> There was a time, not too long ago, when the people at McDonald's took your > order with a pencil and paper and hand-calculated the price. They did > estimated gross sales by the number of buns and burgers used, and > hand-counted the waste from a bucket behind the front line. > > We have come so far...
That was back when McDonalds employed mostly high school students and not high school dropouts. =-p Todd > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:46 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Math+FastFood > > > So - the wife, rugrat and I go to Sonic yesterday at high noon and get > turned away because... the computers are down and it's going to take 15+ > minutes to get them back. This makes me wonder... > > 1) Why these people can't use a calculator, or lord forbid, simple > freaking preschool mathematics to figure out our total? I understand if > they need to track the orders, but it's noon - the busiest time of the > year. Deal with it. > > 2) What kind of computers are they using that would take that long to > reboot and start up? Heck, even Win95 on a slow system would be up and > running in 4 minutes at most. > > Am I crazy... or was I just being cranky because I was hungry?? > > -rc ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
