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From: ctp@pop.utexas.edu (Clyde T. Poole)
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Subject: Re: Is it a Big Mac or a hockey puck?
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Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 09:36:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 09:36:48 1986
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In article <185@csustan.UUCP> smdev@csustan.UUCP (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>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

Ok, but that doesn't explain the tab numbered 8 I saw a MacDonalds
yesterday.

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