Posted on 07/05/2021 8:50:09 AM PDT by grundle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
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Ford and Chrysler have the same policy regarding their vehicles.
Bottle return machines too- they are constantly breaking down
McDonalds is all about efficiency - the more burgers the franchisee sells, the more MCD corporate makes. If workers are spending time screwing around with malfunctioning machinery, that’s less time they can be selling other items.
Also, in many markets, MCD runs their own stores. They would be shooting themselves in the foot.
Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
Actually, what he said was they make maintenance nearly impossible for the layman by using cryptic error messages. Simple messages like “empty the contents” is encoded as something like E5 Z23. Some guy was selling decoder rings, on a cell phone app, and they threatened to sue. They also said that if any franchise owner gets an error message and attempts to clear it themselves, it will void the warranty. And the MacDonald’s franchise contract requires franchisees to all use the same machine, so they cannot escape.
The guy makes a very plausible presentation.
“Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
In America of today it is both malice and stupidity.
Is the Hamburglar a suspect in this conspiracy?
Never really trusted him.
Was early in compliance with the masks, though.
I think almost all equipment does that these days. Ovens, tankless water heaters, dishwashers, you name it.
It’s called ‘Planned Obsolescence’ and has been standard practice in the USA for at least 30 years. The rule when I was in manufacturing Engineering was “Make it last long enough and work well enough that the customers gives it good ratings and replaces it with same when it ‘wears out’”.
The guys point is that MacDonalds competitors do not have that problem. It is unique to MacDonalds.
I’ll admit I didn’t watch the video. But a half century ago I worked at a burger place with a soft-serve ice cream machine. Every night we had to empty the machine and throughly clean it. I don’t mean wipe it down, it had to be sterilized, milk products being a perfect place for germ growth. It was the first place that health inspectors looked at.
It could be the time and effort required to keep the machine up to health standards isn’t worth it to a local franchisee.
H’s Razor Sharpened: “always attribute to malicious stupidity that which is posited by Democrats as woke or progressive.
McDonald’s is a real estate corporation that sells burgers.
The ice cream machine always being broken is way down on the list of reasons why I refuse to spend my money there....at the top of the list is minority employees with raging bad attitudes.
That, and most of their food is redicoulously unhealthy.
It sounds more like a training error and the franchisee and employees need to know how full the hopper needs to be for the cleaning cycle.
I use 3 simple factors to determine if the ice cream machine is going to work at a given McDonald's: Age of employees, color of employees, and location (high crime vs low crime area).
A McD's mainly staffed with older, white employees and located in a nice area will most likely have working cream and milkshake machines.
Change these factors, and you reduce your chances.
I used to really like McDonald's vanilla milkshakes, and used those three factors to determine where and where not to go. My method was rock solid.
And the purpose of the lawsuit was so mcdonalds could sell their own decoder ring instead. Except they intentionally made theirs useless.
Last 21 years with Fords. Rode hard, put away wet. No problems Except for failed fuel pump at 10 years age.
Now that the stores are always open, there's no time to close down the machine, clean it, replace worn and broken parts, and have it going by lunch.
Couple that with apathetic, semi-competent McDonalds workers and management, it makes for broken ice cream machines. *
*- Major exception to all this is the McDonalds in Burleson, Texas. The service there reminds me of a Chik-Fil-A. They do a great job at taking orders, moving the line, and getting your order correct. Oh, and their Ice Cream machine is almost always operating.
This is like a mechanic or body shop that dumps motor oil on a nearby freeway off-ramp so that they can get work from all the accidents.
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