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Improve the ordering procedure at fast food              Editor’s note:
                       restaurants, drive-thrus and other service centres       The Big Idea Book
                       where the average IQ of the customer is likely to be     partners Chas
                       equal to, or greater than, that of the staff, by offeringBayfield and Rupert
                       the customer their own keypad and access to the          Kaye have both
                       onscreen system. Customers could make and confirm        worked for McDonalds
                                                                                – Rupert as a
415their own selections while staff would be freed up to                        restaurant manager.
                                                                                Both tried to quash
                                                                                this idea on the

concentrate on preparing food, cleaning and smiling.                            grounds that it was

T B Prickett                                                                    unfair to belittle the
29 December 2002                                                                mental prowess of
                                                                                such employees. Of

                                                      course, they lacked

                                                                                the intellectual rigour
                                                                                to win the ensuing
                                                                                argument.
                       Publish a book of begging letters. Members of the public
                       would be invited to submit their pleas in the most30 December 2002
                       eloquent terms and the most dramatic/amusing would
                       be published. The authors would waive any royalty from
                       sales of the book but would be given a PO Box number at
                       which they may or may not receive handouts.

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