The broken espresso machines have surfaced after McDonald’s recently won a victory that will help fix its broken ice cream machines quicker. The chain’s glitchy soft serve systems were so ...

The inside of a Taylor C709 ice cream machine ... The story is more complex than just a machine being “broken”, however. The maintenance contracts are lucrative, the instruction manual ...

McDonald’s and Taylor didn’t immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. Broken ice cream machines have been such a blemish on McDonald’s reputation that even competitors mock them ...

It has been a long road for McDonald’s ice cream machines, and it hasn’t always been sweet. But now, the story of the eternally broken McDonald’s ice cream machine finally has a happy ending.