Talking about our kids working in fast-food, when I was 19 I worked in a place you probably never seen or heard of, it was called "Wagon Ho". Here's a photo of the one on Pasadena Ave going from St. Petersburg to St. Pete Beach. I worked there twice, the spring of '69 and the fall of '69 and they went out of business. That was real yachting type sail stretched over steel rafters to create the look of an old west wagon, with a 15' tall fiberglass cowboy.
We had what I thought was the most wanted items. Arby's had just started up and was doing great, so we had the sliced roast beef and sliced ham sandwichs on a sesame seed bun, flame broiled hamburgers on a conveyor belt just BK and string type french fries like McDonalds. We wore white cowboy hats, cowboy shirts and string ties with jeans. A middle aged couple had the franchise in St. Pete and invested their life savings. After about 3 months I left to go work in my cousin's sub shop on the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland for the summer. When I returned I got my job back. Unfortunately business took a turn for the worse and the company took the franchise back.
Originally they had planned to build 200 locations in a couple of years. The chain started in Birmingham, Alabama, and was another in Bradenton, Florida and I believe another in St. Pete and one in Canada. Only five total were built and opened. They closed down the five locations and cowboys statues were sold off for about $3,000 apiece. Soon after they closed, I headed off to the Army and a career in aviation.
One of the cowboys sat in front of a used car dealer in Pinellas Park (just north of St. Pete) for many years. The cowboy in Birmingham went to a Mexican Restaurant. The cowboy in the Pasadena location went to a mini-golf on Treasure Island.