[ExI] roboburgers to go

[Kelly Anderson]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> McDonalds, traditional, familiar, good food, ultrathin profit margins, a
> little boring perhaps.  They make most of their actual corporate money in
> land speculation: plunk down a restaurant in a promising location and wait
> for land values to rise while occupying it with a steady if small money
> maker, and don’t worry about getting rich on the burgers and fries, you
> won’t.
>
> I can imagine the first guy to show up in this environment with a burger
> machine will make piles of money so high it will make your butt hurt just
> to look at it.
>
McDonald's business model doesn't seem to be about good food to me. It
seems to be about appealing to children, who drag their parents kicking and
screaming into the joint.

> ****
>
> Key: make the robo-burgers to where we can watch it being made and
> noooobody visibly working anything, runs 24/7 and isn’t it so easy to
> imagine, HEY HOMELESS GUY, come on over here, I’ll buy you a burger just to
> watch this marvelous thing run.
>
So this joint would be about the geek in the family dragging everyone else
in... only to enjoy a really good burger at the end of the day. It really
is brilliant. Kickstarter anyone? :-)

-Kelly
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