I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Straw Hat (Brentwood, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
I sat down in the dining room with about four other interviewees with the owner of the specific franchise. He went around the table asking us the basic questions like, why do we want to work there etc. He described the duties of that are involved in the job and at the end of the interview hired all of us.