Blog #3 The Founding Fathers

Prof. Smith.

Class. ENG101.           

Diana Coll.

03/11/14

Blog  #3

The Founding Fathers

Carl N. Karcher was born in 1917 in Ohio, he was an American businessman and one of the fast food industry’s pioneers, and his live seems to be the perfect example of the American dream. Carl grew up in a German-American family; he had six brothers and a sister. Carl dropped out of school after the eighth grade and worked twelve to fourteen hours a day on a farm, but in 1937 Carl moved to Anaheim, California where his uncle ran a small business, he worked for his uncle for three years and latter dropped that job to work in a bakery.

Carl and his wife Margaret M. Heinz stared the fist fast food business on 1942 in Los Angeles California but in 1945 they opened the first restaurant, Carl’s drive-in barbecue in Anaheim, by that time the population in California grew and had given birth to an entirely new lifestyle and a new way of eating. With the automotive revolution the drive –in restaurants become more famous and attractive especial for teenagers, the drive-in restaurants fit perfectly with the youth culture of Los Angeles, the combinations of beautiful girls, cars and late night food was widely accepted. That is how fast food began to be part of everyday life in Americans until today.

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