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The term "McJob" comes from the name of the fast-food restaurant McDonald's, but is used to describe any low-status job – regardless of employer – where little training is required, staff turnover is high, and workers' activities are tightly regulated by managers. [2]
Miami Beach waitress in 1973 A waitress in a hotel, North Korea A Swedish waitress, 2012. Waiting staff (), [1] waiters (MASC) / waitresses (FEM), or servers (AmE) [2] [3] are those who work at a restaurant, a diner, or a bar and sometimes in private homes, attending to customers by supplying them with food and drink as requested.
AP Should fast food workers' wages be nearly doubled to $15 an hour? This has been driving a debate that has picked up steam since November 2012, when the first group of fast food workers staged a ...
The staff at Kernel, a vegan takeout joint in Manhattan, have it better than many fast-food workers. They make a starting wage of $25 per hour and have paid days off and sick leave.
Rolling Stone asked Schlosser to write an article looking at America through fast food in 1997 after reading his article on migrants in Atlantic Monthly. [4] [5] He then spent nearly three years researching the fast-food industry, from the slaughterhouses and packing plants that turn out the burgers to the minimum-wage workers who cook them to the television commercials that entice children to ...
Making a fast-food faux pas is no fun! Here's a look at the most common friendly mistakes—and what to do instead. The post 8 Polite Habits That Fast Food Employees Secretly Dislike appeared ...
Yeldell is among the millions of fast food workers across the U.S. scraping to get by. About two-thirds of them are women, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and many are supporting their families on minimum wages set at the federal government's floor of $7.25 an hour. Fast food workers are disproportionately Hispanic, making up ...
The Fast Food Workers Union cited a recent report published by labor researchers at Northwestern and Rutgers that found 1 in 4 fast food workers were illegally paid below the minimum wage ...