Patenting making a sandwich?

[tino27]

Apparently McDonald's feels that assembling hot and cold sandwiches is novel enough to warrant a US (and European) patent. Make sure to check out the most helpful flowchart diagram on the following page.

How to make a sandwich

Edited November 25, 2008 by tino27 (log)

[slkinsey]

To be clear, this a patent application for automated, by-machine sandwich making.