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Given the poor technical choices made regularly in old corporations, I'm guessing they had no idea what they got themselves into. That or it's their franchisee
by mherkender 3y ago
Given the poor technical choices made regularly in old corporations, I'm guessing they had no idea what they got themselves into.
That or it's their franchisee's problem and they don't have any incentive to fix it.
- toomuchtodo 3y ago> That or it's their franchisee's problem and they don't have any incentive to fix it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29326999 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29326999
- karaterobot 3y agoI think of McDonald's as being pretty savvy, having dominated for decades in a competitive domain with large volume and low margins. In violation of Hanlon's Razor, I'd bet the reason is more malice rather than stupidity. Or rather, the specific form of malice more precisely called short-sighted greed.
- bombcar 3y agoMcDonald's probably has paperwork that shows "ice cream machine broke" doesn't really cost them anything in sales or return visits, so why work on fixing it? If it was a critical product, they'd have multiple machines per store, just like the friers (often way more than is needed).