They go to great lengths to ensure the products are made to an exacting standard but it seems when it comes to using zero hours most fast food franchises just don’t care what happens in their stores and don’t want to know. 

Unite Union, which earlier this year negotiated the end of zero-hour contracts at four major fast food chains, wrote to over seventeen other chains in New Zealand to ask them whether their franchisees used zero-hour contracts and to request meetings to discuss their employment arrangements. Even after following up the original letter most companies did not respond.