[ROCKLOBSTER]

And I don’t see a problem with that.

[Scoutmaster]

I didn't say that using previously cooked hamburger patties to make chili was a problem. I was replying to posters who said they doubted the Wendy's chili story.

The case study to which I referred didn't present the hamburger patty/chili as a negative. Instead, it showed how a 'fast-foot' restaurant chain could stake out a niche of serving freshly cooked hamburgers based on a system of estimation, and how the restaurant chain took what would have been loss from that system of estimation (excess patties from over-estimation) into a positive: chili, with a simplified recipe calculated from those estimated patties.