A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

Question 10 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 IC

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

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

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

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

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

Explanation

The assembly line model divides work into standardized steps, with products moving through a production process. Choice B describes hamburger patties traveling on a conveyor belt through a broiler and emerging cooked, directly illustrating that model. The other choices describe suggesting extra items, the length of an operations manual, or staffing—not food moving through an assembly-line process.

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