McDonald’s suffers global tech outage forcing some restaurants to halt operations

McDonald’s suffered a system failure on Friday that left many customers in many parts of the world unable to order food.

A spokesperson for the Australian unit of the fast food chain reportedly said it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. McDonald’s Japan took to social media site X to say that operations at stores nationwide were temporarily suspended.

“We apologize for any inconvenience caused to our customers,” it said.

On Downdetector, a website which tracks when apps and websites are having technical difficulties, there was a spike...