Seriously. It never does
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Ice Cream machines for fast food restaurants are typically all made by the same manufacturer, and oddly only the McDonalds machines have this reputation.
Insiders have revealed that McDonalds Corp has a sort of parasitic relationship with the manufacturer to force their franchises to only buy machines these specific machines that can only be maintained by their own supply chain to generate repair revenue. As you might expect the franchises complain about it relentlessly but head office won’t do anything about it.
When the machine breaks it gives random error codes that can only be read by a certified mechanic, and most of the time it’s because the machine was overfilled, hasn’t been cleaned properly, or has a temperature problem which are all easily resolved, but the staff can’t fix it themselves. You have to call ‘the guy’.
Meanwhile very similar machines installed at a Wendy’s gives an error message you can read, so they don’t have these problems.
It’s also very possible the machine needs to go through it’s daily cleaning cycle, and the staff on shift just don’t want to bother because it’s a giant pain in the arse.
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