Jobs at chain restaurants are not supposed to be lifetime careers. No one over 25 should consider it as such.
Exactly, what they are is simply a "quick" way to get a job and get paid. Serious jobs have multiple interviews, some take many months to get hired. These are just the opposite, interview and start the next day, as they are designed. So a HS or college kid can literally get a job for Summer and interview on his last day of school and start the next day to earn cash, it's NOT a career.
I wouldn’t say that entirely. But one should be moving up the chain. Shift manager, store manager, regional manager. 27 years in the grill is just not a way to go through life. And of course never missing a shift means working sick, and spreading whatever illness. But at least he’s dedicated I guess.
The under 25 crowd doesn’t have an interest in working.