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McDonald's is Being Sued for Allegedly Copying Ice Cream Machine Device

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0:00 [Music] in a recent massive development on this very specific story i've been falling for my own pleasure on the side um the makers of a device that was created to fix the mcdonald's ice cream machines the mcflurry the broken mcflurry machines are now suing mcdonald's wow for creating the same device wait so they made their own yeah starting starting way at the beginning of all this ████ when mcdonald's first formed they had the ice cream machine being in an exclusive contract with a different company called taylor so uh taylor's like the soft-serve machine that commercial like everyone uses yeah and let's say you're like let's say you're you're you got a mcdonald's franchise you have to use

0:51 taylor okay you can't just make some random like ice cream from some other machine it's like i joined nato and i'm a new country and i have to buy all these weapons yeah right i feel like that's american made i got it yeah so a lot of your money is gonna go into uh you know keeping this thing maintained and uh when uh when a lot of employees were asked like dude why is the ice cream machine always broken um it's because an error code will come up that says only a licensed technician from taylor can fix this right now so they just can't touch it that's part of the agreement as a if you have a franchise you can't just ████ fix it because you have to get rid of the error code kind of like when uh you do obd2 on your car and like you have to turn off the check engine light it's like if you turn it totally like that yeah yeah no i'm gonna say the same thing yeah being bar we're talking about that earlier that's what i was saying classic obd2 man ████ right yeah man dude i know cars bro have you seen the

1:42 same documentary yeah it's great yeah i watch the same thing and so basically they make so much ████ money from just repairs that they're just like yeah i mean it's a part of the business plan it's planned obviously but it's been going on for so long and most of the time this technician would go in there and really just turn the code off doesn't really actually fix anything that's ████ and then they couldn't really prove it until like finally this um other company made a device that actually shows you what is wrong with it it's like a usb thing right you plug it in and most of the time nothing was really wrong with it wow it just like regularly every quarter or every month or whatever or every week so this machine is just pretty much set up to break but it also is like um

2:32 i think overnight you have to have it on the cleaning thing and all that but it's easy to like trip up that coat like that error because you have to you know clean it overnight and that's why they go oh we don't have any ████ soft serve right now it's broken i feel like it's been happening a lot less recently well yes it actually has because this company called kitsch were the ones to create that device that uh different people who owned mcdonald's franchise could buy that and then just use that and see what's wrong with it or just or just be able to block that code from even happening because it's like oh nothing's actually wrong with it so it's just not going to give you that error that makes you have to shut down the machine so it wasn't mcdonald's that was lying it was taylor the stupid taylormade well mcdonald's has an exclusive contract with them they benefit from taylor having to be fixed all the time apparently it's a racket between taylor and

3:22 mcdonald's and the people that are within those businesses that are shaking hands yeah so it's not actually mcdonald's corporate and actually tailor it's like people in that company figuring out how to like yeah right right right who would have thought so then what happened is uh after people started using the kitsch device mcdonald's obviously not knowing what to do they got it they've they set up a lab reverse engineered what that device does and they basically just created their own mcdonald's so they're like well ████ it we don't need to make we just have we won't have broken ones so they completely put kitsch out of business and now kitch is suing them for unfair competition wait oh kitchen oh kitchen kitchen i thought it was taylor i thought taylor would do no taylor's not suing taylor's safe and rich yeah kitch is the one suing for for

4:12 mcdonald's eliminating them okay yeah from a thing they'd always refuse to address and they they mcdonald's never address it until kitsch was solving the taylor problem exactly and now mcdonald's wanted to wipe kitchen out for doing that and in doing so now kitch is like hey we're suing you for destroying our entire company mcdonald's doesn't want to sell milkshakes after a certain hour just say that like breakfast dude just tell me that i'm ████ into my face a lot of companies do that though like when uh the first iphone came out i believe they were looking for some sort of touch screen company um and then so when they would just buy out like five companies that are are doing that technology just to eliminate any other threats from popping up there's like a list of conspiracies that became true right and one of them is um one of the age-old questions of why is there no public transportation in

5:03 la like we had a rail system or if you go to downtown la you see all these rails and it's because the auto industry created fake rail companies to buy up all the rails and all the trolleys just so they could rip them out wow so there's no competition for public transportation to the first gen of electric vehicles oh yeah they all got bought up by auto yeah i mean business is like warfare dude they ████ they're ruthless that is like that is conspiracy ████ too even though it's documented i ████ love it that's some ████ little foil hat ████ amazon basics does that ████ though yeah yeah i remember there was a story about like a tripod that happened like that somebody put like a tripod built it made it really like a user friendly in this simple cheap way started hitting mad sales so that amazon built the same thing and then banned that person from

