Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!qantel!lll-lcc!csustan!smdev From: smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is it a Big Mac or a hockey puck? Message-ID: <185@csustan.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 14:21:53 EDT Article-I.D.: csustan.185 Posted: Mon Sep 22 14:21:53 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Sep-86 19:37:44 EDT References: <264@kvue.UUCP> Reply-To: smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) Distribution: net Organization: City of Turlock Lines: 18 In article <264@kvue.UUCP> sparks@kvue.UUCP (Ed Sparks) writes: >I'll bet *somebody* out there knows... c'mon, 'fess up. What is the >purpose of the small, numbered tabs that are placed next to the unserved >hamburgers at MacDonalds? > > Edward Sparks, KVUE-TV Austin, TX I was told that they were to indicate the time at which the hamburgers were put into the chute. They are numbered either 0-5 or 1-6, corresponding to the six ten-minute intervals that make up an hour. The idea is to enforce (in the case of the one that I worked at) a thirty-minute time limit in the chutes. Public health laws, after all... \scott -- Scott Hazen Mueller lll-crg.arpa!csustan!smdev City of Turlock work: (209) 668-5590 -or- 5628 901 South Walnut Avenue home: (209) 527-1203 Turlock, CA 95380