Immediately upon seating myself in McDonald's I notice the atmosphere about me is pure business. People are stopping in to get filled up fast, laughter and music fills the air, but they are bringing their work in with them.
A table nearby consists of several suit-and-tie businessmen who are completely absorbed by their respective laptops as they eat. This quick stop at McDonald's isn't a break for these entrepreneurs; merely a continuation of their workday, but a continuation in which they can enjoy some delicious modern day heart-stopping cheeseburgers. I can distinctly hear walkie-talkies chirping like a horde of crickets on a warm summer night, but no one seems to take any notice except me. It is absolutely impossible to ignore the excited chatter of both Spanish and English speaking workers coming from the kitchen, but once again this racket falls on deaf ears. The blissful looks on the faces all around me act as a symbol of McDonald's success; if their food really makes people close their eyes in sheer ecstasy while they eat as I witnessed on Thursday then they have earned their "Billions and Billions Served" signs that stubbornly hang in front of, quite possibly, a billion McDonalds's.
What makes McDonald's different? It is the epitome of a fast food restaurant, it is almost as if everyone else was in fast-forward as i took a leisurely thirty minute break to find out what it is like to really stop and smell the roses.
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i guess once you take the time to slow down and look at places you see everyday even a McDonalds can be interesting. but it sounds like you had alot of fun there, nice blog.
ReplyDeletei enjoyed this essay, good work. did you also hear someone complaining about their food. I did this weekend, it had to be the funniest thing ever, " My wife wants her money back, the burger doesn't look exactly like the picture."
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