The group of people who were most influenced by the fast food campaigns where the children. The children, when asked to identify different popular people or characters, could easily identify the “Wendy’s” character, but could not recognise Jesus Christ. This proves that children can easily remember the characters or slogans of numerous fast food places, meaning that when they’re asked, “What do you want for dinner?”, children can swiftly respond with any fast food company that comes to their brain first, showing how dark their future will become if they continue consuming. Another group of people interviewed about their fast food habits were adults on the street. Their frequent dining poses as a threat to their body and their lives.…
CFA’s customers are typically more affluent, active and health conscious. While most fast food clients are usually teens, and children, CFA is reaching out to those who wish to have a fast food meal, and experience quality restaurant service. These customers are more likely to have white-collar jobs, and are expected to have a more active lifestyle. CFA is very aware of their target demographic and has come up with a successful way to get their attention. CFA has chosen to avoid typical fast food locations for its restaurants and chooses to operate in Suburban malls and neighborhoods.…
Gross’ Starbucks Dilemma Did you know one great way to start an essay is with a question? Asking the reader a question is a great way to grab their attention. Daniel Gross, The author of “Will Your Recession Be Tall, Grande, or Venti?’’ begins his article with a question. Not only did he start with a question, but he also titled the article as a question. Nonetheless, Gross’ article was centered, informative, with suitable vocabulary, and also keeps the reader engaged.…
The article “Don't Blame The Eater,” written by David Zinczenko He argues the crucial impact that fast food restaurants have in today's nation's youth causing individuals to be overweight and have type 2 diabetes. Zincenko begins composing his integrity with personal facts and convincing cited sources and statistics, and strongly applying emotional appeals. However towards the end of his article, his technique to appeals the reader's affection tends to make his argument credible.…
In “Working at McDonald’s,” Amitai Etzioni argues that McDonald’s is “bad for your kids” and doesn’t provide essential skills that they can utilize in the future. The author states McDonald’s is not educational and kids are not participating in school activities as working part time at McDonald’s is diverting their attention away from essential learning experience. The author goes on to explain teens are working long hours and supervision is often “tight and woefully inappropriate.” For example, to keep costs down “teens are supervising teens with often no adult on the premises.” Etzioni suggests parents should not assume teen employment is educational and can be easily abused.…
As a kid, I loved to eat at fast food places; my favorite places were McDonald's, Wendy’s, Burger King. The Fast Food marketing strategies such as toys in happy meals and McDonald’s playhouses made children like me want their food. They targeted children for obvious reasons, if a child begs their parents to buy McDonald’s they would buy it, and most likely the parents would buy something too. You cannot go one mile without finding a fast food restaurant nearby or an Ad for a Fast Food restaurant. Making it inevitable to avoid fast food.…
For example, in the essay we read about one of the instances he reasons through; “where, exactly, are consumers—particularly teenagers—supposed to find alternatives? Drive down any thoroughfare in America, and I guarantee you’ll see one of our country’s more than 13,000 McDonald’s restaurants” (242). The author made a point to target all varieties of audiences and explain that teenagers are not the only age group that falls into the trap of fast-food when he said, “And the problem isn’t just theirs- it’s all of ours” (242). Although the simplicity of fast food may mainly appeal to teenagers, the lifetime consequence of obesity is everyone of all age’s problems. The abundance of fast-food restaurants and lack of healthier alternatives, a situation induced by industries not consumers, should be a concern to…
The author states that fast food places are marketed to children and most fast food workers are only teenagers. The fast food industry mostly depends on the young. There was a period when a lot of babies were born; the period was called baby boom period. This was great for the franchise stores, soon those babies would grow up to become kids. The author informs that fast food workers in the nation that are under twenty is about two…
Working at McDonald’s: A beneficial work experience for America’s youth The employment of high school students has been a widely discussed topic. This particular issue gives rise to many debates on the positive and negative effects of teen employment. Amitai Etzioni, author of “Working at McDonald’s,” details his stance on this particular issue.…
David Zinczenko’s article “Don’t Blame The Eater” flips the blame typically placed on American kids and instead substitutes it with the fast food industry's most successful franchises. This conclusion is prepared much easier for an overweight teenager living in the United States to swallow. Zinczenko articulates on the thousands of fast food places throughout America and slim options for alternative places to eat. Zinczenko piles on details about how there are so few choices for kids today, there is no real option for an affordable meal. Zinczenko’s recipe is not too sweet though, as he does include mention of the lack of personal…
Its partnership with Apple to bring app based discount coupons is helping it ride the mobile wave easily. The company introduced Wi-Fi capabilities in its outlets already. Internet is important to the consumers. They can now surf the web and do work while sipping Starbucks coffee.…
Fries taste good because fast food companies use artificial flavoring and beef tallow oils in their fries which ensures uniform taste, customer satisfaction, and competition. In the article "Why Fries Taste So Good," the author, Eric Schlosser, argues that the main factor in the success of the fast food industry is artificial flavoring and food coloring. He explains how chemical flavors created by flavorists give fast food its taste and smell, and explains the difference between artificial and natural flavors. He argues that natural and artificial flavors have the same chemical makeup and that the difference between them is the process in which they are made.…
2.2 Negatively affects the Social and Culture of a nation The fast food industry negatively impacts the development of a country’s on social aspects by making people feel depress, being bullied as well as becoming impatient. These will make them become annoyed and wound up and affect their social communication. The more fast food people consume, the larger the possibility of depression develops. According to Public Health Nutrition (as cited in Morris, n.d.)…
Quick, when you think of Starbucks what is the first thing that pops in your head? Is it coffee, pumpkin spice lattes, empty calories or even “basic white chicks?” all things considered, if any of these things mentioned above popped into your head you are not completely wrong. Needless to say, in today’s society when the word Starbucks is mentioned these are the stereotypes that run parallel to the company. With that being said, other than serving coffee, pumpkin spice lattes and or being the center of arguably some pretty hilarious stereotypical jokes Starbucks also provides a plethora of beverage choices.…
Task 3A All companies have factors that affect the success of their business in the market. These are the political, legal, and social factors. This means that these three factors are given top priority in order for the companies to gain success. They have to conduct market investigation which will help these businesses to gather information to help their process of decision making in the market.…