Fast Food Drive Thru's...

[Jong Lafitte]

Never go in the kitchen. Don't care if its the corner diner or the best 5 star restaurant in town. You don't wanna know.

Man I worked at the tastiest wing joint in a college neighborhood. We kept that kitchen pretty damn clean for a bunch of stoners. It was one of my favorite places to go even on my days off; I’d often be serving food to my colleagues as well. I in part got the job because of the 15% employee discount all the time.

Pizza joint I worked at clean too. We had the best take out pizza in town.

Jimmy John’s was spotless as well. My buddy opened the first one in town. No, we didn’t have the best sandwiches in town, we had Jimmy John’s. But it was good and I still eat there a lot.


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[MontuckyFried]

you know that Macdonalds is actualy in the RE business right ?

Yup! See: Post #2

[highangle]

Yup! See: Post #2

Heybro that started in 1956.

Harry Sonneborn, a VP at Tastee-Freez, pitched Ray Kroc with the idea of owning the land under every new McDonald's as the ultimate leverage over franchisees [lessees] to make them stick exactly to the McDonald's Speedy System, and as a guaranteed whack of every franchisee's gross revenue.

Kroc recognized the genius, and hired Sonneborn for whatever he asked.

"The Sonneborn Model" of land ownership is about as close as anyone has ever got to "creating wealth". It sits on a ring with Lloyd's Syndicate, Ford's vertical integration, and the Bank of Templar.

America, fuck yeah.

[XXX-er]

Never heard is refered to as the Sonnenborn model,

I know a guy who has adopted the RE model with ski & bike stores

buy a property, open a stores, hire some bro's, own the building in 25 yrs

[MontuckyFried]

In case you haven't seen it, check out "The Founder." Pretty wild story. Michael Keaton was great in it. The original "McDonald" owners got completely dicked over! Poor guys.

[highangle]

Never heard is refered to as the Sonnenborn model,

I know a guy who has adopted the RE model with ski & bike stores

buy a property, open a stores, hire some bro's, own the building in 25 yrs

If a franchisee to a system/name can do things his way he will, which breaks both the system and the name he paid for.

What Sonneborn did was give McDonald's, which depended on the trademarked intellectual property The Speedy System for it's operational and brand success, a big stick to ensure compliance, as well as not only a fixed return but a big cut of every store's gross revenue.

[highangle]

In case you haven't seen it, check out "The Founder." Pretty wild story. Michael Keaton was great in it. The original "McDonald" owners got completely dicked over! Poor guys.

They had a good run doing it their way.

Sonneborn/Kroc's ideas of combining real estate with vertical integration in a franchise operation multiplied the value of the McDonald Bros Speedy System many times over.

Protip: Whenever someone hands you a blank check, multiply by 5 before you fill it out.

[XXX-er]

I wouldn't call what buddy is doing trademarkable but he has a number of stores, he has his system for how he sets them up how they look and thats how he matter of factly talks about it,

So setting up that last store was way easier/ faster than the 1st store, now he just keeps all the balls in the air some of them with family some with an assistant or 2, he has some good dependable staff good accountants and some customers that spend into 5 figures every year

I'm sure buddy is not the 1st person to try this with storefront retail, so far its working, wait 25 yrs and see

[XXX-er]

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the first macdonalds drive thru, cuz military personel were not allowed to exit their vehicals off post in uniform

[mall walker]

They had a good run doing it their way.

Sonneborn/Kroc's ideas of combining real estate with vertical integration in a franchise operation multiplied the value of the McDonald Bros Speedy System many times over.

Protip: Whenever someone hands you a blank check, multiply by 5 before you fill it out.

lol bro does truly think he is artful at posting

[highangle]

Thank you!

[MontuckyFried]

Speaking of fast food, a few years late but I finally saw this one. Remember the big "sandwich chick war" where BK and Popeyes were both talking trash to each other on social media? Ends up its true! RBI owns both Popeyes AND Burger King. I guess it worked because Popeyes would sell out all the time apparently. LMAO!



Solid analogy! Dayum.

[J. Barron DeJong]

Hell yeah, solid analogy, because the parties are the same!

Unless by ‘same’ you mean, ‘same’, because they’re obviously not the same:





Is giving the wealthiest people more money the same as taking more money from the wealthiest people the ‘same’? Who’s to say?

[MontuckyFried]

Hell yeah, solid analogy, because the parties are the same!

Unless by ‘same’ you mean, ‘same’, because they’re obviously not the same:
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Is giving the wealthiest people more money the same as taking more money from the wealthiest people the ‘same’? Who’s to say?

Way to overanalyze it, DeJong. It was meant to be funny. Didn't mean to polyass the thread. Sorry, folks. Haha.

[ötzi]

Well the sandwiches aren't the same either.

[BmillsSkier]

[riser4]

Not a bad place to be.

[Mazderati]

Also pictured: black dress smoking section, white dress non-smoking section.

[Garbowski]

I would love to have one of those sunrooms for my house. I have the perfect spot too.

[BmillsSkier]

Also pictured: black dress smoking section, white dress non-smoking section.

Meanwhile, this place down the street had a totally different smoking section. Usually in the parking lot.

[Mazderati]

Yo quiero Taco Bell.

[MontuckyFried]

Also pictured: black dress smoking section, white dress non-smoking section.

Hahaha. Ooohhhhhhh yeah. I remember those days. I'm also old enough to remember when McD's had these...


Would always be the old WWII vets hanging out on Saturday mornings to shoot the breeze, read the paper, drinking coffee and smoking cigs. Good times. Now McDonald's makes everything high top tables, self-serve kiosks, all engineered to be like "you've been here for more than 2 minutes so it's time for you to GTFO."

[m2711c]

bold design choices. very bold indeed.

[mtnjam]

Am I the only one that constantly gets fucked going through the drive thru? I know Danny Devito is with me but anyone else?

Every Friday I buy breakfast for my employees. It seems every week I get shorted something. Today was no different, McDonalds shorted us a breakfast burrito and an egg mcmuffin. I was irked but sent my daughter back to get the items we were shorted. She asked to speak to the manager, the manager asked her if she'd called first to alert them items were missing. Umm, no, I'm standing right here telling you, we don't need to involve phone lines. The manager then proceeds to argue with my daughter telling her, "I'm pretty sure everything was in the bag." Eventually my daughter got tired of arguing and just paid for the missing items so my employee missing food could eat.

When I was alerted to that fact I went in to talk to her myself. I got the same thing, "did you call?" I told her the same thing, no, I'm here now. Showed her my order on my phone and which items were missing. "You have to call first." was the reply again. No, I'm here now and just want my money back. She sneers at me, "I'm not going to argue with you, give me your card."

She refunds me my money paid for the missing items, I thank her and calmly tell her I won't be back to this McDonalds, turn around and head for the door. As I'm leaving I hear her screaming at me in Spanish, then English, "Don't ever come back here again!!" as I walk out the door. The restaurant is full, everyone staring at the manager as she screams at me.

All I wanted was my food, not to argue with a manager. My employees always joke that I'm the only one this ever happens to. I'm not sure why but I can't hardly ever get the food I order when going through the drive thru. And yeah, I know I should check before leaving, but I'm not going to empty the bag of a $40 order to make sure the employees did their job right.

Your first mistake was going to a McDonalds for "food"

[BmillsSkier]

Yo quiero Taco Bell.

I swear if they ever decide to bring back the Meximelt, I'm gonna find that 95 Pathfinder, get unthinkably high as hell and drive on down there where my friends and I will plan a night of drunken highjinx and laughter from these very chairs.