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 ...

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 ...

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 ...