Friday, March 25, 2011

Uniformity

In Fast Food Nations "Eric Schlosser" writes about the concept of uniformity. Eric Schlosser defines the word uniformity as "franchises and chain stores strive to offer exactly the same product or service at numerous locations" (5). Uniformity is used in many restaurants and stores to keep the customers coming back and to please them with the same service and food that the customers like and are used too. Also uniformity is something people like in fast food restaurants because they like getting the same good service and the same food they like and being able to get the same thing in another restaurant that's part of the same franchise is something really good because they would be going back to the same restaurant no matter where is at. Uniformity is used all over the world because I remember when I went to my moms country Guatemala, I went to a dominos and a McDonalds and the food tasted the same to me as it did here in New York City.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Throughput

In fast food nations "Eric Schlosser" writes about the concept of throughput. Throughput means the speed and volume of the way things are moving. Throughput is used in fast food restaurants to make things faster to make service move faster to make more money. Throughput has changed millions of jobs because it has changed the way people worked before it has changed the whole routine now cooks have been replaced by special machine to make the food faster and give faster service to be able to get to more customers and get more money.