Fast Food Work is Bad for Your Health

This is not an essay dismissing fast food work. This is an essay based on my own experiences in the fast food industry.

I have worked in the fast food industry for over two years. In those two years, I have experienced many things that confirmed my belief that working in the fast food industry is hazardous for one's health. Fast food isn't easy; it is a test of strength, character, and speed. The strength needed to lift huge crates of food in and out of a walk-in cooler is immense. You also need to suppress all temptations to eat the food you are preparing and of course, the speed needed to prepare food in less than a minute is vital. If you can handle fast food work, then you can handle anything.

Of course that doesn't mean that one shouldn't go for fast food, after all, people still need food and it's up to the fast food worker to feed the hungry people of America.

Fryers of Doom

There are many types of fast food places in this country. Some serve burgers and others serve seafood. There is even an Italian fast food restaurant. There is one consistency in all of them: the boiling pits of oil known as the fryer.

The fryer is an ingenious invention that uses different types of oil of fry foods based on a timer. Most of the time, the food that will be fried is in a basket and is dumped into the oil. There are also vents to blow out various smokes and steam from the fryer, so it is a unique invention.