<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">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.</span><br>
</p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div>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. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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. </span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div>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? :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>