Saturday, March 19, 2011

ThroughtPut


In Eric Schlossor’s book "Fast Food Nation" he speaks about a term which is used in the fast food industry, “throughput". This method is an important operation of the source of mass production in companies because it creates a faster and quicker production of a high demand product similar to a assembly line work. Alfred D. Chandler defines this method of production as “a factories speed and volume of the flow...". The Speed in terms of how fast it produced and volume of flow meaning the amount of product to supply a high demand in a short amount of time.  The number of people employed pertains to this method too because number of workers can produce a huge amount of goods cheap because not as much skill goes into the work when you on teach a person one technique and also you are able to hire or fire anyone because there is not as much to teach a person when they are learning one skill. An example of this production,  is Carl Kroc's fast food assembly line method adopted from the McDonald Brothers.

2 comments:

  1. Hi, you've got the ideas here, but this doesn't read very professional. You need capitalized letters, and you should give an example to help your readers visualize the idea. Would your little sibling understand this?

    Also, Fast Food Nation is not a novel.

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