We’ve all heard it before, that allegedly “McDonald’s ice cream machines break down a lot.”
I wouldn’t know this firsthand. However, this person was upset enough to create a site to let us know which McDonald’s isn’t serving up ice cream.
I’m sorry mcdonald’s data analyst I’m afraid I’m ruining your entire mobile conversion metrics for my own personal amusement https://t.co/lYPn0Sj0eu
— rashiq (@rashiq) October 22, 2020
24-year-old Rashiq Zahid created ‘McBroken’. It’s a free website that shows a map of every McDonald’s in the country.
How does it work? Well, every green dot represents the restaurants with a working ice cream machine. While the red dots show you restaurants with a broken one. You can even zoom in on specific areas.
The site also features a statistical breakdown of just how many machines are not operational at moment, including for some major markets.
Zahid uses a bot to try and order a McSundae on the McDonald’s app from every location. If he can successfully add an ice cream to his cart the location is marked as having a working machine. If it can’t then it gets ruled out.
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