Pretty sure it takes place when the restaurant is closed. They learn to do those things, they don’t actually do them for customers. It’s the whole “kids like to pretend” thing.
I don’t support them because of their views and policies they fund, but I prefer reporting to be accurate.
Kids can pretend to work at Chick-Fil-A without paying to do it in a real location. This is pure advertising to children who could just use their imaginations if that’s what they want. And if you don’t think this sort of thing spreads to other kids, you don’t know about Space Camp.
I can appreciate both sides of this issue, but as a parent myself, I’m leaning toward mostly agreeing with you. It’s insane how much corporate indoctrination there is. Disney is the worst, but they’re all salivating for the chance to get their hooks into the brains of young kids, because they turn into lifelong customers. It’s the same reason why fast food chains have playgrounds out front. Even if you see an innocent playscape, the marketing is there.
I would actually say this is worse than Disney because this is trying to hook kids on something for life that’s bad for their health and increasing the obesity epidemic.
I wonder how well it works, though. Us millennials played in the McDonald’s playgrounds and had birthday parties there but I don’t think McDonald’s is particularly popular with us as adults.
Sadly, I meet millennial adults all the time who still go to McDonald’s. Fast food has been sold to a lot of people as being a totally acceptable quick substitute for actual food.
While in 4-H and Scouts we did fundraisers where kids that were around 8 - 16 years old made food and sold it. Mostly things like ham sandwiches and bake at home pizzas.
They sold a lot better than the prepackaged fundraisers do now.
I also got lemonade from a kid about that age at an event recently and I felt kind of weird about it because it seemed like he was doing it because his parents, who were selling merchandise at the table next to him, were making him do it. He didn’t seem like he was unhappy about it, but he didn’t exactly seem like he was thrilled either. It was very much a “yeah, it’s a job” attitude.
A representative for the company explained to ABC News that this is not a corporate program and assured the restaurant staff are still the ones making any food and the children are not doing any work of a hired team member.
So they aren’t actually working. Again, I’m not a fan of the company, but let’s save our outrage for where it belongs.
Honestly, I agree… I am certain they are not actually working. It is likely a glorified tour or the kitchen (which they actually may not be able to do since I doubt a bunch of kids can just walk around a working commercial food assembly facility kitchen
Pretty sure it takes place when the restaurant is closed. They learn to do those things, they don’t actually do them for customers. It’s the whole “kids like to pretend” thing.
I don’t support them because of their views and policies they fund, but I prefer reporting to be accurate.
Kids can pretend to work at Chick-Fil-A without paying to do it in a real location. This is pure advertising to children who could just use their imaginations if that’s what they want. And if you don’t think this sort of thing spreads to other kids, you don’t know about Space Camp.
I can appreciate both sides of this issue, but as a parent myself, I’m leaning toward mostly agreeing with you. It’s insane how much corporate indoctrination there is. Disney is the worst, but they’re all salivating for the chance to get their hooks into the brains of young kids, because they turn into lifelong customers. It’s the same reason why fast food chains have playgrounds out front. Even if you see an innocent playscape, the marketing is there.
I would actually say this is worse than Disney because this is trying to hook kids on something for life that’s bad for their health and increasing the obesity epidemic.
I wonder how well it works, though. Us millennials played in the McDonald’s playgrounds and had birthday parties there but I don’t think McDonald’s is particularly popular with us as adults.
Sounds like they’re doing pretty well to me-
https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/corp/nfl/pdf/Exhibit 99.1 - Q1-24.pdf
Sadly, I meet millennial adults all the time who still go to McDonald’s. Fast food has been sold to a lot of people as being a totally acceptable quick substitute for actual food.
I don’t know many people that would pay money for food prepared by 5-12 year old hands.
While in 4-H and Scouts we did fundraisers where kids that were around 8 - 16 years old made food and sold it. Mostly things like ham sandwiches and bake at home pizzas.
They sold a lot better than the prepackaged fundraisers do now.
Sure, but how is a
useless middlemanentrepreneur supposed to get a cut if the scouts make and sell their own goods to fundraise.Well, hygiene practices advance quite a lot between the ages of 5 and 8. Or, at least, “keeping your hands out of disgusting places” practices do.
I crushed some lemonade from some 10 year olds yesterday.
I also got lemonade from a kid about that age at an event recently and I felt kind of weird about it because it seemed like he was doing it because his parents, who were selling merchandise at the table next to him, were making him do it. He didn’t seem like he was unhappy about it, but he didn’t exactly seem like he was thrilled either. It was very much a “yeah, it’s a job” attitude.
I know a lot, but the hands have to come from China, India, Bangladesh or similar nations
are these rest usually closed 9 am to 12 pm?
I don’t have insider information, but there’s just no way labor laws are going to let such little kids do the actual restaurant work.
Doing a quick search, I see this ABC news article on it.
So they aren’t actually working. Again, I’m not a fan of the company, but let’s save our outrage for where it belongs.
Honestly, I agree… I am certain they are not actually working. It is likely a glorified tour or the kitchen (which they actually may not be able to do since I doubt a bunch of kids can just walk around a working commercial
food assembly facilitykitchenThey are closed on Sundays
It’s for July 22 to 24. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.