The Founding Fathers: Chunk 1, Part 1

 "When Carl hear that a hot dog cart was for sale on Florence Ave across from the Good Year factory, he decided to buy it. Margaret strongly opposed the idea wondering where he would find the money. He borrowed $311 from the Bank of America using his car as collateral for the loan, and persuaded his wife to give him $15 in cash from her purse. 'I'm in business for myself now,' Carl thought after buying the cart. 'I'm on my way.'" Pg 15

One of the pioneers of the fast food industry, Carl Karcher, who had moved from the countryside to Anaheim after he had been chosen by his uncle Ben to work at his store as cashier. After a while he had met his soon to be wife and then started a family and lived in the Orange County. Carl had a job at a bakery delivering bread, but heard about a hot dog cart being sold in Florence Avenue. He bought the cart and had 2 young men work the stand while he delivered bread. He then made enough money to buy another hot dog cart then bought it and had his wife work the stand. Then By 1944 Carl had owned about 4 hot dog carts and quit his job at the bakery and bought a restaurant and started his own business called Carl's Drive in. This quote helps my opinion because it is the start of Carl going into business, By Carl buying the cart he changed his life by making him own his own establishment. The quote foreshadows that Carl would have a fast food industry of his own later on and would make people change their life styles and make other restaurants want to compete for customers.

Questions:

1.  Why did Carl Karcher go to Anaheim?
2. How did these pioneers go from having little businesses to having a giant corporation?
3. How do these fast food incorporations gain their success while they were debuting?