fast food nation

Carl N Karcher

Carls’s Jr( started with a hot dog cart, than Carl’s Driver In BBQ

Richard and Maurice McDonald’s

McDonald’s( created the “Speedee Service System)

Ray Kroc

salesman for McDonald’s corporation. Turned it into global franchise

Walt Disney

Disney(partnered with fast old for marketing) big influence for ray

Glen Bell

Taco Bell(inspired by the McDonald brothers’ efficiency)

Keith Cramer + Matthew Burns

Burger King( og name was “Insta- Burger King”

Marland Sanders

KFC

Dave Thumas

Wendy’s

William Rosenberg

Dunkin

Elisa Zamot

Works at McDonald’s in Colorado Springs, shows the grueling schedule and low pay

Dave Feomster

Formal pro hockey player, became a franchise for Little Cesars, he shows the American Dream, owner of one LC, stress fractured

Jerry Falwell + Pat Robertson

Represent the conservative enviroment that welcomed the expansion of fast-food corp

J. Christian Huizingo

Former Taco Bell employee, story used to highlight the extreme measures companies take to prevent unionization

Bob Kerrey

Former senator and restaurant chain owner, high profile figures get caught violating child labor laws

Matthew Kabong

Delivery driver for Little Caesars, shows the lack of security with frequent targeted robberies

Julio

19 year-old pizza maker at Little Caesars, works to pay off student loans in debt on jeep

J.R Simplot

High school dropout who became the potato king of Idaho invested in frozen food technology

Lindsay Maggart

Simplots early business partner, flip a coin with him to win the electric potato sorter

Jerry Hilll

Flavorist at IFF, demonstrates new scientists recreate the smell of food with chemicals

Eric Schlasser

Narrator/author shows 1 POV of Lamb Weston Plant in Idaho and IFF plant in NJ

Hank

Hard-working rancher, he was very stressed because of the farm and ended up committing suicide

The “Big Four”

Cargill, IBP, Conagra,National Beef-markets with many sellers, but only a few buyers

Warren Monfort + Kenneth Monfort

owned a high-quality slaughter house in Creeley Colorado. They paid their employees well. when it started to get competitive, they had to go to harsh tactics and eventually sold to Canagra

Currier J. Holman + Á.D. Anderson

Founders of IBF villains, disassembly line, boxed beef , efficiency equals lower wages

Moe Steinman

Ties to organized crime in New York, IBP and Holman paid him to do dirty work

Upton Sinclair

Author of The Jungle, shows the horrific conditions of 1906, they remain similar to now

Kenny Dobbins

Very loyal worker at Montfort Plant, he was injured a lot of times, but kept going back, eventually fired after a heart attack

Javier Ramirez

Union organizer, organizes employees at Omaha case reddy plant

Raul Lopez

A worker who lost his arm in a machine, managers refused to shut off machines

Lee Harding

22-year-old man, became ill from eating frozen hamburger patties with E. coli, triggered the recall of 36,000,000 pounds of beef

Lauren Bell Rudolph

Six-year-old girl died in December 1992 after eating a contaminated hamburger from Jack in the box

Alex Donley

Young boy who died in 1993 after eating tainted meat

David Theno

Food scientist hired by JITB after the 1993 outbreak, implemented strict new protocols

Mikhail Gorbachev

Former general secretary of the Soviet Union and its final leader

Helen Steel + Dave Norris (The Mclibel Two)

Two low income, environmental activists associated with London Greenpeace. Steel was a bus driver and Norris was a postman.

Yunxiang Yan

Anthropologist who studied the cultural impact of fast food

José Bové

A French sheep farmer and anti-globalization