Graham Caplinger is aptly named the "Ice Man." He admits his job is a niche ... The ice for the Florida Panthers is made on a floating pad of concrete that's frozen. The ice pad stands alone ...

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 ...

The days of broken ice cream machines at McDonald’s may soon be behind us thanks to a new exemption to an old law. The U.S. Copyright Office has granted a partial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...