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Feds Are Saving the McFlurry

March 18, 2024
Why is finding a working McDonald’s ice cream machine like Russian roulette? That’s about to change – for the better.
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice filed a request with the U.S. Copyright Office that would likely improve the reliability of McDonald’s ice cream machines. Notorious for breaking down,...
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Daddy. Even the feds are fed up with mcdonald's ice cream
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drama. I've been fed up the Federal Trade Commission and the
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Department of Justice is applying pressure to make sure we get our
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mcflurry. They want to be legal to use outside technology because
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apparently a couple invented a device that reads the error codes and
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can fix the ice cream machines.
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But when the franchise owners started using them,
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Mickey D's was like,
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nah, what, why like,
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no, no ice cream,
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sorry guys. That makes no sense.
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Yeah. So apparently it's illegal to fix machines except for the
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manufacturers. So the couple that created,
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you know, the solution now they're suing mcdonald's for 900 million
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for copying this shit.
00:43
Oh, so mcdonald's ended up copying them mcdonald's shady.
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So first they say,
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oh, you can't use it and then we're gonna copy your
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we're gonna copy it.
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We're gonna make sure we control when they're fixed and when they're
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not fixed, that's crazy.
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And quick fact,
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10% of mcdonald's ice cream machines are still broken at any given
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time. So it's like Russian ruler out there.
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Damn. It should be on the app.
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It should say on the app,
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like which one, which if your local ice cream machine is
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working or which ones work?