At McDonald's, customers will spend on average 3 minutes and 9 seconds from the time they place their orders until they receive their food.

It depends on how much work we've got and how many other orders there are to send out, you know.

Of course, consumers also want their orders prepared correctly and on that score, Oches says, accuracy is still really high.

The law orders us to pay taxes.

On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts.

A spokesman for the management said that they'd hope they could now get back to producing cars, and that they lost lot of money and orders over this dispute.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up" double-digit" increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.