THE GREASE
TRAP
their public relations rhetoric.
The National Restaurant Association, which last year spent
more than $1 million on campaign
contributions and $2.7 million on
lobbying, deploys the phrase as a
matter of course in the pro-forma
statement it sends to reporters
who inquire about wages: “In addition to providing more than 13
million job opportunities, the industry also gives individuals the
chance to achieve the American
dream, with 80 percent of owners
and managers having started their
careers in entry-level positions.”
The twin expectations that hard
work will lead to success and that
each generation will do better
than the last are practically enshrined in the Constitution — and
they’re personified by the unlikely figure whose portraits hang
on the walls of thousands of KFC
“My dad struggled,
my mom struggled,
my grandma
struggled, and now
I’m struggling.
It’s rigged that way.
It’s rigged that way
to keep you down.”
HUFFINGTON
05.12.13
franchises around the world. Although “Colonel” Harland Sanders eventually turned himself into
a popular symbol of prosperity by
appropriating the wh