The McDonald's app shows if the ice cream machine is working at all branches in Scotland

When McDonald's regulars visit fast food chains for their favorite frosty desserts, they are often disappointed when their ice cream machines don't work. It often happens.

Luckily, a new app makes life easier for his McFlurry fans. This app records the status of each frozen confectionery machine in every restaurant in the UK.

Founded in 2020 Original His McBroken got the idea when he failed to order McSundae while vacationing inAmerican Software Created by his engineer Rashiq Zahid. Berlin.

Zahid designs a bot that orders ice cream every 30 minutes from all McDonald's locations in Germany, the US, Canada and the UK Did. A green dot appears in the restaurant when McFlurry is available. If not, it will be highlighted in red and theScottish Daily Expresswill report it.

A similar app was created specifically for the UK to track milkshakes as well. Mc-Broken tries to order six different McFlurries and four different milkshakes of his twice a day.

If both are available, the restaurant will be highlighted in green. If only one is provided, it turns yellow. Red if both machines are not working.

Describing his idea on his website for The Verge, Zahid said: says. Reverse apps He knows how to engineer. I thought, 'Okay, this should be pretty easy. ''

His app was a huge success, and in his first 20 minutes he got 10,000 views. Before it eventually crashed because I was running it on a server that cost just $5/month.

"I made it just for fun," said Zahid. “But people were like, 'Wow, this is the best thing I've seen all week. Mr Tovar tweeted:

The UK site was set up by Darren Swan, a web application developer from Bournemouth.At the time of this writing, Glasgow and We find that 72% of nearby McDonald's have both ice cream and milkshake machines in operation, while Edinburgh, Fife and Dundee have 77% active.

Going further north and 100% of their machines are in Aberdeen and Highlands (which is perhaps unsurprising, as they only have four stores in Fort William, Inverness and Nairn).