Shadowlands is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

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No, its rotten ice cream in the back of the fridge waiting to be thrown to the bin, but the problem is no one cares about in the house.

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The ice cream machine actually works?

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Worked at McDonald’s for 5 years. The ice cream machine always works. That machine is indestructible.

The truth is they clean it when it’s slower and turn it off for the day and just tell you it’s broken because they don’t want to argue with you about why they can’t just turn it back on.

They’re supposed to turn it back in the morning but often forget and it takes time to start up so that knocks it out for another chunk of the day.

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Apparently they all work, they’re just really tricky to take apart and clean and no one wants to do it.

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Thank you for sharing that. I’ve always questioned the whole “it’s broke” excuse lol.

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Cleaning one right is a 2 hour or better job.

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Its… literally just icecream lol. While i never worked for Mcdonalds directly, i worked for other franchises in management. These companies live and die by their brand name, yes most of what they sell is bland and generic (which is kind of on purpose as people tend to come back to what they know), its certainly not “bad”, let alone dangerous. These restaurants are hyper-controlled as the brands themselves do bi-yearly inspections that are tighter than the FDA’s (on top of the FDA doing yearlies).

In short, Fast Food bland but probably the safest thing for consumption on the market as scandals is the absolute last thing they want.

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Seems like they’d make more money selling ice cream if they just got simpler machines in their stores :woman_shrugging:t2:

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There are a lot of fiddly little bits that have to come out be washed and sterilized before the machine can be rebuilt.

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The machine is pretty simple. Cleaning them isn’t too hard. It’s just once you’ve cleaned it, you’re not going to want to put it back together (especially as all the mix gets thrown out when it gets cleaned). So if they clean the machine early that’s it for ice cream that day.

And it takes a little time to warm up once you turn it back on and folks in the morning just forget to do that sometimes.

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I mean, exactly. If its anything like the Iced Cap machine from Tim Horton’s, most of the time when employees tell you its broken, its not actually broken, they’re just doing the routine cleaning of it required by management (entirely related to what i said in my previous post) and its just way easier to tell a client its busted than explain to him its being cleaned.

I’ll admit having done so myself, multiple times.

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I seriously have got to ask about all the sudden McFlurry hate. McDonald’s softserve is perfectly servicable and all a McFlurry is just softserve mixed with candy (and good candy at that).

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When I worked for the golden arches we’d get people in a half hour before closing wanting ice cream. Of course our machine had been apart for a half hour at this point so we could have it cleaned and reassembled by the time everyone else was done cleaning.

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I was going by what my little cousin told about working at our local store. I honestly don’t remember the process as it’s been about a quarter century since I did some shifts at McDonald’s. I’m so old.

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Same but they’re still using the same machines! The current model ice cream machines they use first started being used in the late 1990s.

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Ah jeez then yeah for sure buy some new ones!

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Yeah, but most of that time the machine is cleaning itself. It’s only about 15 minutes of labor.

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i dont think a chocolate chip cookie dough would last for more than 7 months

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The machines are solid and I’m not sure if there have been huge advancements in soft serve ice cream technology to justify a new machine!

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I’d say the chocolate chips have been replaced with boogers.