The sun’s rays send an intense heat wave blazing across the black tarred parking lot; a long line of cars cluster at the gas stations waiting to fill up on gas at a cheap rate of $ 2.36 per gallon; heat struck customers scurry to get under the shade of the massive building,which features its trademark logo of a blue diamond and has Sam’s Club written across in white. At the entrance a heavy force of cool air blasts upon the people coming in, sending their hair and clothes into a mini typhoon lasting two seconds. A lady seemingly in her mid 30’s, dressed in a blue top and a white, knee-length skirt with blue flowers embroidered across the hem enters the store; the air blows against her whooshing her hair madly behind and her skirt right …show more content…
Walking in there is a showcase of the latest and largest televisions one of which is playing a scene from Frozen and another screen displaying the Colosseum of Rome. On the right side is a busy Customer Service area struggling to deal with a long line of customers. Ahead there are numerous aisles consisting of electronics, furniture, home care products, pricey packaged snacks, and much more; in the middle of the store is an organized, colorful array of fruits and vegetables. Circling around are customers along with their rackety shopping carts, clinking and clanking as the wheels roll and rattle across the sleek gray floor. An instant pitfall is the In Club cafe. Serving overly priced delicacies, it is an immediate trap for customers especially the little ones. A small family approaches the checkout area.The dad stays put in line while the mom and the boys go over to the Cafe. They read the menu and consider what to eat. The little boys jump up and down and scream “I want ice cream!”. They buy four slices of pizza, 4 drinks, and two ice creams, then happily walk over to a table. They talk and smile as they eat as if this was the best meal, what they couldn’t see is how this meal was a complete rip-off. Using the same amount of money they could have bought a full sized pizza, a liter of soda and a pint of ice cream, right there and then at the store. This small meal is meager in its
The author Zinczenko claims on the growing problem of obesity America is having. The topic of the opinion piece of Zinczenko is kids are gaining weight too fast which consumers seem to believe it is the kids fault for gaining weight and not being responsible with their food choices. However Zinczenko is explaining the upper class consumers, the kids that are eating in fast food restaurants are the lower class that do not have enough money to go eat in healthy restaurants like them. He wants to awere his audience to have
When most people eat at fast food establishments, they do not think about what exactly is going into their bodies, but Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson want to change that. Their combined efforts result in the book Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food, which exploits the gruesome truths behind fast food. Schlosser and Charles begin their nonfiction work by explaining how fast food restaurant were created. Then, they transition into revealing what was changed in the process of establishing the fast food industry. Their discoveries occur in most fast food restaurant, but they focus on the corruption in McDonald’s tendencies.
It is often said that the less teengers in the reastaurant, the better the sales of the business; however, teens are also customers, they bring their friends with them and without teens in the restaurant, overtime Mr. Jones will shut down his business. Mr. Jones is making wrong assumptions about the teenagers in his restaurant. According to the student blog, “ All the noises came from annoying business people. This shows that teenagers are not the only ones being loud. The Muchy’s promise of a “quiet lunch” is not possible because the restaurant is still going to be loud. Teenagers are the ones who attract the
For this paper I choose a well know fast food restaurant, which is “Chick-fil-A”. Chick-fil-A is a restaurant that they focus on all ages, and any kind of people. On March 25, I personally went to the “Chick- Fil- A” that located beside the Pasadena City College and observe. Chick- Fil- A is a company that tries to focus on every age as possible as they can, even though the price that they had marked is high than the McDonald, Jack in the box, etc... but they are giving costumer the better quality of foods. However when I site down and observe I found out there are few families with kids, old people, students, and businessman, etc…. Moreover, Chick- Fil- A had chosen a great location to locate their restaurant, beside the restaurant, which
Isabel Wilkerson is an African American Howard University journalism graduate writer and the first black woman in the history of American Journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize. Among her notable works is the novel “The Warmth of Other Suns”. The novel The Warmth of Other Suns was about the Great Migration which occurred between the years 1915-1970 and this was the movement of approximately seven million Black people out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and Western states from 1916 to 1970. Blacks migrated to escape widespread racism in the South, to seek employment opportunities in industrial cities of the North, to get better education for their children, and to pursue what was widely
The modern fast food industry has undeniably transformed and helped define the American way of life, but not all in positive ways. The industry capitalizes on the exploitation of workers, consumers, and the environment, and Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation addresses these very issues of the fast food industry. Schlosser criticizes these fast food corporations, projecting his argument to all consumers of fast food. Eric Schlosser’s primary goal is to reveal the deplorable business practices utilized by the fast food industry, and he uses the three appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos all as tools to help persuade the reader and strengthen his argument.
Freedom, independence, and opportunities; all these words come to mind when thinking about growing up, but there is no escaping a first job. Nowadays most of teens can be seen behind the counters of fast food places, but why has this become so popular? Through an appeal to ethos and pathos, Schlosser illustrates how the fast food industry utilizes the inexperience and emotions of America’s youth for personal gain and control.
