(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Broken McDonald's ice-cream machines have become a national punchline ... Pogue said, "Reverse-engineering is not illegal; it's dirty pool, but it's not illegal." O'Sullivan said, "There is ...

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 ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. McDonald’s ice cream machines are so notorious for breaking that it’s become a meme. But now we may have some glimmer of Shamrock Shake-flavored ...

The U.S. government is demanding that constantly broken-down soft serve ice cream machines at McDonald’s and other fast-food restaurants be more easily fixable. In a letter to the U.S ...

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 ...