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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8999634" data-attributes="member: 6779310">McDonalds (and BK, Taco Bell, and a few others) have one strategy that makes each of them actually quite hard to be better than... consistency.  When I go to McDonalds in Oregon, the food tastes almost identical to the Soldotna, AK, McDonalds, and the one in Tampa, FL, and the one in the SEA-TAC airport, and the one in Portland International airport....Likewise, every Burger King is almost flavor identical in main items across the same range. Taco Bell, likewise. And, much to my chagrin, Burgerville is the same "not for me" in Corvallis, Salem, Portland, and Albany, Oregon...Jack in the Box lacks that consistency. Arby's comes close to it. Pizza Hut was sorely lacking it before pandemic; some stores weren't even consistent across shifts.And Anchorage's own Artic Roadrunner had consistency on the sandwiches between the two locations, but not the sides.McDonalds thrives on conformity to the corporate standards... the apparent diversity is an illusion; the different uniforms simply serve to hide that McDonalds franchisees have very, very, little allowance to customize on any level below national.D&D serves much the same role in the gaming environment, but doesn't get to the level of consistency across locations. Seasons 1-4 of D&D AL for 5E were structured to attempt to get a more uniformity of play, mostly by restricting allowed rules, and using canned modules. And, Largely, it did reduce the variability a bit...</blockquote>

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