I walked into a McD’s in Lower Manhattan a couple of months ago. One of my studetns was mopping in the back and spotted me. I later found out that 5 or 6 guys from my high school work there at some time during the week, and they’re all proud of that fact. A couple of them graduated last month. Good luck to them.
I live in Queens and noticed that in Manhattan as well. If you go up Broadway starting around Harlem, Spanish Harlem just about everyone working in the Mickey D`s are teenagers. In Queens it`s not as true as you get the adults working alongside the teens. Long Island, forget it. You will never find anyone younger than 30 in those. I have no idea why that is. I think it may be a status thing with kids.
I’m a teacher. No way I would eat any place I saw one of my students.