Question

At Burger King restaurants, frozen hamburger patties are placed on a conveyer belt and emerge from a broiler ninety seconds later fully cooked. The ovens at Pizza Hut and at Domino’s also use conveyer belts to ensure standardized cooking times. The ovens at McDonald’s look like commercial laundry presses, with big steel hoods that swing down and grill hamburgers on both sides at once. The burgers, chicken, french fries, and buns are all frozen when they arrive at a McDonald’s. The evidence presented here supports the author’s claim that fast food restaurants are like factories because the excerpt

Answer 1

illustrates the assembly line principle of making things faster.

Answer 2

In this passage from "Fast Food Nation", by Eric Schlosser, the evidence presented here supports the author's claim that fast food restaurants are like factories because the expert tells about conveyor belts that are used in factories. According to the author, fast food restaurants follow the assembly line model, commercial kitchens have turned to small factories where food is "assembled", not prepared.