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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do major competitors such as Burger King and McDonalds put their restaurants right next to each other?
gpt
It's a state of compromise that is reached between two competitors who try to corner the same market. Look at it this way, imagine a beach with a single ice cream vendor. It doesn't matter much where he stands as everyone on the beach has to go to him to get ice cream. Now a second vendor enters the fray. They start off by taking opposite sides of the beach, and each have access to about half the people on the beach. 

But if one of them wants to get increase his sales, he can move closer to the middle of the beach, which would make his stall stand closer to a larger amount of people, effectively giving him an edge over his competitor. When the other guy sees his, he'll move closer to the middle as well to negate that advantage. Now they could just keep moving around daily in an attempt to try and get an edge over the other, but eventually they'll both just end up settling on standing in the middle, giving them both the same amount of access to the clientele.