[derefr]

This makes sense for daytime-rush "broken" ice cream machines; but almost all the reports I've seen about "broken" machines are about people coming into a dead store during the night-shift, when the employees would in theory have nothing better to do than make them an ice cream.

[Dem_Boys]

Your right about this occuring mostly at night.

The store looks dead but do you know if the night crew is caught up on their closing responsibilities? Doing dishes, stocking nuggest sauces, cleaning the grill, disassembling the fry hopper, organizing the stock room, etc...

If the store closes with none of these done the manager will blow their labor budget due to taking 3 hours to close and the employees will be pissed.

Your rebuttal is a good one and your somewhat right. Grabbing you an ice cream cone when there's no customers likely isn't a big deal. The manager usually cuts the ice cream while being overwhelmed (Ahh! 7 ice cream cones and we have 10 cars behind them. No more ice cream!) and never tells employees to start offering it again. Offering ice cream again would piss off the employees and also slow down the manager who's trying to hit labor and drive through times

[derefr]

> The store looks dead but do you know if the night crew is caught up on their closing responsibilities?

I mean, I've never worked in fast food myself, but that split of responsibilities assumes that the night shift are closing, no? There are a lot of 24-hour McDonald's locations, where no explicit "closing" ever happens.

I would assume that in a 24hr location, a lot of what would otherwise be "closing" responsibilities are either spread out as "clean as you go", turned into something done at shift-start/shift-end for each shift (and so made a lot quicker by only having 1/3rd the accumulated workload for each shift), or pushed to the dead-est period (which according to one Quora post is "in the middle of the graveyard shift, 3-6AM".)

[jvanderbot]

You underestimate the creativity and laziness of night shift food workers. Once a daytime manager says "no ice cream", how far away is a night shift worker from just repeating that mantra?

Source: Was one, did that for other things all the time.

> " Sorry, we don't deliver to your area on Mondays "