More pish posh. Most food isnt grown where the branch is so it is shipped by air, rail and truck. If Walmart can have stores in Mexico and McDonalds can have stores in Panama then the logistics have been covered. In fact there is a British chain called Chicken Cottage that has stores in the Middle East and parts of Asia. So it can be done functionally.
The Thermoquad Cowboy
I never said the logistics aren't covered or cannot be done. Au Contraire.
I said they are not employed.
Big difference.
That's a management decision and may have proven costly. Shipping containers by air is prohibitively expensive, even if broken down by unit. Shipping by water takes longer and is more complex. Then storage of large quantities is an issue.
Like I said: JIT is not possible to the DR, and JIT is what many low-margin restaurant chains depend on. For JIT to work in the DR, warehousing and local distribution is critical, and large stores of product required.
We are talking breakfast ingredients to a low-margin chain restaurant, not lobsters to a bourgeoise eatery where price is rarely questioned.
Again: tell me of your restaurant ownership experience.
