iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

Re:iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream... by ethbr1 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @11:54AM (#37324019)

That's why a lot of fast food chains don't offer soft serve. At McDonald's scale, their peers that do would be KFC (only some locations?), Burger King, and Wendy's.

For reference, here's a first person report from one of the previous times this was brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26938854

Burger King appears to also use Taylor equipment, although not the combo 2-in-1, do-it-all model that McDonald's does.

Wendy's uses a custom machine built by Kappus for their Frosties. [0] [1]

[0] History https://www.wendys.com/blog/history-of-frosty

[1] How It's Made https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oorX3mHgHQs&t=95s

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Re:iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream... by jonny_eh on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @12:32PM (#37324589)

Somehow Dairy Queen is able to serve ice cream ok

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Re:iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream... by chihuahua on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:16PM (#37325452)

Then it DQ must be using alien technology. Just as in the UFO debate, there is no other possible explanation, therefore it must be aliens.

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Re:iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream... by ethbr1 on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @01:38PM (#37325833)

And I would hope that Dairy Queen, a company founded in 1940 to sell soft-serve ice cream (original formula 1938), is better at selling soft-serve ice cream than McDonald's.

Also, they're a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 1998.

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