i would like a number three, with barbecue sauce on a silver platter please.

During lunch today, I made a fascinating observation. Food trays. Most fast food restaurants use them for orderly food distribution. Have you ever noticed how people react to the tray? I shall conduct this blog in case-study format so that you and I may further explore and understand.

Type A: The NaturalThis individual will carry their food from the counter to their table on the tray, and will continue to use the tray for the entire duration of their meal, consuming their chow from the tray.

Type B: The Conventionalist This individual will accept the tray at the counter but then discard of it upon reaching their table. (Type B will generally have a pattern of placement when relocating food from tray to table.)

Type C: Too Cool for SchoolAnd then of course, there are those individuals that do not acknowledge the tray at all. Type C consumers remove their food from the tray and walk it to the table in hand, leaving the tray to sit on the counter.

Type D: Mixed BagType D individuals use combinations of the types listed above. There is no rhyme or reason to their tray usage.What kind of user are you? Why do we do this? What does it mean about your personality?

Observations:Continuing my with my research during the lunch period I came to several note worthy observations. Majority of business men are type A. Military persons are type A. I am usually type A, likely because it releases my inner child, leading me to feel as if I am even now in the grade school cafeteria, as carefree ten year old. On occasion I will switch to type B, typically because of peer pressure. (Which I guess really makes me type D?) Homeless people are type C. Consumers that are type C tend to be snobby. (With exception of homeless people.) Those that are type B on occasion will take on traits of type C. Persons that are type D are hard to distinguish. Majority of subjects were type B.

Conclusion:I shall assume that there are subconscious, psycho-somatic reasons as to why we decide to use or not use provided food trays to their utmost potential. Just not quiet sure what all of this means. I will let you decide. But I hope that you will take the time to ask yourself one very important question, what kind of user are you?