I realize that McDonalds in large quantities will kill me, but I don’t care. I love their milk shakes. Every other mother fucking time I go there they tell me their machine is broken. No, dipshit, it is not broken! You decided you didn’t want to clean it towards the end of the night so you decided to clean it early. If you close at 11, then I should be able to order a milk shake at 10:59. But nooooooo, I go there at 9 when you close at 11 and you tell me it’s broken. It’s not mother fucking broken because if I go there tomorrow, which I will, your machine will work perfectly. It only breaks down 3 to 4 hours before closing. If the machine really does break every two damned days, then fire the dumbasses that break it or buy a new one.
I would just go somehere else, but there isn’t another damned place to go in this piece of shit town besides Sonic and they have been pissing me off too.
This happens to my girlfriend ALL the time when she goes to McDonald’s for an ice cream cone, and everytime it leaves her totally dejected, because the only other option in this not-really-a-piece-of-shit town is the $8 a scoop “let’s fold 5 different things into your ice cream” place down the street. I grew up in a place rife with Dairy Queen’s, but here in DC, McDonald’s is often your only option when you just want a damned vanilla soft serve cone. And far too often the response when you want one is the least convincing reading of “the machine’s broken” you’ve ever heard in your life.
Yeah, they do it to me, too, the bastards. Luckily, there’s a Wendy’s nearby, and they’ll sell me a Frosty whenever I ask for one. So I end up buying a slimeburger from McDick’s and a Frosty from Wimpy’s. It’s crazy, I know.
Damn you, Ray Croc-odile, and you’re horrible addictive bovine patties! Damn you to Newark!
Wow, I always thought Coldstone Creamery was hideously expensive for a product that wasn’t worth the extra money. Then again, I too love McDonald’s soft serve, so maybe that should tell you something.
Yeah, the machine’s probably not broken. I can sort of understand why they would want to take it offline early, even though they’re not supposed to. It takes several hours to run the cleaning solution though the system, disassemble all the removable parts, wash and sterilize them, and reassemble everything. The morning crew might do the reassembly depending on the management’s preference.
Basically, if they claim it’s broken when it really isn’t, it’s because they decided it would be cheaper to lose a few sales late at night than to keep the closing crew around longer after hours. It sucks, but there ya go.
There’s a new Carvel in Columbia Heights, too (it shares its space with a Cinnabon; I’m not sure if this is the gate to Heaven or the path to Hell). In fact, as of today we now live two blocks from it. I should remind her of this.
You could go to Arlington for soft serve, but the whole point of getting ice cream is to do it when you’re sweating your ass off in the middle of the day, not after a lovely 20 minute air conditioned subway ride.
We’ve got the same problem with our neighborhood McDonald’s and Burger King. Burger King just decided that they weren’t going to carry them anymore. WTF.
And that’s fine and is their decision and all, but wouldn’t it be better to put a sign out front saying “Milkshakes/Ice creams will not be available after 8pm” (or whatever) rather than habitually lying to the customers by saying it’s broken when it ain’t.
Same here. There used to be a Carvel store at the Manor in the late seventies, early eighties. The only store in the area now is out along the Fruitville Pike, in the Kmart plaza. Remind me to point it out to you the next time we travel that way.
Plus from everything I’ve read, the machines are notoriously difficult (tend to break down/go into heat mode randomly; you can’t control the thickness of the product) and cost somewhere over $20k to buy a new one.
Anyway, considering that enough customers will go into tirades over wanting an Egg McMuffin an hour after the breakfast menu is over, or insisting that the store open earlier/stay open later because they say so, I can see why “it’s broken” is a far better excuse than “We don’t make milkshakes after X pm.” And no, I’m not a McDonald’s apologist; I don’t even like their products or corporate policies. However, I did work in restaurants long enough in my teenage years to vow that I would work any awful factory job or whatever else came along (including a stint as a switchboard operator at a decorations/ornaments factory the week before Christmas :eek: ) before considering working in a food-service job again. When you see people getting into fistfights in a buffet line on freaking Mother’s Day, you know some folks have a whacked-out sense of priorities over food.
(And believe me, I can understand wanting a shake in this weather.)
Of course McDonald’s has milk in their milkshakes. Don’t you think it would be a national scandal if they did? People love to get back at the Man.
Anyway, I came in here to complain about the same thing. Only I think it’s been broken since last November and they just haven’t bothered to fix the damn thing.
Farbeit for me to try to inject some advice into a Pit Thread… but…
if they tell you that a shake machine is broken every other day, and you suspect it’s really down for cleaning so as to not keep the McGrunts there longer, ask somebody what the cut off time is. (Like the manager at the store.) If that doesn’t get you a satisfactory response, email somebody on the regional level and see if you can get a clarification. So long as you don’t sound like, “Bi-aich, i w@nt mi dam m!lksh@ke!!!eleven!! u b@st@rds O me a F$skin miiii!!!lllllksh@@@@@ke!”, you might get an answer that’s at least resonable.
