McDonald's Suffers Global Outage, Forcing Many Stores to Close or Go Cash-Only

• McDonald's experienced a global technology outage early Friday morning that impacted stores' ability to process payments

• The outage forced many locations to temporarily close, though some remained open for cash payments only

• In a statement, McDonald's said the issue was caused by a third-party provider during a system configuration change, not a cyberattack

• The outage impacted McDonald's locations across several countries including Australia, China, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan, and Germany

• McDonald's apologized for the inconvenience and said they are working urgently to ensure system reliability and prevent future outages