Posted on 09/04/2021 8:43:31 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has carried out an inquiry into the Mcdonald’s broken ice cream machines. The inquiry seeks to discover if Taylor Commercial Foodservice LLC, the manufacturer of the machines, has engaged in practices that hinder McDonald’s owners’ abilities to fix machines themselves or seek repairs from a third party.
The Wall Street Journal and Dailywire have reported that the ice cream machines require a great deal of maintenance, which includes an “automated heat-cleaning cycle that can last up to four hours to destroy bacteria” on a nightly basis. According to owners, in the instance that a cleaning cycle fails, the machine requires maintenance from a repair technician before the franchise can again serve ice cream.
M. Khan the FTC chair expressed her concerns regarding repair limitations.
These types of restrictions can significantly raise costs for consumers, stifle innovation, close off business opportunity for independent repair shops, create unnecessary electronic waste, delay timely repairs, and undermine resiliency. The FTC has a range of tools it can use to root out unlawful repair restrictions, and today’s policy statement would commit us to move forward on this issue with new vigor.
In a statement, McDonald’s aimed to cool down any buzz regarding a potential FTC inquiry. “Nothing is more important to us than delivering on our high standards for food quality and safety, which is why we work with fully vetted partners that can reliably provide safe solutions at scale.”
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More likely short of help...
Not surprising, considering how much ice cream The Demented One appears to consume.
Why would anyone consume that goo? It is a blessing the machines are broken.
Dumbing down of American workers...
These machines suddenly got harder to fix?
lol.
If only they would hunt down the ones who attacked and killed 13 American soldiers with the energy and zeal they have for going after businesses.
Dumbing down of American voters. Far too many will find this more important than other issues.
McD’s dog has got to be the worst...
In point of fact Wendy’s has the same machines. Their staff clean the machines in 15 minutes at the end of the day, according to a recent report.
Is this because all the Afgans he is bringing in like ice cream?
If only they’d close the southern border, and track down the tens of thousands of islamist/muslim(SPIT!) terrorists already here...
According to a recent poll, here are the top three concerns of Americans:
1. The debacle in Afghanistan
2. Inflation
3. Ice cream machines
It’s good to see that Biden is addressing at least one of those concerns.
There are numerous sources for this fiasco. The franchises HAVE to use a certain brand ice cream dispenser which is prone to breakage unless careful and complicated (More than two steps) process is used to service it each night. WHEN it breaks down the franchise owner has to use the very expensive service tech. There are numerous workarounds to avoid all of this and it is all forbidden by McDonalds. it’s a legal shakedown. Totally avoidable and unnecessary.
Good show. I guess the majority of Americans have been worried about this.
This is an unusual story. While soft ice cream has been around since the mid-1930s....it didn’t really take off as a big deal until the mid-1990s. It’s a more complicated machine/process.
When you do find a shop (not just McDonalds) where the machines functions as advertised....it’s mostly because they do nightly clean-up and maintenance, with some guy who is familiar with the machine.
You would think that McDonalds would find another process of making the stuff because it is one of their top menu items in the summer period.
Finally something suited to the investigative talents of Mueller, Barr and Durham.
Two or three years of work and they will have a report which can be held for a few more months.
Shake Shakeup Coming ——Drudge Report soon.
Yes, the workers aren’t trained to keep the ice cream mix below the max fill level, but ultimately it’s the machines. Deliberately designed to trigger service calls. McDs doesn’t allow alternate machines like the ones at Wendy’s that never seem to have the same problems.
25% (!!!) of annual revenue for the machine manufacturer comes from service and maintenance calls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
As if that’s our biggest problem
Go to DQ. Burgers are better and the ice cream is always available
35 years ago I did a stint at a Burger King where we took down the shake machine every night, cleaned and sanitized it by hand, and I never recall the thing breaking down. What’s so hard about that?
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