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Their franchisees bore the entire cost of giving out the free food. McDonald's corporate paid nothing except for paging someone in to fix the bug.

• mytailorisrich 7y ago
  Well, the software is provided by corporate so franchisees likely have a claim for compensation. Whether they would dare at the risk of facing any negative consequences is another issue...
• speedgoose 7y ago
  I don't know if McDonald's food is that expensive. I would expect that most of the costs are the employees, the building, and the equipment.
  • saghm 7y ago
    Well, their employees had to do all the work to make that food without the franchise getting revenue for it, but the employees were presumably still paid
    • swiley 7y ago
      I don’t know about McDonald’s but I knew a manager at a Taco Bell and a lot of this fast food takes very very little work to make. Many Taco Bells can run on just a couple people when they’re not having to clean or maintain anything.
    • bwilliams18 7y ago
      But the people were already there, it only happened over the course of a single day; it's not like they paid the people more because they were busier or making more orders.
      • progval 7y ago
        They can only handle so many orders in a given hour. If too many people took advantage of this, then queues probably got longer, discouraging potential customers.
        • genera1 7y ago
          Customers, who would've paid nothing anyway, presumably
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