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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

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Post by bonestamp2 »

SoftTalker wrote: post #5

All of this was unnecessary on the old ice cream machines. The downside was they had to be cleaned and sanitized every night and that meant you needed one more person on the closing team. It was all about saving labor costs.

Agreed, and with these new machines, they should have two of them (for several reasons). I worked there for a couple years in high school and summertime was just order after order of ice cream. The lost profit from the only machine being broken, or during it's downtime to chill the soft serve liquid after a refill, would pay back the investment in one summer, not to mention the customer service improvement.

The ad campaign for resolving this problem writes itself too. It's easily worth it. Worst case scenario, put the second machine where the pizza oven used to be.

Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

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Post by wombatpm »

lisper wrote: post #138
wwweston wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Certainly blew the mind of the people writing the techdirt article if the opening paragraph is any indication: "Well here’s a surprise for you / This is… flabbergasting." It's almost like they thought they had good reasons to expect something else from TFG's adminstration. Why were the results different? DOJ composition running up through 2018 was pretty strongly influenced by a decade of liberal-leaning but cross-pa…

> TFG's adminstration Huh? Did you mean DJT?

TFG = The Former Guy = Trump

Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

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Post by roastedpeacock »

delroth wrote: post #105
bebrbrhrj wrote: post #54

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Is it trite to ask if this is blocking free speech?

This has recently been challenged in courts and rejected: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/federal-appeals-court-... > Integral to the Court’s decision was the conclusion that Section 1201’s ban on circumvention of access restrictions is a regulation of “conduct” rather than “speech.”

Anyone know if EFF is going to attempt further appeals?

Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

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Post by fhub »

Aloisius wrote: post #29
recursive wrote: post #13

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It's also all about Taylor's exclusivity on repairing the machines.

Eh. Taylor doesn't fix the machines. You actually get a contract with an independent certified technician - quite often provided through the reseller who sold the machine.

25% of Taylor's revenue (at least 3 years ago) were parts and repair services. source - https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4?si=n_L87Fx3VWeEz9Xz&t=1261

Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

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Post by SoftTalker »

bobsmooth wrote: post #127
SoftTalker wrote: post #5

All of this was unnecessary on the old ice cream machines. The downside was they had to be cleaned and sanitized every night and that meant you needed one more person on the closing team. It was all about saving labor costs.

And that you trust this person to clean the machine properly lest many people get food poisoning.

True, though it was not complicated. Just took a person about 45 minutes. That was to do the milkshake and the soft serve machine. Did it many, many times when I worked there.

Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

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Post by Jailbird »

jabroni_salad wrote: post #118
listenallyall wrote: post #113

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I'd suggest the quality of McDonald's ingredients is superior than the vast majority of restaurants that rely on Sysco or US Foods. Just my opinion, I know it's not going to convince anyone whose mind is already made up about McDonald's.

aww man dont tell people about sysco. Once you learn to spot unmodified sysco foods it's impossible to stop and the illusion of sitdown restaurants is tarnished forever.

What are good places to start down this rabbit hole? (for those willing to have their illusions tarnished? )

Re: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

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Post by SoftTalker »

rjbwork wrote: post #126
TheRealPomax wrote: post #117

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Not if they don't now fix their machines, no. Then it's just "despite now being legal, McDonalds still refuses to fix their machine". Because remember: McDonalds is make of so much money that they could have trivially forced this though literal decades ago if they'd actually cared. Which they didn't. They could have even flat out bought the company that makes their machines. They didn't.

I thought it was intentional because the people that control McDonalds corporate also have shares in the ice cream machine vendor and use it as an additional vector to squeeze franchisees for their own enrichment?

McDonald's Corporate dictates every piece of equipment in the kitchen, from the spatulas to the fryers to the grills to the soft-serve machines. The franchisees have very little choice in any of it. It all must be from the approved list of vendors and models.
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