Carhop

industry grew and evolved, the way meals were served and made changed as well. The fast food restaurants started out having neon signs to attract customers cruising by on the roads and had waitresses known as carhops serve the food. Food was grown on farms and would take time to grow and be able to be sold. These carhops would be girls who would wear short, themed clothes and usually would be attractive to attract customers. The carhops would ride on roller skates and deliver the food to each customer. As fast food…

something bigger than what it was when it started, this book, Fast Food Nation, was written by a man named Eric Schlosser. “McDonald’s French fries were once flavored with beef tallow, a processed form of hard white fat found on the kidneys and loins of cattle”. The fast food industry in this nation has grown fast and if it were not for the speedy service system, Automobiles, or teenagers then the fast food industry would not be so successful today. The McDonald’s brothers, Richard and Maurice…

more people indulged in the partaking of fast food. As the enormous population accumulated more people became captivated in fast food and helped fuel the economy through that. Southern California shortly had a rebirth that incorporated more cars into their society. There were officially a million automobiles in California. Many people owned car because they were cheaper than public transportation. Cars even helped give birth to a new innovative idea, drive-thrus restaurants. These drive-thrus…

Michigan. The Elias Brothers operated the restaurants until they declared bankruptcy in 2000. The chain was then sold to Robert Liggett Jr., who is the present CEO of the company. He renamed the chain Big Boy Restaurants International. The headquarters have remained in Warren, and the franchise is currently made up of more than 455 Big Boy Restaurants in the US and Canada. The different names under which these franchises run include Abdow’s, Bob’s, Shoney’s, and many more. Big Boy Japan owns and…

(“The 1950s”) Teens hangouts were drive in movies, football games, or carhop restaurants. Usually on a date they wore their poodle skirts , cashmere sweaters or a "Peter Pan-style collared blouses" with their saddle shoes and penny loafers. Girdles were worn to tighten the waists, broad-strap bras, and full slips were used for lingerie. Hats, purses, and gloves were necessary for the fifties. Hair styles were either a bubble cut hairstyle or a poodle haircut. Boys wore their Levi jeans or Lee…

Elaine Holladay born on March 22nd, 1955 whose parents are Otto and Mary gay. Grown up in Union, Missouri who went to grade school and Immaculate Conception school. Her first job was at a carhop at A&W drive in at Union Missouri, the day she started high school. Her favorite school subjects were math and science. She graduated Union high school in 1973. She worked in a few factories after she graduated high school and as a caregiver at the nursing home. She decided to become a nurse at the age…

A drive-through is different from a drive-in in several ways - the cars create a line and move in one direction in drive-throughs, and normally do not park, whereas drive-ins allow cars to park next to each other, the food is generally brought to the window by a server, called a carhop, and the customer can remain in the parked car to eat. However, during peak periods, to keep the queue down and avoid traffic-flow problems, drive-throughs occasionally switch to an "order at the window, then park…

most of us never take the time to actually look at what we’re eating and the amount of “real” ingredients in them. Fast food is a way of life for people, but it has its consequences. McDonald’s is horrible for our bodies because it is addictive, unhealthy, and causes obesity in children. McDonald’s has a lot of history behind the making; along with how they have become the restaurant they are today. Believe it or not, the first actual McDonald’s was a barbeque joint that was opened in the…

The federal minimum wage is currently static at 7.25 an hour. The debate over whether to increase or decrease wages has been ongoing for nearly a century. Each generation brings with it it’s own costs. However, the minimum wage has always been increased to meet the modern day living expenses, but in the year 2016 this is not the case. I, myself have worked several minimum wage jobs ranging from carhop to hostess. Luckily I have parents who assist me in paying my bills and living expenses,…

The CDC estimates that 248,000 Americans die prematurely due to obesity and considers obesity as the number two cause of preventable death in the US...” (Smith 2006). Fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s, Bojangles, Chick-fil-A, among others, have impacted our society’s ability to keep small businesses running, families around the dinner table, and has caused our health to decline tremendously in a short span of time. Contrary to popular belief McDonald’s was not the first fast food…