Raising the Friving Age to 18
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Devin Luce
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English 109.02/ 11:00-12:20
Adena 120
April 27, 2005
McDonalds Gone Country
McDonalds, the most successful and well-known fast food chain in the world. One of which is located in Coshocton, Ohio. Most McDonalds consist of three main colors blue, yellow, and red. McDonalds has different themes among their many restaurants. However, the main goal is to stick with the main colors throughout the restaurant. In the Coshocton restaurant there is a country style theme. The inside, outside, menus, and even the workers uniforms relate to each other; they all consist of the main colors dealing with the theme.
The interior of the McDonalds has the theme of a country style home. The walls consist of wood panels with a wood strip half way up the wall. The wood strip runs horizontally throughout the restaurant. McDonalds wants to make you as comfortable as possible to ensure the comfort of eating at home. Wallpaper covers from ceiling to the wood strip. The wallpaper is of a gold color with a diamond pattern. The amount of wood used in Coshoctons McDonalds gives it the very country, homey feel. The country theme reflects our community in the way of our environment. Coshocton County is a very country setting. There is a lot of farming, country style homes, and historical sites. When customers eat at McDonalds they feel very comfortable taking their families there for a sit down meal with a home setting. McDonalds makes the effort to blend in with the community because by doing so their residents will feel at home.
The uniforms at McDonalds consist of a pair of pants, hat, black shoes, name tag, and a polo shirt. Managers at McDonalds wear a light blue dress shirt, a tie of their choice, a pair of blue dress pants, a black hat with McDonalds golden arches emblem on the front, and all employees are required to wear all black shoes. The crew trainers wear a red polo shirt with a yellow pinstripe that runs vertically down the right side, black pants, black hat, their name tag, and their black shoes. The regular crew members wear blue polo shirts with one yellow pinstripe down the right side of the shirt. It is a must that the crew members wear the black pants, name tag, and their hat. The significance of the uniforms is that they all have the three main colors, and these colors are used to distinguish the rank of the employees. The colors of the uniforms help the customers and new employees in need of assistance.
The menus are located behind the counter hanging from the ceiling leaning towards the customers. McDonalds has a wood border that surrounds each section of the menu. On the left side of the menu are the lunch and breakfast items, and on the left are the dollar menu and the desserts. In the middle are the pictures of the value menus and their prices. The middle menu has a knob that turns the menu back and forth from breakfast to lunch. The menu is divided into many parts; for instance the hamburgers are listed in a roe separately from the chicken nuggets. The menus change from breakfast to lunch at 10:30 am. The breakfast menu consists of biscuits, English muffin, bagels, McGriddles, Hotcakes with or without sausage, Big Breakfast, Country Breakfast, and biscuits and gravy. The biscuits, muffins, McGriddles and bagels, come with just sausage; bacon,