This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour

Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @02:40AM (#5102007)

"I wish there was a website or publication that took businesses and profiled how they work, the challenges they face and the costs associated with parts of the business consumers might not understand, so these sort of questions were easy to answer. I would love to read how McDonalds works (as a business))"

Not for all businesses, but for public ones, there is something pretty close: SEC EDGAR [1]. Search for the most recent 10-Q (concise quarterly filing) or 10-K (more detailed annual filing).

[1] http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

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Re:This robot serves up 340 hamburgers per hour by jaggederest on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:22AM (#5102394)

Right, but in McDonalds case, the parent company isn't the one operating the franchises most of the time, and the franchises are almost always small companies privately held.

So you don't get an accurate look at how the average McDonalds franchise operates.

Other businesses have their earnings obscured by different sources of retail, or inexact expense breakdown.

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