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What exactly do you think is the difference between McDonalds employees and the people working your local ice cream parlor? Did those people graduate from ice c

What exactly do you think is the difference between McDonalds employees and the people working your local ice cream parlor? Did those people graduate from ice cream academy in order to qualify for the job?

trhow234898 3y ago
> Did those people graduate from ice cream academy in order to qualify for the job Some of them actually did graduate from "ice cream academy". Local Ice Cream parlor has reputation to maintain. Sometimes it is even directly operated by ice cream company. McDonalds just runs automated machine somewhere in corner. They have no reputation to maintain, it is just borrowed franchise.
Clent 3y ago
It is not the same setup. A local ice cream parlor isn't making ice cream on the fly. They are scooping it from premade buckets stored in special freezer cases during business hours and stored in walking freezers at close.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Soft serve machines that take liquid mix are in nearly every single establishment that offers some form of Ice cream. This isn't special technology. As other's have pointed out, McDonalds, or their franchises, wanted to eliminate the couple hours of labor usually required to clean those machines daily, and so developed their own mix, and Taylor made special machines that would "self clean" to support it. For safety reasons (probably), those machines lock themselves down if anything goes off the sanitized happy path, and only super expensive Taylor techs have the requisite knowledge to get them back on track. McDonald's is alone in this struggle because they wanted to save $20 a day in wages. It's $350 per 15 minutes to fix the machines, so assuming it's just one button to fix them (it's not) it only has to break down less than once every 18ish days to pay off, but it doesn't scale well if the machines are less reliable than that.

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What exactly do you think is the difference between McDonalds employees and the people working your local ice cream parlor? Did those people graduate from ice c

by burkaman 3y ago

trhow234898 3y ago
> Did those people graduate from ice cream academy in order to qualify for the job Some of them actually did graduate from "ice cream academy". Local Ice Cream parlor has reputation to maintain. Sometimes it is even directly operated by ice cream company. McDonalds just runs automated machine somewhere in corner. They have no reputation to maintain, it is just borrowed franchise.
Clent 3y ago
It is not the same setup. A local ice cream parlor isn't making ice cream on the fly. They are scooping it from premade buckets stored in special freezer cases during business hours and stored in walking freezers at close.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  Soft serve machines that take liquid mix are in nearly every single establishment that offers some form of Ice cream. This isn't special technology. As other's have pointed out, McDonalds, or their franchises, wanted to eliminate the couple hours of labor usually required to clean those machines daily, and so developed their own mix, and Taylor made special machines that would "self clean" to support it. For safety reasons (probably), those machines lock themselves down if anything goes off the sanitized happy path, and only super expensive Taylor techs have the requisite knowledge to get them back on track. McDonald's is alone in this struggle because they wanted to save $20 a day in wages. It's $350 per 15 minutes to fix the machines, so assuming it's just one button to fix them (it's not) it only has to break down less than once every 18ish days to pay off, but it doesn't scale well if the machines are less reliable than that.