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> In the early twenty-first century, there were millions of businesses that operated in this way. According to Ibis World there are "only" 548,062 Global fast
by Archelaos 2y ago
> In the early twenty-first century, there were millions of businesses that operated in this way.
According to Ibis World there are "only" 548,062 Global fast food restaurants businesses worldwide in 2024.[1]
[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/global/number-of-businesses/global-fast-food-restaurants/1480/ https://www.ibisworld.com/global/number-of-businesses/global...
- Terr_ 2y agoHow does that matter? The sentence doesn't actually say "millions of fast-food businesses", it's emphasizing the popularity of a manager/employee work relationship without being limited to fast-food. Also, the word "business" is often used in a way that refers to particular stores or sites, rather than always meaning a top-level corporate legal-ownership entity. You can point at a local boarded-over Starbucks and say "that business closed" without meaning a global shutdown.