Industrialization In Fast Food
Fast food chains have bought into this industrialization because they now use technology that essentially replaces human workers so that the food can be made correctly and as cheaply as possible (Ritzer, 1993). Some common technologies utilized in fast food restaurants are soft-drink dispensers that shut themselves off when the drink is full, French fry machines that cook the fries themselves and ring when they are done, and the cash register that essentially does all of the math and enters the orders for you (Ritzer, 1993). All of these new technologies take work right out of the hands of humans as workers and replaces these people with machines that can increase the level of production, which is a prime example of Marx’s industrialization (Allan, 2013). Production is increased because these machines are much less likely to mess up these simple tasks than humans are (Ritzer, 1993). If we leave people to filling the drinks up or to do the math to determine the amount of change one should get back, then production slows down, however if you have these technologies that will do all of this for you then the workers can get things done more quickly and efficiently (Ritzer, 1993).…