The Fast Food industry used to be exclusively teenagers and younger people.
Now it’s the opposite..................
“The Fast Food industry used to be exclusively teenagers and younger People.”
It blows my mind that actual adults (with dependents!) believe that they are entitled to a “living wage” for themselves and their family, for work that high school students did 40 years ago for pocket money or savings.
Most of the time, it comes down to bad choices and planning.
In the meantime, generations of young people develop zero work habits or sense of responsibility because they can’t get these jobs.
Now it’s the opposite..................
Actually, the fast food industry used to be part time work for mothers while the children were in school and teenagers working part time for job experience and spending cash.
That all changed in the eighties when the economy picked up, mothers could go back to staying at home and their coffee klatsches and teens were either given money by parents or were told by their peers that fast food was for losers and the only acceptable jobs were in retail like clothing stores or record/ video stores and the like.
That's when employers were forced to look at the only source left with useful numbers, the Hispanics. And once that happened it was inevitable that they took over, because they then made it so uncomfortable for non Spanish speakers of any other race that they just didn't apply.
I know this because I ran fast food in a well to do California city until 98' so I saw the change from the inside , so to speak.