How to check if your local McDonald\u2019s ice cream machine is broken McDonald’s \/ HowStuffWorksIf you\u2019re a fan of McDonald\u2019s, you\u2019ve probably been to a drive-thru craving a McFlurry or a milkshake, only to find out that the ice cream machine is broken. This problem has become one of the internet\u2019s longest-standing memes, and something that the public have trolled the fast food chain about for a long time. Here\u2019s how you can check ahead of time, to save the disappointment. Is the ice cream machine broken at my local McDonald\u2019s? Luckily, there is a way to find out how a McDonald\u2019s ice cream machine is doing before you leave the house. Thanks to the internet attention that this notorious first-world problem has garnered, someone invented a website to check if the ice cream machine is down at your local McDonald\u2019s, and it\u2019s called mcbroken.com. As you can see, 14% of all McDonald\u2019s ice cream machines in the country are currently down, and this looks to be a pretty consistent figure on any date. That may not seem like a large percentage, but that\u2019s nearly 2,000 ice cream machines down. This website also shows the statistics in the UK and Germany. A 24-year-old software engineer invented this site after he couldn\u2019t get a sundae at a McDonald\u2019s in Berlin. \u201cI just made it for fun,\u201d he said. \u201cBut people were like, \u2018Wow, this is the best thing I\u2019ve seen this entire week.\u201d If you\u2019re wondering how it works, it\u2019s pretty smart. He invented a bot that reverse-engineered the McDonald\u2019s app to try and add an ice cream product to the basket in every store in the US, UK, and Germany every 30 minutes. If the ice cream machine is broken, the product won\u2019t be able to be added to the cart, and therefore the website will update. So, this app is as accurate as these sorts of things can be, as long as the McDonald\u2019s store remembers to update its menu on their end. That being said, you can always ring ahead to double-check if you want to be sure you\u2019ll get that McFlurry. Why is McDonald\u2019s ice cream machine often broken? There are lots of theories as to why the McDonald\u2019s ice cream machines often break, but bear in mind that they are not always broken \u2013 it can just seem like that when the internet has fixated on this for so long. The machines typically break from being overheated which involves calling out a technician to fix the issue, however, the fix is not always simple. McDonald\u2019s are only allowed to call out technicians who work for the company that makes their ice-cream machines, and they are not always readily available. However, there is an act in the pipeline from the DOJ that hopes to put an end to this issue. With the delicious dessert options that McDonald\u2019s is frequently dropping, it can be frustrating to find out that you won\u2019t be able to order the latest McFlurry \u2013 but the good news is that McDonald\u2019s rarely runs out of fries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How to check if your local McDonald\u2019s ice cream machine is broken McDonald’s \/ HowStuffWorksIf you\u2019re a fan of McDonald\u2019s, you\u2019ve probably been to a drive-thru craving a McFlurry or a milkshake, only to find out that the ice cream machine is broken. This problem has become one of the internet\u2019s longest-standing memes, and something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}