McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the nationwide number of broken machines is just above 14 percent.

To improve the nation’s semi-frozen milk fat infrastructure, iFixit has done two things. One, as first reported by 404 Media, is to join with interest group Public Knowledge to petition the Copyright Office for an exemption allowing people to fix commercial equipment, such as McDonald’s ice cream machines and other industrial kitchen equipment, without fear of reprisal under Section 1201 of the DMCA.

  • @EyesEyesBaby
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    131 year ago

    This must be US-only, I’ve never seen an ice cream machine out of service at McD’s in Europe.

    • roguetrick
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      1 year ago

      The service contract company is absolutely a US syndicate that’s harder to export. Only the British empire was able to effectively export it’s graft wholesale I think.