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Fascinating to me that the corporate chains we love to hate like Olive Garden, Applebees, and big chain stores in general, have the benefit of facilitating the
by hammock 3y ago
Fascinating to me that the corporate chains we love to hate like Olive Garden, Applebees, and big chain stores in general, have the benefit of facilitating the most cross-class* interactions of any business type. I saw a comment explain this could be due to a mixed social group where everyone can agree to go to Applebees because it's acceptable socially to the higher class people and acceptable financially to the lower class people.
*Important to note that "class" in this paper is defined as income class, even though they refer to it at times as social class
- Paul-Craft 3y ago> *Important to note that "class" in this paper is defined as income class, even though they refer to it at times as social class Those are essentially the same thing in the US, as opposed to, say, the UK, where it's quite a bit more complicated.
- hammock 3y agoI would disagree. Social class divide is very opaque for those who aren't looking/ don't know how to see it, but it does exist. Take a rich general contractor of Southern Italian descent (say third generation American) compared to a middle-class elite private school teacher of English/Scottish descent (say 14th generation American). They aren't running in the same circles or living in the same neighborhood