“If that McFlurry machine is broken, I’m coming through that drive-thru window,” wrote one person under a post on X about the new treat. “Given the number of broken ice cream machines, I have a better ...

It may soon get quicker and easier to get your McFlurry fix — and McDonald’s franchisees won’t have to break the law to make it happen. The US Copyright Office ...

Rolling up to a McDonald’s drive-through with dessert on the brain feels promising until the staff announces the dreaded three-word phrase: “Ice cream machine is broken.” That moment has become a rite ...

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 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 technicians to ...

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 ...

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 ...