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Either the McDonalds by me is fairly lucky or this is far less common than the meme makes it out to be. It doesn't seem like good marketing - I hadn't had it i

Either the McDonalds by me is fairly lucky or this is far less common than the meme makes it out to be. It doesn't seem like good marketing - I hadn't had it in years but wanted to try a promo mcflurry a couple years ago, and wasn't expecting it to work, which make me wonder if I shouldn't even bother going. That's the opposite of what they'd want. But then I went, and have gone probably a couple dozen times since then in two or three years, and it's never been out of order. Obviously I'm not going every day, but across that many visits I'd be likely to catch one if the rate of failure was THAT high.

xp84 2y ago
> lucky Perhaps the “good” McDonaldses (in terms of whether they have broken machines all the time or not) are that way because they faithfully and promptly throw the requested amount of money at the Taylor licensed service providers to fix it every single time it throws its error code of doom. So we wouldn’t know how common the avoidable issues are without seeing, not just the downtime stats, but the authorized service records.
Maxious 2y ago
https://mcbroken.com/ https://mcbroken.com/ scrapes online ordering and confirms not just a meme, 1/10 locations broken atm, 1/3 in some markets.
- celestialcheese 2y ago
  even funnier, it looks like it's owned by wendys now, so when you zoom in it highlights wendys locations nearby
bombcar 2y ago
The machines go into maintenance if not cleaned in time. Smart franchises clean the machine in the morning or after closing each day so it “never runs out”. Just like smart airlines always reboot the plane regularly instead of learning the 787 has to be rebooted every 56 day.
- next_xibalba 2y ago
  Is this real or a joke that’s over my head? Why does a 787 need to be rebooted every 56 days?
  - dan_linder 2y ago
    This article from The Register in 2020 has some details, and not just Boeing: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...
  - caballeto 2y ago
    Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939318
- Bjartr 2y ago
  > Smart franchises clean the machine in the morning or after closing each day so it “never runs out”. And when they arrive in the morning to a failed cleaning run and an opaque error code they get to pick between first calling an expensive technician to spend just a few minutes with a tool only they have to read a more detailed error and change settings. Or they can cross their fingers and hope it's not a persistent issue. Either way it's another four hour checking cycle before it's ready.

xp84 2y ago

> lucky Perhaps the “good” McDonaldses (in terms of whether they have broken machines all the time or not) are that way because they faithfully and promptly throw the requested amount of money at the Taylor licensed service providers to fix it every single time it throws its error code of doom. So we wouldn’t know how common the avoidable issues are without seeing, not just the downtime stats, but the authorized service records.

Maxious 2y ago

https://mcbroken.com/ https://mcbroken.com/ scrapes online ordering and confirms not just a meme, 1/10 locations broken atm, 1/3 in some markets.

celestialcheese 2y ago
even funnier, it looks like it's owned by wendys now, so when you zoom in it highlights wendys locations nearby

bombcar 2y ago

The machines go into maintenance if not cleaned in time. Smart franchises clean the machine in the morning or after closing each day so it “never runs out”. Just like smart airlines always reboot the plane regularly instead of learning the 787 has to be rebooted every 56 day.

next_xibalba 2y ago
Is this real or a joke that’s over my head? Why does a 787 need to be rebooted every 56 days?
- dan_linder 2y ago
  This article from The Register in 2020 has some details, and not just Boeing: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...
- caballeto 2y ago
  Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939318
Bjartr 2y ago
> Smart franchises clean the machine in the morning or after closing each day so it “never runs out”. And when they arrive in the morning to a failed cleaning run and an opaque error code they get to pick between first calling an expensive technician to spend just a few minutes with a tool only they have to read a more detailed error and change settings. Or they can cross their fingers and hope it's not a persistent issue. Either way it's another four hour checking cycle before it's ready.