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LYNN NEARY, host:
Flipping burgers at McDonald's is sometimes described as the lowest career a person can aspire to. But now the fast-food chain wants to give its workers a makeover and is reportedly in the early stages of soliciting fashion designers to spice up its standard uniforms. Polo shirts and visors, goodbye; hello, Ralph Lauren, Russell Simmons and Giorgio Armani. If they succeed, could the Golden Arches become the new black?
We put that question to Jay McCarroll. He's the winner of Bravo's "Project Runway," a reality show which pitted aspiring fashion designers against each other. He joins us now from his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the show.
Mr. JAY McCARROLL (Winner, "Project Runway"): Hello.
NEARY: So do you really think that it's possible to make fast- food uniforms fashionable?
Mr. McCARROLL: Probably. I myself would--I don't know how I'd approach that. I'd probably make grease-colored muumuus or some tool belts.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. McCARROLL: I was enraptured with that London Olympics speech, though. In fact--very exiting...
NEARY: We've put that behind us now and moved on to this subject...
Mr. McCARROLL: Oh, yes.
NEARY: ...we need to focus here on.
Mr. McCARROLL: Of course.
NEARY: But uniforms for McDonald's. So you would do what, exactly?
Mr. McCARROLL: Well, you know, McDonald's is kind of like communism in a fast-food container. So I would probably just put them in something very similar, something...