McDonald's system outages have been reported around the world today

A system outage at McDonald's worldwide was reported today, shutting down some restaurants for hours and prompting complaints from customers on social media, something the fast-food chain called a "technology outage" that is being fixed.
Chicago-based McDonald's said the problems were not related to a cyber security attack, without elaborating.
"We are aware of the systems outage that affected our restaurants," the burger giant said in a statement. This issue is now being resolved. "We thank customers for their patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

Earlier, McDonald's in Japan posted on Twitter X that "operations at many of our stores nationwide have been temporarily suspended," calling it "a system error."

The website Downdetector also reported the increase in problems with the McDonald's application in the past hours.

Some McDonald's restaurants are back in business after the power outage, with people ordering and receiving food in Bangkok, Milan and London.

A restaurant in Bangkok posted a sign on its plywood door that read: "Technicians are updating the system" and apologized for the trouble, although customers were able to re-order and pay digitally. did.

A spokesperson for McDonald's in Denmark said that the system outage there has been resolved and its restaurants are open.
A worker at a restaurant in Milan noted that the system was offline for several hours and a technician called them to restart it.

  Patrick Hilte, owner of several McDonald's restaurants in central Sweden, near the Norwegian border, told local newspaper Nya Wermlands Tidning: "All McDonald's restaurants are connected to a global network, and that's what's messed up."



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