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Termyn8or -> RE: Outsourcing fast food is next (7/13/2008 6:30:37 PM)
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Well.......
McD's buys back all their franchises, and can force it because of a clause in line 42. They want to consolidate all their bookkeeping, transportation plans and payroll in one place.
The thing here most don't see is the possibility of automation. While companies in the US have no problem shipping your call to India when they get their money every month, nobody with an ounce of brains would do that for a seven dollar transaction.
But in country, this could give fast food a whole new meaning. Instead of directly interacting with the public, employees are told what to make on a computer screen. You can call it in from home, drive there by which time the order will be prepared and packed, all you do it swipe your card and the door opens and presents your order.
Inventory and all that would be handled by the computer, reducing costs. Plans for transportation of materials even if the actual routes are not all centralized, the planning of it will be. In time, the central office will control all operations in North America. Scheduling of deliveries will be modified due to weather conditions, that is the McD's up in WA will get more in the fall, in case the roads become impassable. FL units get a different treatment, as it costs more to store there.They will be alot closer to the just in time delivery scheme that almost, wait, contributed to the demise of this country.
Now, alot of these fast food joints take credit cards, and more and more are offering delivery, though at a high price. Mr Hero is like four bucks, that is insane. So McD's might even get into that, but the way they are, I think they are after an almost humanless system.
Look at the trend in automation, as well as the outsoucing. Remeber I said that sometimes you can figure the motive from the action ? Well it seems there is a desire to pay US workers as little as possible, and not even hire them if possible. On this very board was posted a clip from a seminar of businessmen figuring out ways not to hire US citizens. If people would name threads right it probably could be found. (faster)
Anyway, there is a contingent of people who actuall think big businessmen are stupid. Don't think that, some of them are very smart. Smarter than most of us. After all, who has the money. Sure some of it is old money, but I can tell you, in those families if you do not do well they take things away from you. And when you are really too stupid to do anything they put your ass in politics.
Which is part of how we got here.
T
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