In Don’t Blame the Eater, David Zinczenko composes his opinion on the fast food industry’s absence of nutritional information and more. Zinczenko starts his piece by giving his own life experience. He recalls his childhood trying to find food and that fast food was “the only available options for an American kid to get an affordable meal” (Zinczenko 462). By giving his own life experience, Zinczenko relates to the reader and grabs their attention.
With this question, he asks what is actually absurd. However to the audience it seems almost more absurd in terms of the opposing argument since it seems more probable. Following this he questions the fast-food restaurants and the judgment of others considering that “shouldn’t we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants?” (393). Beyond this he appeals to those that cannot afford the health conscious decisions particularly the scenario of a busy mom and most certainly his own experience as a kid. This incorporation of circumstances leads him to ask, “Where, exactly, are consumers—particularly teenagers—supposed to find alternatives?” (392), this question lends itself to make the reader idealize and believe that it is not entirely their own fault but an unfortunate circumstance. Direct questions and personal struggle narrated onto his piece definitely strengthen Zinczenko’s argument about the influence of the food industry on obesity; however, his counter argument as a starting statement perhaps provides a questionable aspect to the reader that prevents full understanding of his own
Schlosser employs anecdotes in order to evoke emotion from his readers to achieve his purpose. One anecdote the author includes is the story of Alex Donley, a six year old boy. Alex Donley ate a “tainted hamburger” from Jack-in-the-box that led him to become infected with “E. coli 0157:H7”(Schlosser 200). This disease obliterated his entire body and progressed rapidly. Alex died within five days. The author uses anecdotes such as Alex’s to evoke sympathy and fear from his readers, especially parents with young children. The stories make parents and anyone who buys fast food reconsider what they are putting in their bodies for if a young boy can die from a simple burger, then what’s to prevent others, kids, or even one’s self from becoming the next victim in the vicious industry that is fast food? The use of anecdotes ultimately helps the author unveil the beast that is the fast food industry by pulling on the heartstrings of Americans.
Nothing particular stuck out at me at first, I gazed around, from table to table, and only noticed the general routines you would expect to find at any mall food court. Employee’s meeting on their lunch breaks, stay at home mom’s getting a quick bite at chik-fil-a as they drag their children along to the next errand, and the elderly in no hurry to get anywhere specific. It was the same mundane routine through the course of the first hour, it
In one chapter, the author tells the story of Mathew Kabong, a pizza delivery boy. He shows us that Kabong, like most other fast-food workers, is treated like a renewable resource. He receives very little pay and is not provided with any benefits. If he complains about these conditions, he will be fired and replaced in an instant. Schlosser attempts to appeal to the reader’s emotions when describing these rough conditions, because he knows that this will help add some dimension to these otherwise dehumanized workers who fix people their food. The author also tells the story of a franchisee, Feamster, who starts out as a hockey player and then later ends up a Little Caesar’s owner. It then takes him three years to pay off his initial debt. However, his initial monetary investment turns out to worth it, since today, he owns five Little Caesars restaurants, and his annual revenues are about 2.5 million. Feamster’s story involves a great deal of hard work and perseverance, which allows readers to relate to him and feel compassion for him. At the same time, it supports Schlosser’s argument because readers can see how much more successful Feamster is than most fast-food workers, and how becoming successful in the fast-food industry is almost like playing the lottery. Even though Feamster is an average guy, his workers still never attain the same level of success as him. He just got lucky. Personal stories help Schlosser’s argument by giving us a look into the lives of real workers to help us evaluate how difficult it is for each of them to achieve
Many Fast food companies target children because they are young and are good at persuading their parents to get what they want. “It’s not just getting kids to whine” (Schlosser 43). Fast food companies target kids based on what they are looking for which is money. “The decade of the child consumer” (Schlosser 43). Americans need to pay close attention to how their children spend their money. As more kids visit fast food restaurants, companies will come out with more items for kids to purchase as time goes along. More companies in America will keep targeting kids because they see an advantage in it that the reader does not see. “We see this as a great opportunity” (Scholosser 48). In the meantime, an employee at a fast food restaurant will sell fast food items to kids because they want their money in order to increase the business. As more fast food companies make sales, this will create a dynamic bond between parents and their children because the reader ponders how the fast food industry is affecting their children. As more kids leave after school to go and have something to eat with friends at a Taco Bell, or Pizza Hut, kids will buy food based on what they may be craving during lunchtime. “Research has shown children are more likely to choose foods with familiar logos” (Heyes). At some point in time, there will be millions of parents who will talk to their kids about their active interest in visiting fast food restaurants after school all of the time. The reader may
The time represented in Schlossers novel, is set forth into the 21st century and the setting includes fast food restaurants that are popular towards society today. The occasion is relevant to the novel because the subject Schlosser tries to inform readers is how fast food restaurants aren't as innocent as they are imaged to be, when many people in today's society visit these restaurants
Our evidence shows that Munchy’s wants to ban teens from their restaurant because teens are loud, using their phone all the time, and are messy, but some adults are also loud. This means the owner of Munchy’s does not like teenage patrons and prefer only adult patrons because they can spend more money than