Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald's notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
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TheMcDonald'sIceCreamMachineHacking Saga Has a New Twist The coldwar between a startup and a soft-serve machine manufacturer is heating up, thanks to a newly released trove of internal emails.
Aug 31, 2023IceCreamMachine 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.
Dec 14, 2023Now, after years of litigation, the ice-cream-hacking entrepreneurs have unearthed evidence that they say shows that Taylor, the soft-serve machine maker, helped engineer McDonald's Kytch-killing ...
Of all the mysteries and injustices of the McDonald'sicecreammachine, the one that Jeremy O'Sullivan insists you understand first is its secret passcode. Press the cone icon on the screen of the Taylor C602 digital icecreammachine, he explains, then tap the buttons that show a snowflake and a milkshake to set the digits on the screen ...
A new report from Wired attempts to get to the bottom of the mystery of the McDonald'sicecreammachines, why they have a secret repair menu that most McDonald's workers don't have access ...
TheColdWarOverHackingMcDonald'sIceCreamMachines. Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald's notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
BTW, the Johnny Harris video complements this article really well, since Harris notes that apparently McDonald's isn't the only fast food company suing using Taylor's icecreammachines, but it's only McDonald's that has this problem of machines breaking down constantly, because Taylor makes a special icecreammachine specifically for McDonald ...
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How one couple built a device to fix McDonald's notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out. Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. ... Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free. ColdWarOver a Hack of McD's IceCreamMachines . Andy Greenberg Wired April 22, 2021 Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one ...