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LittleItaly:
You are still missing the point. It is the convenience to you, and not them, that they are charging for. It takes YOU more time before you can eat it with your modification than it would if they slapped it together as you prefer. So you pay for it to save you time, not theirs.
if every fast food industry went by this theory, they would have been bankrupt long ago, this is the stupidest point of view ive ever heard in my life.
customer satisfaction is the number one priority, next to good tasting food at a cheap price. mcdonalds built their empire based on the theory that they can meet customer demands better than anyone out there. if they went by the theory "yea we save money, but since its convenient to u, were gonna charge u more, who would continue to eat there?
saving money on the macsauce package = 5cents (roughly estimating... probally costs less.. but including the plastic package cost, transport fee, and the auctaul sauce, im guessing its somewhere around 5cents)
they serve over 50million customers a day world wide.
if just 0.1% of those customers wanted the cheeseburger with macsauce, thats 50,000 packets a day, x 365days a year which equals over $950k a year.