Could A Space Mcdonalds Exist?

[Spacescifi]

Imagine if you will a fastfood company that has conquered so much of Earth that they want to expand their empire into space.

Basically... space habitats at la grange points and also moon bases and LEO stations.

Provided space traffic was good enough via constant acceleration thermal antimatter rockets, could a ruthless fastfood company conquer space?

For example, the founder of mcdonalds drove the original creators of the restaurant out of business by building a mcdonalds right next to the original but renamed restaurant.

 

Could all these shenanigans still happen? Since that implies a supply chain like no other, since last I checked, no cows are on the moon.

Edited November 14, 2019 by Spacescifi
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[cubinator]

Bioreactors and bioprinting, in a time when space is that accessible, could bring cow meat to space, without growing any whole cows. An interplanetary capitalistic empire with one or a few leading megacorporations could arise, moon burgers and all.

The people on the stations and moon bases will need food anyway, they will already have the infrastructure in place for farming at least some kind of food.

[Spacescifi]

13 minutes ago, cubinator said:

Bioreactors and bioprinting, in a time when space is that accessible, could bring cow meat to space, without growing any whole cows. An interplanetary capitalistic empire with one or a few leading megacorporations could arise, moon burgers and all.

The people on the stations and moon bases will need food anyway, they will already have the infrastructure in place for farming at least some kind of food.

 

I think advertisements would be far more important, as would couriers.

The supply chain is space traffic, and if you REALLY want to bury the competition then you must divert as much space traffic to your space food empire as possible.

How? Several ways.

1. Stronger broadcast signals.

2. Pay courier vessels to intercept and dock with cruiser liners on their way to the competition. For that matter, you could intercept them with entire fleets of fastfood ships.

They would not run out of food quickly that way.

 

[Superfluous J]

Of course it could. Any sufficiently advanced civilization will put fast food and greasy spoons everywhere they possibly can.

[Mr. Peabody]

I hope you can forgive this interruption. I couldn't help myself.

[kerbiloid]

They will need cubic pigs cows.

Spoiler

 

 

Edited November 14, 2019 by kerbiloid

[DDE]

10 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

Provided space traffic was good enough via constant acceleration thermal antimatter rockets,

I think you neglect a much simpler possibility: embed the McDonalds Ark Ship with the convoys departing during Hohmann transfer windows.

Lots of bored colonists right there, tired of their meagre ECLSS rations.

[Guest]

Not only possible, but certain. Anywhere we go, business will follow. Colonists will want it, and where there's sufficient demand, there will soon be supply. If there's money to be made, corporations will be there, and the biggest ones will likely come first, since going to space is a significant investment.

[Wjolcz]

What kind of Red Dwarf novel are you writing?

[kerbiloid]

It's also important to produce the meat and the bread parts of a marsburger out of different species of algae.

1 hour ago, DDE said:

Lots of bored colonists right there, tired of their meagre ECLSS rations.

And their reaction will be the same like in that case: "Nothing special".
(Like if a fastfood could be something special.)

_{I was in Moscow in that times, but still have never been to MD or KFC, while seeing them daily from bus.}

Edited November 14, 2019 by kerbiloid

[wumpus]

One thing to remember before talking about "space McDonalds" is that McDonalds has always been a real estate company with a side business of selling hamburgers on said real estate.  I'm not sure what real estate in space they intend to monopolize.

[StrandedonEarth]

I dunno, McRoids just sounds wrong somehow...

[Spacescifi]

19 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

They will need cubic pigs cows.

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I really like the spaceship in the video. It is highly accurate of what a space freighter coukd look like... with cargo on the exterior.

I will base some of my scifi freighters on the design, just rounding off the crew modules more, as well as the cargo pods to be mire cylindral.

1 hour ago, wumpus said:

One thing to remember before talking about "space McDonalds" is that McDonalds has always been a real estate company with a side business of selling hamburgers on said real estate.  I'm not sure what real estate in space they intend to monopolize.

 

The Moon... should be more profitable than Mars for a long time coming... especially after we get a rail to orbit launching facility operational.

13 hours ago, Wjolcz said:

What kind of Red Dwarf novel are you writing?

 

Yes? The kind without humans, but with enough humanoid aliens to sub for them while still behaving differently in fundamental ways.

Edited November 15, 2019 by Spacescifi

[kerbiloid]

4 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

I really like the spaceship in the video. It is highly accurate of what a space freighter coukd look like... with cargo on the exterior.

There's more in the full movie, with chutes. The diner room is also shown.

Edited November 15, 2019 by kerbiloid

[DDE]

On 11/14/2019 at 8:51 AM, kerbiloid said:

They will need cubic pigs cows.

We're getting there.

[linuxgurugamer]

12 hours ago, wumpus said:

One thing to remember before talking about "space McDonalds" is that McDonalds has always been a real estate company with a side business of selling hamburgers on said real estate.  I'm not sure what real estate in space they intend to monopolize.

Not many people know that.

consider in the far future, that the real estate is considered to be volume  at a specific location in a space station

[kerbiloid]

I believed they are a circus, they have a clown.
And toilets.

The food, too.

Edited November 15, 2019 by kerbiloid

[razark]

29 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

I believed they are a circus, they have a clown.
And toilets.

The food, too.

Food?

When did they start that?

[kerbiloid]

1 hour ago, razark said:

Food?

When did they start that?

Don't you read the posters on facade? They promise, they have.

[G'th]

I mean sure. The food will taste the same anyway. 

[kerbiloid]

9 hours ago, G'th said:

I mean sure. The food will taste the same anyway. 

In zero-G they need much stronger species, as the sense of taste gets weaker.

So, they can eat hot peppers in ketchup like salad.

[RCgothic]

Actually, NASA doesn't know why *some people* experience taste differently in space. Some don't notice a difference at all, and afaik there's no supposed biological mechanism that would make food taste different in the long term (stuffy "space head" doesn't tend to last that long).

It could just be that foods have been prepackaged for a long time before consumption.

Or it could be that food scents just have to compete in an extremely odorous environment, and a larger living area with better air conditioning would solve the problem.

We haven't ruled out all the non-biological factors, basically.