(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 ...

The soft-serve machines at McDonald's restaurants are so often out of order that their reliable unreliability have long been the butt of jokes, memes — and now even a rallying cry in this year ...

McDonald’s soft-serve machines are notorious for breaking down, so much so that in 2020, one frustrated ice cream enthusiast created McBroken, a website where you can check and see if your local ...

Alamy Stock Photo The ice cream problem has been a long-simmering beef with McDonald’s customers. There is even a dedicated website, McBroken, that tracks which locations have a working machine.

Most people know not to get their hopes up if they head to a McDonald’s for a McFlurryit’s a running joke that the McDonald’s ice cream machine always seems to be broken when you swing by ...

By Hank Sanders McDonald’s ice cream machines, frequently the subject of memes and ridicule from frustrated customers who say their quest for a cold treat is often thwarted by broken equipment ...

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 ...

On TikTok, most of the posts under the hashtag #brokenicecreammachine are about McDonald’s, and the same goes for searching “broken ice cream machine” on X. For its part, McDonald’s USA ...