<p>is it because you have to wait to heat it up, or what? are humans * that * impatient? </p>
<p>i don’t get why frozen food doesn’t replace fast food. like why there aren’t fast food places that just sell huge assortments of delectable frozen food meals, which you plunk into one of their dozens of microwaves. </p>
<p>they wouldn’t even have to hire anyone! (well maybe someone to prevent fights over the microwaves and to wipe tables and sweep). it would be so profitable. there could just be like a vending machine for each frozen food meal. that sounds pretty cool.</p>
<p>right-o. but the selection is so limited. maybe the advertising models don’t allow advertising for a fast-food place with such a variegated offering.</p>
<p>also, this way, no cashiers. way cool. you are making people heat up their own food though. that’s just wrong.</p>
<p>but perhaps the vending machines could heat it up - and some creativity on the part of the vending food-heating machines could make it so they would heat your food up well. then you solve that issue too.</p>
<p>The main issue is time. They train their employees to pump out meals as quickly as possible. Imagine the long lines of people that don’t know how to prepare the food or want to annoy everyone and take as long as possible.</p>
<p>good point. i’m not completely convinced there couldn’t be an equally efficient employeeless solution though.</p>
<p>i think the real barrier could be people liking people serving them their food. and employeeless business being a turn-off to consumers. so the employees are a good investment. also more choices isn’t necessarily a plus. if some place sells everything then there’s nothing special about it. i mean there are pluses, no doubt, but perhaps it’s just easier to market a more specialized fast-food chain to people than a more generalized one.</p>
<p>i feel like supermarkets should replace fast-food places, by selling ready-to-eat meals. but whatever.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be as convenient, and a drive-thru would be more difficult.
Also, they provide tons of jobs. They might save money by not having as many employees, but there would be thousands of people who wouldn’t want to eat there after being fired for no reason.</p>
<p>Frozen food, with the exception of french fries and the occasional meat product, is quite gross. It never looks like the picture on the box. In fact, the box probably tastes better.</p>
<p>I once bought Lean Cuisine’s for lunch. Never again.</p>
<p>It’s going to take a good couple minutes to heat. </p>
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<p>What? Storing vast amounts of frozen food on site, waiting for people to buy them? Refrigeration costs money. There are probably all sorts of regulations regarding frozen food. What about power outages? Gotta throw the thawed food out? Compare your proposition to fast food. A small amount of frozen food on hand, constantly being taken out and cooked for customers. Waiting time: less, because the fries are often ready and the burgers are often in the process of being cooked.</p>
<p>great doesn’t mean fit for humans beings though.</p>
<p>great just means great relative to starving or pain or something. being a black house slave to a kind family was ‘great’ when the alternative was being a house slave to an abusive family.</p>
<p>but we can all agree that being a slave for another person is not a good option. i feel similarly about humans working in fast-food service.</p>