In folklore, few pursuits are more deeply revered than the newspaper route and the sidewalk lemonade stand. Roy Rogers, Baskin Robbins, Kentucky Fried Chicken, et al., may at first seem nothing but a vast extension of the lemonade stand. They provide very large numbers of teen jobs, provide regular employment, pay quite well compared to many other teen jobs and, in the modern equivalent of toiling over a hot stove, test one's stamina. Closer examination, however, finds the McDonald's kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. True, you still have to have the gumption to get yourself over to the hamburger stand, but once you don the prescribed uniform, your task is spelled out in minute detail.
Fresh coffee is to be made every eight minutes.
And so on. There is no room for initiative, creativity or even elementary rearrangements. These are breeding grounds for robots working for yesterday's assembly lines, not tomorrow's high-tech posts. There are very few studies of the matter. One is a 1984 study by Ivan Charner and Bryna Shore Fraser.