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The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by rasz »

gerdesj wrote: post #90
gl-prod wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it feels snappy.

When I was a lad, 30ms was considered the worst latency allowable for telephony unless you were dealing with satellite links, in which case you taught people to use a simple variety of radio protocol (over). Nowadays with all our fancy crappy comms, 200+ms is considered normal. Ever noticed the lag on a Teams call?

OP is not talking ping but page load time. Depending on when you were a lad pages could take up to 30-60 second to load on a modem.

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by DrewADesign »

rapind wrote: post #76
bcrl wrote: post #71

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McDonalds actually seems to have learned to take latency seriously. When their touch screen ordering systems were first deployed, the delay between tapping on an item or button was quite noticeable. These days the systems respond nearly instantaneously. I'm very glad there are people inside such a large organization that pay attention to that aspect of usability. Now if only every other website on the internet would…

Except they make you tap 2-3 times more than it takes to make your selections. That's business guys though, not the devs. Do you want to add one of [x]?... No. How about now, add one of [x]?... No. Do you want to round up your total to [n]?... No. Do you want to eat in, even though we'll still put it in a takeaway bag so this option is really just the equivalent of a close door button on an elevator in that it does n…

Annoying, for sure, but at least it’s not an unpredictable 800 keystroke, zero agency, chatbot interaction.

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

janderson215 wrote: post #97
brcmthrowaway wrote: post #79

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Bet someone here worked on them

Probably. Similarly, Walmart has a great eng org for a company of its size.

When I temporarily lost access to my phone, I contacted Walmart dot Com Support. They solemnly informed me that they had no means of overriding MFA for my account or helping me to recover it without the phone.

Support told me that I was better off abandoning the account and creating a new one.

While I did recover my phone, I decided that it was best to simply stop doing business with Walmart, and I haven’t missed them one bit!

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by geerlingguy »

dd8601fn wrote: post #100
janderson215 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably. Similarly, Walmart has a great eng org for a company of its size.

Really? Walmart does some spectacularly stupid, costly, and obnoxiously customer hostile stuff.

But they do it with much uptime, and very low latency!

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by jtbayly »

bcrl wrote: post #71
tbeseda wrote: post #47

I just want to note how fast this page is. 806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here. Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu 31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss"). I am in Colorado. uBlock is on. Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.

McDonalds actually seems to have learned to take latency seriously. When their touch screen ordering systems were first deployed, the delay between tapping on an item or button was quite noticeable. These days the systems respond nearly instantaneously. I'm very glad there are people inside such a large organization that pay attention to that aspect of usability. Now if only every other website on the internet would…

I refuse to go to McDonalds anymore because they refuse to acknowledge you, won’t take your order, force you to use those stupid terminals.

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by booleandilemma »

TurdF3rguson wrote: post #72
tkgally wrote: post #34

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That's my guess, too. I live in Japan and eat at fast food places from time to time. One feature of McDonald's is that the food preparation area is almost always visible from the customer area; I can see the people assembling the burgers, handling the fries, etc. At Yoshinoya and other domburi places, even though the shop is much smaller than a McDonald's, I am usually unable to see the person actually putting the ri…

It's about communication, the cashier needs to be able to shout "I need a Big Mac no pickles" and have the grill person hear it. The new ones near me now have touch menu that customers enter and swipe payment instead of cashiers and the grill area is no longer visible.

Biggumakku!

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by haunter »

Japanese food prices are ridiculously cheap. Well that's true to pretty much whole Asia too. Even in HK which I consider more expensive than Japan a Big Mac is only 2.9€ (27 HKD). And that's McD, local food spots are even cheaper. If you have the money there is no better time to have a holiday in Asia.

A Big Mac is 10€ in France...

We are ripped off big time in the US and Europe for nothing.

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by layer8 »

tbeseda wrote: post #47

I just want to note how fast this page is. 806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here. Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu 31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss"). I am in Colorado. uBlock is on. Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.

It's fast food, what do you expect. ;)

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by sickcodebruh »

tbeseda wrote: post #47

I just want to note how fast this page is. 806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here. Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu 31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss"). I am in Colorado. uBlock is on. Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.

Crazy fast but the the way all header text sizes change briefly flash between values every time you switch tabs would drive me nuts if I was responsible for this.
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