Repair Startup Sues McDonald’s Soft Serve Unit Contractor
By Jeff Montgomery (May 5, 2022, 8:01 PM EDT) — A company that said it engineered a solution for chronically broken McDonald’s ice cream machines, only to see its fortunes melt away as the regular machine supplier allegedly smeared the invention as unsafe, has sued the contractor for millions in damages in Delaware federal court.
Kytch Inc. accused Taylor Commercial Food Service LLC, doing business as Taylor Company, of working with McDonald’s Inc. to squelch restaurant-operator interest in the “Kytch solution” to what were described as “very, very, very finicky,” breakdown-prone soft-serve units.
Kytch filed a similar suit naming McDonald’s as the defendant in the same court on March 1….
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