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McDonalds' product, someone in that business explained to me, is consistency: You can get the exact same food in any town, in any country, at any time. (Also, it's availability, as they have prime location and usually are nearby.)

It's pretty impressive from a business and logistics perspective. Imagine delivering the exact same physical object, which is perishable and must be locally prepared, everywhere in the world. That's a different challenge than your cloud app's capacity.

That's one reason for me not going there, it's boring food. But obviously enough people like boring.

Internationally there is quite some variation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_availability_o...

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