You’ve got to feel sorry for those poor McDonald's employees. Why is it that their ice cream machines are always broken? If you check the historical data, you’ll see the failure rates get worse over the summer.
One thing we know for sure is that this 42% downtime is in no way related to the various alien invasions that New York is prone to. No, not Sting. The other type of aliens. To get to the bottom of this potentially extra-terrestrial mystery, we bought our very own ice cream machine.

00:00 Why are McDonalds Ice Cream Machine's Always Broken?
00:46 Inside a McDonalds Ice Cream Machine and how it works
02:18 Errors when making Ice Cream with a McDonalds Ice Cream Machine
02:47 Why it takes so long to fix McDonalds Ice Cream Machines
03:12 Ice Cream is a Right to Repair issue!
03:48 Kytch Vs Taylor and McDonalds
04:40 We teardown a McDonalds Ice Cream Machine
06:50 Why we think McDonalds Ice Cream Machines are Breaking so much
07:29 What's stopping us from Fixing all the McDonalds Ice Cream Machines
08:01 What we're doing to help fix the McDonalds Ice Cream Machines


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