Deck 10: Fast Food Workersrobots or Thinkers

Question 1

Although most calculation is electronic, modest management skills are still required to keep everything in order.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Elise makes the operation look more difficult than it is.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Guacamole is the only food prepared from scratch in Taco Bell restaurants.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Performing numerous tasks under time pressure while minimizing waste requires higher-order skills.

Question 5

About two-thirds of the nation's fast food workers are under the age of twenty.

Question 6

Friendships in fast food establishments seldom develop across cultural lines.

Question 7

The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products.

Question 8

Shift work is largely dependent on experienced, highly skilled expert workers.

Question 9

The managers and assistant managers at fast food restaurants are never teenagers.

Question 10

As the number of baby-boomer teenagers declined, the fast food chains began to hire other marginalized workers. "Low Wages, High Skills"