McDonald's Hit by Global IT Outage, Disrupting Operations

• McDonald's experienced a major IT system failure that disrupted operations in many countries including the US, UK, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan • The outage impacted in-store ordering systems and mobile/online ordering platforms, forcing some locations to take orders manually • The system failure started around 1-2AM EST on Friday and was resolved after several hours, though exact downtime varied between regions • McDonald's has not provided details on what caused the technical problems, but confirmed it was not a cybersecurity breach • With over 41,800 locations globally, the outage impacted a large number of McDonald's restaurants worldwide during the failure period