Enjoy an endless supply of fresh cubes at the push of a button In This Article People / Russell Kilgore If your freezer doesn’t have an ice maker or you go through lots of ice each day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 U.S. Copyright Office has granted a copyright exemption to give McDonald's the right to get its machines repaired by any technician. The issue of broken ice cream ...

Julia Skinner is a food historian, educator, and founder of Root, an Atlanta-based company focused on fermentation and bringing historic food to the modern world. She has published several books ...

For years, McDonald’s fans across the U.S. faced a familiar disappointment after visiting their local restaurant hoping for a McFlurry or ice cream cone, only to learn the ice cream machine was down.

A court ruling might make McDonald’s ice cream machines, notorious for frequently breaking, easier to fix. Last week, the United States Copyright Office granted a ...

What just happened? Few things in life stay the same, but one reassuringly familiar sight is the broken ice cream machine in your local McDonald's. However, that looks set to change after the US ...

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 ...