{"id":30945,"date":"2023-12-14T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30945"},"modified":"2023-12-14T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T03:18:16","slug":"mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-hackers-say-they-found-the-smoking-gun-that-killed-their-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30945","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the \u2018Smoking Gun\u2019 That Killed Their Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/web_hp_IceCream_15046_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"189\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald\u2019s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/kytch-taylor-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machine-smoking-gun\/\">McDonald\u2019s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the \u2018Smoking Gun\u2019 That Killed Their Startup<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>some key points fta.  if true, the Kytch guys will be very rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cNot sure if there is anything we can do to slow up the franchise community on the other solution,\u201d FitzGerald [CEO of Taylor parent company Middleby] wrote on October 17, 2020. \u201cNot sure what communication from either McD or Midd can or will go out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In their legal filing, the Kytch cofounders, of course, interpret \u201cthe other solution\u201d to mean their product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Kytch&#8217;s legal motion now argues that FitzGerald&#8217;s email reveals that the McDonald&#8217;s warning to restaurant owners was never really about safety, so much as protecting its equipment partner from a startup that might represent competition. The CEO&#8217;s email \u201cessentially put into place their plan to defame us,&#8221; Nelson says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>She and O\u2019Sullivan also argue that the internal email directly contradicts FitzGerald\u2019s public statements that Middleby hadn\u2019t sought to kill Kytch. \u201cWe\u2019re not in business to put other companies out of business,\u201d FitzGerald\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/12\/business\/mcdonald-kytch-ice-cream-lawsuit.html\">told\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0early last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald\u2019s broken ice cream machines,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[70,369],"class_list":["post-30945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-hacking","tag-mcds","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30948,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions\/30948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}