• ShaunaTheDead
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    By the way, the reason the McDonald’s ice cream machine is always down is because one company essentially provides all of the machines. As a result, they control the maintenance of it by having vague error codes and not providing a proper manual so that McDonald’s employees wind up having to call their technicians to come and service it. Either that or the employees try running it through a clean cycle to try to fix the error which takes FOUR HOURS to complete and can’t be interrupted.

    Article with more details here: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/the-real-reason-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-are-always-broken/

    • @[email protected]
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      1227 days ago

      They are also in cahoots with McDonalds corporate so all the small franchise owners get screwed while corporate gets the money in this deal.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        25 days ago

        That was a really good read, thanks for sharing it.

        From the article…

        The machine’s parts include no fewer than two dozen rubber and plastic O-rings of different sizes. Leave a single one out, and the pump can fail or liquid ingredients can leak out of the machine.

        “Fucking O-rings!” /shakesfistinair
        – Space Shuttle Engineer

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      526 days ago

      I believe one of the major investors for McDonald’s is also a major investor for the company who makes the machines.

    • @RampantParanoia2365
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      Meanwhile, I don’t think I’ve ever ordered a Frosty and been denied.

  • @[email protected]
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    627 days ago

    It’s actually a ritual McDonalds does whenever one of the regulars dies, some places even lay wreaths st the base of the flagpole.