Source: Why is the McRib Only Offered Occasionally and Why so Randomly?
Long read on the McRib, but good read about the economics. Also, this:
“Psychologists have studied reward schedules, and random rewards produce higher response rates. Steady, stable rewards deliver lower rates. For example, hourly pay results in less work than commissioned income, especially if the commissions arrive at uneven points in time.”
is relevant to QM’s “profit sharing” scheme… I always said the payout should be immediatley after the sale of a machine, not quartlery or semi-annualy. This would make more random, and would tie the reward to the effort just expended by the team on that machine.
