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The McDonald’s fast-food chain suffered a worldwide system failure on Friday that knocked out the ordering system in many of its restaurants. A spokesperson for the company said the outage “is not related to a cybersecurity event.”that the problem was first detected in Australian McDonald’s restaurants. Soon afterward, McDonald’s Japan announced on social media that most of its locations were temporarily closed.
McDonald’s in Taiwan announced on its website that online and phone orders were temporarily unavailable, and customers in the United Kingdom reported the company’s smartphone app was not working properly. Japan, the UK, and Australia are the three largest markets for McDonald’s outside the United States, with thousands of stores in each country. McDonald’s has about 41,000 locations worldwide.
“The Mcdonalds outage is crazy. Went in tonight and drive thru + all kiosks were down. A system that can fail nation wide is bad but across multiple countries too!? Bonkers,” said a New Zealand customerThe problem seemed to have been largely resolved by late Friday morning ET. McDonald’s said it would continue working to restore services that were not functioning and would fully investigate the incident.
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