Timeline for What is the benefit of 2 drive thru lanes at a fast food restaurant?
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| Feb 20, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | Devin | @PaŭloEbermann I'm providing a simple and easy to see/explain model, not a real-life model. Of course that could (and will) happen, but for the answer's sake, I simplified this to improve visualization of data. Yes, I could also use regression and statistical models, but... would they help anyone? I don't think so | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 19:33 | comment | added | Yakk | This answer lacks freehand red circles. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 19:32 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | Your additions are wrong – the payment can happen in parallel to the ordering of the next customer, so it is 15 minutes versus 25 minutes. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | Bohemian | You're assuming there are multiple order-takers, so that orders can be taken simultaneously, but I have never seen this. In fact, I have never seen more than one booth in operation and that booth both takes orders over the speaker and takes payments at the window, further reducing the effect of parallelisation | |
| Feb 18, 2017 at 13:16 | comment | added | VisualMelon | A point on "By having another lane, you will prevent the chances of losses by (literally) 50%": actually you double your chance of any loss, because there is twice as much stuff to go wrong; but we reduce the cost of any single failure significantly, and better than half the probability of the system falling over completely (this all assuming the event of either lane closing is independent from the other). It is interesting to read about the number of engines on aircraft (commercial and military), and how these considerations effect such choices. | |
| Feb 17, 2017 at 18:20 | history | edited | Devin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2017 at 18:15 | history | edited | Devin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2017 at 18:09 | history | edited | Devin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2017 at 4:44 | history | answered | Devin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |