McDonald's hit with systems outages worldwide but some outlets back to normal

London — Systems outages astatine McDonald's were reported worldwide Friday, shuttering immoderate restaurants and starring to societal media complaints, while different locations were backmost up and moving aft nan failures.

In a connection to CBS News, nan Chicago-based burger elephantine said, "We are alert of a exertion outage, which impacted our restaurants; nan rumor is now being resolved. We convey customers for their patience and apologize for immoderate inconvenience this whitethorn person caused. Notably, nan rumor is not related to a cybersecurity event."

McDonald's successful Japan posted connected societal media that "operations are temporarily retired astatine galore of our stores nationwide," calling it "a strategy failure" and apologizing for nan inconvenience.

The website Downdetector besides reported a spike successful problems pinch nan McDonald's app successful nan past mates of hours.

Some McDonald's restaurants were moving arsenic normal again aft facing problems, pinch group ordering and getting their nutrient astatine locations successful Bangkok, Milan and London.

Fannie Pramming, communications head for McDonald's Denmark, said successful a connection to The Associated Press that nan chain's outlets location were unfastened again.

A worker astatine a Milan edifice noted that nan strategy was offline for a mates of hours and a technician walked them done getting it backmost up and running.

Media outlets reported that customers from Australia to nan U.K. person complained of issues pinch ordering, including a customer successful Australia who posted a photograph to X saying a stalls was unavailable.

"All McDonald's restaurants are connected to a world web and that is what's messed up," Patrik Hjelte, proprietor of respective McDonald's restaurants successful cardinal Sweden, adjacent nan Norwegian border, told section newspaper Nya Wermlands Tidning. "Right now we are restarting each systems and we dream to beryllium up and moving again arsenic accustomed soon."

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