McDonald’s ice cream shortage shenanigans
You may recall there were well publicized ice cream machine breakdowns at McDonald’s at the height of the last few ice cream seasons. In a virtual McFlurry, the truth has come dripping out of inter and intra company shenanigans that kept you from your drive through ice cream cone. Melissa Nelson and Jeremy O’Sullivan are the founders of a company named Kytch. The tiny startup worked to invent and sell a device designed to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken ice cream machines. Basically Kytch makes a device that attaches to a Taylor soft serve machine and monitors the activities inside and warns the operator when the machine is broken or going to break. The device was hailed by McD’s franchisees as saving them repair costs and keeping them in the ice cream business during last summer. Unfortunately, this fix exposed a fault in the Taylor machines and in fact cost Taylor a lot of ice cream machine repair revenue. So Taylor colluded with McDonald’s to invent their own monitoring system and build it into a new line of machines. Then McDonalds told their franchisees to throw out the Kytch devices and claiming possible fires and injuries, though none had ever occurred. So Kytch is suing McDonald’s for $900,000 as the value the company would have gotten from selling the device to others in the fast-food industry before the bad mouth campaign.
Creamy Delicious story toppings
At a party, a young wife admonished her husband, “That’s the fourth time you’ve gone
back for ice cream and cake. Doesn’t it embarrass you?”
“Why should it?” answered her spouse. “I keep telling them it’s for you.”
What do you call a street full of potholes and ice cream?
A Rocky Road
Why is frozen yogurt better than ice cream?
Ice cream ain’t got no culture.
The serving size for this ice cream is… until I hate myself.
March 4th Birthdays
1994 – Jenna Boyd, 1987 – Park Min-young, 1969 – Patricia Heaton, 1986 – Margo Harshman
1997 – Nat Zing, 1982 – Ha Seok-jin, 1990 – Draymond Green, 1745 – Kazmiersz Pulaski