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.

We all know McDonald's soft serve as a sweet and cold fast food staple (if the soft serve machines aren't broken, that is).

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 ...

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 ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A court ruling might make McDonald’s ...

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 ...