> I started wondering why something as simple and important as food was still so inefficient, given how streamlined and optimised other modern things are.

Things must be really different in Atlanta....

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Downvotes? Really? On a site presumably full of hackers, you are gonna tell me "modern things" are really streamlined and efficient? Software for the most part isn't. Cars aren't. Houses, apartments, restaurants, workplaces, none of it is. Come on. It's a pretty absurd statement.