Amid unrest, restaurants offer neutral ground
October 3, 2019
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the book “Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America’s Fast-Food Kingdom” by nonfiction writer Adam Chandler. The excerpt depicts a scene in a McDonald’s a year after the police shooting of Michael Brown.
The McDonald’s on West Florissant in Ferguson, Mo., is an average looking store. On the Sunday afternoon in the summer of 2015 the store was serving as respite from 97-degree Missouri heat and what must have been at least 95% Missouri humidity. There were about 30 people inside, a mix of ages, mostly black, but also white, people in Cardinals hats, people talking on phones, people playing Vince Staples and Kendrick Lamar from small speakers at tables. In one corner by the co...
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