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). But these days, all ice cream treats have been getting a little bit of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

New York (CNN) — McDonald’s has become notorious for its broken ice cream machines – there’s even an independent website that monitors broken McFlurry machines. So Wendy’s is taking ...

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 ...

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 says its restaurants weren’t able to fix their ice cream machines because the company that manufactured the machines owned the copyright and exclusive rights to repair them ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...