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Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation.
At Burger King restaurants, frozen hamburger patties are placed on a conveyer belt and emerge from a broiler
ninety seconds later fully cooked. The ovens at Pizza Hut and at Domino’s also use conveyer belts to ensure
standardized cooking times. The ovens at McDonald’s look
like commercial laundry presses, with big steel
hoods that swing down and grill hamburgers on both sides at once. The burgers, chicken, french fries, and
buns are all frozen when they arrive at a McDonald’s.
The evidence presented here supports the author’s claim that fast food restaurants are like factories because the
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• explores the variety of items available at many fast food chains.
O describes the typical workday of a fast food employee.
like to work at fast food restaurants.
O explains why teenagers
© illustrates the assembly line principle of making things faster.
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