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.
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