A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser — Quiz

Question 10 • TPS EdX English Language Arts 11

Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best states a reason supporting the author’s claim that fast food restaurants follow the assembly line model?

Answer

The McDonald’s operations manual today has ten times the number of pages and weighs about four pounds.

Once an order has been placed, buttons light up and suggest other menu items that can be added.

Teenagers open the fast food outlets in the morning, close them at night, and keep them going at all hours in between.

At Burger King restaurants, frozen hamburger patties are placed on a conveyer belt and emerge from a broiler ninety seconds later fully cooked.

Explanation

The assembly-line model divides work into standardized steps and moves products through those steps efficiently. Choice A describes hamburger patties traveling on a conveyor belt through a broiler and emerging cooked after ninety seconds, directly showing that process. The other choices describe a manual, suggested add-on sales, or staffing rather than food being prepared through an assembly line.

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