In the fast food nation, throughput was all about increasing the speed of assembly, about doing things faster in order the make more. It’s basically about how much you can make how fast. Throughput is also about cheapness. Workers no longer require training to have a job in the fast food restaurant. All the cashiers have to do is press the buttons with the pictures of what the customer’s order and the computer shows how much the meal cost and the exact change they should get back. The workers don’t need to understand math or any type of skill to do this job. Putting the meals also doesn’t require any skill since everything is already done for you. The order in which you put the food together is already there so there is no memory required as well. Throughput is very successful because business runs smoothly and in order and they don’t need to burn a lot of money to do so.
I liked overall the way you described what throughput is. I felt that if you explained where the idea of throughput came from this blog post could of been even better. This could give a reader who is unfamilar with this concept more background information and a better understanding of the overall concept. In addition I would suggest working on your sentences better. It might help to read them over to yourself. I think once you make a few revisions this blog post would be even better.
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