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We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
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Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the last sentence. If the machines are frequently broken, that damages the Macdonald's brand in the consumer's eyes. And if the franchisee's are paying unnecessary costs, making a Macdonald's franchise less lucrative for the owner-operator, that will lead to fewer franchises renewals and new franchises in the future.
Been a while since I first watched the video. I would imagine the ice cream machines are a relatively small part of the McDonald's business. As evidenced by the fact that McDonalds ice cream has been an issue for quite a while. I would imagine franchises of a similar caliber to McD's also exploit their owner-operators on a similar scale because they can, we just don't necessarily hear about it because McDonalds is th…
The days of cheap McDonald’s is long gone. I can get a meal served at a sit down cafe for about the same price now days.
Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
#53Here's a great YT video on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken: https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4 TL;DW: there are some perverse incentives to keep them broken. Basically the owner operators are forced to use a particular brand by corporate. Corporate McDonalds has a deal with a particular ice cream machine company. That particular company is the only company owner operators are allowed to buy from, and th…
> Here's a great YT video on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken: https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4?si=IK1S-Yx9Zq4nEVrr As habit or policy, can we all agree to get rid of the tracking information in Youtube links? * https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4
Similarly Instagram started adding tracking querystrings (igshid or something like that), and for a good few weeks any Instagram link with it was completely broken for me (few loops, errors, and throwing me to the home page), I had to manually remove that part of the url.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
So don't sell. Open an account on GitHub and post the procedure there
from the article: > The ruling doesn’t change the underlying statute making it illegal to share or sell tools that bypass software locks. I think this also includes sharing code.
Is it trite to ask if this is blocking free speech?
Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines
#55Here's a great YT video on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken: https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4 TL;DW: there are some perverse incentives to keep them broken. Basically the owner operators are forced to use a particular brand by corporate. Corporate McDonalds has a deal with a particular ice cream machine company. That particular company is the only company owner operators are allowed to buy from, and th…
Well that or they have the option to buy the real Italian machine not the Taylor piece of crap. It’s just super expensive and comes from Italy
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#5615%?!
Is this a uniquely American thing because I can’t remember ever having a “sorry our machine is down” in Ontario.
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#59I've heard plenty of stories about the MCD ice cream machines, but it doesn't add up for me. Can someone who has more insight shed some light into this? - Are the machines listed as "broken" on https://mcbroken.com/ actually broken? Or is that more of a meme, with many just undergoing routine cleaning, etc.? - Why does this seemingly happen only in US? In European McDonald's it's pretty much unheard of. - Why would M…
The short version is that the machines' sensors are extremely picky (because the stuff that goes into soft serve is just begging for massive bacterial growth if not handled correctly), and McDonald's corporate requires (I'm pretty sure by franchisee contract, not just by the copyright restrictions the article is about) that their specific chosen vendor handles it, even for minor issues. A lot of people like to treat…
I suspect its a probably a combination of abundance of caution based on past bad experiences/lawsuits as well as also being good for margins:
The Surprising Reasons Soft-Serve Ice Cream Can Be Dangerous To Eat
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/surprising-reasons-soft-serv...
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7149927
From 2005:
More than 120 people were sickened after eating ice cream at their local McDonald's. The health department says the restaurant's dairy mixture somehow was contaminated with staphylococcus, and a mechanical malfunction in the soft serve machine allowed the bacteria to grow. So many people became so ill, so quickly, the director of the local emergency room told me he at first thought there was some kind of bioterrorism incident in the town.... Nancy Smith says she had taken her grandchildren for an outing, and stopped at McDonald's to buy them a treat. Her grandson Darien had a milkshake, and she says he was violently ill an hour later. He became limp and listless, Smith says, and they rushed him to the hospital, scared to death. Then she got sick. She says she had just three sips of Darien's shake, but it was enough to make her very ill. She told us she was vomiting so violently, she thought she was going to have a heart attack. She's now suing McDonald's, as are many of the other people who got sick in that incident.
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#60I wish we would just repeal the DMCA. Under no circumstances should we need an exemption from the copyright office just to be able to repair an ice cream machine. It's not even a permanent exemption! The DMCA causes many weird problems.
Do you think people should face consequences for piracy? If not, should DRM be legal then?