Posted on 09/02/2021 4:48:46 PM PDT by grundle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
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A thirty minute video about broken ice cream machines. Really? You have too much time on your hands for such inane drivel.
McDonalds has Ice Cream ?
Yea, this definately belongs posted on the News/Activism thread.......az.
I used to love their milkshakes, but the last 3 or 4 times I’ve tried to order them...yes indeed the machine is down.
Strange.
What about Burger King’s?
I can save you some time. Blue collar jobs went to china. Now we have a lack of people who can use a screwdriver or wrench. Now we’re supposed to “Learn to Code” so that some guy from India can take our job when we start making too much money at it.
Why do you only post articles, and never reply?
just curious...
The machines are complicated, have to be disassembled to clean and people arent really trained how to put them back together. And the company charges an arm and a leg to send out a rep. And he’s busy at another McDonald’s doing a 3 hour job a nightshifter was supposed to do right last night.
30 minute video....
I think he took some time to edit the original 92 minute version. I feel like it’s so rushed, now, though.
Kidding. I felt this way about a woman who posted a video of a front view car camera story of her trip to work over the shamefully bad potholes near my neighborhood. I didn’t watch but a poster said “I’ll never have that time back in my life that I lost by watching it.” I had better things to do like sorting canned goods in the cupboards by date or ironing all my underwear. Important stuff.
—”McDonalds has Ice Cream ?”
No cream is listed on the menu.
Something called soft serve?
“McDonald’s vanilla shake is made with our creamy vanilla soft serve and topped with whipped topping for a cool, tasty treat. Available in small, medium, and large. There are 510 calories in a small vanilla shake at McDonald’s.”
I do reply sometimes, but not always.
It says the machines are deliberately defective because the real way they make money isn’t from ice cream - it’s from overcharging for repairs.
Burger King’s machines always work. Only McDonald’s has this problem.
It’s a strange story for sure.
The bottom line is that McDonald's requires its franchisees to only buy a specific model of ice cream machine from one certain company, and that company makes a lot of money servicing "broken" machines. This same company makes nearly identical machines for Wendy's, Burger King, etc., but those machines don't break down nearly as much because those companies allow their franchisees to buy any machine that meets specs, so there is incentive to provide a reliable machine.
The McDonald's machines have unique software that shuts down the ice cream maker if even the slightest variation in a temperature or motor torque parameter is violated, and throws extremely cryptic error codes that the franchisees do not have the maintenance manual need to decode and reset themselves, so they are forced to call "the guy" to fix the machine, and the company makes millions on the service calls.
I don’t get a shake very often, but one night after work I had a taste for one and the voice from the drive-thru box told me, “We ain’t got no chakes”. I went across the street to BK.
Rd later.
Basically McDonalds signed a deal with a milkshake machine maker giving them the authority to screw franchise owners every day, forever.
Thanks for posting - I didn’t have time to watch
Horse hockey. The Burger King by my place has soft serve available one in every ten trips I take there, the rest of the time the machine is down. Meanwhile, the Rotten Ronnie’s 1/4 mile up the road has their machine up 90% of the time.
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