McD is conservative when it comes to kitchen technology. With certain exceptions, franchisees determine when they buy new equipment and not the corporation. Mos

McD is conservative when it comes to kitchen technology. With certain exceptions, franchisees determine when they buy new equipment and not the corporation. Most of it is designed for a 7-year capex cycle. But to answer the question: no, the machines aren't net enabled and do not NNTP their clocks. But that's changing. But I still wouldn't design my architecture to let a central server decide when a machine should go out of service. Think about what else you can fuck up that way. Why are they off? Good question. Sometimes it's as simple as a store owner setting the heat cycle for 2pm instead of 2am. Why are they not redundant? They're expensive, take up a lot of valuable space and a lot more valuable energy, they need to be filled with 2x the product, and the customer demand isn't that high at any given moment to warrant the expense in most stores.