[freeeee]

From a tax basis, food preparation is considered manufacturing.

Well, there you have it people. The IRS tax code is the authoritative guide to common sense. How lucky we are to have them!

[Solson]

Assembling hamburgers is still assembly...mass assembly in the case of a fast food chain. So, it is manufacturing.

Common sense is maintaining consistent definitions. Why you would somehow intimate this isn't "common sense" is really without merit.

The change is a technical decision. Thus, maintaining consistency between government agencies and their classifications is common sense...even if it is the IRS

[DannyTN]

Now that fast food has been determined to be manufacturing, can we outsource it?