Funny thing is that over here in Europe the ice cream machines seem to work almost all the time. I understand that it’s because they use a different brand of machines, but I’m not sure about the details.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

There they had to change the machines to the other brand because the ones they use here (us) was found to literally be designed to require a ton of maintinence so they could make money charging for repairs.

TLDR machine designed to break breaks a lot, not allowed in Europe.

[–] Vendul@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Knowledge is power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks! That was remarkably well done.

[–] ji17br@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Canada here, never encountered a broken machine.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They are down for maintenance frequently, but nowhere near as frequently as the American locations that have the fucked up contracts with the machine manufacturer.

[–] ji17br@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Seems like something that is location dependent. I go to McDonald’s far more than I’d like to admit and like I said, I’ve never seen them down.