Why Teenagers Only Get Minimum Wage at Fast Food Industry?

Fast-food industry employ a large number of low-wage workers, and pay minimum wage to their workers. Most fast-food workers are teenagers because they don't have any work experience and enough time to get a full time job, and most full time jobs require their workers to be skilled, but most fast-food industry does not require because they are working rely on machines. Therefore, the fast-food restaurants become their only choice which they have to work for. Not only teenagers, the fast-food industry also hire some immigrants without speaking good English, and they only pay the very low wage for these people because they don't have any other choice if they want to get jobs.
According to Eric Schlosser's "Behind the Counter", he explains why dose fast food industry like to hire teenagers, "not only because they are less expensive to hire than adults, but also because their youthful inexperience makes them easier to control." Fast food restaurants like to hire teenagers because they are easier to manage than adults, and they can also accept the minimum wage. It is an exactly truth in our society, teenagers always be treated unequally only because of their age and work experience. On the other hand, teenagers accept minimum wage is also because they don't have any stress of their life. Therefore, they never try to resist their empolyers because the fast food industry will be easier to find other people to replace them.

Teenagers are more difficult to get a part time job in China. I had a work experience in a fast food restaurant when I was 17 years old during the summer vacation. I found that so hard to get a part job at that age because most companies did not accept part time jobs except some fast food restaurants, so it is became the only choice I had to work at, but they only pay the minimum wage for the part time jobs. They know that teenagers are difficult to get part time jobs, so we have to accept any wage. These fast food restaurants like hiring teenagers because we are young and have more energy, and we can do more work whatever they require us. Most other co-workers are part-time like me, we had to work more than ten hours per day, and they only paid us for nine hours because the hour without paying was lunch time, but actually we never break for that long time. Everyday we had to arrive there earlier because we had to get everything done before the restaurant opened. I felt very tired everyday, and I did not have any other energy to do other things, so I quit that job after 30 days. I had to finish my homework because the summer vacation was almost finish. This was the first work experience.