Dark Side Of The American Meal
Cark N. Karcher was one of the founding fathers of the fast food industry. In 1937 Carl moved to Anaheim, California because his uncle offered him a job out there. So from the farm boy life Carl moved to Anaheim, which was still a small farming community. Carl worked for his uncle, Ben, at his feed store for a few years, then he met his future wife, Margaret Heinz. Carl retured briefly to Ohio but when he came back to California he started working for a bakery delivering bread to restaurants and markets in west Los Angeles. During these deliveries Carl was astonished by the number of hot dog stands there were, and the number of buns they went throught every week.
When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory he decided to purchase it. Carl borrowed $311 from the local bank and $15 from his wife and went into business for himself. Five months after Carl bought his hot dog stand the United States entered WWII, and the Goodyear plant became very busy. People started buying so many hot dogs that Carl soon had enough money to buy a second stand. So he did. Carl's wife, Margaret, ran the second stand by herself, while raising their daughter. This marked the beginning
of the fast food industry.
Also during this time in Southern California automobiles became a very popular item for people. Drive in restaurant
s sprang up all over the place, which led to the first drive through restaurant
, opened by the MCDonald brothers from New Hampshire. They started out running a drive-in restaurant
in Pasadena, trying to make profit from the new fad. They soon moved to a larger building in San Bardino and opened the McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In. By the end of the 1940s the McDonalds' were tired of the drive-in business. They fired all their car-hops, closed their resturant, installed larger grills, and reopened three months later with a new method of food...
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