{"id":9806,"date":"2013-10-01T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9806"},"modified":"2013-10-01T08:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:01:14","slug":"fast-food-slows-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/fast-food-slows-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Slows Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/100113_1154_FastFoodSlo1.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Centives has previously noted that for every extra second that a customer has to wait at a drive-thru, restaurants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-much-you-value-your-time-in-a-fast-food-line\/\">have to lower prices by four cents to keep customers coming back<\/a>. A new study, outlined by Bruce Horovitz, should, thus, worry fast food restaurants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average fast food wait time is getting longer.<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s wait time is the highest it&#8217;s been in 15 years. It now takes the average drive-thru customer 189.5 seconds to get their food. This is nine seconds longer than the industry average.<\/li>\n<li>Drive-thrus are a particular concern for fast food restaurants since up to 70% of a chain&#8217;s business comes through it.<\/li>\n<li>Menu bloat is one reason for the slowing. As fast food restaurants introduce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-taco-bell\/\">increasingly upscale menu items<\/a> that are more difficult to make, cooking times have naturally increases.<\/li>\n<li>Taco Bell&#8217;s Cantina Bell Bowls, for example, have up to 12 ingredients and are complex endeavours.<\/li>\n<li>Restaurants are also increasing quality checks since customers get especially upset if they receive the wrong order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the study, its findings, and what this means for restaurants and customers over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/09\/30\/fast-food-drive-thru-slower\/2884045\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2013\/09\/30\/fast-food-drive-thru-slower\/2884045\/\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centives has previously noted that for every extra second that a customer has to wait at a drive-thru, restaurants have to lower prices by four cents to keep customers coming back. A new study, outlined by Bruce Horovitz, should, thus, worry fast food restaurants: The average fast food wait time is getting longer. McDonald&#8217;s wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/100113_1154_FastFoodSlo1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9812,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions\/9812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}