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 always-broken ice cream machines might finally get easier to fix. That’s because the US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing third parties to ...

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 ...

McDonald’s often maligned, seemingly perennially-broken ice cream machines could soon become a thing of the past. On Oct. 25, the United States Copyright Office ...

Ever dashed to McDonald's for a McFlurry or milkshake only to have your sweet-tooth dreams crushed by the "broken" ice cream machine? It leaves you wondering, just how often does that machine ...

It's 6PM on a Friday, it's 95 degrees outside, and you want nothing more than to pull into McDonald's and snag a vanilla cone. But the voice on the other end of the speaker lets you down with ...

McDonald’s ice cream machines have developed a lousy reputation for being broken when you visit the restaurant, largely due to strict copyright laws that only permit specially licensed ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - McDonald's may now legally fix its own broken ice cream machines. According to The Verge,third parties may now diagnose and repair commercial equipment after theUnited States ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - McDonald's addressed claims that its ice cream machines are always broken. McDonald's recently added itsKit Kat Banana Split McFlurry to the menu for a limited time. It has ...

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 ...