Meh. Unless you personally own a franchise, or work for corporate, this is pure conjecture.
The article did mention if a failed node is detected, a next-day restore 'disk' is delivered to the store, so obviously that is faster/more reliable than random ISP.
Not conjecture at all. Two jobs ago I worked in a real estate adjacent field, and there were repeatedly articles in the trades about this. CFA and Apple are two at the top of real estate developer “want” lists, along with Urban Outfitters, Starbucks and a few others.
It’s why when architecture firms render new commercial buildings the fake logos often look like those brands. It looks much better in financing presentations and when you’re trying to attract other tenants.
Some agents even Photoshop Apple and CFA logos onto buildings in their private (and sometimes public) presentations to make the projects look more attractive.
Just because you’ve never worked in this space doesn’t make it conjecture.
Im not 100% sure its all of them (malls and airports come to mind) but yes its a vast majority.
True I didn't consider the cable investment either. Normally the landlord pays for this but I imagine chickfila probably pays for part of the bill. That I dont know though
For an ISP, if it requires a costly outside plant build to reach a premises for a business circuit, it will usually be rolled into some combination of an upfront connection fee (NRC) and monthly rate (MRC) to recoup the costs and have some positive ROI over a 3 to 5 year term. If it's something like a multi tenant office building they may gamble and take a calculated risk to lose money on the first customer over 5 years (example: $800 NRC and $500 MRC that comes nowhere near xoveinft the cost of the build), with a new expensive fiber build, and hope the sales team can sign up more tenants ASAP.
When a McDonald’s is located on a pad in a Target parking lot, the McDonald’s franchisee doesn’t own that land. It belongs to the owner of the strip mall.
Ditto for the tens of thousands of McDonald’s restaurants located in office buildings, malls, airports, and inside other stores like Wal-marts.
It’s not the 70’s anymore. The standalone McDonald’s is far from a majority of the outlets these days.
The article did mention if a failed node is detected, a next-day restore 'disk' is delivered to the store, so obviously that is faster/more reliable than random ISP.