>> Does anyone else find this strange? I thought McD was all about >> throughput, so why are they encouraging people to sit around for an hour > > One theory is that since McD presented red digits last year, some > managers are now desperate to show they know where the future is...
Yuppie-wannabe parents use WiFi while the kids scrape knee on the "PlayPlace". Increases per-head revenue (parent no longer drinks a Coke, but also buys a 'combo' to go along with the 1.25 "Happy Meals". Note that 'throughput' doesn't argue for the "Playland/PlayPlace" either. Gotta get 'em in the door, extract as much as possible while they're there. Only then do you get to worry about turnover. Making you buy a sandwich means you have to go 'inside', rather than cruise in the parking lot. I'll bet Starbucks ends up doing the same thing, eventually. Jim -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
