Ladies & gentlemen, I present to you McBroken: an website dedicated to telling you if the ice cream machine at your area McDonald’s restaurant is broken or running.

This is the money quote from the “how and why” Ars Technica article:

“I reverse-engineered McDonald’s internal ordering API,” he explained when he launched the tool, “and I’m currently placing an order worth $18,752 every minute at every McDonald’s in the US to figure out which locations have a broken ice cream machine.“

The spirit and ingenuity of America is still alive, people.  — [eric]

[📷, BELOW: a McBroken screen grab of the status of Chicago’s machines.]

[📷, ABOVE: Somben Chea from Pexels]