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LOL! It's so ridiculous that this is a problem so often. I was in McDs once when the service guy was there. I overheard him say it would be $9,000 to fix just t

LOL! It's so ridiculous that this is a problem so often. I was in McDs once when the service guy was there. I overheard him say it would be $9,000 to fix just the shake side of the machine. I thought to myself, "That's a lot of milkshakes! There's a grocery store in the same parking lot... gallon of ice cream, some milk, and a blender. Problem solved."

cm2012 6y ago
Yep, and two folks in a garage can build FB in a week, its just a DB right?
- m0zg 6y ago
  I mean, the OP is literally right - ice cream + milk in a blender results in a better milkshake. Try it sometime. That's how milkshakes are made at a lot of the other restaurants.
  - cm2012 6y ago
    Yep and a social network is literally just a database with some pages attached. People make them all the time in basic programming classes.
    - m0zg 6y ago
      Don't be dense. What I described is the _official_ and _correct_ way to make milkshakes that you will find in any decent cookbook. You've responded with false equivalence.
  - quickthrower2 6y ago
    MCD optimise for speed and throughout though.
    - m0zg 6y ago
      Throughput of a broken shake machine is zero.
      - quickthrower2 6y ago
        And yet people drive cars that need to be serviced etc. out of action for hours at a time.
- pessimizer 6y ago
  Pretty sure that's how facebook was actually built.
  - quickthrower2 6y ago
    Well that’s how it was started, which is a bit different. More code had been written since then.
  - wrkronmiller 6y ago
    Even if that was part of their origin story, it's a bit like saying a skyscraper was built by the person who broke ground at the site.
annoyingnoob 6y ago
In my view, the costs of equipment, service, and goods really drive franchisee profit down. Don't know why you'd want to be a franchisee, you need a whole stable of stores to make it work and profitable.
laumars 6y ago
It’s the usual problem of scales. A blender works for occasional use but not hundreds of orders a day.
Moru 6y ago
For the customer that's an option yes, but for the restaurant not so much. If you have a look at the fineprint of the blender it will say something in the line of "For private use only". This is not just because they want to extract more money from restaurants, it's because the engine is so poorly cooled and low quality components that it will melt if you run it longer than 10 minutes without letting it rest. So yes, the customer can go home and make their own milkshake (unless they are on a trip and can't go home to make milkshake). But the store owner can't depend on a consumer grade blender to make 50 milkshakes in an hour.

cm2012 6y ago

Yep, and two folks in a garage can build FB in a week, its just a DB right?

m0zg 6y ago
I mean, the OP is literally right - ice cream + milk in a blender results in a better milkshake. Try it sometime. That's how milkshakes are made at a lot of the other restaurants.
- cm2012 6y ago
  Yep and a social network is literally just a database with some pages attached. People make them all the time in basic programming classes.
  - m0zg 6y ago
    Don't be dense. What I described is the _official_ and _correct_ way to make milkshakes that you will find in any decent cookbook. You've responded with false equivalence.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  MCD optimise for speed and throughout though.
  - m0zg 6y ago
    Throughput of a broken shake machine is zero.
    - quickthrower2 6y ago
      And yet people drive cars that need to be serviced etc. out of action for hours at a time.
pessimizer 6y ago
Pretty sure that's how facebook was actually built.
- quickthrower2 6y ago
  Well that’s how it was started, which is a bit different. More code had been written since then.
- wrkronmiller 6y ago
  Even if that was part of their origin story, it's a bit like saying a skyscraper was built by the person who broke ground at the site.

annoyingnoob 6y ago

In my view, the costs of equipment, service, and goods really drive franchisee profit down. Don't know why you'd want to be a franchisee, you need a whole stable of stores to make it work and profitable.

laumars 6y ago

It’s the usual problem of scales. A blender works for occasional use but not hundreds of orders a day.

Moru 6y ago

For the customer that's an option yes, but for the restaurant not so much. If you have a look at the fineprint of the blender it will say something in the line of "For private use only". This is not just because they want to extract more money from restaurants, it's because the engine is so poorly cooled and low quality components that it will melt if you run it longer than 10 minutes without letting it rest. So yes, the customer can go home and make their own milkshake (unless they are on a trip and can't go home to make milkshake). But the store owner can't depend on a consumer grade blender to make 50 milkshakes in an hour.