re: McDonald’s fan creates live map to track every broken ice cream machine in America

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I’ve been informed by multiple former McDonald’s employees that these things are rarely broken. They are just a bitch to clean, so the workers will often say it’s broken so they don’t have to clean it (or at night, so they don’t have to clean it again after they’ve already cleaned it).

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This is the same that I’ve been told as well. I know for certain this was true pre-24 hour McD locations. I’m not sure what the excuse is now since it wouldn’t really make a lot of sense.

Maybe somebody could use this guys data to track the local time the machines “break”. If they all tend to break around 9-10 PM, and start working again around 10 AM, then it’d be pretty obvious to identify.