Excellent listen throughout, but you can skip to 17:30 for competition with McDonalds.
McDonald’s pioneered franchising. Even the actual restaurant wasn’t original, Ray Crock just bought the name from the actual McDonald’s brothers after visiting their single burger stand and having the idea of duplicating it so he could sell more milkshake machines.
Hold up. The McDonald’s brothers had some great original innovations for running a hamburger stand. They were using assembly line techniques to produce burgers faster than ever before. They weren’t using cutlery or plates for the first time ever. They built a very streamlined business. THAT is what Ray Crock saw potential in, and that is what he bought. That is what the fast food industry is built upon.
And then it dawned on them that selling ice cream machines was the real racket.
Unfortunately they could never figure it out and every ice cream machine across the entire goddamn planet seems to be in a perpetual state of brokenness.
…or they are just a pain in the ass to clean so no one wants to clean them so everyone claims they are broken so they dont have to serve ice cream and clean the machine.
They just have to buy a new one. That’s the point.
Yeah but white castle tastes like a jock strap that seven NFL players used for a season each without washing.
World HQ is in Columbus, OH. Represent!
So what’s Columbus like? I find the Midwest interesting.
Columbus is kind of known for not being known for anything.
I’ve lived here for a little over 15 years and various places in Ohio for every bit of my 40 years. There are things to like about it (low cost of living compared to the rest of the country, 4 seasons of weather) and things to not like about it (really, too many people for me – I’m from a rural area, and local and state government are not great). I like that it’s kind of a generic Midwestern town. Plenty of sports to watch if you like that kind of thing.
I think it’s underrated. People are moving here like crazy, so maybe they agree, but it’s causing rents to get out of control. I feel bad for those moving here. It’s a lot less affordable than when I came in 15 years ago.
If you go to Nashville you can go to a white castle and a krystal burger to compare. theyre only a few miles apart.
nearly identical, but theres definitely a difference
As an aside, I will never trust a southern company that has replaced the “c” in their name with a “k”. It is suspect.
The southern chapter of the Kool Kids Klub does not appreciate your suspicion.
