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byhdyoung ( 5182939 ) writes:
how it got to this. Where is McDonalds corp in this fight?
McFlurry machines going down and the company with a lock on repairs taking it's sweet, sweet time to fix? Why didn't McDonalds deal with this 10 years ago? This is a massive, multinational corp with TONS of money and clout. They could have purchased Taylor outright, stood up a competitor company to build a better unit, threatened Taylor to play ball a little nicer, or simply write the CEO's mistress a 500k check every year and "incentivize" bette
byDerekloffin ( 741455 ) writes:
McDonalds, the corporation, is actually on Taylor's side because they get kick backs essentially from Taylor for the repairs. One thing you have to realize here is McD corp side isn't that invested in the success of individual franchise operations. They get most their income from other sources and their franchise locations having difficulty with ice cream sales just isn't that big an impact on their bottom line. So this means the repair bill kick backs are actually more valuable to them. How much, we don't really know, and honestly given it is a bit of an unknown, they could easily be wrong, but given how in bed the two are, it is pretty clear McD corp feels it is strongly in their favor to let the situation continue. Other companies, for whatever reason, don't have this back dealing relationship with Taylor so their machines work.
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