Space Mountain
This state was used to compare Colorado's development 50 years ago
What is California?
This fast-food restaurant employs Elisa, the girl introduced at the beginning of the section in Fast Food Nation
What is McDonald's?
In the 1960s and 1970s, these methods were used by employees who attempted to join unions
What are Rap Sessions?
This percentage is roughly the amount kids from Harrison High School in Colorado Springs that actually graduate?
What is ~50%?
About this many teens are injured on the job in one year
What is ~200,000?
This highway do tourist buses take to reach Cripple Creek
What is Highway 67?
This fraction of workers in the fast-food industry are under 20 years old
What is two-thirds?
These kinds of tests were introduced in 1973 in San Francisco to try and gain information about the union activities
What are Polygraph/Lie Detector Tests?
About this many of the kids that graduate from Harrison High actually go to college?
What is ~50 students?
This is how much money a typical worker steals from their job each year
What is $218?
This type of spending is a major factor that Colorado Springs' economy and jobs depend on
What is military spending?
According to Schlosser, this is what the fast-food industry is obsessed with: maximizing the speed and efficiency of its operations
What is throughput?
This is the most valued trait in the fast food workers industry
What is Obedience?
This is the name of the call center in Colorado Springs that many teenagers work at instead of fast-food restaurants
What is FutureCall?
This is what OSHA stands for
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
According to Fast Food Nation, this is the percentage of union membership in Colorado Springs
What is 0.0%?
Within McDonald's management, this essential guide to running the restaurant is known as "The Bible."
What is the operations manual?
These are the odds of a McDonald’s restaurant going out of business in Canada
What is 300:1?
This is the name of the law that puts a maximum time limit of hours worked for teenagers on a school night
What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
This is what happened in May of 2000
The Wendy's Massacre?
According to Fast Food Nation, Colorado ranks this position in the United States for education spending
What is 49th place?
This production method, used in factories, inspired the labor practices of the fast-food industry
What are assembly lines?
This is the name of the union that the workers in the St. Hubert, Montreal McDonald’s joined in 1997
What is The Teamsters Union?
This is what TSR stands for
What is a Teleservice Representative?
This is the name of the chain restaurant "awards show," that happened in Los Angeles, themed, "People: The Single Point of Difference."
What is the Thirty-Eighth Annual Multi-Unit Foodserver Operators Convention?