Fucking absolutely!
It’s too late, McDonald’s screwed themselves on that by allowing the machine company to play stupid games. I don’t see McDonald’s as a place to go for ice cream, haven’t for literally decades, and I don’t know anyone who does.
I hope the temporary kickbacks they got were worth it.
They still need some rulemaking around this and general right to repair though.
Fuck Taylor. They are the Apple of ice cream machines and everywhere that uses their machines is always out of ice cream because the machine is always broken and when they finally send a tech out and charge you $2000 just to show up, he’s a total weirdo that harasses all the female employees.
Source: worked at a place with a Taylor ice cream machine one time.
90 days to have someone to come fix the damn thing, absolutely ridiculous.
Let’s do that but also for everything else money can buy.
Lets not forget the debacle where a third party company designed a cheap and permament fix for the ice cream machines and mcdonalds responded by comiting libel against that company. The company that makes the ice cream machine then outright stole their IP (found to have outright copy pasted code with comments and all) and briefly sold it as their own fix before I belive discontinuing it.
Kind of like the ice cream machine fix version of ‘embrace, extend, extinguish’ but with all the finesse of beating someone up in an alley.
