But then again it's highly likely that what they do is not bandwidth intensive and will work fine on a 5Mbps x 1.25 Mbps DSL connection.
At this point, I don't think it's a problem for CFA.
CFA doesn't try to go into every little town in the nation like McDonald's. It's expansion is very deliberate and only seems to go into very high value locations, where internet presumably isn't a problem.
Moreover, landlords fall all over themselves to land a Chick-fil-a. Almost as much as they do to get an Apple Store. A landlord will make business-grade internet happen, if it means getting a CFA.
The article did mention if a failed node is detected, a next-day restore 'disk' is delivered to the store, so obviously that is faster/more reliable than random ISP.
It’s why when architecture firms render new commercial buildings the fake logos often look like those brands. It looks much better in financing presentations and when you’re trying to attract other tenants.
Some agents even Photoshop Apple and CFA logos onto buildings in their private (and sometimes public) presentations to make the projects look more attractive.
Just because you’ve never worked in this space doesn’t make it conjecture.
Also, McDonald's corporate owns all their real estate, franchisees, too.
True I didn't consider the cable investment either. Normally the landlord pays for this but I imagine chickfila probably pays for part of the bill. That I dont know though
When a McDonald’s is located on a pad in a Target parking lot, the McDonald’s franchisee doesn’t own that land. It belongs to the owner of the strip mall.
Ditto for the tens of thousands of McDonald’s restaurants located in office buildings, malls, airports, and inside other stores like Wal-marts.
It’s not the 70’s anymore. The standalone McDonald’s is far from a majority of the outlets these days.
You could easily do that on dial-up.