Sound Ledger: Fast Food and Podcasts

100: Number of McDonald’s locations that had a (now canceled) AI ordering system for drive-through customers.

6: Hours per weekday when take-out orders are prohibited in parts of Milan to decrease noise pollution.

200,000: Estimated average cost of production, in $U.S, for an eight-to-ten–episode podcast.

Sources: McDonald’s: qz.com; Milan: msn.com; podcast: bloomberg.com.