Blog #3 Chapter1 "The Founding Fathers"

   In chapter1 "The Founding Fathers" in Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser explains how the automobile industry formed the fast food nation. Carl N. Karcher was born in 1917 on a farm in Ohio. Carl was an American businessman and one of the fast food industry's pioneers. Carl dropped out of school after the eighth grade and worked twelve to fourteen hours a day on a farm. Later in Carl's life, he moved to California where his uncle ran a business that he worked for three years, until he found a bakery that paid more money. Carl realized while working at the bakery that he could make a profit from having a small business selling hot dogs therefore he bought a hot dog stand.  He was able to buy another Hot dog stand during World War II, that his wife Margaret often ran by herself. The increase in automobiles started affecting food business and creating a whole new lifestyle.