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0 pointsusr11062y ago0 comments

Megacorp and megacorp. Here they are small franchises, not owned by McDonald's.

Of course using basically the same kiosk software makes sense despite being different localisations and different business owners. Having single points of failure globally not so much. I wonder how business owners take functioning sea cables for granted. We have wars in several places on the planet.

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greedo2y ago· 1 in thread

A significant number of McDonalds locations in the US are owned by the McDonalds corporation, not franchisees. And McDonalds wields a heavy hand in "encouraging" franchisees to participate in whatever program they're currently running or implementing. This goes from food introductions, to hardware, to back of the office programs.

usr1106OP2y ago

Of course that's a core of franchising: Limiting the choice of business owners. They have to source your stuff even if choices more suitable for them might exist.

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