41 Replies to “McFlurry Truthers”

  1. “Advocates of the “right to repair” movement say companies should not make it nearly impossible for users and independent technicians to repair modern products, particularly consumer electronics.”

    Then shouldn’t their very first stop be Tesla?

          2. Actually, John Deere is worse than Tesla, as far as locking down its repair racket is concerned.
            But hey, what do you care, you’ve got your narrative, and you can’t let pesky things like facts interfere with it.

  3. This is a good opportunity for China to “steal” the design, make it cheaper, provide full schematics and source code, and save McDonald’s and the customers a bunch of money.
    The west just cannot stop shooting itself.

    1. Why bother with the Chinese.
      Remember , they gave us the Wu Flu Coof, so fvck them and the horse they rode in on.
      Give the Rooskies a shot at it.
      They seem to be doing a good enough job supplying a solution for the average farmer to get around John Deeres screwing of them on their tractors/machinery.

  4. How about the server semi-conductor shortage caused by various governments erroneously shutting down selective businesses over the last year for no real purpose other than wielding power. I’m pretty sure that violates a voluminous number of Federal Statutes, as well as the US Constitution.

    If you haven’t heard about this shortage, it’s not a surprise. No one reports on it and it effects EVERYONE.

    1. Most of those semi conductor chips come from Taiwan, an ocean and several time zones away.
      Time to bring it all back to your local producer who is a car drive away.
      This shit started with the big corps being allowed to offshore and fvck the little guy ( mainstreet ).
      I blame that corporate cocksucker Mulroney and Regan for bringing in NAFTA.
      Ross Perot was right, hear that giant sucking sound.

  5. And in return for all the kid-glove treatment by the govt during the pandemic and ensuing record profits, McDonald’s released an expanded line-up of larger and more calorie-laden options such as the Grand Mac and various fancy 1/4-lb burgers. Because co-morbidities such as obesity aren’t a factor in CoVid patient outcomes, right?

    1. But did you notice they got rid of the Angus burgers.
      Mostly a high grade form of beef, that if you must eat McShit , it probably would be better for you.

  6. My understanding is they’re rarely actually broken; federal regulations require an onerous cleaning regime that takes the machine offline for long periods and/or the employees don’t want to do it, so they just tell customers the machine is broken.

    I see this as akin to the steroids in baseball scandal: who the f*** cares, and why is the federal government wasting time and tax dollars on this? I would love it if the inevitable result of this is new regulations that are impossible to comply with, resulting in McDonald’s removing ice cream from their menu entirely.

    1. Shame that “your understanding” is just something you made up, and nothing to do with reality.

  7. Y’all DO realize that this is only a problem for the *ahem* … “urban” … communities? Outside communities with the highest density of welfare moms who weigh tree-fiddy… this is a non problem. Totally unnoticed and irrelevant. However, to a certain class of idle overeaters … who gotsta have a Jumbo McFlurry when pregnant with another welfare dependent … this is an urgent crisis.

    Hence Byedin-Heiress are spurred to action … by their primary constituents … government dependents.

    1. This is a problem for each and every McDo’s franchisee, and the company that came up with the solution for it, blacklisted by McDo Corporate, with the effect of driving prices up for the consumer, and the 15% downtime losing money for the franchisee. This including the rural franchisees, you know, the ones truckers use.

      1. Yeah … but truckers don’t have a wilding bitch fit and start punching the Manager and every patron who tells big momma to calm down. Truckers don’t trash the place cause they couldn’t get an 1,800 cal. ice cream and candy cup

  8. Looks like a few people here are longing for Big Mike to come back and start regulating fast food.

  9. ” …. but when the ice cream stops flowing the feds are right on it …

    Here, let me finish that sentence:

    … because it’s quite obvious that the public is more concerned about kid stuff like ice cream than adult things such as liberty.

    1. The only other post here to actually get at the facts. Well done RRS!

      Its kinda funny, people here often complain about shrinkflation, but when confronted by one of the actual causes of it, all they do is parrot some jingoistic BS.
      This is how you know that VOWG is right: Canadians are stupid.

