chapter 1 "founding Fathers"

In the first chapter of "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser, he talks about the founding fathers and how they all got started on opening their food restaurants. The main idea of this book is the value fast food embodies, and the world it has made. It all started with Carl N. Karcher who is one of the fast food industry’s pioneers.  He lived and grew up in upper Sandusky Ohio until his uncle offered him a job in Anaheim, California.  While in California he fell in love with a women name Margaret. They got married in 1939 and had their first child within that year. At that time car was working for a bakery and he was delivering bread to restaurants and markets in west L.A. Carl heard that a hotdog cart was for sell and decided to buy it. He kept his job at the bakery and hired two young boys to work is cart during the hours he was delivering. He ended up having enough money to buy a second hot dog cart which Margaret often ran herself.