It's become somewhat of a running joke that McDonalds' ice cream machines seem to be broken more often than not these days. The out of order soft-serve machines at the Golden Arches have been the ...

A hand holding a McDonald's vanilla soft serve cone - Wachiwit/Shutterstock Swirls of vanilla decadence atop a crisp waffle cone makes McDonald's soft serve ice cream an enduring treat. The simple yet ...

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’s ...

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 ...

It’s a McDonald’s phenomenon that has inspired memes, apps and even a government inquiry. “If that McFlurry machine is broken, I’m coming through that drive-thru window,” wrote one person under a post ...

It has been a long road for McDonald’s ice cream machines, and it hasn’t always been sweet. But now, the story of the eternally broken McDonald’s ice cream machine finally has a happy ending. You see, ...

McDonald's ice cream. The simple phrase conjures up images of creamy vanilla soft serve swirled into a cone or blended with cookies and candies in a McFlurry. It's a sweet treat enjoyed by millions ...

A broken ice cream machine is a familiar inconvenience to McDonald's customers. Franchise owners have complained about difficulties fixing the machines, McDonald's itself has poked fun at how often ...

A new exemption to an old law will allow third-party companies to fix McDonald’s infamous ice cream machines. Customers and McDonald’s franchise owners have long complained about their inability to ...

An exemption to a longstanding copyright act allows industrial equipment to be fixed by people not affiliated with the manufacturer. By Hank Sanders McDonald’s ice cream machines, frequently the ...