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Title: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: rangerrebew on March 22, 2024, 04:10:59 pm
NEWS ANALYSIS Mar 16, 2024
Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
The Biden administration is set to crack down on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken.
 

Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
 
Hayden Cunningham
Mar 16, 2024
 

The Biden administration has decided to focus its attention on addressing one of the biggest problems facing our country: broken McDonald’s ice cream machines.


For both loyal McDonald's customers and social media users, it's no secret that encountering an "out of order" ice cream machine has become a running joke and meme. It is not uncommon for customers to wait in the McDonald’s drive-thru for an ice cream cone, only to find that the location’s machine is broken.

This frustration stems largely from the fact that McDonald's employs ice cream machines from a specific manufacturer that requires only their technicians to have authorization to perform repairs. Consequently, when a machine breaks down, locations are left grappling with long wait times as they are forced to be added to a lengthy repair queue.

 https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-admin-tackles-tough-problem-of-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-repairs?utm_campaign=64487#google_vignette
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: mountaineer on March 22, 2024, 05:12:11 pm
This is what happens when a bunch of Gen Zers are actually running things in this freakin' freakshow administration.
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: Wingnut on March 22, 2024, 05:59:41 pm
Time to pass a "Right To Repair" law for Ice Cream machines.
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: roamer_1 on March 22, 2024, 07:59:55 pm
Well sorta. I've fixed those machines on the QT. The manager just paid me cash.

Mostly they suck to clean. 9 times out of ten, that's all it is. The rest of the time the motor blew because of the first reason.

It ain't that the managers can't fix em. It's that they don't want to pay out of pocket and go around the service agreement.
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 22, 2024, 10:36:11 pm
Time to pass a "Right To Repair" law for Ice Cream machines.
Like John Deere agricultural equipment?

Yeah, it got bad when there was a software or other problem, because guys in the middle of planting had to stop and wait (sometimes weeks) for a factory tech. That started to cost them sales real quick, even among hardcore John Deere guys. That's been changed a bit, since.
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: Wingnut on March 22, 2024, 10:40:10 pm
Like John Deere agricultural equipment?

Yeah, it got bad when there was a software or other problem, because guys in the middle of planting had to stop and wait (sometimes weeks) for a factory tech. That started to cost them sales real quick, even among hardcore John Deere guys. That's been changed a bit, since.

Exactly what I meant.
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 22, 2024, 10:45:45 pm
Exactly what I meant.
I would think Micky D's could find people who are willing to tech up just about the whole store, if they wanted to spring for their training.
Title: Re: Biden admin tackles tough problem of McDonald's ice cream machine repairs
Post by: GtHawk on March 23, 2024, 04:10:10 am
When you have a one vendor contract that disallows service work on the over complicated exclusive model and that vendor takes their time showing up and/or don't have the parts what is the operator to do? Amazingly other businesses that use different models of Taylor machines or makes don't seem to have this repetitive issue. Just like anything else follow the money and see which McD Corp execs are receiving "compensation" from Taylor for locking the franchises into having to purchase these shit machines from Taylor.