5:54 selling wow they're not shutting down the company they're saying yeah you can't sell here anymore between that and like what they do with shelf space like at grocery stores it's the same idea right right we can do a generic of your product and we'll move you wherever the ████ we want yeah true like kirkland kirkland great great company so i guess like that's when it falls into the terms of what is fair competition and there are laid out laws for that and what uh kitch is trying to do is prove that what they did was technically unfair which yeah because it was so specific what's that because it's like so specific yeah i think it's the way they did it you're not allowed to do what mcdonald's did where you can't like get the actual product and then reverse engineer it in a lab to make the exact same like did kiss not patent it they did but i don't know there's something about like the way that they

6:44 went about it is not the way that maybe even at like mcdonald's crossing industries like that because it's food right and they're just going straight into technology to wipe someone out right yeah yeah i think it's something along those lines where it's like rich people are ████ worth or ruthless right yeah like i know i knew a guy who um they were doing earthquake um fasteners and they patented this earthquake fastener so like you can you you have furniture in your house you have bookshelves like right here where it's like super unsafe and like these bookshelves if there was an earthquake they'd probably follow me and i'd probably die right now well you have earthquake fastener you bolt it to your wall and then it's like it also like gets attached to the shelving and so it doesn't fall down well um they were selling it for like you know 50 cents a unit and then they're but they're like is what the cost was

7:35 but then they're charging like like 20 bucks well the patent that the person got this um earthquake fastener with the the person the partner for the patent he was getting a share of every sale and then um the guy that i know he's like i'm tired of paying this guy i'll just hire this other company to figure out how to reverse engineer my own patent do it differently patent that i'll just ████ sell that instead cut out that guy and then i already paid the company a fee to like develop this and they don't care about licensing so cut that guy out and boom this happens so often it's crazy it's so mean it's so ████ mean it's so mean like some a lot of the number one and two a lot of the number one and two companies that one of the guys that started the second company would have

8:25 worked for like the first one like in drums like there's like symbols like sabian and zildjian they're like they were like once related like those there's so many companies that are like that oh they're all like breakaways yeah like i don't know i'll be making this up but it'd be like let's say chevy used to be with ford or something you know but you hear so many stories like that oh yeah but imagine like we built this to together this device together yeah and now i'm just tired of having you be part of it i'm gonna ████ ████ you that's so crazy ruthless i get if they had like a falling out or like a difference in how to i don't know like the philosophy of the company and i mean that always happens right splits happen but then when it comes to man i don't want to pay you anymore that's just ████ s█████ if you worked on it together that's a change in the philosophy of the company even if even if you had it falling out it's it's that's cute and all but

9:16 you guys still did this together so that's true so you should get paid for what you've created together and just leave it at that move on to a different venture that is pretty ruthless though or by the other person now like whatever you know like try to do it like the fairway yeah rather than just you're not getting a diamond rather than just starting a competing business yeah well it's really they honestly i just think that they were bored and they're like trying to get cute about things which rich people often do like okay like how can i even maximize even more of this like get more for myself that's that stuff's usually in contrast so right with operating agreements right off top it's like you know a major officer can't leave and like within a certain period of time create a competing element that should be but think about patent law patent law is totally different where it's like this it's the application of the idea in this unique way right well if you can somehow do it in a different way that is also unique

10:06 you can just repatent it resell it nobody and people like playing games like so like let's say that the non-compete uh clause or whatever right let's say the penalty is a million dollars and this was like but if i do this i can make 15. i'll make the 15 pay you a million look at apple apple and the galaxy phones right the samsung was just like you know what ████ it we'll rip off apple and we'll just pay the fee later and they did in pennies they saved their business they paid the the billion dollar fee and pennies and they made billions yeah it's just how business isn't that's true yeah you just wait till you get the ticket yep that's what they do with music a lot too they'll sample something and be like hey they actually hear it and they catch us i guess it just depends on how much you value the relationship and value like everything and like and if you can become an ethical issue yeah or the integrity of innovation but ████ that right

10:56 hey dude if i go to five-star restaurants i think i can live with the guilt i guess right okay after this we're going to the strip club we'll get bottle service i hope i live with the guilt [Music] foreign

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