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Yelp Engineer Reverses McDonald's Ordering API To Figure Out Which Ice Cream Machines Are Broken By Placing An Order Worth $18,752 Every Minute
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I always made the assumption that the workers just never wanted to make them. Why else would McDonalds even offer these items, if their appliances to make them suck and never seem to get fixed/improved? Just a waste of everyone's time and if they really were "broken" that often, remove them from the menu since you are just wasting food product at that point :/
I still remember the rumor going around that these icecream machines never get cleaned because its a pain and that's why they break down so often. I remember someone writing into the bombcast saying they have found tons of dead bugs gunking up the works when they tried to repair a broken one, not sure how much truth there is to the story
They're a franchising company so most restaurants are individual companies or grouped in small clusters belonging to the same person. So the ones in poorer areas are probably poorer themselves just because there's less money going around in the area.
Wait so how is he placing that large of orders?
Or is it like an offline timestamp of their system?
Or is it like an offline timestamp of their system?
The amount of times I hauled my sweating carcass to a mcdonalds to get one of their shakes and the machine was broken
would love to know if those machines were broke in advance
would love to know if those machines were broke in advance
Adam Pisces is at it again.
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Why does the amount of the order need to be so high to determine that the machine is broken?
EDIT: It's the total of orders at ALL restaurants, I got it now.
EDIT: It's the total of orders at ALL restaurants, I got it now.
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Well, sounds like this might be the case! Too bad a company with all that money couldn't have come up with an easier-cleaning machine.
(I did hear that breakfast stuff was hard to clean up, which was why workers hated the breakfast all day, which sadly ended recently... Sorry McDonald workers for ordering McMuffins after breakfast hours! >_>)
Just shows how deep systemic racism goes in this country that it even affects ice cream machines.
It might be the dollar figure for placing one ice cream order at every different McDonald's location.
Still baffles me that a FAST food place would even want something that took so long to clean out :/
McDonald's have a secret ocean base.
~13700 locations, one order per location.
I worked at McDonald's and let me tell you this.
The ice cream machines is a really complicated piece of machinery that cost about $20k and they require bi-weekly cleaning/maintenance that take up to 5 hours to do properly and small things like a misplaced gasket will cause the machine to not work. It is most likely that; you ordered the ice cream when the machine was down for maintenance/cleaning or the guy doing it was new and messed up something when cleaning it.
Edit. They ice cream machine has an internal clock and sensor that if the machine is not cleaned every 15 days it will stop working until it's cleaned.
The ice cream machines is a really complicated piece of machinery that cost about $20k and they require bi-weekly cleaning/maintenance that take up to 5 hours to do properly and small things like a misplaced gasket will cause the machine to not work. It is most likely that; you ordered the ice cream when the machine was down for maintenance/cleaning or the guy doing it was new and messed up something when cleaning it.
Edit. They ice cream machine has an internal clock and sensor that if the machine is not cleaned every 15 days it will stop working until it's cleaned.
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Ahh, of course. I thought he was ordering that much at each restaurant. It's the total of orders at all restaurants.
There's just so much you can simplify when the machine involves very sticky dairy based liquid.
Also I don't think I'd ever trust ice cream from Mcdonalds after working there. I trusted my place since i worked there personally so I saw the upkeep on it was good, but that thing gets nasty very quickly if it isn't maintained. I can't really trust any random McDonalds that they're cleaning it well and regularly.
The first place I ever saw a cockroach IRL was inside a McDonalds ice cream or shake machine. Not sure which.
The second place I ever saw a cockroach was on the counter of the same McDonalds.
Being broken is annoying, but getting chocolate in your vanilla milkshake because it's the same nozzle for all flavours is just as bad!
I haven't had any ice cream from them in over 10 years but when I did they were never broken. Wonder if I should test my luck.
Are they that much different than other fast food places though?
I also used to work at Mcds and more than likely they would not be cleaning the machine during peak hours (where they make most of their money).
So if this guy ran the test at about 6-7 pm est on a weekday that should give you a decent look into how many machines are broken or not. Unless there are 1000s of stores that are completely mismanaged ofc.
Other fast food places are not as busy and popular as macdonals so you will hear more about McDonald's
Don't think this has so much to do with racism, as particular stores might not keep up with the repairs.
What about from places like Dairy Queen (where they exist), since their food is primarily the ice cream treats, so I would think that cleaning out a Blizzard machine wouldn't be nearly as intense? Or maybe because they aren't also super busy working with hot foods, that they actually get cleaned more often?
Don't think I've even had a McFlurry, just grew up on Dairy Queen stuff.
I sure have, from small towns. I always just figured because "small town" that they didn't have money to buy a new one or something, but then found out it was waaaaay more widespread.
McDonald's have a secret ocean base.
~13700 locations, one order per location.
Baha?! I don't have any operations in Baha!!
So is corporate racism the reason I can't get a McFlurry at 2:00am? I always hated how they just stopped serving ice cream past 11:00pm.
At the end of the night the machines are cleaned or new ice cream juice is added which means it hasn't had time to freeze properly yet. If I remember correctly on non cleaning nights the machine heats up the mixture to kill any bad stuff, so it's inoperable during that time.
I get it needs cleaning, but I swear at one point I got some cones late at night years ago.
Ice cream juice must be the equivalent of pink chicken nugget yogurt/slime.
What about the orders that are getting through? Is anyone paying for them or are they cancelled before payment?
This seems kind of like a DoS attack.
This seems kind of like a DoS attack.
Given this, someone should easily be able to calculate the amount of out of service machines above the expected baseline.
That chips a hoy mcflurry is pretty great though.
McDonald's have a secret ocean base.