On: We can now fix McDonald's ice cream machines

[LtWorf]

McDonald is big enough to change suppliers of machines and impose easy maintenance.

[night862 → LtWorf]

In principle, but they probably contracted this out decades ago. Theres a lot of licensing requirements and regulations surrounding dairy.

This is actually the real source and meaning of the classic track by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, "Safe as milk." Dairy is a huge systemic risk, operates on extremely narrow windows everywhere in its production and if left unmanaged will cause outbreaks of horrifying diseases like Typhoid.

[ErigmolCt → LtWorf]

I thought McDonald’s is often locked into long-term contracts with companies

[Bjartr → LtWorf]

It's not a problem to be solved from McD corporate's perspective.

[davidron → LtWorf]

... If incentives were properly aligned to make this the correct strategy, then this is probably what McDonald's would do. Unfortunately not. https://www.today.com/food/trends/why-is-mcdonalds-ice-cream...