Someone at McDonald's corporate is getting paid off illicitly.

By the values of Corpmurica, that executive is just acting out of rational self-interest.

Isn't our society in favor of fucking over anyone we can for individual profit? Isn't that what we're taught by example to do, lest we be considered an un-American commie?

You can bribe our politicians legally with infinite sums of money to PACs since Citizens United, you think anyone gives a shit about bribing a McDonald's executive?

This smells of graft.

It IS graft. I've forgotten where I ran into the information but someone tracked it down. Taylors (the machine company) has an exclusive contract with McDonald's Corporate for the machines and McDonald's Corporate receives a portion of the service revenue whenever a Taylor machine is "fixed".

That's why McDonald's is fighting Kytch / helping Taylor.

Executives who run McDonalds likely also own shares in Taylor. Just like they have a financial interest in paper straws.

There is also no loss for McDonald's central, but they have a old and close business relationship with Taylor that they seem to care about more than their own franchise owners.

I swear that site makes green dots smaller until they disappear when you zoom out. Still pretty cool though, our nearest McDonalds has a broken ice cream machine

Holy hell! Look at UK.

How do they get the data?

I freaking hate this game, when can we play something else :(

Can you explain the rules? This game kinda sounds like it sucks.

Imagine being the guy who wrote so buggy software that you inadvertently saddled the entire world with rms

Okay, and then you get fined for violating your franchise contract that requires you use these machines.

I haven't even thought about getting McDonald's ice cream in years just because it seems like they are never able to serve it so I'm not even going to try. When I want ice cream I'll go to the place that make ice cream on a cold slab.

We are lucky enough to have a drive-through Baskin Robbins in this town. So my convenient ice cream choices are quite nice. But it must suck if your only option for ice cream is broken.

You probably already know but hacking originally meant to modify a machine for instance (or furniture as in ikea hacks) but it really is a word one should avoid when speaking with people who aren't part of the communities that use it in its original meaning.

Taylor must pay McDonald’s a tidy sum for the exclusivity contract. Both parties make out like bandits in the deal. I’m kind of surprised McDonald’s never in-housed it out of greed, but that day may be coming due to all the negative publicity.

From the article: "A DMCA exemption would allow McDonald’s franchises to legally do repair work on their own machines."

More likely someone at McDonalds than the company itself.

Healthy, Fast&Cheap, or Delicious. Pick 2.

gotta go local.

I never get ice cream from fast food chains.

This one?