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Ice Cream Machine Hackers Sue McDonald’s for $900 Million. Kytch alleges that the Golden Arches crushed its business—and left soft serve customers out in the cold.
In an email to the Daily Dot, Presley said the incident happened at the Hacks Cross Road location in Olive Branch, Mississippi. She said no one from McDonald’s has reached out since the video went ...
A couple that invented a gadget that helped fix McDonald’s chronically broken-down ice cream machines is suing the fast food giant for $900 million.. Jeremy O’Sullivan and his partner, Melissa ...
With just 2,000 lines of code, Rashiq Zahid, 24, created a website featuring a map that tracks which ice cream machines aren’t working at roughly 10,000 different McDonald’s restaurants across ...
The still unfolding fight began with Kytch's attempt, starting in 2019, to build and sell a device that could intercept the data on the Taylor C602 ice cream machines used by McDonald's ...
McDonald’s soft-serve machines are notorious for breaking down, so much so that in 2020, one frustrated ice cream enthusiast created McBroken, a website where you can check and see if your local ...
Want to know why the ice cream machine always seems to be broken at McDonald's? NPR's Kelsey Snell talks with Andy Greenberg, of Wired, who has investigated this long-standing and vexing ...
In fact, there are plenty of secrets the chain has managed to keep under wraps over the decades it has been in business.