A somewhat odd day. That’s the only way to describe it. I mean, counting customers at a McDonald’s and Burger King in China? Yeah, strange-sounding. Anyways, Irene and I were assigned McDonald’s while Jane and Christian went to Burger King and it was chaos. We got there around ten minutes early to give ourselves enough time to order food and find a seat. The line was not only enormous, there were also no seats. We almost didn’t get a seat by noon, our designated start time.

Coincidentally, when we started counting, the foot traffic started getting more intense. We could barely keep up with the people walking in and since we weren’t just counting, but also taking down demographic information, we were writing like mad men. For 45 minutes, we were writing and writing and I’m glad the last 15 minutes were relatively calm. We ended up with about 340 people in an hour. I-N-S-A-N-E. Treated myself to a funky tasting ice cream cone topped with honeydew melon syrup afterward.

Got home and compiled the data and actually did some work. For dinner, Joe and I ordered from Hello Pizza, which sells personal pan pizzas. I got a classic pepperoni pizza with extra cheese and for only 22 RMB, it was good and filling.