Some patrons think that McDonald’s employees are deliberately messing up with them every time they are told that the ice cream machines are broken. That, however, is simply not true, because the ...

(Credit: iFixit) Raising a likely somewhat contentious topic, iFixit and Public Knowledge have challenged the manufacturer behind McDonald’s ice cream machines to make them easy to diagnose and ...

A major ruling now allows McDonald’s to fix its infamously broken ice cream machines without relying on costly manufacturer ...

McDonald’s franchises haven’t been able to fix the soft serve ice cream machines on their own because manufacturing company Taylor owns the copyright and exclusive rights to fix the machines ...

An unlikely theatre for an act in the right-to-repair saga came last year in the form of McDonalds restaurants, whose McFlurry ice cream machines are prone to breakdown. The manufacturer had ...

The Taylor-branded ice cream machine that all McDonald’s franchisees are forced to use features an automated self-cleaning function that takes less than four hours to complete. If that’s not ...