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<blockquote data-quote="Lokiare" data-source="post: 6258040" data-attributes="member: 83996"><p>I like my pizza analogy best:</p><p></p><p>A small Parlor started making cheese pizzas which sold extraordinarily well, mainly because no one in the area had heard of pizza and certainly had not had any food with MSGs (very addictive neurotoxins) in it. they expanded and grew and started making a few other kinds of pizzas: pepperoni, sausage, olives, bell peppers, and onions. Many peopled liked the variety, but many also wanted to combine the topings onto one pizza. Then the pizza parlor which had begun to grow large at this point decided they would do just that and consolidated all their pizzas into one pizza. This went over well everyone loved the pepperoni/sausage/olives/bell peppers/onions pizza and didn't complain if they had to pick one or two toppings off. In fact that was the tag line of the parlor "pick off what you don't want".</p><p>Then they started adding tons of new ingredients to the point that the pizza was no longer popular and anyone that made pizza got sued by them. Eventually their customers got tired of getting sued when they made a pizza at home and went elsewhere. </p><p>The parlor slowly dwindled until it was just about bankrupt and then luckily was bought up by a much larger restaurant whose main feature was pasta, but many of the owners remembers the pizza parlor fondly and wanted to keep their signature crazy pizza alive, but they knew they had to make some changes so they trimmed off a lot of the more controversial toppings and streamlined the recipe and it was a huge success, not even close to the pasta business but enough to hold its own for a little while, until the pasta restaurant was bought up by a chain of larger restaurants that owned many many different kinds of restaurants, then the profits on the pizza wasn't enough for the large chain and so the pasta restaurant had to try to reboot their pizza to make it better.</p><p> They listened to their audience and made the most meticulously designed pizza ever which was wildly popular like their previous pizza, but not quite as popular as the chain wanted. The chain then used its ownership powers to fire or drive off nearly everyone involved with the pizza recipes except for the new guy that had just started with the pizza before last. He knew a little bit about pizza, but didn't even understand what made the last pizza popular, yet he was tasked with making a pizza recipe that would satisfy all the customers that had ever had pizza by any restaurant.</p><p>To this end he tried starting with the first pizza and adding the ingredients of each succeeding pizza after it, only to find that some combinations simply would not work. What he ended up with was an unwieldy wildly different pizza each time it got cooked which only a few people like each time. So he started updating his resume all the while acting like he solved all the problems for the great unveiling, knowing full well that there is no way to satisfy everyone, especially if they have wildly different preferences. He knew when the curtain came up on his recipe that he would likely be out of a job like the last 4 or 5 cooks before him.</p><p></p><p>The moral of the story is "Make multiple pizza lines simultaneously to satisfy all people rather than trying to blandify one pizza for everyone."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lokiare, post: 6258040, member: 83996"] I like my pizza analogy best: A small Parlor started making cheese pizzas which sold extraordinarily well, mainly because no one in the area had heard of pizza and certainly had not had any food with MSGs (very addictive neurotoxins) in it. they expanded and grew and started making a few other kinds of pizzas: pepperoni, sausage, olives, bell peppers, and onions. Many peopled liked the variety, but many also wanted to combine the topings onto one pizza. Then the pizza parlor which had begun to grow large at this point decided they would do just that and consolidated all their pizzas into one pizza. This went over well everyone loved the pepperoni/sausage/olives/bell peppers/onions pizza and didn't complain if they had to pick one or two toppings off. In fact that was the tag line of the parlor "pick off what you don't want". Then they started adding tons of new ingredients to the point that the pizza was no longer popular and anyone that made pizza got sued by them. Eventually their customers got tired of getting sued when they made a pizza at home and went elsewhere. The parlor slowly dwindled until it was just about bankrupt and then luckily was bought up by a much larger restaurant whose main feature was pasta, but many of the owners remembers the pizza parlor fondly and wanted to keep their signature crazy pizza alive, but they knew they had to make some changes so they trimmed off a lot of the more controversial toppings and streamlined the recipe and it was a huge success, not even close to the pasta business but enough to hold its own for a little while, until the pasta restaurant was bought up by a chain of larger restaurants that owned many many different kinds of restaurants, then the profits on the pizza wasn't enough for the large chain and so the pasta restaurant had to try to reboot their pizza to make it better. They listened to their audience and made the most meticulously designed pizza ever which was wildly popular like their previous pizza, but not quite as popular as the chain wanted. The chain then used its ownership powers to fire or drive off nearly everyone involved with the pizza recipes except for the new guy that had just started with the pizza before last. He knew a little bit about pizza, but didn't even understand what made the last pizza popular, yet he was tasked with making a pizza recipe that would satisfy all the customers that had ever had pizza by any restaurant. To this end he tried starting with the first pizza and adding the ingredients of each succeeding pizza after it, only to find that some combinations simply would not work. What he ended up with was an unwieldy wildly different pizza each time it got cooked which only a few people like each time. So he started updating his resume all the while acting like he solved all the problems for the great unveiling, knowing full well that there is no way to satisfy everyone, especially if they have wildly different preferences. He knew when the curtain came up on his recipe that he would likely be out of a job like the last 4 or 5 cooks before him. The moral of the story is "Make multiple pizza lines simultaneously to satisfy all people rather than trying to blandify one pizza for everyone." [/QUOTE]
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