Lesson 5: Restaurant Investigation

Yesterday Year 3 and Year 4 and their amazing teachers Miss Smith and Mrs Donnelly went to McDonald's in Stanthorpe on a bus so that we could learn how to run a restaurant as part of our Science unit "Eating Out." In a few weeks we have to make our own restaurant so we needed to learn things from the staff at McDonald's.

First we drove to Stanthorpe. It was a long journey. Max and Isaac fell asleep and Miss Smith took photos of them.

When we arrived at McDonald's the staff had already made our orders so we had lunch. It was scrumptious, delicious, amazingly well cooked, mouth watering, fabulous and perfect.

After that Trevor talked to us about his job. He owned 3 McDonald's  - he built the one in Stanthorpe and the one in Goondoowindi and Warwick but he recently sold the Goondoowindi restaurant. He told us about all of the different roles that staff have at McDonald's. He told us all about the facts to do with the food that McDonald's sell as well as facts about money and customers.

"Ben can make a cheeseburger in 12 seconds"
"We sell 2.5tonne of fries in a busy week"
"1.25 millions customers in his 2 stores"

Then we took a tour around McDonald's kitchen.
We saw:

• the cold store rooms - you would only live 3 hours in the freezer
• fryers
• cleaning supplies
• rubbish compactors
• double sided grill
• drive through
• oil recycling 
• we fond out how cold the freezer -15.2
• automatic drink maker
• frappe machine
• the syrup for the soft drinks
• bun toaster
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Lesson 4 - Restaurant Investigation - Part 1

Next week we are going on an excursion to McDonald's in Stanthorpe to learn how a restaurant works and because we are very lucky.
This week we needed to get in to groups and work out questions to ask the staff at McDonald's so that we will be able to make our own restaurant.
The groups were:

• Chefs
• Cleaners
• Managers
• Advertisers
• Waiters

Each group had a supervisor who made sure the children in each group were doing their work.

We came up with some very interesting questions - no yes or no answer questions - they are all extended answer questions!

We can't wait for:

• making our own restaurant
• learning about how a good restaurant runs
• hands on activities
• going to McDonald's