      1. Known about this for years.
        It’s rampant in the elevator business not to mention the auto industry.

        1. It’s rampant in the elevator business

          Tell me about it. The apartment building I live in has two elevators. We can almost count on one or the other being out of commission about once a month.

          I’ve been living in this place for well over 30 years. Back then, elevators had to be inspected by the government and they worked. They were rarely on the fritz. But, along comes the much-ballyhooed Ralph Klein, who decided that they didn’t need government “interference” and to let the “market” decide.

          So, for more than 25 years, the elevators haven’t worked worth a hoot. If they’re not on the blink, they’re slow. Gee, thanks, Ralph and, yeah, I pay for your stupidity with my rent–the landlord ain’t footing the bill for this.

    2. That was pretty much as I suspected/expected the REAL issue was … notwithstanding my tongue in cheek comment above. However … there remain two very important questions.

      1. Why does Taylor make machines that work perfectly well for all the other fast food franchises other than MacDonalds? Why foist crappy problematic machines ONLY for MacDonalds? Does the machine try to do “too much” at MacDonalds … and is a simpler machine at the other fast food companies? Is this a software or hardware problem?

      2. Is ‘Kitch’ (the third party software firm, with a software patch) … a major Byedin-Heiress Donor? Why would the Byedin-Heiress Admin. publicly launch a FTC investigation into this PRIVATE problem? Does ‘Kitch’ have this Administrations ear? Or … per my snarky comment above … do the “urban” constituents of Byedin-Heiress have the President’s ear?

      Has anyone told Joe that you don’t need to speak with a slight Indian accent when you order a MacFlurry? Although a Mexican accent helps.

  13. Had a friend with a MickyD’s franchise. He was always complaining about the soft serve machines. Said the franchise agreement with BigBro specified that he had to use a certain machine, that he had to depend on one company for service and parts, (and that that company was slow and incompetent and expensive) and also said that that company was tied in to bigwigs at BigBro – i.e., was kicking back a portion of its income to BigBro. Said he could have all his machines working and making money in about a day were it not for the franchise restrictions. This fight has always been franchisor versus franchisees.

  14. From my high school Micky D experience it’s not so much the ice cream machines break down as they run out of the bags of soft serve mix from too high of demand. Ice cream mix isn’t anywhere near the top of resupply ordering priorities especially when the price of cones and sundaes were dropped for the entire summer. Add in weeks of hot weather and predictably the soft serve supply dripped dry. It’s not to say there aren’t some ice hearted store owners trying to keep more of the cream for themselves but how much worse would it be if McD’s were owned by JT’s Gov’t?

    1. Martin, I, having been in the dairy business say, you are correct. Efficient ordering will give you adequate supply.

      1. And in the case of the dairy cartel, socialist supply-management systems will give you anything but free markets.

  15. “You’ll own nothing, and like it.”

    Well, you’ll fully pay for it, but if you need a part, or “system update” because they coded a kill date, for user safety, well we’ll skin you alive. Safety, protection, as in protection racket like the Mafia. Every month, or else.

      1. That’s exactly what it is isn’t it … “products as a service” … “in the cloud”. Sounds dreamy … but is ultimately slavery. You are a slave to obsolescence and $$ updates. You do not, in fact, own anything.

        Inotherwords … FUCK YOU, Microsoft! Your stock price is soaring … because you moved all your software into the cloud … and now my Office suite never works … guess I missed my ongoing lease payment. Fuckers!!!

        1. ” You do not, in fact, own anything. ”

          I hear Gates and that fat phuck Klaus Schwab maniacally laughing in the background.
          Yup be happy.
          6uild, 6ack, 6etter.

          1. 6uild, 6ack, 6etter …

            Creepy. I hadn’t seen that before … the coincidence is very, very, creepy. But I don’t want to start seeing ‘14 letters’ in the phrase.

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