I reverse engineered mcdonald's internal api and I'm currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every mcdonald's in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine https://t.co/2KsRwAdrMd
— rashiq (@rashiq) October 22, 2020
“A Bot Tracking McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Finds Troubling Racial Disparities : Data from one programmer’s quest to find inoperable McDonald’s ice cream machines in the U.S. points to wider issues with food access.” (Oct 2020) https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adyng/a-bot-tracking-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-finds-troubling-racial-disparities
“Why the McFlurry Machine Company Just Got Hit With a Restraining Order : In a victory for right-to-repair, a judge has sided with the company that makes it easier for McDonald’s to fix its ice cream machines.” (VICE 9/9/21) https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ymbp/why-the-mcflurry-machine-company-just-got-hit-with-a-restraining-order
McDonald’s USA has released a statement after today’s report from The Wall Street Journal denying that they’re under investigation from the FTC over some of their machines while also noting that plans are in motion for a fix. They write: “Intrinsic to the interest in our soft serve machines is our fans’ love of McDonald’s iconic McFlurry desserts and shakes. Nothing is more important to us than delivering on our high standards for food quality and safety, which is why we work with fully vetted partners that can reliably provide safe solutions at scale. McDonald’s has no reason to believe we are the focus of an FTC investigation.”
https://comicbook.com/irl/news/mcdonalds-investigated-ftc-over-broken-mcflurry-machines/
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Twitter users just discovered an ‘abandoned’ McDonald’s on a remote island in Alaska: ‘The prices haven’t changed much’ https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-users-discovered-abandoned-mcdonald-122636642.html