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« on: June 15, 2004, 05:02:11 PM »
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So my wife and I went to see a movie on Sunday.  

While at the theater, we went to buy popcorn and I also ordered a cherry Icee.

The cashier asked me, "What size Icee do you want?"

I said, "Small, please."

She then told me "we only have medium and large."

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How the fuck can you have a "medium" if you only have two options?
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« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2004, 05:08:26 PM »
That's marketing for you.  They don't want to call something small because that's derogatory.
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2004, 05:10:04 PM »
McDonald's now only has small and large coffee cups.
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2004, 05:40:38 PM »
Chris, do you have any inkling as to how many cups of coffee youse guys sell on a typical morning?  I'm curious.
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2004, 05:44:49 PM »
Blecch. McDonald's coffee sucks.


(sorry Chris...)
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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2004, 05:57:26 PM »
Quote from: HeavyJay
Chris, do you have any inkling as to how many cups of coffee youse guys sell on a typical morning?  I'm curious.


Do you mean the entire coporation all together, or just the store where I work?

On average we'll brew about 15 to 20 pots of coffee in the drive thru alone on a typical Saturday morning. The other coffee machine behind the counter for the lobby will be filled up about 5 times, which equals to about 15 pots. So anywhere from 30 to 35 pots of coffee per morning. We sell a lot more orange juice than coffee during the morning at our store.

If you want to know some more useless information from the store that I work at:
We sell roughly 150 salads per day with the new Go Active Happy Meals and the new Fiesta Salad. Each one is roughly 5 dollars.

During the course of a four day period we will use up roughly 360 pounds of salad mix for those salads, about 2.25 tons of fries, about another ton and a half to two tons of meat, 288 pounds of American Cheese, and about 300 gallons of Coke.

The store where I work is busy, but not that busy. Out of the five that my company owns, we're the second bussiest.
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2004, 06:04:56 PM »
"We only have medium and large."

And those are pretty much the only size Americans we have nowadays also....
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2004, 06:17:44 PM »
Yer, I meant at the one store.  I like coffee statistics.  *shrug*
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2004, 07:23:29 PM »
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McDonald's now only has small and large coffee cups.


Yes, but that actually makes sense.

If you only have two sizes, it doesn't make any fricken sense to call the small one "medium"... what's your frame of reference?

My brain gives me a "divide by zero" exception when I try to figure it out.  :?
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2004, 07:39:10 PM »
I saw Supersize Me two Saturdays ago.  Great flick.  You should check it out.
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« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2004, 12:22:54 AM »
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"We only have medium and large."

And those are pretty much the only size Americans we have nowadays also....


You neglected Supersize, despite phasing-out issues.
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« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2004, 12:54:33 PM »
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Blecch. McDonald's coffee sucks.


(sorry Chris...)


For the record, so does Burger King. Let's just hope BrizB didn't get a peek at that one. :P
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