute of George Washington University and the founder of the non-profit organization known as Communitarian Netwroks. In this essay he narrates his strong belief that working at any fast food chain restaurants is detrimental towards a students future. He validates his reasons that student do not benefit any long-term skills as taught in these restaurants. He beliefs that these jobs take away time from school and/or after school activities such as sports, clubs, etc. This skews a students perspective of the importance of a high-quality education that leads them towards their dreams and goals of a career in the major they perceive to

In the piece “Don’t Blame the Eater” by David Zinczenko, he discusses the topic of fast food restaurants and the issues, as to why kids today are suing McDonalds for making them fat. In his article, he starts by recapitulate a familiar time from his past where he also suffered from fast food restaurants. Zinczenko was a latchkey kid who was at the age of 15 and weighed 212 pounds. As any child, he didn’t have much money. Therefore food options were very limited. It was either McDonalds, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut. Pretty much the only affordable meals you could eat everyday and that are open late. Later on, Zinczenko went off to college. He got to join the Navy Reserves and be apart of a health magazine, teaching himself

In Amitai Etzioni’s essay “Working at McDonald’s”, he argues that the jobs teens take up at popular fast food restaurants are detrimental to their education. His proposal was that working at these fast food restaurants negatively affects their education by encouraging teens to be more concerned about earning money than being successful in their studies. He claims that teens are getting these jobs to spend on petty items. Etzioni states that the routine and lack of creativity of the jobs are harmful and the hours in which teens work are long and interfere with students’ abilities to further their studies and complete assignments. He states that teens that have dropped out and are working at these restaurants have fallen into a stagnant condition

In this piece of his book, Schlosser considers the workforce that keeps the fast-food industry running. Since this workforce is dominatingly embodied youngsters, Schlosser spends a significant part of the section considering how adolescents connect with the fast-food industry- - what are their working conditions; how does "low maintenance" employment meddle with school work; how do high schoolers spend their cash?

“Working at McDonalds”, by Amital Etizonal, speaks out against the social economic issue of today's teenage fast food jobs and their negative impact from an educational standpoint. This analysis of the fast food industry is done by comparing the sought-after morals and values of the jobs of the past while revealing the importance of those lessons for jobs of the future. Two key points are used to analyze the fast food industry to determine how educational the employment really is; the first point evaluates morals and values, and the second point evaluates school attendance and involvement. The problems addressed are then met with a solution that schools and parents can actively pursue.

In the article Working at McDonald's, author Amitai Etzioni expresses a strong viewpoint as to why working at McDonald's, and other establishments such as McDonald's is in fact hindering our youth more than benefiting them. He says that jobs such as these provide our youth with little to no fundamental skills that will propel them into a promising future, limits the room for initiative and creativity and also distracts them from their studies. He supports his claims with numerous studies and statistics, mostly from the early to mid 80's. My first impression from this article was that it was very one sided, and in many cases Etzioni's claims could be proven false. He seemed to start on a specific issue and then ended up a tad all over the place.

After all, if there were no workers, harmful fast food stores wouldn't be thriving across the country. These restaurants make teenagers believe that they are in a good position and aren't being controlled like tiny little muppets at a theater. Next, stores like McDonald's don't deliver the fresh produce that they claim to. This can greatly danger one's health, but they still do it knowing that many fall for it. A few pieces of evidence are, ¨The burgers, chicken, French fries, and buns are all frozen when they arrive at a McDonald's.

AmitaiEtizion’s ‘Working at McDonald’s’ is an essay, about the impacts on teenagers of fast-food chains such as McDonald’s. While the author puts aside the issue of consumption, he focuses on the impacts of the jobs these types of restaurants offer, and argue that such jobs negatively impacts students’ school performance. The issue is presented in a critical way, as the author firstly looks at how parents think that having a part-time job between classes is a good thing for students. However, upon further criticism, the author finds that such jobs fail to offer the entrepreneurial experience they were hoped to give students, citing as examples the poor pay, routinized forms of work, unhealthy work environment, and long-term impacts on the job

In addition, McDonald’s sells very little fruit/vegetables; they do sell apples and salads, but “the Washington Post estimated that almost 98 percent of McDonald’s customers don’t order a salad.” [1] Students who go to McDonald’s would not buy a salad; they would buy an unhealthy sandwich and a sugary drink, which means that McDonald’s does not protect the health and well-being of children; it influences them to eat unhealthy food. Another piece of evidence that proves McDonald’s is harmful is the 2004 documentary Super Size Me, in which Morgan Spurlock ate only McDonald’s foods for a thirty-day period. Spurlock states, “In only 30 days of eating nothing but McDonald’s I gained 24.5 lbs., my liver turned to fat, and my cholesterol shot up 65 points [to 230]. My body fat percentage went from 11 to 18%... I nearly doubled my risk of coronary heart disease, making myself twice as likely to have heart failure. I felt depressed and exhausted most of the time, my mood swung on a dime... I craved this food more and more when I ate it, and got massive cravings when I didn’t. In my final blood test, many of my body functions showed signs of improvement, but the doctors were less than optimistic.” [3] Therefore, a fast-food diet is damaging toward people, and should not be served at school or anywhere else; fast food is bad for humans like

It seems as though every time I go to a fast food restaurant, my order is not prepared correctly, or I’m dealing with a discourtesy worker. This supports the idea that fast food companies are not providing their employees with adequate training. Approximately two-thirds of the nation’s fast food workers are teenagers. They are targeted by the fast food industry because they are inexperienced and willingly accept the lower wages (Schlosser 143). Providing them with proper training would boost sales, leave better impressions on the customers, and can eliminate violence in the workplace.

As to perfectly punctuate the paper “The McDonaldization of Society” by George Ritzer, I got tired of reading it and made my computer read it to me while I listened, which although efficient added an emphasis on all the topics Ritzer discussed in his writing. McDonaldization is the sociological term used to describe the wide spread affects of fast food restaurants on society, whose affects can be seen in almost all aspects of todays society.

As a teenager working at a job for the first time, getting that first pay check seems like the greatest thing. It is something that has been worked for and earned, but could be a distraction from being able to accomplish great things in life. It could be a prevention from reaching great feet’s in one’s life or several people’s life’s. Sacrificing something diminutive in order to receive a lifetime of success is the main point Etzioni is trying to make in “Working at McDonald’s.” The struggle with work overload, and the low technical skills acquired at teen jobs are points that are hard to differ with. However, his generalization of

After I read the article“ Working at McDonald’s”, I consider that working at fast food chains such as McDonald’s has more disadvantages compared to the befits for teenagers are likely to get, such as influence of grade reduced, how to manage time reasonable and make not good friends. For the author, she did not argue specific people for the factors, just describe the problem and gave some points for parents of these teenagers. Actually, I consider that whether teenagers should working in the fast-food restaurants or not depend their parents mind.

There are four primary concepts of the term “McDonaldization”: Calculability, Predictability, Efficiency, and Control. Education is now a form of Mcdonaldization, the education system is now set up in a way whereas students are in at a certain age and out before or by the time they turn eighteen. Efficiency: an optimal method for accomplishing a task; for example, customers that goes to a fast food restaurant, expect it to be the fastest way to get from being hungry to being full. In other words for the word “efficiency”, the expectation of the organization is geared toward the minimization of time. When it comes to education with efficiency, schools