Michelle Chen's Five Myths About Fast-Food Work
In Michelle Chen’s article, “Five Myths About Fast-Food Work” she talks about misconceptions associated with people who work at a fast food restaurant. The first issue Chen addresses is the idea that only teenagers work fast food for little to nothing. However, Chen explains that the majority of workers are around twenty years old and some are single parents that are trying to provide for their families. The Next misconception associated with fast-food is the idea that workers can eventually work their way up to owning their own franchise. Chen explains that is highly unlikely because most of the employees are earning minimum wage or close to minimum wage and to start up their own business of the franchise they would need around $750,000. Chen’s